My+Favorite+Apps

=** Welcome to MY FAVORITE APPS! **=

"These are a Few of My Favorite Apps" - Presenter, Emily Elliott, Drayton Hall Elementary School




=== "iPad Tips and Tricks for Every Educator" - Presenters, Beth Goff, Instructional Techology Specialist for Clover School District and Todd Goff, NBCT, 5th grade Language arts and Social Studies teacher at Bethel Elementary===





I did an "Appy Hour" for our teachers where I shared my favorite apps as well as those of other educators. Following are those we covered plus a few new ones! ** CHEERS!! **

I Education Apps Review's goal and or focus is to take a look at practical, useful, and educationally sound ways to use mobile learning in the classroom.

**Productivity Apps:**

** DocAS - ** $5.99 (on sale for a limited time for $.99) DocAS lets your take notes, sketch your ideas, annotate your PDF, do your presentations, read your documents, record your classes or meetings, and share your ideas on your iPad, All in One.

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.
 * Dropbox ** - Free

**Evernote** - Free Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go.

**Good Reader**- $4.99

GoodReader® is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad - the #1 selling non-Apple app for iPad in USA in 2010! Mashable describes it as “a Swiss Army knife of awesome!” Reviews worldwide hail it as “essential,” “the best,” “magnificent” and “the killer app”. With GoodReader on your iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures. Use it once and you’ll be hooked. Soon you'll be wondering how you ever managed to use your iPad without GoodReader.

**iMovie** – $4.99 Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Designed for the Multi-Touch screen, iMovie puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in the Marquee view. Make a movie in minutes by adding video, photos, music and sound effects. Then give it the Hollywood treatment by adding a theme, titles and transitions. And you can share share your movie with the world – right from iMovie.

**Keynote**- $9.99

Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the ground up for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, it makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping. Use full-screen view to present right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Or use video mirroring to present it on an HDTV, and preview your slides and notes on your device using the presenter display. Keynote works with iCloud, so your presentations stay up to date across all your iOS devices — automatically.

Numbers is the most innovative spreadsheet app ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the ground up for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, it lets you make compelling spreadsheets in minutes — with tables, charts, photos, and graphics — using just your fingers. Choose from over 250 easy-to-use functions. Enter data and explore results with sliders, steppers, pop-ups, and intelligent keyboards. Numbers works with iCloud, so your spreadsheets stay up to date across all your iOS devices — automatically.
 * Numbers ** - $9.99

OnLive® Desktop is a service that provides a seamless, no-compromise, instant-response cloud-based PC desktop, wherever and whenever you want it. OnLive brings to your iPad a high-performance PC experience, regardless of the content, even when interacting with fast-action media. Features:• Instantly view, edit and create documents using actual Microsoft® Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint• Easily transfer files between OnLive Desktop and other devices• Experience high-performance, instant-response PC applications• Interact with lag-free animation and video
 * OnLive Desktop ** – Free

Pages is the most beautiful word processor you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. This powerful app has been exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Create, edit, and view documents wherever you are. Use dictation in iOS 5 on your iPhone 4S to easily create and edit documents. Pages works with iCloud, so your documents stay up to date across all your iOS devices — automatically.
 * Pages ** - $.9.99

Show your prezis on the fly! Go to prezi.com, create a prezi, download to your iPad and show it anytime, anywhere. Drag to pan and pinch to zoom in or out of topics, just like you do in any map apps. This lets you freely explore your prezi as your meeting or conversation develops--in the office hallway or in a beach café.
 * Prezi Viewer ** -Free

**Business Apps:**

** Dragon Dictation ** – Free Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard.With Dragon Dictation you can also dictate status updates directly to your Social Networking applications (Facebook and Twitter) or send notes and reminders to yourself….all using your voice. So when you’re on-the-go, stop typing and start speaking – from short text messages to longer email messages, and anything in between.

** Office2 HD ** $7.99 Office² HD, the most intuitive and straightforward office document editor available on the iPad, makes it easy to open, view, create and edit Word (DOC & DOCX), Excel (XLS), and now PowerPoint (PPT) files right from your iPad! Office² HD also offers the most advanced solution for connecting you to all of your stored documents! Access your Google Docs, DropBox and Box.net files at any time, to securely open and work on any and all of your most important documents! Creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations is also a breeze with Office² HD. Connect an external keyboard and make editing documents or spreadsheets even easier!

PrintCentral Pro is the essential printing app for the iPad. With PrintCentral Pro you can print to ALL printers (Not just AirPrint Printers). Print direct to most Wireless printers without additional software. Print to ALL printers and any document type via your Mac/PC. Print remotely over 3G and in corporate or when visiting other offices and Wifi is not available. View, store & print email, documents, files, attachments, photos, contacts and web pages on your iPad.
 * Print Central Pro ** - $9.99




 * QuickVoice ** – Free

QuickVoice is the most popular, full-featured iPhone/iPad/iPod voice recorder available. Record ideas, voice memos, voice email, dictation, lists, meetings, classes, or entire lectures! For professional, educational, and personal use...



TurboScan turns your iPhone into a multipage scanner for documents, receipts, whiteboards, business cards, etc. With TurboScan, you can quickly scan your documents and store, print, or email them as multipage PDFs or JPEG files.
 * TurboScan ** $1.99**:**

[[image:chsmediamaven/edmodo.png width="183" height="171" align="left"]] ** Edmodo ** - Free
Edmodo for iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad makes it easy for teachers and students to stay connected and share information. Use your iOS device to send notes, post replies, and check messages and upcoming events while away from the classroom. Teachers can post last-minute alerts to their students and keep tabs on recent assignment submissions. Students can check their latest grades and what assignments they still need to turn in.

This Day in History for iPad is an interactive multimedia calendar that displays historical events for the current day or any selected day, along with related media such as photos, illustrations, music, and speeches. You can hear the national anthems of countries on the day they became a nation, listen to presidents’ speeches on the anniversaries of their inaugurations, and play sound clips from famous artists on their birthdays
 * This Day- ** Free



Bring learning to your fingertips™ with the BrainPOP® Featured Movie app for the iPad®, iPhone®, and iPod touch®. Watch a different animated movie every day, then test your new knowledge with an interactive quiz – free!
 * Brain Pop ** – Free



Enjoy hours of intriguing, fun, cool, weird, strange, entertaining and awesome brain teasers in this app. You will find challenging riddles to solve, fun math tricks to ponder, and tricky word plays to quiz your friends!
 * Brain Teasers ** – Free

MyCongress is a portal to detailed information about your elected U.S. Congressional officials. Track their news, video and Twitter feeds. Look up their official Open Congress profile or contact them directly. MyCongress helps you get in touch with your government.
 * My Congress ** – Free

The Night Sky is a magical new app that enables you to identify the stars, planets, galaxies, constellations and even satellites you can see above. Just stand anywhere and hold your iPhone or iPad up to the sky and The Night Sky will display the names of the stars, planets and other objects you are able to see, just like magic!
 * Night Sky ** - $0.99

Developed in partnership with NASA, Astronomy Picture of the Day for the iPhone/iPad brings the vastness of space right into your hand. Browse through decades of high resolution NASA space photos hand selected by NASA astronomers. Jump to photos by date, save them to your photo roll or share them friends.
 * APOD ** – Free

The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content — right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Whether you’re majoring in molecular biology at a university, taking Spanish in high school, or just interested in European history, you now have a valuable tool to help you learn anytime, anywhere.
 * iTunes U – ** Free

**TED -** Free **TED App Teaches, Inspires and Amazes in Ways the Website Can't** If you want to get an 18-minute dose of health food for the brain, TED lectures are always available for free on the open Web. But the series' dedicated iOS app adds a few extra hooks and features. For instance, you can download any given speech to your device, making it available for viewing even when you wander away from an Internet connection. For anyone familiar with TED lectures, the content speaks for itself. (Chris Maxcer, MacNewsWorld, 7/11/11)

**Rover** - Free ***Can’t access Flash on your iPad? Rover CAN! Rover is the free education app that streams educational Flash content to your iPad.***

TEST PREP APPS:
** English Vocabulary Study Cards- $1.99 ** Choose from: JUMBLE, REVIEW, and QUIZ Have fun solving the "JUMBLE" puzzle. Flash card answer side is shown--you figure out the question from up to ten jumbled letters. Take a 10-question quiz--different flash cards shown each time. Store your scores. Review over 2000 English Vocabulary flash cards. Study cards one by one in sequence and eliminate them from your stack once you've learned them. Includes definitions, pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, sample sentences--designed so you can test well. Search" tool helps you find key terms quickly.

The ACT Practice For Dummies App gets you ready for one of the biggest tests of your high school years. And, the more practice you have, the better you’ll score. This app features more than 150 practice questions covering critical reading, writing, and math skills. You’ll also get two full length practice exams covering every section of the test WITH time limits – just like on test day. Our proven tips are designed to make test preparation and test day just a bit easier. Regardless of your academic strengths or weaknesses, the ACT Practice For Dummies App gets you test-ready.
 * ACT Practice for Dummies - $9.99 **



**ACT Student** - **Free**

***Internet Access is Required***ACTStudent helps users anticipate and manage the ACT Test experience. Using the "Practice" feature, students can attempt answers to practice items and gain feedback from their attempts. "Account" allows users to log in for limited, read-only access to their own registration and score information. Accessing the link to ACT's mobile site, users can find straightforward answers to typical questions test takers have about events leading up to the test and the test day itself.

This app will help you prepare to ace the Verbal section of the SAT exam and makes test preparation enjoyable and interactive.
 * Kaplan SAT Flash Cubes - Free **

Using a unique 3D flashcard system, Flashcubes includes a Self Study mode and Multiple-Choice Quiz mode. You can also create custom lists of over 500 SAT vocabulary words, and view your learning proficiency in the Reports view.



Have the mathematical formulas you need at your fingertips with this app.
 * Mathematical Formulas - $.99 **


 * Adapster SAT Math - $9.99 **

Test your ability to master over 1000 questions for the math section of the SAT Reasoning Test, all the while flagging problematic areas for further review.

Pioneering the next generation of study-aids, Adapster tailors itself to meet the needs of each individual student. Based on YOUR performance, Adapster adapts to YOUR abilities, gets to know YOUR personal strengths and weaknesses, and prepares a comprehensive and efficient lesson plan designed JUST FOR YOU.

Choose from over 30 topics spanning the four main areas of the exam:









**EDUCREATIONS - Free** Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your photos... Diagram a sports play...

**Grammar Up - Free**

Grammar Up can help learners to improve their grammar, word selection and vocabulary. Custom timer setting can assist learners to improve response times under exam time constraints. Research suggests that students and adults learn most quickly when playing learning games with real-time error-feedback.

** Shakespeare: ** Free

Shakespeare™ is a free app with the complete works of Shakespeare (41 plays, 154 sonnets and 6 poems, including doubtful works) and a searchable concordance to find the exact word or phrase you’re looking for (with “relaxed” searching to find words close to your search term).

**Reference Apps:**

Hundreds of handpicked quotes from great books from a great variety of authors. The app is feature rich, yet extremely intuitive and easy to navigate.
 * Book Quotes: ** Free

**Merriam Webster Dictionary** – Free In addition to all the definitions from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the app offers voice search – to let you look up a word without having to spell it – along with an integrated thesaurus, example sentences, Word of the Day, Favorites, and more. A great tool for reference, education, and vocabulary building.

**eHow –**Free Life can be much easier with a little help from the eHow app. With millions of helpful articles at your fingertips, eHow is your source for expert tips and advice on topics spanning Home, Food, Money, Family, Health, Style and more. Search and discover your answers on the go — it’s quick and easy.

**iTranslate –** Free Translate words, phrases and even whole texts into over 50 languages.


 * Books: **

iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.
 * iBooks- ** Free (to download – each book costs…)


 * Kindle – ** Free (to download – each book costs…)

The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 1,000,000* books in the Kindle Store plus hundreds* of newspapers and magazines. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device.

** Nook –Free (to download – each book costs…) ** NOOK™ for iPad from Barnes & Noble offers an incredible reading experience for NOOK books, magazines and newspapers including New York Times Best Sellers, new releases and hot newsstand titles like Us Weekly, Star, The Oprah Magazine, & Martha Stewart Living. Choose from more than two million NOOK Books, magazines and newspapers with thousands of free books and sample books.

Read books on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad! Lexcycle Stanza brings the digital book revolution to your pocket with a reading interface that is unrivaled in its clarity and ease of use. With over 4 million downloads around the world, Stanza has become an iPhone phenomenon, and is featured as one of the top three Apple favorites in their "App Store Turns 1" celebration.Purchase popular new books from a selection of over 50,000 contemporary titles available in various partner stores, or choose from an additional 50,000 free classics and recent original works available from Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, and many other sources. Store and categorize hundreds of books in the organizer, and transfer your own ePub, eReader, PDF, Comic Book Archive (CBR & CBZ), and DjVu books from your Mac or PC to Stanza by dragging & dropping the files into the "File Sharing" section of the "Apps" tab of your device in iTunes.
 * Stanza- ** Free (to download – each book costs…)

** Health and Fitness: **

Scan and choose healthy groceries. Over 200,000 unique UPCs! As featured in USAToday, NYTimes, WSJ, Lifehacker, Gizmodo and on ABC, FOX, NBC and more... Use your iPhone / iPad to:★ Automatically scan a product barcode, search for products, or browse by categories★ See product's highlights (both good & bad)★ Compare products★ Select healthier alternatives Just pick up a product from the shelf, scan it, and let Fooducate do the rest.
 * Fooducate ** Free**:**


 * Food on the Table:**

➽ Do you scramble for what to make for dinner?➽ Does your grocery bill seem too high?➽ Is your family stuck in a food rut? Find out how THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of families are meal planning and saving money at the grocery store using a Top-Rated Food App. With this app you can:✓ See what's on sale at your nearest supermarket✓ Find recipes that integrate those sale items✓ Select meals based on your preferences✓ Save time with an organized grocery list

**Nike Training Club - FREE** Nike Training Club is a training app that gives you your own personal trainer, anytime, anywhere. Get lean, toned and strong with over 60 custom-built workouts featuring audio guidance and on-demand instruction from a Nike Professional Trainer while you earn NTC rewards like Lea Michele's exclusive workout.

**Lose It! - FREE** Succeed at weight loss with Lose It! Set goals and establish a daily calorie budget that enables you to meet them. Stay on track each day by recording your food and exercise and staying within your budget. The average active Lose It! user has lost more than 12lbs and more than 85% of our active users have lost weight. Lose It! is completely free- get started losing weight with Lose It! today!



**Nike+ GPS - $1.99** Map your runs, track your progress and get the motivation you need to go even further. Hear mid-run cheers every time your friends like or comment on your run status, or outrun them in a game of Nike+ Tag.

**MyFitnessPal - FREE** Lose weight with MyFitnessPal, the fastest and easiest to use calorie counter. With the largest food database of any calorie counter (over 1,000,000 foods), and amazingly fast food and exercise entry, we’ll help you take those extra pounds off! There is no better diet app – period.

**GoodGuide - FREE** The GoodGuide app helps you find safe, healthy, and sustainable products while you shop. You can browse, search or simply scan a barcode to see detailed ratings for health, environment and social responsibility for more than 70,000 products and companies. GoodGuide provides this information about personal care, household chemical, toy, food and paper products for free on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

**Snack App - FREE** The Snack App sorts hundreds of snacks by calorie counts – 50, 100, or 200 – and by type of craving: salty, sweet, crunchy, cheesy, creamy, and more. Just tell the app what you want, and you’ll get a list of tasty snack ideas, complete with caloric and nutritional information. Feeling guilty after your snack? The Snack App also gives you simple ways to burn the calories you just consumed.

**Restaurant Nutrition - FREE**  The Restaurant Nutrition application allows a user to easily view nutritional information about restaurant menus and track what they have eaten

**Whole Foods Recipes - FREE** Looking for healthy and delicious food? Search Whole Foods Market Recipes for recipes featuring the finest natural and organic foods. You can search recipes by ingredients and dietary preferences such as gluten-free, low fat, and vegetarian/vegan. Every Whole Foods Market recipe includes nutritional information and cooking instructions. You can also enter up to 3 items you have on hand to find recipes using those ingredients.

**Photo/Video:**

** Comic Book! - ** $1.99**:**

ComicBook! is your FULL featured comic book creation app! In just seconds turn yourself and your friends into comic heroes or villains. Star in your own comic book adventures! Realistic comic styling with a wide selection of: image filters, comic fonts, customizable captions, a library of classic comic graphics and dozens of multi-panel page layouts. Publish direct to Facebook with built-in photo tagging!


 * Travel: **

** TourWrist - Free ** **:**

Tour Wrist uses what it calls 3D-viewing technology to allow iPhone or iPad users to view tours in ‘immersive’ mode, allowing them to rotate their iOS device in front of them and experience their chosen location as if they were actually there. Over 18,000 “tours” across the world are available to explore, from Times Square in New York to the Eiffel Tower in Paris

** Utilities: **

A portable QR code reader for the iPhone. Fast and effective with the real-time auto detect modeFEATURES - Real-time scan mode - Share using email, facebook or twitter - Integrated web browser - Integrated map view - Create your own QR codes- Retina graphics
 * [[image:chsmediamaven/qrreader.jpg]]QRReader - ** $0.99**:**

**Puffin** - $2.99 Web Browser that will play flash files on your iPad


 * Finance: **


 * Lemon - ** Free**:**

Lemon.com is the best way to organize all your purchases into one simple place. Easily scan your paper receipts and we’ll turn the images into useful information that’s taggable and searchable so you can get organized and know where you're spending your money. Check out Lemon.com to get your personal www.lemon.com address for all your digital and e-receipts. Give this address to merchants and keep your inbox free of spam!


 * Games: **


 * Hanging with Friends - ** Free

Hanging With Friends brings a brand new twist to the classic game of hangman that adds creativity, strategy and fun for all ages. Build mystery words to stump, amuse or impress your friends, but be prepared to flex those brain muscles as you decipher the words they send back to you.


 * Words with Friends- ** Free

Experience for yourself why more than 20 million people are addicted to the word building, triple score seeking, chat bubble sending goodness of Words With Friends. (Scrabble for iPad/iPhone)


 * Temple Run – ** Free

Test your reflexes as you race down ancient temple walls and along sheer cliffs. Swipe to turn, jump and slide to avoid obstacles, collect coins and buy power ups, and see how far you can run!


 * Hidden Objects Crosswords - ** $6.99

Try a whole new twist to Hidden Object games when you search for clues to complete Crossword puzzles. Simply click on the crossword puzzle to get a riddle hint, then try to figure out the item. How fast can you complete the puzzle to earn rewarding trophies? Search for clues and find the answers in more than 50 challenging levels. Fill in the blank to pop culture references, figure out proverbs, and decipher clever riddles. If you get stuck, click on the firefly for a letter hint, or click on the Hint button to reveal the item. With a relaxing pace, a soothing soundtrack, and wonderful riddles to solve, this unique game combination will surely keep you engaged.

** Secrets of Great Art - ** $4.99

Alex Johnson has lost his memory. He has no idea where he is or how he got there, but finding objects hidden in classic antique paintings is somehow helping him recover. Put your perception skills to the test in 60 stunning levels to help Alex solve the mystery surrounding the paintings and his lost memory! Each painting will take you further into Alex's past and closer to exposing the truth as the Secrets of Great Art are revealed!