app-resources

=App Resources =

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APPitic
Need help in finding the right app to use for your students? APPitic is a great resource for you to use. Apple Distinguished Educators created this site, & it allows you to browse for apps by, SPED/Autism, Preschool, themes (curricular areas), Multiple Intelligences, Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy, NETS (ISTE’s National Education Technology Standards), for teachers, & tools. Most categories are then refined to smaller categories to search. Since you can look for apps in Multiple Intelligences, Bloom’s Taxonomy, & NETS, it helps in finding apps that encourage higher orders of thinking. Each review over the 1,300 apps listed, gives a thorough description, devices supported, & a price for the app.

Appolicious
This website lists suggestions for iPhone & iPad apps, as well as Android apps & video app reviews.

**Apps 4 Teachers & Students**
//**LiveBinders **//

Ever looking for apps to use with your students? It can be daunting to look through the App Store to find good educational apps. Well, a user in **LiveBinders** has decided to help.

LiveBinders is an app that was cover last year in the January 2011issue of TL4T. LiveBinders is a website that allows you to view links like pages in a book instead of URLs on a page. PDF & //Word// documents can also be combined with links in a binder. Links & documents can be organized into tabs & sub-tabs. They are easy to share from the website, on desktops, or embedded in a class blog, wiki, or website.

User Toby Price has created 39 educational binders, but his **Apps for Teachers & Students** is one of his best. There are 8 tabs with numerous apps to use. The tabs are categories are, Teachers Tools, References & How To’s, Digital Storytelling, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, & Games.

This is a resource you are going to want to add to your collection. If you find an app you’re interested in, please talk to your building’s iPod Manager so that they can look into downloading the app to the iPods for you to use.

AppSaga
AppSaga is a website formerly known as App Chronicles. This website is a great listing for apps that have been offered for free. Each day the site lists free apps for the iPads as well as iPods/iPhones. Most of the apps that we have downloaded have come from the AppSaga listings. The site also includes articles about current events in the technology world. The articles include a lot about the Apple products but also include Droid information as well.

Bloomin' Apps

 * //Kathy Schrock //**

Some of you may have heard of Kathy Schrock. She is a well known educational technologist, with a lot great ideas to bring technology into the classroom. She is the author of many blogs & guides to help teachers. She is most commonly known from //Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators// on Discover School’s website (now relocated at ** [|Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything] **). Some of my favorite work of hers is her **Bloomin’ Apps**, or really **Apps to Support Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy**.

There are four guides over **Google**, **Android**, **iPad**, & **Web 2.0** applications that support the 6 levels of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (lowest to highest – Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, & Creating). Each guide is interactive with hotspots that lists & links the tools to the different levels & tasks listed in the Taxonomy. The links will take you to either the website, iTunes Store, or the Droid Marketplace.

Take time to look at all the applications she has listed. It will be able to give you new ideas on how to use or a place to start using these different tools in the classroom.

Let's Get APP-y
Have a little free time on your hands to test out some new apps for your Apple or Android devices? Overwhelmed with all of the choices out there? A few recommended, educationally-minded app review sites:
 * **Get hAPPY!**
 * **IEAR**
 * **Keystone AEA**
 * **APPitic**
 * **Mind Leap for PreK-8**

If you are a member of the 'cult of Apple' check out their featured App of the Week on the App Store. Starbucks offers free downloads via cards found in-store (usually near the stir sticks and sugar packets) – music, books, apps, & shows.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Smart Apps for Kids
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Each day the website posts apps that have gone free in the area of education for a limited time period. Most of the apps seem to be geared toward Pre-K & Elementary school but there are links at the bottom of the home page for Top apps for older kids. Apps are divided into lists for subject area & age, & they also provide reviews for the apps they have listed. This is an awesome website for teachers & parents alike! You can enter your email to have each day’s free apps delivered to your inbox.

//Last Updated - January 2014//