App+Sharing

= App Integration Ideas & Sharing: = **Apps Used for Training:** Check to make sure you have the following apps on your iPad--if not, please download them in the order listed so that you have them ready to go for training today. **(All apps are FREE)**

**Google Drive:** Link to download this app will be used to store items created today and links to your Google account if you have one presently.

**iBooks:** Link to download We will use this app to download a book, highlight adjectives, summarize text, add notes of synonyms and word meaning, to pronounce words and for organizing notes.

**Comic Touch 2:** Link to download (I am sad to say that I cannot find Comic Touch LIte in the iTunes Store any longer :( We will be using Comic Touch 2 in the creation of a comic to illustrate a few of the words we have highlighted in iBooks.

**Haiku Deck:** Link to download We will use this app to put together a slideshow of pictures created in Comic Touch 2 that illustrate the vocabulary words from the book downloaded in iBoks.

**Skitch:** Link to download This app will be used to make annotations on a flower, plant cell, student writing or a map (participants can choose). Annotations will be saved back to Google Drive.

Scan: Link to download Scan will be used to read QR Codes on a bag of grocery items so that participants can solve a real life math problem. We will brainstorm other ideas on how QR Codes might be used.

**Educreations:** Link to download This app will be used to explain the "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" order of operations.

**5 Dice:** Link to download Continuing to work with order of operations, this brain stretching apps allows students to apply their knowledge of order of operations to solve a dice problem.

= Agenda & Activities for September 2014 Training: =

**General Settings:**
 * General-->Accessibility-->Speak Selection (turn on)
 * General-->Accessibility-->Guided Access (to keep students in one app/for instance in a station)
 * General-->Keyboard (add Emoji, Spanish, Greek)
 * General-->select app-->enable/turn on/off items, set defaults
 * General-->iBooks-->uncheck synch bookmarks (we will recheck later to show the impact)


 * Taking Screen shots with on/off & home button **


 * Language Arts Ideas:[[image:ibookshelf.png width="208" height="211" align="right"]] **
 * iBooks: **
 * **Store**-->Download The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen (FREE version)
 * Enlarge text, change page colors, change fonts, bookmark
 * Search: Find the word "burdock" and bookmark the page, find the word retreat and bookmark the page, find the word moor and bookmark the page
 * Highlighting: highlight burdock, retreat an moor on the pages bookmarked
 * Add Notes with definitions or synonyms (use define if needed)
 * Speak Text: highlight a paragraph and have the text spoken
 * Highlight 5 adjectives in yellow, 5 adverbs in blue
 * Share notes from table of contents (if mail is set-up--considering setting up an Evernote or Dropbox account for student submissions
 * Safari:**
 * Using Google Images, find a picture that illustrates/provides a visual image for at least two of the words highlighted in the Ugly Duckling
 * Tap & Hold to Save the images to your camera roll (or do a screen capture with the Home button and ON/OFF button)
 * Comic Touch 2[[image:comictouch2icon.jpg width="123" height="149" align="right"]]**
 * Create a comic for each of the highlighted words
 * Save your comics to your camera roll
 * Haiku Deck:**
 * Create a presentation with a slide for each word


 * Evernote:** use for writing, organization, rubrics, student portfolio, etc. (can get to notebooks from laptops/desktops/ipads)


 * Science Ideas **
 * Skitch:[[image:a-skitchflower.jpg width="246" height="297" align="right"]]**
 * Using Safari, find an image of a flower that shows the parts of a flower well and save it to the camera roll
 * Open Skitch and use the tools to label the parts of a flower
 * Save the Skitch illustration to your camera roll (email--if set-up, or Evernote)


 * Appitic** **App:**
 * Finding science specific grade level apps


 * Math Ideas **
 * Scan App:**
 * Using QR Codes for math story problems
 * (Also show books using QR Voice web site)
 * Educreations:**
 * Demonstrate how to complete math problems with Educreations whiteboard & ability to preload images
 * Five Dice: (free)**
 * other apps (6 dice, etc. are at a cost)
 * folder activities
 * great for math facts & order of operations

**Apps Shared by Participants at Training:**
 * Find Grade Level and Curricular Area Apps Using Appitic
 * Timer+: iPad timer that can be used in the classroom--Free App
 * Other Teacher apps or finds will be added here!