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