8 Apps, 4 for school, 4 not

Grade Cam
Numbler
NearPod
Overdrive - Borrow free books
Card Star - scan card with barcode
Evernote
Tripit
Face Swapper

Research Notes - Spring Into Technology Conference

Research

Do not let students hand in typed drafts

Ruhl English speakers website

Help by dividing the work into segments, what information has to be found out

Create essential questions first.
Color code  each segment

Highlight information that you need.

Put all the colors together

Open new pages, one page for each color

Then, one document as collective highlights

Next, work on their outline with each section

Easy bib.com

Excel - Spring into Technology Conference

Site with all the resources:  http://moodle.esasd.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=45
Excel 2011 is for the Mac
Excel 2010 is for the PC

In view, normal is default, page view is neat
Window Freeze pane

All functions start with = (the cells that work) in the parentheses are the cells that you want to work on.  Use the : to anchor, after you put in the =MAX

Double click between bars to auto-click

Highlight columns and drag, all will be the same size

Put mouse on column One, under format, then cell, then alignment, adjust to angle top line.

To highlight two different columns, for a graph,  hold down command or shift key.

To copy or paste, go to edge of chart for commands.

To label graph, right click on "piece of pie"

Format = fluff or fun, be sure to check out

look for Bingo program to make in Excel Jen

For a checkbook, =f2 -d3+d4

Always use Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

NetTrekker

How to use iBooks in the classroom

Challenge base  by Apple

Choose animal, how are they helping?

Research

Need Lion, not Snow leopard

Write in word, then go to ibook author

Why write a paper when you can write a book for everyone to see
To share with others, just share

do not put on iTunes

Only
View on iPad

Apple takes i/3 if you sell your book

Once changes are made to thenew book, must update. Notes stay the same!  Get the book right the first time!

Create hotspots, three D images


Cteduonline

Bookry make the videos smaller, use youtube widget

Check out infographics, scroller sidebar

To keep file size down, use just shapes ctedu.online
Easier to duplicate, not add

Shut down portrait mode.  Make small boxes, watch how this shifts between portrait and landscape

Get paid account, not free account

Google docs is a bit tricky, use Pages best, Word ok, google doc is tricky, must go back and forth????   Check this out

Ibook author

Lock the story in place

Have inspector offnto the side as you are creating

Widgets make it interactive

Tumbnails do not ordinarily show up, go to widget in inspector

Inspector is the key to using this

Scrolling sidebar, really neat

Fantastic idea, use this with gifted

iBooks Generator
Bookry.com/ widgets


Sharing be careful

In itunes, link on right nav bar, go to iBooks

iPad 8 tools in one

1.  Audio recording and playback
Mp3 player
Voice Thread
Garage band, turn metronom up
Voice record app, send more than in Garage band
Podcasts

2.  Video camera
 Three Ring (
iMovie costs $4.99


3.  iPad is a student response system
Socrative.com
Infuse THIS IS REALLY A GREAT TOOL! Students can send to teacher
Nearpod this is a "push out tool
Twitter

4.  Flipped classroom video recorder
Whiteboard App
Show Me or Screen Chomp

5.  Document Camera
Board Cam
Skitch

6.  Window to online content, note taking and collaborating
Duo Browser(compare and contrast)
Sync Space(draw on something, save document)
Notability ($) Note taking
Google Drive

7.  Animation studio
Toon Tastic - Gives a story arc, draw your own characters and backgrounds
Puppet Pals

8.  A Slate to Control your Interactive Whiteboard
doceri (http://doceri.com/videos.php

9.  E-reader (and publishing house)
iBooks
Scribble Press ($)
My Story ($)