Category Archives: iPod

More iPad Stylus Choices

More iPad stylus choices?? I thought I had done a thorough job of researching styluses – well I guess not! Research on note taking apps featured a video about  the “best iPad stylus ever” and peaked my attention – always in search … Continue reading

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Free App Resources

Do you get emails sharing a free app for the day and by the time you get to that email or search for the app or the link it is no longer free? How frustrating! Free is so fun and so … Continue reading

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iPad Stylus – Purchase or Macgyver it?

iPad Stylus This summer, I found a need and interest in handwriting and drawing on the iPad. I bought a stylus realizing that my finger was not the best writing utensil but became frustrated at my inability to write small and neat … Continue reading

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Evaluation Rubric for iPad and iPad Apps

How do you evaluate apps you are considering purchasing or downloading? Will you need to justify the types of “educational” apps you use with your students or clients? There are many reasons for having different kinds of apps on your … Continue reading

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Lakeshore Learning Apps Gone Free!

Lakeshore Learning, a company that sells educational materials, is offering three new iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad apps for free until December 30th. The apps are early literacy skill apps focusing on letter formation, phonics, letter identification, vowel sounds and beginning letter … Continue reading

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Visual Motor Worksheets on your iPad

Are you using paper pencil tasks with students such as worksheets for eye hand coordination tasks such as mazes, dot to dot, tracing in the lines, word searches, handwriting, letter formation, drawing and coloring activities? Would you like the option to have a … Continue reading

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Free Visual Motor App

Have you stumbled upon iDoodleCard? I literally stumbled upon this app and found it to be a good, visual motor app that is Free!  iDoodle variety of visual motor activities for preschool and early elementary aged students. This is a good pediatric OT … Continue reading

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Emotions Apps

Are you working with students who need help with identifying emotions in themselves, others or awareness of their emotions? Working with students with Autism, the need for emotional awareness in themselves and of others is important. Often a struggle with students … Continue reading

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Alligator Apps

Alligator Apps produces educational apps for preschool and primary aged students. One of their new apps is Mini Adventures – Animals providing beautiful real life pictures of animals with options of videos of the animals within the app. Animals are arranged also by A-Z for … Continue reading

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Managing Photos Just Got Easier in iOS5!

Photoshop Express used to be a frequently used app I used to help with cropping and rotating photos when needing to customize pictures for AAC apps, story creation or when customizing in educational apps such as the Grasshopper apps. I also have started … Continue reading

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