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Creating Curriculum Content for Your Students – More Story Telling/Book Creating Apps for the iPad

New apps emerge continuually, providing additional features and possibilities for creating content for students on the iPad. Finding apps that are easy to use and functional take some sorting through.  Here are a few more recently found apps that are … Continue reading

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Dragon Dictation App vs. Dragon NaturallySpeaking – What’s the difference?

I am a user of Dragon Dictation on my iPhone (no Siri unfortunately) with good success using the manual ability to correct the mistakes prior to copy/pasting or emailing the produced text. I believe the Dragon Dictation provides a great … Continue reading

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Great Visual Timers Resource

Visiting Todd’s Tech Tuesday blog, a really great resource on ideas for differentiation, featured a link to the a post entitled “Use Visual Timers to Ease Transitions” from  the Adapting Creatively blog. If you are looking for visual timer resources, this … Continue reading

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Drawing with the – Squiggles App

Squiggles – A Fun Pre-Writing Development App! Squiggles  – is a fun, animated pre-writing and drawing app that will make you wiggle and giggle drawing squiggles or lines and more! This is sure to motivate students to engage in pre-writing tasks! … Continue reading

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Telling Time App – Another Alligator App Gone Free!

Telling Time App  is a new, free app (limited time?) by  the Alligator/Grasshopper app developers  providing customization and multiple levels of activities to learners of all ages. This apps shows no preference in appearance for young or older students/individuals making it appropriate for … Continue reading

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Write My Name App – New from Project Injini

Thanks to Kathy McNamara who shared this new app by the developers from Project Injini! Write My Name – Available for the iPad (1.99 – introductory price) is described by Injini as supporting children ages 4 through 6 to learn … Continue reading

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Paper Port App – Dragon Dictation App on Steroids!

Are you impressed with the Dragon Dictation App? Well, you will love Nuances new PaperPort app that has Dragon Dictation tools in it! PaperPort App – This is Nuances new free digital note taking for your iPad (only iPad) that captures hand written … Continue reading

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HelpKidzLearn Apps!!

Are you familiar with HelpKidzLearn.com website? If you are not and you work with students who are working on cause and effect or students with physical impairments make sure you visit HelpKidzLearn hosted by Inclusive Technology – it will become a favorite … Continue reading

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Sentence Maker App

Grasshopper Apps, one of my favorite app developers, has developed Sentence Maker app and it is currently gone free! Sentence Maker App , similiar to Grasshopper’s Little Speller app, is an app that provides opportunities for 2, 3, 4 and 5 word … Continue reading

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Alien Buddies App Gone Free Again!

Alien Buddies App is currently free again (until 1-27-12 ?)! This is app was previously mentioned in a post in December, 2011 (when free) for its visual motor and visual perceptual activities. Geared for 3-7 year olds, the following activities are featured in the … Continue reading

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