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iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad Apps for Education

The iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad are more than just toys for games, video and music. It has also become a device for business, learning and information. The range of applications that are available for these devices is growing each week. We want to specifically look at applications that have possibilities for the classroom. From communication to social networking to reference material, here is a sampling of the many applications available. Table of Contents

Utilities and Connectivity  .....................................................................................................  2  

Audio Recording and Editing  ...............................................................................................  3  

Mind Mapping  ....................................................................................................................  4  

All Things Google  ................................................................................................................  4  

Communication and Social Networking  ...............................................................................  5  

Campus Apps  ......................................................................................................................  6  

Reference and Information  ..................................................................................................  7  

What About the Built in Apps?  ............................................................................................  9  

Class Resources  ...................................................................................................................  9  

Readers, Notes and More  .................................................................................................  11  

Video and Imaging  ...........................................................................................................  13  

Sketching and Whiteboard  ...............................................................................................  14  

Web Browsers  ...................................................................................................................  16  

News Readers  ...................................................................................................................  16  

Document Editing and Management  ..................................................................................  17  

Presentation  Tools  ............................................................................................................  21  

One More Thing…  ............................................................................................................  22  

Additional Resources  .........................................................................................................  23  

 

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Utilities and Connectivity

Touch Mouse Price: free

By Logitech Inc. iPhone/iPod touch Description Touch Mouse by Logitech turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless trackpad and keyboard for your computer.

Mobile Mouse/ Mobile Mouse Pro (Remote/Trackpad) Price: $1.99 (iPhone/iPod

Touch)/$2.99 (iPad) By R.P.A. Tech iPhone/iPod touch/iPad Description Mobile Mouse instantly transforms your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad into an in air, wireless remote for your computer! ** BEFORE YOU RUN THE SOFTWARE ** you will need to download the server application from : http://www.mobilemouse.com

Citrix Receiver Price: free

By Citrix Systems, Inc. iPhone/iPod touch/iPad Description    Citrix Receiver lets you access your enterprise files, applications, and desktops to help you be as productive on the go as you are in the office. If your company uses Citrix, you have the

freedom to work on your favorite device from wherever you are. Just ask your IT department how to get started.

ZOOM Cloud Meetings Price: Free By ZOOM

iPhone/iPod touch/iPad Description Zoom, a 2014 Gartner Cool Vendor, unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings and group messaging into one easy-to-use application. Start or join a 25-person meeting with crystal-clear, face-to-face conversation, high quality screen sharing, and instant messaging – anytime, anywhere, on your iPhone or iPad.

join.me Price: free

By LogMeIn, Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Simple, instant mobile meetings Join meetings in seconds from your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or the iPod Touch. No registration or cost. And now you can host meetings from your iPad – for free! join.me’s new iPad app lets you host, present files, and even whiteboard. Download the free app, and in seconds you’re ready for fast, easy collaboration from anywhere.

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Dragon Dictation Price: Free

By Nuance Communications iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Description    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.

Audio Recording and Editing

iTalk Recorder Price: free

By Griffin Technology iPhone/iPod touch Description Talk Recorder is a full-featured recording app with a streamlined and intuitive user interface. Press the big red button to record; press it again to stop. You can append to existing recordings, choose from three levels of recording quality (11.025, 22.05, or 44.10 kHz sample rates), and manage your recordings, all with just a fingertip.

Voice Record Pro Price: free

By Dayana Networks Ltd iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Voice Record Pro is a professional voice recorder. It allows you to record voice memos and on-site sounds at unlimited length with configurable quality. Recorded voices are in standard AAC/MP4/M4A format. Voice Record Pro can record directly in MP4 (AAC), MP3 (MPEG) and WAV (PCM) formats plus convert function for all supported formats.

TwistedWave Audio Editor Price: $9.99

By TwistedWave iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description A very easy to use audio editor and recorder. With TwistedWave, you can: - Copy and paste your audio, - Undo/redo instantly, - Apply effects, such as fade in/out, delay, compressor/limiter, pitch shifting/time stretching, amplify or normalize the audio to a given level, filter to adjust the level of the low or high frequencies.

Hokusai Audio Editor Price: Free

By Wooji Juice Ltd iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Hokusai is a multitrack audio editor for iPhone or iPad. Record or import a track, and make it sound the way you want it to: not just trimming the ends, but full cut, copy, paste and delete, and a suite of filters and special effects available.

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GarageBand Price: Free By Apple

iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go.

Mind Mapping

SimpleMind + Price: free

By SimpleApps iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Mind mapping tool that turns your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device.

iThoughts Price: $11.99

By toketaWare iPhone/iPod Touch /iPad Description iThoughtsHD is a mind mapping tool for the iPad. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch then please check out iThoughts. Mindmapping enables you to 'see the big picture' - freeing you to concentrate on how your thoughts and ideas relate to each other.

Mindomo Price: Free By Expert Software Applications Srl  iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Description    The Mindomo platform creates a powerful environment where you can easily collaborate with others by

sharing ideas and working together on mind maps in real time. No matter where you go, you can creatively bring your ideas to life.

All Things Google Google Translate Price: Free

By Google iPhone/iPod Touch Description Translate words and phrases between more than 50 languages using Google Translate for iOS. For most languages, you can speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations.

Google Maps Price: free

By Google iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description The Google Maps app for iPhone and iPad makes navigating your world faster and easier. Find the best spots in town and the information you need to get there.

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Google Earth Price: free By Google

iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Hold the world in the palm of your hand. With Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger.

Google Drive Price: Free

By Google, Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Description    Get started with Google Drive for free and have all your files within reach from any smartphone, tablet, or computer. All your files in Drive – like your videos, photos, and documents – are backed up safely so you can’t lose them. Easily invite others to view, edit, or leave comments on any of your files or folders.

Communication and Social Networking

Skype Price: free

By Skype Software S.a.r.l iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description With Skype on your iPhone or iPod touch you can call and instant message anyone else on Skype for free. You can also call landlines and mobiles and send SMS anywhere in the world, at great rates. Skype is free to download and easy to use.

Facebook Price: free

By Facebook iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. Use your iPhone to start a conversation with Facebook Chat, check your friends' latest photos and status updates, look up a phone number, or upload your own mobile photos to Facebook while on the go.

Facebook Messenger Price: free

By Facebook iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Instantly reach the people in your life—for free. Messenger is just like texting, but you don't have to pay for every message (it works with your data plan).

WordPress Price: free

By Automattic iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description It's easy to manage your WordPress blog from your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. With WordPress for iPhone OS, you can moderate comments and create or edit posts and pages. All you need is a WordPress.com blog or a self-hosted blog running WordPress 2.9.2 or higher.

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Blogger Price: Free

By Google iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Start blogging on the go with the official Blogger app! With Blogger app for iPhone and iPod touch, you can easily publish posts with pictures, labels and location information. Also, you can view the list of posts and if you have multiple accounts or blogs, you can easily switch between them.

Twitterrific 5 for Twitter Price: $2.99

By The Iconfactory iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Twitterrific is the award-winning mobile Twitter client that's beautiful to look at, easy to use and chock full of elegant features. Manage multiple accounts, search Twitter quickly, filter tweets and much more.

Hootsuite for Twitter Price: free

By Hootsuite Media Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Share and schedule posts from your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Foursquare accounts all from one app. Hootsuite is the world's most popular social media management app and is FREE for up to 3 social network accounts.

Campus Apps

MIT mobile Price: Free

By Massachusetts Institute of Technology iPhone/iPod Touch Description • Campus News from the MIT News Office • Live campus shuttle tracking with push notifications for predicted stop times • Searchable campus map • Calendar of events, exhibits, holidays, and the academic calendar • Searchable directory of faculty, staff, and students at MIT • Self-guided campus tour • Information, contact lists, and push notifications in case of a campus emergency • MIT Libraries account management and catalog search • MIT Dining menus and hours • A QR code and barcode scanner

Abilene Christian University Price Free

By My Mobile Fans iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description This app lets ACU students find out information about local businesses and restaurants all around Abilene and save money at many locations with exclusive discounts. ACU students can also stay connected with campus and interact with their Students' Association thanks to updates from SA, campus event listings, news from the Optimist, and more. A one stop location for everything a student needs to function at ACU.

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USFmobile Price: Free

By University of San Francisco iPhone/iPod Touch Description USFmobile offers essential USF information and services anytime, anywhere on your smart phone. It includes up-to-date information on events, campus locations, course information, including grades and schedules, and athletics.

Saint Louis University Price: Free

By Saint Louis University iPhone/iPod Touch Description Download the official Saint Louis University iPhone App! -Campus Maps - Don't know where a building is located on campus? Search, and a pin will drop on its location. You also can use GPS to see how close you are to where you need to be.

iStanford Price: free

By Stanford University iPhone/iPod Touch Description Description: iStanford is Stanford University in the palm of your hand, on the iPhone or iPod Touch!

Reference and Information

Epocrates Price: free By Epocrates

iPhone/iPod Touch Description - Clinical information on thousands of prescription medicines and hundreds of OTC drug products - In-depth formulary information - Pill ID: identify those “mystery” pills by entering physical characteristics and imprint code - Drug interaction checker: check up to 30 drugs at a time - Dozens of calculations, such as BMI and GFR - The most relevant medical news and information

Skyscape Medical Library Price: Free

By Skyscape medpresso, Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Here is a highly useful collection of free medical information and decision support resources for healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, medical students, nursing students, and more.

ArXivReader Price: $0.99

By Astrodantastic Software iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description ArXivReader is an iOS interface to the ArXiv.org pre-print server, allowing you to easily browse and save recently submitted

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papers in all ArXiv categories. ArXivReader also features a comprehensive search utility, allowing you to search the entire ArXiv.org site for past papers.

Promega Price: free By Promega Corporation

iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description The Promega App provides lots of great information for life scientists, including quick access to molecular biology calculators, technical tips, protocols, and multimedia presentations.

Art Authority for iPad Price: $9.99

By Open Door Networks, Inc. iPad Description - Access to 10GB worth of art optimized for quality and download speed through our servers (works still under copyright come from authorized servers) - Early, Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Impressionist, Modern, Contemporary and American rooms - Dozens of artists per room, listed by movement or nationality - Period overviews, timelines and histories - VGA output for large-screen display

Pleco Chinese Dictionary Price: Free

By Pleco Software iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Description    Pleco is the ultimate Chinese learning companion - an integrated Chinese dictionary / document reader / flashcard system with fullscreen handwriting input and live camera-based character recognition, from a company with over a decade of experience making mobile Chinese learning software.

WestlawNext Price: Free

By West, a Thomson Reuters business iPad

Description    Tap into the world's most advanced legal research system on-the-go. Access familiar WestlawNext features including, WestSearch™, KeyCite™, Folders, History, document notes and highlighting, browse database content and more -- all redesigned for the iPad multi-touch screen. WestlawNext account required.

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What About the Built in Apps? Mail By Apple Inc.

iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad works with the most popular email systems — including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL, and MobileMe. Don’t worry if you’re not using one of these email services: iPhone also works with almost any industry-standard POP3 or IMAP email system.

Calendar By Apple Inc.

iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad uses iTunes to sync with the calendar application you already use on your computer — iCal or Entourage on the Mac, or Outlook on a PC — just as it does with your contacts. If you choose not to use a calendar program, that’s OK. You’ll be able to enter appointments directly into the iPhone calendar. In addition the Calendar will sync to the DonsApps Calendar as well as standard Google Calendars.

iBooks By Apple Inc.

iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books, designed exclusively for iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest best-selling 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 your favorite passages.

Class Resources Canvas for IOS Price: free

By Instructure Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description It’s time to get in touch with your education. Canvas for iOS allows you to: • View your Canvas activity stream • Stay on top of your to do items • View your course schedule and syllabus • Read and participate in course discussions • Read, create, and reply to Conversations • Study and navigate course pages • View grades for your courses and individual assignments • View submissions and participate in comment discussions with your instructor • Access and participate in Canvas groups

eTextbooks for the iPhone/iPad Price: free

By CourseSmart LLC iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description APPLICATION DESCRIPTION The eTextbooks for the iPhone app is a perfect complement to a CourseSmart eTextbook subscription. Students can benefit from the advantages of mobile learning--leaving their backpacks and laptops behind. REQUIREMENTS: * Internet access (Wifi or 3G recommended) * CourseSmart account * Subscription to one or more CourseSmart eTextbooks

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Inkling Price: free

By Standard Nine Inc. iPad Description Inkling is a platform for interactive textbooks, built from the ground up for iPad. It turns paper-based textbooks books into engaging, interactive learning experiences while staying compatible with the print book for classroom use.

Molecules Price: free

By Sunset Lake Software iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Molecules is an application for viewing three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulating them using your fingers. You can rotate the molecules by moving your finger across the display, zoom in or out by using two-finger pinch gestures, or pan the molecule by moving two fingers across the screen at once. Double-tapping on the display lets you switch visualization modes.

3D Brain Price: free

By Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures. Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research

Star Walk™ HD - Guide to the Night Sky Map Price: $2.99

By Vito Technology Inc.  iPad

Description    Star Walk is the most beautiful stargazing app you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. It will become your go-to interactive astro guide to the night sky, following your every movement in real-time and allowing you to explore over 200, 000 celestial bodies with extensive information about stars and constellations that you find.

iTunes U Price: Free

By Apple iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Description    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.

Nearpod Price: Free

By Panarea iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Experience for yourself this magical educational app that has been used by more than 2.000.000 students around the world.

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Nearpod is a must have application for teachers and schools that have access to a set of iPads, iPods or iPhones for their classes. What's Nearpod? The Nearpod platform enables teachers to use their iPads to manage content on students' iPads, iPhones or iPods. It combines presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution.

Teacher/Student Clicker – Socrative

Price: Free By Socrative iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Socrative brings smart clickers, student response and ease of use to a whole new level. Engage the entire classroom with educational exercises and games while capturing student results in real-time. Interact with the data to further student understanding in the moment, and review the reports to prepare for future classes. Socrative will even aggregate and grade your pre-made activities! Saving you time, so you can engage more with your students on an individual level. Readers, Notes and More

NeoSoar Price: free

By NeoSoar, Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Link Dropbox to own your Cloud Personal Library; bulk import your eBooks and Auto-Sync across your devices! NeoSoar eBooks is a powerful PDF & ePub reader, support Adobe DRM eBooks. Select book content and directly query information including Dictionary, Translation, Google, Wiki, then One-Click to

digest and save the result as notes, even insert Audio/Video hyperlink to make your own multi-media book, make notes without typing or copy-paste. The underline and highlight color strokes, the tooltip notes and full-page notes, full-text search function enrich your learning experience, no need to sign in to use. You may manage eBooks from either Dropbox or the reader, to import, add, or delete them. The Cloud Personal Library Auto-Restore the eBooks when you add or replace devices.

Kindle Price: free

By Amazon.com iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, providing users the ability to read Kindle books using a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You can discover and read over 540,000 books in the Kindle Store, including the latest best sellers and new releases.

Evernote Price: free

By Evernote iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Evernote turns the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPhone to your Mac or Windows desktop.

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Penultimate Price: Free

By Evernote iPad

Description    The original and most popular handwriting app for iPad. Penultimate gives you the natural experience of writing on paper, with the added power and availability of Evernote. Take notes, keep sketches, or share your next breakthrough idea -- in the office, on the go, or at home on the sofa.

GoodReader for iPad Price: $4.99

By Good.iWare Ltd. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description All the excelent features of the original GoodReader are here, including: - the best PDF reading engine - PDF Annotations - text boxes, popup comments ("sticky notes"), text highlights and markups, freehand drawings, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, etc. - access to various types of servers to store your data - Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, box.com, WebDAV, SMB, AFP, FTP, SFTP - Auto Sync with remote servers

Paperport Notes Price: Free

By Nuance Communications iPad Description PaperPort Notes is a digital note taking tool for the iPad that is transforming the way people create and share information. Now you can combine documents, web content, audio, typed text as well as hand written notes into a single document that you can easily organize and share with anyone.

Notability Price: 5.99

By Ginger Labs iPad Description Unleash your note taking abilities! Now includes Dropbox support! Take notes in style, record in sync, save notes in folders, and share with ease. Type notes with your choice of fonts, colors, and bold, italic or underline. Watch the words wrap around your photos, figures and web pages. Record the lecture, tap a word during playback to hear what was said at the moment you typed that word. Recording continues in the background when using iOS 4.2 multitasking.

AudioNote - Notepad and Voice Recorder

Price: 4.99 By Luminant Software iPad Description Record notes and audio synced with the best note taking app in the App Store! AudioNote combines the functionality of a notepad and voice recorder to create a powerful tool that

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will save you time while improving the quality of your notes. Perfect for business or students! *By synchronizing notes and audio, AudioNote automatically indexes your meetings, lectures, or study sessions.

Video and Imaging Videoshop-Video Editor Price: 1.99

By Joseph Riquelme iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Videoshop is an easy video editor with fast editing tools, filters and many other effects for personalizing your videos.

iMovie Price: $4.99 Free for new iPad users

By Apple iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Description    Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app that puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in the Marquee view. Create spectacular trailers and thrilling home movies in minutes.* And share your finished projects with the world — right from iMovie.

Premiere Clip Price: Free

By Adobe iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Description    Premiere Clip makes it fast and fun to edit individual clips into quality videos that can be easily shared — or easily opened in Premiere Pro CC for extra polish. FAST, SIMPLE EDITING Drag and drop clips and photos in the order you like, trim out parts you don’t want, and add visual polish with lighting adjustments, transitions, slo-mo effects and more. SOUNDS GREAT Choose from stock soundtracks, or add your own music. Smart Volume will smooth audio levels between clips, and Auto Mix dynamically balances soundtracks with your audio. EASY TO SHARE Save finished videos to your camera roll, post them directly to Twitter, Facebook or YouTube, or send them to Premiere Pro CC for additional editing.

Adobe Photoshop Express Price: free By Adobe Systems Incorporated

iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Adobe Photoshop Express software lets you use simple gestures to quickly edit and share photos from your mobile device. Enjoy having your photo and video library right in your hand — without wasting your device's valuable storage space. Photoshop Express is a companion to Photoshop.com, your online photo sharing, editing, and hosting resource. Create a free Photoshop.com account to upload and store 2GB of photos and videos online.

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Snapseed Price: Free

By Google iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description    Perfect your photos in a snap with the new Snapseed 2.0. This app brings to your mobile device the power and control of professional photo editing software, previously only available on the desktop. Now with the tap of a finger you can retouch, adjust perspective, re-edit, and more.

Sketching and Whiteboard

Baiboard HD Price: Free

By Lightplaces Ltd. iPad Description Live collaboration from iPad, Mac and web via: 1. Zoomable multi-page whiteboard. 2. Collaborative annotation on PDF docs. 3. Screen Sharing from iPad to web browser.

Sketch Memo Price: $2.99

By Takashi Hamada iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Sketch Memo is the vector-based handwriting memo and drawing application available for the iPhone and iPad. It allows you to take handwriting memos quickly and decollate the memos with various kinds of shapes, text and images. You can find memos by thumbnail images, modified day, text contents, and modified location.

Air Sketch Price: $9.99

By Qrayon, LLC iPad Description Turn your iPad into a wireless whiteboard! Annotate PDF documents and images live. You can now project PDF documents (such as exported PowerPoint or Keynote decks) to a computer on the same local network, then annotate them in real time, all from your iPad. Air Sketch supports any HTML5-capable browser, including the latest versions of Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome, and even another iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch!

ZoomNotes Price: $5.99

By Deliverance Software Ltd iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description    ZoomNotes is the most comprehensive visual note-taking app with unlimited zoom. Make handwritten notes and sketches on virtual paper, PDF files, images and MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents (via GoogleDrive). ZoomNotes is compatible with any capacitive stylus pen and also with the top 4 electronic pens on the market. ZoomNotes Lite (FREE) is the perfect way of trying all ZoomNotes' features before buying.

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Teach Price: Free

By Knowmia iPad Description    Knowmia Teach is a new free lesson planning and recording tool for teachers. It helps you create short video lessons on any subject and publish them on Knowmia.com so your students and the public can find them. Knowmia Teach makes it easy to bring in visual aids from multiple sources, organize them in steps (like slides in a presentation) and use your own voice and fingers to bring your lesson to life. You can design each step in the lesson, record illustrations as you draw them, and create sophisticated animation sequences with a simple stroke of a finger.

Educreations Interactive Whiteboard

Price: Free By Educreations, Inc iPad Description Educreations is a unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool that's simple, powerful, and fun to use. Annotate, animate, and narrate nearly any type of content as you explain any concept. Teachers can create short instructional videos and share them instantly with students, or ask students to show what they know and help friends learn something new.

Explain Everything ™ Price: $2.99

By MorrisCooke iPad Description    Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage. Add new or existing photos and videos. Import PDF, PPT, DOC, XLS, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and RTF files from Evernote, Dropbox, Box, GDrive, WebDAV, Email, iTunes, and any app that allows you to open these files types using "Open In…". Export MP4 movies, PDF documents, PNG images, or XPL project files directly from your iPad.

neu.Notes+ Price: Free

By neu.Pen LLC iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description    Annotate photos and maps. Unlimited undo/redo. Pinch zoom in and out of details. Organize notes/drawings into notebooks. Use tags for finer levels of notepad organization and management. Share using Twitter and email to send PNG images and PDFs.. Create multi-page hand-written PDF documents. Write notes with a stylus comfortably with the palm guard.

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Web Browsers Chrome Price: Free

By Google, Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Browse fast with Chrome, now available on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Sign in to sync your personalized Chrome experience from your computer, and bring it with you anywhere you go.

Dolphin Browser Price: Free

By MoboTap, Inc. iPad

Description Simplify your mobile life. Let Dolphin do all the work so you don’t have to. Use Dolphin’s tabbed browsing and share any web content instantly to your favorite social networks and send between desktop and mobile devices. Download Dolphin for the best iPhone web browser experience. Dolphin's free iPhone browser has tons of exclusive features.

Firefox Web browser Price: Free

By Mozilla iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Experience a fast, smart and personal Web. Firefox is the independent, people-first browser made by Mozilla, voted one of the Most Trusted Internet Companies for Privacy. Upgrade today and join hundreds of millions who depend on Firefox for a more personal browsing experience.

News Readers

Flipboard: Your Social News Magazine Price: free

By Flipboard Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Flipboard is your personal magazine. Used by millions of people everyday, it's a single place to follow topics that interest you and share stories, videos and photos with friends. To start, pick a few topics, and Flipboard creates your personal magazine. You can always add more as you find new topics, magazines or interesting people to follow.

Feedly Price: Free

By DevHD iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description    Feedly is a new way to browse and share the content of your favorite news sites, feeds, tumblr blogs and youtube channels. Instead of having to hunt down for news, feedly uses RSS to aggregate the contents of the news sites and blogs you like and deliver them as a fast mobile-optimized experience.  

Scoop.it Price: Free

By Scoop.it Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad  Description    Scoop.it lets you easily publish gorgeous online magazines by curating content on your favorite topic. New to Scoop.it? Sign up first on our web site: http://scoop.it Curate on the go with the Scoop.it iPhone App:

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- Select, edit and publish posts in the same engaging visual format as from the Web site - Review your suggestion list - Add posts from Safari mobile

Document Editing and Management Apple’s iWork suite Price: $9.99 for each application By Apple, inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description

Pages Exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Pages lets you

create, edit, and view documents wherever you are. Every page looks stunning and clear on iPad — and also on iPhone 4 and the latest iPod touch, thanks to the high- resolution Retina display.

Keynote Exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Keynote

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.

Numbers Exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Numbers lets

you make compelling spreadsheets in minutes — with tables, charts, photos, and graphics — using just your fingers.

Microsoft Office for iPad Price: Free to edit with Office.com account, Office 365 subscription required for full editing and features By Microsoft Corporation iPad Description

Word Read Word documents for free. To create and edit, an Office 365

subscription or free Office.com account is needed. The real Microsoft Word app designed for iPad. Now your Word documents look great on the iPad. When you edit or create documents, you can be confident they will look exactly how you want across PC, Mac, tablet and phone.

Powerpoint View and show PowerPoint presentations for free. To create and

edit, an Office 365 subscription subscription or free Office.com account is needed. The real Microsoft PowerPoint app designed for iPad. Now your PowerPoint presentations look great on the iPad. When you edit or create documents, you can be confident that they will look exactly how you want across PC, Mac, tablet and phone.

Excel View Excel spreadsheets for free. To create and edit, an Office 365 subscription subscription or free

Office.com account is needed. The real Microsoft Excel app designed for iPad. Now your Excel spreadsheets look great on the iPad. When you edit or create spreadsheets, you can be confident they will look exactly how you want across PC, Mac, tablet and phone.

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iA Writer Price: $4.99

By Information Architects, Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description The quintessential writing machine for your iPad and iPhone. iA Writer makes sure that your thoughts go into the text—and not into the program. With keyboard extension, focus mode, iCloud and Dropbox integration.

iAnnotate PDF Price: $9.99

By Branchfire, inc. iPad Description iAnnotate is an elegant PDF reader and a powerful annotation tool -- and consistently one of the best-selling apps for the iPad. You can open documents from email, fill out forms, sign and send out contracts, enter notes for edits, sketch diagrams, copy text, and add highlights or underline with the drag of a finger!

PDF Expert - Fill forms, annotate PDFs Price: $9.99

By Readdle iPad Description PDF Expert is the ultimate solution for all your PDF needs. It lets you read and annotate PDF documents, highlight text, make notes, draw with your finger and save these changes being compatible with Preview and Adobe Acrobat. Moreover, PDF Expert is the only iPad application that can fill PDF forms!

neu.Annotate+ PDF Price: Free

By neu.Pen LLC iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description neu.Annotate+ has the same features as our free neu.Annotate, plus the following features: • Create new PDF documents • Sort PDF documents by title, date create or date modified; ascending or descending • Control feature restrictions • Directly import/export from/to Dropbox • Duplicate pages • Duplicate documents • Search documents (including text annotations) • Protect documents from modifications (lock/read only) • Group / ungroup annotations • Easily rearrange document pages • Edit images

Google Docs Price: Free

By Google, Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Description Create, edit, and collaborate with others on documents from your iPod, iPhone, or iPad with the free Google Docs app. With Google Docs you can: * Create new documents or edit any that were created on the web or on another device * Share documents and work together with others in the same document at the same time * Open, edit, and save Microsoft Word documents * Get stuff done anytime -- even without an internet connection * Add and respond to comments * Never worry about losing your work -- everything is automatically saved as you type

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* Protect your documents with a 4-digit passcode

Google Sheets Price: Free

By Google, Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Create, edit, and collaborate with others on spreadsheets from your iPod, iPhone, or iPad with the free Google Sheets app. With Google Sheets you can: * Create new spreadsheets or edit any that were created on the web or on another device * Share spreadsheets and work together with others in the same spreadsheet at the same time * Open, edit, and save Microsoft Excel files * Get stuff done anytime -- even without an internet connection * Format cells, enter/sort data, view charts, insert formulas, use find/replace, and more * Never worry about losing your work -- everything is automatically saved as you type * Protect your spreadsheets with a 4-digit passcode

Google Slides Price: Free

By Google, Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Description Create, edit, and collaborate with others on presentations from your iPod, iPhone, or iPad with the free Google Slides app. With Google Slides you can: * Create new presentations or edit any that were created on the web or on another device * Share presentations and work together with others in the same presentation at the same time

* Open, edit, and save Microsoft PowerPoint files * Get stuff done anytime -- even without an internet connection * Add and rearrange slides, format text and shapes, and more * Present right from your device * Never worry about losing your work -- everything is automatically saved as you type

Adobe Acrobat Reader Price: Free

By Adobe Systems Incorporated iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Description    Adobe Acrobat (formerly Adobe Reader) is the free, trusted leader for reliably viewing, annotating, and signing PDFs. Additional Adobe Document Cloud subscriptions are available for purchase to easily convert and edit PDFs anywhere.

WPS Office Price: Free

By Kingsoft Office Software, Inc.  iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Description    WPS Office is one of the most popular FREE office apps, allowing users to create and share office documents, presentations and spreadsheets from any iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Key features: • Create and edit documents that are fully compatible with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel • Supports 24 file formats including doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, rtf, pdf and zip • Rich formatting features similar to a PC experience - fonts, colors, image editing and more • Advanced editing and collaboration tools including track changes, comments and spell check

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• Open and edit documents directly from popular cloud services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive and WebDAV • Share documents with other devices using AirPlay, AirDrop, DLNA or WIFI • Supports wireless printing and Bluetooth keyboards

Polaris Office Price: $19.99

By Infraware Co.,Ltd  

Description   POLARIS Office is a mobile office solution that allows users to view/edit MS Office documents on iPhone/iPad. Users can view/edit text files and view .pdf and .hwp files. POLARIS Office supports convenient features for mobile users such as direct opening of email attachments, cloud service, file manager and more.  

Adobe Slate Price: Free

By Adobe iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Slate lets you turn your next newsletter, report, invitation or travel adventure into a gorgeous visual story that delights readers on any device. Simply tap to select a unique look — beautiful fonts, color and magazine-style design are automatically incorporated. Fluid movement and elegant motion are applied instantly. Share your Slate story link anywhere.

Quip Price: Free

By Quip iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Quip is the modern productivity suite that simplifies your life and helps your team get work done faster. It combines chat, docs, task lists, and spreadsheets in one app — making collaboration fast and easy. Quip enables you to create and share with your family, friends, or office from any device — including the iPad, iPhone, and the desktop.

Dropbox Price: Free

By Dropbox iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Dropbox is the easiest way to sync and share your files online and across computers. App features: - View photos, videos, documents, and presentations in your Dropbox on the go. - Share and send files via email, or copy and paste links to share with another app. - Export Dropbox files to other iPhone and iPad apps. - "Favorite" files to download them for fast, offline viewing.

Box for iPhone and iPad Price: Free

By Box.net, Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Description    Box provides simple, secure sharing from anywhere – letting you easily store files online, send big files fast, access content from your iPhone or iPad and collaborate with others.

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FileBrowser - Access files on remote computers

Price: $5.99 By Stratospherix Ltd iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description    FileBrowser is like having Windows Explorer or Mac Finder on your iPad/iPhone to access network folders on Macs, Windows, Linux, and NAS drives and now Box, Dropbox and SkyDrive are also supported

Documents 5 by Readdle Price: Free

By Readdle iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Description Read, Listen, View, Download, Annotate almost anything you want on your iPad. Files, documents, music, videos, books, any content is at home in Documents by Readdle.

Presentation Tools

Haiku Deck Price: Free

By Giant Thinkwell iPad Description    Haiku Deck is the simple and fun new way to create stunning presentations – whether you’re pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement. Featured on the iTunes “New and Noteworthy” and “What’s Hot” lists, Haiku Deck makes it fast and fun to create beautifully designed slideshows you’ll be proud to share.

Prezi for iPad Price: Free

By Prezi Inc. iPad Description Create and present beautiful presentations with Prezi for iPad. Get started by choosing one of our stunning templates then add your text and images. Pinch to zoom on topics, retouch your prezis and adjust your presentations on the move.

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One More Thing… AirServer Price: $14.99

Mac/PC Description AirServer is a powerful Mac/PC application that enables you to stream or mirror your iOS device, such as your iPhone 4S, to your Mac/PC. If your computer is connected to a secondary or alternative display, such as an HDTV or projector, your iOS device can use that display. If your iOS device allows Mirroring then anything you see on that device can be displayed on the big screen. AirServer is the most advanced AirPlay/AirTunes receiver app on the market. Mirroring has been fully supported since version 4.0 of AirServer. No other app will let you seamlessly stream audio, videos, photos, and photo slideshows to your Mac or iOS device. Check out the pricing and requirements to run AirServer at: http://www.airserver.com/Compare

Reflector App Price: 14.99 Mac/PC

Description Another Airplay app that allows you to mirror your IOS device to a Mac or PC; it has some nice features like recording the mirrored session and allowing multiple IOS devices to connect at the same time. Check out the pricing model for Reflector at: http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/

X-Mirage Price: $16.00 Mac/PC

Description X-Mirage turns your Mac into an AirPlay receiver for mirroring whatever on your iPhone, iPad or iPod screen – apps, games, photos, videos, presentations, websites and more to the bigger Mac screen. X-Mirage receives AirPlay contents in full HD 1080p high-definition. Teachers can then mirror class material to the projector, smartboard or HDTV while their fingers are moving on the iPad. http://www.x-mirage.com/store.html

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Additional Resources Styluses The Verge’s stylus review for drawing and writing from 4/10/12: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/10/2925937/best-stylus-ipad-review Cases Macworld’s This Week in iPad Cases: http://www.macworld.com/category/tablet-cases Bluetooth keyboards MacWorld’s guide on wireless Bluetooth keyboard solutions: http://bit.ly/1f6ScnI And from ZDNet: http://zd.net/1f6SQS1 Apple accessories for the iPad Apple Camera Connection kit older 30 pin http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A Lightning to USB Camera Adapter http://tinyurl.com/LTtoUSB Actually the kit connects more than just cameras: http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57401068-285/secrets-of-the-ipad-camera-connection-kit/ Apple iPad 30 pin to VGA video adapter http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/B/apple-vga-adapter# Apple iPad Lightning to VGA adapter http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD825ZM/A/lightning-to-vga-adapter?fnode=3a Tips for using the video adapter with various iPad models http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ipad/ipad-faq/how-to-connect-ipad-to-tv-television-projector.html Resource sites on apps and the iPad in education http://www.ipads4teaching.net/ http://www.educause.edu/library/tablets-and-ipads http://ipadacademy.com/ http://www.padgadget.com/  http://myusf.usfca.edu/its/cit/learn-­‐to-­‐use-­‐ipad/