Apps+Suggested+by+Educators

Educational Apps:

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GoogleBuddy iReward: Choose the behavior you are trying to reinforce and track students behaviors in relation to it.

Pandora: Popular music service that will stream music to your mobile device.

ABC Animals: Flashcards to learn letters

Read it Later: Will grab a story from the web for offline reading later.

Gflash cards - Flash cards associated with Google docs

Flashcard touch: Hooks into Quizlet.com community which is 800,000 users strong with ready made cards.

Crazy Machines: Use of avriety of items to build machines.

Articles: Wikipedia with locations based finds, searches and article save

iStudiesz Pro: Track classroom lesson plans and what students have to do.

NewsRack - automatically hooks you into 3000 RSS feeds. Tap on feeds you want to read and choose where to send the articles. Use Instapaper to download the complete article to your mobile device off line later.

iPad: **GoodReader** - Allows you to transfer files to your iPad or iPhone over wireless and servers. Will then display a variety of formats including PDF and PPT.

SaiSuke: excellent calendar app $9.99.

Evernote: Free service that synchronizes notes between computer, iPhone, iPod. Can use the iPhone camera and upload directly to Evernote to run OCR. Free!

SoundPaper: iPad only 4.99 Note paper that allows you to type and record too. So during a lecture you can take notes and record the speaker. Graph paper

Twitterlator: shows tweets of those around you, like at a conference.

RTM: Remember the Milk - creates lists - free service but you have to pay $25 to access the website.

FileSharing - Works in conjunction with the www.getdropbox.com. Access your desktop, download files, share files via web link App is free you get 2G free or it is 5.99 per month

UStream: for streaming video, can stream, view, or broadcast. Can bring expert into class from remote locations.

iVideo Camera: captures video at 10 frames per second. Only 99cents

Smugmug - Photo sharing - does geo caching Software viewer for Smugmug: Blossom.

Location based services: available on G3 iTouch - It uses gps and allows you to check in at the location you are at. You can alos track others. Apps: Loopt - find friends on a map, Foursquare- Post where you are at and at the same time collect icons, points, and status, Gowalla - Like Foursquare, but, allows the users to create new locations. Cleaner iPhone interface but not as popular at Foursquare.

Mappping Applications: Around Me - It shows closest restaurants, movie theaters, hotels, etc.

Geocaching.com website

My POI uses GPS to find my location. Can provide altitude. You can store your locations and email it to yourself.

MotionGPS Drive - Voice guidance for iPhone.

Shazam: Tell you what song it playing if you hold it up.

Yelp - Food application - Can find things in a neighborhood. Hold you iPhone up and it will tell you what restaurants are that way.

Red Laser - Reads bar codes and tells you where you can buy a product more cheaply.