- 1.Using iPad and iPhone Appsfor Learning with LiteracyRichard
Beach, ProfessorEmeritus, University ofMinnesota,
[email protected] Docs Version of
handout:http://tinyurl.com/6oxcn7zUsing iPad and iPhone Apps
forLearning with Literacy Across theCurriculum
2. Affordances of iPads/iPhones Touch: Intuitive navigation of
texts and virtualworlds Portability/storage/ownership Personal
learning device Social reading/writing Multimodality
Collaboration/communication 3. Wikipedia apps Qwiki includes
videos, images, graphs, andentries for millions of topics Articles
for iPad Wikipedia Mobile Wikipanion Plus Simplepedia iWiki 4.
Accessing/AnalyzingInformation to Learn Search engine apps.
Safari(bundled app), Google Search, Bing,Wolfram Alpha), Dolphin
Browser,Opera Mini, Atomic Web Browser,Ask, Yahoo: Answers, Yahoo:
Search,Shelfster, Knowtilus Pro (translateswebsites into 28
different languages) 5. News curation apps Pearltrees, Flipboard,
Zinio, Flud,Google Currents, Evri,
News360,LiveBindershttp://tinyurl.com/7zpuhe5,
Scoop.it!http://tinyurl.com/7ef7qjk,NetNewsWire (iPhone app,
FluentNews Reader, Paper.li, and 6. Social bookmarking apps .
Diigo, Evernote WebClipper, Yahoo!Bookmarks, Xmarks, Mister
Wongjogtheweb.pngicyte.png, Licorize, symbaloo.png, favable.png,
scrible.png, Digg, Stumbleupon 7. Purpose: Acquiring andsubscribing
to/sharing information Social Bookmarking and sharinglinks/tags
Sharing links in class Diigo groups Adding annotations to online
literarytexts for sharing responses to literature 8. Using Diigo
for adding a sticky-note response1. Add Diigo to your toolbar2.
Find an online text3. Highlight sections of the text4. Click on the
icon to add a Sticky Note response5. Have other students add their
responses 9. Womanhood, CatherineAndersonShe slides overWhen she
enters, the hot upholsteryand the millgate closes, of her mothers
car,final as a slap, this schoolgirl of fifteentherell be silence.
who loves humming & swaying Shell see fifteen high windows with
the radio. cemented over to cut out light. Her entry into
womanhoodInside, a constant, deafening noise will be like all the
other girlsand warm air smelling of oil, a cigarette and a joke,
the shifts continuing on ... as she strides up with the rest All
day shell guide cloth along a line to a brick factoryof whirring
needles, her arms & where shell sew rag rugs shoulders from
textile strips of kelly green, rocking back & forth bright red,
aqua. with the machines 200 porch size rugs behind her before she
can stop to reach up, like her mother, and pick the lint out of her
hair. 10. Highlighting and adding a StickyNote to the poem 11. QR
reader apps QR Reader, QR app, NeoReader,Scan, QR Scanner,
i-nigma,Optiscan, ScanLife, Quickmark,RedLaser-Barcord Scanner and
QRReader, or Qrafter. Create QR code images by enteringin a URL in
a QR create site such asQrafter, QRstuff.com, Kaywa, Tec-IT,QR-app
12. Comics apps Comixology Comics (for reading DCComics,
MarvelComics, Image, Boom! Studio comics;Comics+, myComics, Comic,
Comicblendr HD, Comic Zeal Comic ReaderMini (iPhone only,
ComicBookLover(for reading/organizing comics). 13. Digital mapping
iPad apps: iBrainstorm, MindMeisterfor Ipad,, Sundry Notes,
IdeaSketch, TotalRecall, inShare, iMindMapMindNode, iThoughtsHD,
Popplet Lite http://tinyurl.com/3o6a3wy Hierarchical/logical
relationships betweenkey concepts Issues of definitions: unhealthy
foods 14. Note-taking apps Notes (IOSapps), Evernote, Penultimate,
NotesPlus, Simplenote, NyNoteIt, SoundNote, SpringNote, Notability,
UberNote,NotePad Pro PaperDeskLITE, SmartNote 15. EverNote (and
Skitch), NotesPlus (Alison) Evernote use in schools Evernote for
clipping webpages Skitch for visual annotations Notes Plus
(handwriting) 16. Mind-mapping apps Inspiration, iBrainstorm,
MindMeisterfor Ipad,, Sundry Notes, Mindjet foriPad, Idea Sketch,
Total Recall,iMindMap, MindNode, iThoughtsHD,Popplet, SimpleMind+
for iPad,Maptini 17. Uses of mapping forresponding to literature
Visually portray performancesaccording to three units of analysis:o
Events|o Spaces|o Social worlds/systems 18. Map of Womanhood 19.
Blogging apps BlogPress or Blogsy to export theirblog posts
toBlogger, Wordpress, Posterous, Edmodo, Live Journal,
PrivateJournal, KidBlog Tumblrita to export their posts toTumblr
20. Twitter apps Twitter Apps such asTwitter, TweetCasterTweetbot,
Tweetdeck, Twitteriffic, HootSuite 21. Twitteriffic 22. HootSuite
23. Extended writing apps Pages, IA Writer, My Writing Spot
foriPad, PlainText, Manuscript for iPad,Notebooks, Clean Writer,
StoryistiPad, DraftPad OnLive Desktop, DocumentsToGo CloudOn (Word,
Excel, & PowerPointediting) 24. Collaborative
writing/datacollection: Google Docs forms 5th graders: Weaver
LakeSchool, Osseo, MN Data on parasite presence inMonarch
butterflies 49% had parasites 25. Story/childrens book writing
StoryKit, Storyrobe, Book Creator,Bookemon Mobile, Picture
Books,Writers Studio, StoryPatch,Demibooks Composer, StoryBuddy,My
Story, MoglueBooks, myebook,StoryJumper (for younger
students),Tikatok 26. Comics/graphic novels Comic Life,
StripDesigner, ComicStrip CSShttp://tinyurl.com/6or7bvz,
ComicsCreator, PhotoComic, Comic TouchLite 27. Dictionary/grammar
apps Dictionary for iPad, Merriam-WebsterDictionary HD, WordWeb
DictionaryDictionary.com: Dictionary andThesaurus, Advanced English
Dictionaryand Thesaurus Students can speak words for
dictionarysearches Grammar App HD, EnglishGrammar, Grammar Up, Word
Study &English Grammar, iGE Lite: theinteractive Grammar of
English from UCL 28. Apps for Sharing/PublishingWriting ePub: Mac
Pages (soon to be on iPadPages) Apple Author (requires OS Lion):
iBooks Dotepub or Inkling books Human Biology Inkling
textbookMoGlue Bookshttp://tinyurl.com/88pbgau ebooks for reading
on eReaders bysubmitting properly formatted Word filesto
Smashwords.com, Bluefire ReaderApp, or Book Creator 29. Dictation
apps Dragon Dictation/Search/Go Siri Remote Dictate dictate text
that then appears on their PCWord or other
word-processingapplicationtransfer facilitated by thefree, Air
Mouse Server Google Translate 30. Voice search: Requiresvocabulary
Google Search Siri iPhone 4S older IPhones: Voice Ask app
http://tinyurl.com/72p3v35 ChaCha Merriam Webster dictionary
http://tinyurl.com/3zx9hu9 Assessing information literacies TRAILS
http://www.trails-9.org 31. Small-group discussions: CMSplatform
options Pearsons OpenClass (free; linked toGoogle Apps)
http://www.joinopenclass.com/open/view/t1 Edmodo (free; also an
app) http://www.edmodo.com/ Schoology
https://www.schoology.com/home.php rcampus (cloud-based)
http://www.rcampus.com/ 32. Collaborize Classroom Free platform for
classroomdiscussions Web-based Extensive curriculum resources Focus
on fostering studentscollaboration Professional development on
leadingdiscussions 33. Backchannel apps TodaysMeet, Soapbox,
Backchannel,Buro Zero Backchannel, Donahue,Read Chatz, or
Present.ly 34. VoiceThread: Multipleaudio/written comments on
sameimage 35. Produce image tutorials forpeers: Doodles and audio
voice-over ShowMe, ExplainEverything, VoiceThread.ed, Screenchomp,
Educreations, InteractiveWhiteboard, ReplayNote, Skitch Show Me:
5th grade science http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=RNKspgu VoiceThead:
Literary terms http://voicethread.com/?#u11815.b1428998.i7556980
36. Google Images/Earth/Lit Trips 37. Video/audio conferencing
iChat, Skype, Facetime, Google+Hangout, Adobe Connect,
BlackboardCollaborate, Skype for iPhone andiPad, as well as a
distinct Skype foriPad,), Share Board (up to 4 users),Fring: Video
Calls + Chat (up to 4users), BT Chat HD, ooVoo VideoChat, Vtok:
Google Talk Video, Chatfor GoogleTalk 38. Google+ Handout: Up to
10people 39. Teen texting: Pew Research 63% text daily versus 39%
cellphones, 35% face-to-facesocializing, 29%
social-networkingmessages, 22% IMing, and 6% emailing. The median
number of texts sent dailywas 60 in 2011. The heaviest texters(more
than 100 texts a day) are also theheaviest talkers; 69% of heavy
texterstalk daily on their cell phones versus 46%of medium texters
(those exchanging 21-100 texts a day) 40. Texting/message apps
iMessage (iPad or iPhone), Messages(Mac), AK Messenger!, textPlus
FreeTexting + Group Text, TextieMessaging, Textfree, TextNow +
Voice- Free Texting and Calling, iPushIt,,Text Me!, gText
Classroom-based texting systems:Class Parrot, Kikutext,
WeTxt,Remind101, Sendhub, Class Pager 41. Text to speech apps
vBookz (reads aloud books) vBookz PDFVoice Reader (reads aloud PDF
files),Write & Say (reads aloud text in 52different voices
(including a 3D avatar)and in 50 different languages), Speak
it!(four different voices: American Male,American Female, British
Male, BritishFemale), Voice Reader Text to Speech(21 languages
using 32 different voices,includes PDF files), Talk to Me
(hearwords spoken to them as they arewriting) 42. Creating podcasts
GarageBand,Voice Memos foriPad, SoundCloud (export intoGarageband
for editing) 43. Accessing videos YouTube EDU (free
educationalvideos from universities, PBS, TED,and other educational
sites), YouTubefor Schools (students create/sharevideos), Google
Videos, Vimeo,Redux, Yahoo Videos 44. Producing
videos:Scripts/storyboards. CeltxScript, ScriptWrite, Storyist,
Storyboard Composer 2012 updated iMovie app: astoryboard feature
for planning avideo Recommend using Comics apps suchas Comic Life
for storyboards 45. Creating animation videos Animation Desk for
iPad, AnimationStudio, Toontastic, Puppet PalsHD, Sock Puppets,
AnimationCreator HDLite, FlickmationLite, DoInk Animation&
Drawing, iAnimator, Pop My Video videos made with iMotion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTMCnn0gztA 46. Game apps Tiny
Tower, CityVille Hometown, MyTown 2, Trade Nation, Farm Story,Epic
Citadel (medieval fantasy townwith a cathedral). Students creating
characters andstories based on the Epic Citadelmedieval
settinghttp://www.porchester.notts.sch.uk/citadel 47. Interactive
fiction Zenonia series Terra-Eternal Chaos, Vanquish: TheOath of
Brothers Rimelands series Fighting Fantasy series Gamebook
Adventures series LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Hunger Games: Girl
on Fire Avatar 48. Role-play games (RPGs) Saturday Morning RPG a
high school student must makedecisions to cope with the threat of
an evilvillain to attempt to save the world, agame that draws on
Saturday morningcartoons Surviving High School a new female high
school student copingwith getting to know students in her schoolor
a male assuming the role as a memberof the high school football
team 49. Jotly: An app to rate anything 50. Self-assessment forms
Google Docs Forms iResponse 51. Screen-casting feedback
Text/PPs/images:VoiceThread, ExplainEverything, Screenchomp,
ShowMe, Educreastions Video response to writing: Jing
Speeches/drama: FormativeFeedback for
Learninghttp://formativefeedbackapp.blogspot.com 52. Open-ended
feedback Essay Grader Easy Assessment Collaborize Classroom Pro
student online discussion participation 53. Record keeping/grades
The TeacherTool, Super Duper DataTracker, Teachers Assistant
Pro:Track Student Behavior, EasyAssessment, TeacherPal,
PowerTeacher Mobile, Gradekeeper, iHomework Students reading
performance:Reading Log, Reading Record iPad recording changes in
students readingscores over time. 54. e-Portfolio apps Three Ring
Teachers Wire Use blogs, wikis, websites 55. ELA
professionaldevelopment NCTEs Connected Community English Companion
Ning National Writing Project Connect/DigitalIs Classroom 2.0
Curriki IRAs Engage ReadWriteThink School 2.0 Sophia #EngChat
(Twitter feeds) 56. App uses/recommendations EdReadch
channel(MobileReach, MacReach) Appy Hours 4 U The TechChef4u app
The iPad Show The Daily App Show TWIT channel Tech Chick Tips