A Glimpse at My Daily iPad Use in Class Although I have already written about most of these apps before, I thought I would summarize and show you some of the ways I use my iPad as a traveling language teacher. I teach in several different classrooms throughout the day, so having an iPad is…
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App #29: Screenshot – Frame Maker [REVIEW]
As you may have noticed in my past few posts, I have made my iPhone and iPad screenshots with the added frame of the devices themselves. This is thanks to the universal app, appropriately titled Screenshot – Frame Maker. It is a free app, allowing you free screenshots of your first five images. Afterwards, you…
Great improvements to Evernote Skitch for iPad and iPhone!
**Updates Looks like disgruntled Mac Skitch users were able to get their old features back, by “downgrading” back to the old version of Skitch. The 60 mb monthly upload allowance to Evernote is going to pose a problem for Skitch users. The first day I uploaded 10 Skitch images, I ended up using 38 megabytes!…
App #8: Diptic
Diptic (iTunes link) is a fun and useful photography app that I have been using for a few months now. It is a tool used for combining multiple images onto one image. I first learned about Diptic while reading this photography article. Upon purchasing it, I decided to try the author's technique of using the…
How to take a screenshot on iPad/iPod touch or iPhone
Chalk another post up for the Basics. This hint might seem quite rudimentary, but even an experienced techy friend recently was quite baffled when he found out his iPad could do this. You’ll hopefully have noticed that I have quite a few screenshots on this blog of what is shown on my iPad. This process…
iPad as an interactive whiteboard: Quick games of Hangman & Pictionary for the students
With a few minutes to spare in class today, I decided to whip out the Evernote Skitch app again (free!) My students love playing Hangman, and it reinforces letter learning, and sentence processing. Since I teach the same grade back to back for three different classes, I decided to make a couple of quick sentences…
App #3: Evernote Skitch
Evernote Skitch for iPad is a must for any teacher who projects their iPad. It is a simple and intuitive app that even students can use on their own. One can take ANY screenshot or photo and write or type on it. I first decided to use when I was teaching a student guitar. I…
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