First Day with iPads!

Today, the students received the iPads that we have been so patiently waiting for this year. There was a lot of excitement in the air, as the students opened the boxes. Unfortunately, we only received 16, but since a few students have been bringing their iPads from home, only a couple had to share.

We spent the first half hour exploring the apps that were already on the iPads. Some iPads had a large collection of apps such as Scrabble, Elements, Pages, and Garage Band, while others did not have anything. It was evident that we needed to somehow make the apps. available on the different iPads more uniform. Students began to download a collection of apps. that I thought would be useful in class and FREE. These apps. were then organized in folders. The applications downloaded included:

Reference
Wikipanion
Dictionary
Discover
World Book This Day in History
Constitution for iPad
BrainPOP
Google Earth
NASA App HD
AppStart

News
CNN
BBC News
AP News
ABC News
Eyewitness
Reforma
USA Today
Huff Post
NY Times

Utilities
Dropbox
Min to Go
Nightstand
Skype
Calculator 4
Dictation Dragon
Typing Test
TeamViewerHD

Books
ICDL
iBooks (download Alice in Wonderland free)
iFlow Reader

Garfield ED
Online Safety
Forms of Media
Cyberbullying
Fact or Opinion

Math ED
Number Line
TanZen Lite
Pearl Diver
Math Gr5 Lite
ArithmeTick Flash Cards
Geometry Test
Math Tutor Lite

LA ED
Vocabulary Bubble
Spelling Made Simple Lite
Miss Spell's Class
iSpeak, iSpell HD
Spelling Free
FreeGrammar
Word Abacus
Words Free
Hang Genius

Writing ED
Verses Poetry
Story Kit
Wordventure!
Story Builder

Science ED
3D CellStain
101 Science
Science Lab

History ED
Pass the Past
Westward Expansion
Our Virgina Jamestown
US Citizenship

Drawing
Doodle Buddy
Draw

Music
JamPad Lite

Puzzles
BrainGames
ArtPuzzles
Gravity HD
Slice It! Free


Now, if I could just get the outlet power strips, they'd be charged for tomorrow!