60 in 60 + 10 apps

Erik Wittmer5th Grade

South Western School District

SendHub

Create a phone number to your cell

Send text/voice messages to groups

Access from the web

Similar to Remind101

Send text messages out to select groups

Moderator has total control

Phone #s kept private

Reminds me of Pinterest

Without the extra step of visiting the site to find the resource

Correlates to Common Core

One-click screen capture recording on Windows or Mac computers with no install for FREE!

Upgrade to Pro Version for $15.00/year

Create video tutorials of “How to”

Student created videos to help lower grades

Record student reading PDF File or site

Search by topic

Share out with others

Collaboration

Edshelf

Search for specific websites, apps over different platforms

Create playlists for students to use specific sites

Suggestions for parents for at home remediation

Find whatever it is your looking for in the following accounts:

Gmail, Facebook, Twitter,Dropbox, Evernote, yahoo, Google Dive, iCloud, Outlook, and Google Calendar

Facebook for schools

File upload

Online conversations

PD

Parent accounts

Create a canvas of tasks for students to work on

Can include text, links and videos

Library of passages

Records WPM, type of error(s)

Email parents and other staff members

Teacher report shows classes missed words

Brings Primary Sources and activities together for students

Student preferred over heavy, boring text books

Type a note

Record Audio

Take a picture

Syncs to all devices and computers

“Remember Everything”

Similar to Evernote

Create lists of almost everything

Keep notebooks on each student

Syncs to all devices and computers

Tired of loosing your thumb drive?

Or have a few and you can’t remember what is on what drive?

My Favorite Tool!

Chrome Remote Desktop

Gain access to any computer using Chrome

Check in on students to make sure they are working

Give access to IT support to fix an issue

Can be used with Mac, PC or Chromebook

Retrieve and share your paper documents as virtual copies

Never use email again to share a document

Quick Response Code instantly placed on document

Can comment on document progress. Great for student feedback

StoryBird

OuiBox Writer

Create a paper as it will find resources for you.

Example: type Phillies it will search for sites that have information about Phillies

Share and comment from classmates

Exports into Word

Create stunning online posters

Embed the poster onto your website

Interactive with videos, images and links

Save trees

Historical figures in the year 2013

Create a page for the Revolutionary War

Students have a conversation as particular person from this time frame

Great alternative assessment

Create a collaborative document

Very much like Google Docs

No sign-in required

Collaborate on a document

Very similar to Google Documents

Create a wiki with documents embedded

Students can take notes as they watch a video

Receive feedback on a writing piece

Looking for feedback on your classroom layout?

New furniture?

Finishing the basement?

Collaboration

Digital Magazine

Embed Youtube, links, and PDF files

Student created portfolio of their year in writing

Interactive to outside world

School Magazine with student writings

Create stunning videos

Students can collaborate as a group

Upload videos of class Reader’s Theatre

Share with families

Use Youtube videos?

Never want to show the entire video?

Cut to what you want to show

Teacher creates account

Students demonstrates knowledge

Create a webpage without registration

Great way to publish student work

Paste this URL on your website

Backchannel within the classroom

Discuss a video being viewed in the room

Create quizzes

Look the same on all devices

Sometimes we just need a break

Backpack.tv takes educational videos and puts them into categories

Great for review

10 Useful iPad Apps

Record of ReadingRunning Record Form that records student

Share with parents, co-workers without recording

Lexile, F & P and RR levels

Explain Everything

Import Documents into app

Record fluency and track student’s one-to-one

Allow students to listen

$2.99

Board CamActs as a document camera

Showcase student writing

Demonstrate a science or art project

Book CreatorStudent created epub books

Images, text, voice, movies or music

Combine other books from same app

$4.99

Toontastic

Guides students through the setting, conflict, challenge, climax and resolution

Import student backgrounds or use apps

iCard Sort

Create word lists for students to sort

Beam lists from one iPad to the next

Students take a screenshot to prove they completed work

$5.99

Word MessWord finds with different categories

Rhyming, categories, beginning sounds

Looks like word clouds

$1.99

Letris 2One or two player play

Tiles fly down and you must put letters together to spell word

Keep spelling words until tiles reach the top

AppsGoneFreeShowcases apps that go free for that particular day

Many are educational

Hit or Miss on education based apps

CommonCore

Math and Language Arts specific

Broken down by grade level K-12

Use during conferences