ALWAYS FREE! Our most dynamic & versatile FREE APP! Pic Collage

Pic Collage App:  Always FREE!

One of our most favourite Apps for education.  This App's use and application is only limited to your imagination!  Tremendous for classroom teachers, resource teachers, teacher assistants, SLPs, OTs, AT Specialists designing activities for any student.







Integrations Ideas:

1) Develop a Tic Tac Toe language game with familiar images.  Play with therapist or friend.  Choose two different stamps to move to a certain square or choose a letter and a checkmark.  Ask the student to give the beginning sound of the picture before placing their stamp on the picture of choice; name the pet; verbalize a sentence with the name of the pet in the sentence. Fun, easy and free.   Thanks Karen Friskney!

2) Habitat curriculum activity:  Offer the student 3 images of different habitats and have the student search for animals from within Pic Collage that live in those habitats, import the pics to pic collage then drag to place the animals in their appropriate location.  For students with higher needs offer the pictures of the animals, bank them to the right of the images of the habitat and then have the student drag the pics over.  Email out to teacher.

Healthy Breakfast activity:  follow the simple directions in this great Pic Collage activity

From the pictures offered sort the pics into 3 different healthy breakfasts!

Enrichment: from within Pic Collage search the web and find for other pictures of various food items that could make up another healthy breakfast

Studying thermometers?

Offer the student an image of a thermometer and have students search the web for images of places, items (i.e. boiling pot) that match to a specific temperature on the thermometer!

For students with higher needs: offer an image of a thermometer and group the images relating to different temperatures on the bottom (5-6 images) and ask students to just drag the right image to the temperature on the thermometer.  Email out to teacher.  Regroup the images at the bottom of the Pic Collage and reuse with newly added images with the next student or for assessment.

Fractions:  Have students take images of various objects or group objects around the room.  Import the images into Pic Collage and use the text input option to indicate their knowledge of fractions.  Simple and fun.  Way more engaging than a worksheet!  Also - you could make a collage of the fraction collages produced!   Email out to teacher.

Visual Calm Down Station on the iPad:
1) Develop a visual of the process of calming down options for students.  Store on the student's iPad.


2) Have the student develop a calm down routine Pic Collage.  Email out to teacher, print, share, store

Visual Scheduler
This is an amazing App to use as a visual scheduler.  Quickly and easily take a photo of a teacher, subject book, classroom etc. and import into Pic Collage.  Group the images on one side of the collage.  Import a number of checkmarks (in one search from within Pic Collage).  Each day discuss with the student what is on the schedule, have THEM drag the image representing the task to the right of the page so they are planning their day.

When the task is completed use the checkmarks by dragging them up to the completed task.  Email out to teacher, parent, store in the photo library for to use in another App like Book Creator or even in another Pic Collage to track their week!  Store the Pic Collage to use the next day.  Easy, fun and engaging!

Labelling in Science, Geography...
For students with physical disabilities who can't label on the handout, for students with cognitive difficulties or students with LD who have difficulties writing the labels.  In Pic Collage import the picture from the web or take a picture of the sheet to be labelled.  Develop a bank of words using the import text option.  Simply have the student drag the label to the appropriate part of the image.

Alternate: have the student type in the labels.  Note: this option is able to offer text to speech when the text label is double tapped and you enter into the text box option, select the text and Speak (with Speak Selection set in Accessibility Options).

Sorting Colours for Functional Skill Development Activity:

Have students sort the laundry!
Email out to teacher.
Store in Photo library, use in another App

Option: for higher needs students offer a visual (not just text) for sorting colour i.e. white and a colour wheel for colour bin)

Sequencing a Story with Visuals:
For students who have difficulties with written output, to enhance engagement of young readers, to gauge retention and comprehension...

Import any graphic organizer from the web or take a picture of the handout of the graphic organizers.  Import pictures from the story being read, take a screen shot of the pages on the iPad or take a picture of the book's pictures (or have the student do this!).  Collect the image at the bottom of the page and have the student put the story back together in order.

Enrichment: have the student take another picture to change the ending.  He/she could perhaps draw a picture of a different ending, take a photo of that image from within Pic Collage and import it into the collage.  Share

Visual Calendar:  Import any calendar from the web or take a picture of a favourite calendar of the month or week.  Student will take pictures throughout the week of his/her highlighted events and import them into the calendar.  Save to the photo album to use in Book Creator.  Use as a visual cue to write a diary or simply use as a visual diary.  In Book Creator the student could record their voice or write about events (depending on his/her strengths).




Go HERE to download the APP:  https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/pic-collage/id448639966?mt=8

4 Free Apps today! June 16th, 2013

 ▷ Calculator

Integration Ideas:

SAVE MONEY! 12 calculators in 1 App  No need to buy a stand alone $200.00 calculator anymore! Buy an iPad mini and you're nearly there with this free App.

Utilize for higher level math! Scientific calculator, Unit Converter, Date Time Converter, Tip Options, Graphing Calculator, Equations Solver, Base Conversion and Financial Calculator.




https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/calculator/id442665708?mt=8

LaLa Lunchbox - Fun lunch planning for teachers, parents and kids

Integration ideas:
1) Functional Skills Development for meal planning for highest needs students on IPPs.  Add food items, take a photo of an item and add to the lunch box, choose number of items from healthy choices sections in your lunchbox (fruit, vegetable, protein, snack)
2) Use in Home Economics classes to have students design and publish meal plans easily and efficiently, individually or in collaboration with a group, share on the whiteboard via Airserver software or Apple TV wirelessly from the iPad

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/lala-lunchbox-fun-lunch-planning/id519037961?mt=8

 BigMind - Mind Mapping

Visually present notes, ideas and plans then organize and restructure to a desired order all on the iPad

Integration Ideas:

1) group collaboration with projection on the whiteboard through Airserver or Apple TV from many different iPads

2) studying,  webmap development, enhancing retention and recall

3) brainstorming and organizing ideas

4) compare, contrast, planning a research paper, planning a proposal
5) any subject, any idea, any project

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/bigmind-mind-mapping/id659843103?mt=8

Toontastic Jr. Pirates - for iPad

Students love this App.  Storytelling with preset pirate scenes, animate the characters and record their stories Users choose a beginning, middle and end to their story and animate as they go.  12 animated story starters, large numbers of characters and settings

StoryShare options available where users can connect, play, talk and create stories collaboratively with others anywhere in the world!

Usually $1.99!

Integration Ideas:

1) use to guide and cue creative story telling (no text input or literacy skills needed) for students with highest needs meeting creative writing outcomes

2) enhance creativity with students by developing a collaborative story on the whiteboard via Airserver Software from one or multiple devices

3) collaborate with another classroom anywhere in the world to generate a fun pirate theme based animated cartoon in different languages!

4) use with students who are emergent readers and writers to structure and publish a story on pirates (young students and/or students on IPPs)

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/toontastic-jr.-pirates-for/id579933458?mt=8

App for ESL Students: Free June 14+

Easy Translation HD

 Input text by typing or speaking or even copying and pasting from an outside source (web, text document etc.).

Choose from 32 languages.

Send translated text out by email or copy to another App with one tap.  

Integration ideas:
1) for ESL students: send a document they need to read by email or from web. Student will choose what language he/she wishes to convert to to enhance comprehenion. The student will then copy/paste a manageable amount of text into the English text box, tap return on the keyboard and it automatically sends to the translation box below! From there you can send out the translation as a Text message, email or copy it to the clipboard to take into another App.

2) Use to increase engagement, comprehension and learning for ESL students of any digitized text. With Speak Selection the selected text in English or translated text will read aloud

3) TEXT NOT DIGITIZED? - still a handout or in a textbook? Use the updated Prizmo App to take a picture of the hardcopy document, scan from within this App with the iPad, extract the text and copy/paste the extracted text into Easy Translation HD for translation into the desired language (check this site out for a video key on this process  http://appsforeslbwelsford.blogspot.ca/ 

4) Use the above process for test taking (when testing knowledge of the subject) and even answering questions in Easy Translation HD - student will have the question read to them in Prizmo, perhaps translated in Easy Translation HD, clear the screen, change the language from i.e. German to English and the ESL student can verbally answer the question in their native language, translate to English, copy/paste into Type on PDF or Paperport Notes text boxes and complete the test then email out to the teacher!

 https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/easy-translation-hd/id590425657?mt=8

Update: June 16 Now regular price $3.99
Keep checking this great App for priced drops!

Toca Hair Salon 2 DATE FREE: June 13, 2013

Toca Hair Salon 2

Literally a Hair Salon in your pocket!

Available on the iPod Touch, iPad or iPhone! (also available on Android and Kindle Fire devices!)

Fun, easy to use App to enhance various learning and social opportunities, sequencing tasks, language, stimulating ideas for written output and much more. Parents, teachers SLPs and AT Specialists:) love this App series to engage students, enhance expressive language opportunities and much more.

Great for young students, students on IPPs with expressive language difficulties, an interest in hairdressing, developing social skills (complete a hair design in pairs!)...the learning opportunities are only limited to your imagination

 Integration ideas:
1) capture a picture at every stage of the hair design from washing, colouring, cutting to blow drying! Have the student import the pictures into Book Creator and develop a story with audio recording, image import and text (when appropriate) to write a sequences story about getting a haircut. Add exciting twists to the story by having the student write about a "What if" storyline (the disastrous haircut) with pictures!

2) with 6 characters to choose from create their hair designs, capture their image in the photo library then write a story in Book Creator, Pages, Keynote or other writing App about where the characters could go with their new haircut (a party, job, school etc), what could happen next...

3) use the same sequence of pictures captured above and import into Pic Collage. Have the students put the sequence of the hair cut or design in the proper order in Pic Collage then compare, discuss, verbalize and write about the result in various Apps offering voice recording, Dictation (if appropriate for the student) and publishing

 4) foster language, communication and social skills by having 2 students (or student groups) designing a hair style, project on the whiteboard from 2 or 3 different iPads using Airserver software. Tie in key vocabulary and descriptive words to the process (i.e. short, long, curly, straight, pink, purple!) .  Make the pictures into an Opposites activity in Pic Collage (long vs short), match the opposite or Show Me activity.

5) use as a transition and/or calming activity

6) use for fun learning

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toca-hair-salon-2/id569632660?mt=8

PicPlayPost App Free June 12, 2013

PicPlayPost Make a pic collage of your videos with preset frames (choice of 36 frames)

Integration ideas:
1) for students with ASD and visual scheduling needs.  Use a 2, 3 or 4 cell framed template and instantly offer a First/Then video schedule (2 cell frame) or a sequenced video schedule (with 3 or 4 sequenced cell frame template).

2) Math sequence: capture video of each step of solving a math equation and imbed in PicPlayPost collage, export as .mov, post to teacher website and/or share with students.  Have students produce the same and share with teachers (excellent UDL activity)

Share via email or save to PhotoLibrary, imbed in Book Creator or other productivity Apps

UPDATE: June 16: Now regular Price $1.99
Keep your eyes open for future price reductions with this great App

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/picplaypost/id498127541?mt=8