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    • Tech the Summer 2016
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    • WES STEM Night 2019
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    • BTS Admin Assistants Dec 2016
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    • googlefest2016
    • code
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    • Oct 9 DIISD PD Day
  • Holiday Special
  • Lesson Plans - Template
    • Lesson Plans - Week of Aug 30

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ComicBook!

3/4/2015

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For today only, ComicBook! is free to download on your iPad/iPhone! This app normally costs $2.99 and allows you to turn your pictures into a comic book. Check out the picture to the left to see what it can do.

As with all limited time free apps, it is best to download it even if you are not sure you will use it. This way when it is no longer free, you will have the ability to always download it again for free.

Direct link to app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comicbook!/id436114747?mt=8
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New Apps to Start the Year

1/2/2015

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Here are some FREE educational and creative apps to start the New Year off right!

Creative

Lego City: My City offers a variety of mini games that engages both a student's brain and body. Students will be challenged to drive a race car, unload trains in a logical fashion, and even drive a snowmobile through the arctic.

All mini games are short, so this apps works great in rooms where iPads are limited.
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Another Lego title that may find a place on your iPads is Lego Fusion: Town Master. This app is meant to integrate with Lego's Fusion series toys, but can be used as a stand alone app. Think Minecraft simplified with Legos.

Multiple cities can be created after a few tutorial mini-games, so it could be possible for each student to have their own city on one iPad, or better yet, let each student add onto the classroom city!

Sometimes teachers just need a simple coloring app, well, behold Live Colors for Kids. On the surface the app is simple, but it hides a interesting coloring app twist, students can learn to blend colors! Using the palette, students can learn to mix colors to get a variety of paints.
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English/Language Arts

Word Joust is another app from the creators of Edmodo that tests students vocabulary skills in a variety of ways.

There are actually two apps, Word Joust K-5 and Word Joust 6-8. Both are technically iPhone apps, but they will work on a iPad just fine.


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This app, Story Lines, from the creators of Edmodo turns your iPad into a creative writing tool. This app takes the classic telephone game and amps it up a couple of notches. 

This app is perfect for a classroom full of iPads and even just one. This app could also be used in any discipline with a little creativity. 

Math

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Tiggly Chef: Preschool Math Cooking Game provides young learners with simple and fun explanations of the mathematical process. 

As an added bonus, students create crazy food dishes that contain things like peppers, jellybeans, and eggs!

There are a variety of other Tiggly apps available including a neat number line app.

There are two types of people in this world, regular folk and those who understand Trig. Trig Math Pro is here for us regular folk. This app takes a classic flash card approach, but provides great feedback when a student answers incorrectly. 

The developer, Mathtoons, also offers several other math apps in the subjects of Algebra Basics & Advanced, Logarithms, Exponents, Equations, Geometry, Number Skills, and Calculus.
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Special Education

Emotionary allows educators to create a diary/journal of their students emotional states. It allows students to input entries through words, pictures, or even sound. The sound feature makes it great for speech teachers also!

This app allows you to track multiple students on one iPad making it a perfect fit for all Special Education and even General classroom teachers.
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"Wow, it is cold enough to freeze your...um...butt off out there!" See what I did there, that is a idiom and there are students out there that have a hard time understanding them. Well Idiom Stories is there to help those learners out.

This app helps students understand the ideas and explanations behind popular idioms in a fun and comical manner.
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Venn Diagram

4/17/2014

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If you are looking for apps to use with a classroom with limited iPad access, Venn Diagram is the app for you! This app can allow your classroom to create Venn Diagrams with ease and make them look good too! Imagine you have a room full of students and one iPad hooked up via a Apple TV. You could pass the iPad around and have students add their thoughts while everyone can see the changes made via the projector.

This app can also be used by individual students to create diagrams and then share them via email or as a jpg.

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SparkleFish

4/10/2014

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When I was a young lad, I remember rushing through my vocab test in Mrs. Slade's English class so that I could have the chance to fill out one of the Mad Lib's she would have available. This habit eventually lead to some not so great vocab test scores, but boy, could I rock out some pretty sweet adjectives on the spot!

Well, now you can introduce your classroom and students to a new version of Mad Libs via the free app, SparkleFish. SparkleFish offers five different themed Mad Libs that ask the student for a word type, which the student then records. Once they have completed all the words, it reads the story to them while adding their own recorded words. Students are psyched when they hear their own voice and are actually excited to learn about nouns and verbs!

A bonus part of this app is that it has a huge list of suggestions for all the nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. Even struggling students can succeed at this app and create imaginative stories with ease!

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Word Mover

3/20/2014

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Remember the fun of rearranging those magnetic word poems on a friends fridge to make humorous sayings? Well the fun can continue with Word Mover for the iPad! Students can create separate accounts on one iPad to make poems using random words or input words you have instructed them too. Students can then save them as a photo, email them, or print them. 

This app could be used to help students form sentences, phrases, show understanding, or for the creative math teacher, word problems! 

Word Mover is from the National Council of Teachers of English, who are the same people who bring you the awesome website www.readwritethink.org. The app is also free!

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Justin Cowen
Dickinson-Iron Intermediate School District
1074 Pyle Drive
Kingsford, MI 49802