Note – Prices are included for some of the Apps. If prices are included then it was the price when we wrote this article. Prices may have changed so you’ll want to check.
Other IPad Apps
Teacher’s Assistant Pro @
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teachers-assistant-lite-track/id399265769?mt=8
Helps you keep track of students and parents.
Explain Everything – an iPad screencasting and whiteboard app that lets you record everything you do on the iPad screen (http://itunes.apple.com/app/id431493086)
Annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything’s flexible and integrated design. Import Photos, PDF, PPT, and Keynote from Dropbox, Evernote, Email, iPad photo roll and iPad2 camera. Export MP4 movie files, PNG image files, and share the .XPL project file with others for collaboration.
For students, Cram offers quite a few benefits for teachers as well. The multiple choice, flash card format saves resources, time, and energy . Here are some of the features (from the developers site).
Feature List:
* Flash cards – Replace those old fashioned paper flash cards and have access to study material any time on your iPhone or iPod touch
* Multiple-Choice Tests – Prepares you for the ‘real thing’ with multiple-choice practice tests.
* Pictures – Using images can be great visual clues to learning your study material. Images are perfect for chemistry quizzes, standard tests with graphs & charts, and
* Large Test Database – Save time and download study sets already made for you. Using the Quizlet and Cram portal to download study sets on various study topics like Spanish, Algebra, and more.
* Test Reports – Track your success with detailed test reports. Cram keeps track of your every answer and tells you exactly what you got right and what you got wrong.
* Sync – Pairs with your Mac using Cram for Mac. Free Cram for Mac download available.
Everyone forgets formulas from time to time. This app has a database of all the formulas.
Turn your iPad into a graphing calculator with this app.
You may not be able to fit it into your pocket, but you will have bigger keys.
Free Books – 23,469 classics to go
More than 20k books you can read whenever you want.
Touch Karma - Three mini applications in one, Touch Karma app tracks friends’ good deeds as well as bad ones, records kids’ naughty and nice behavior, and acts as a virtual piggy bank. Challenge kids with the right amount of chores before their next reward using ‘Karma for Kids’; with ‘Karma for Friends’, users can evaluate relationships with friends and co-workers according to their deeds; employ the help of a virtual piggy bank to persuade oneself to save money
This would be a great tool to use as you are tracking homework assignments, improving test scores etc.
Note: This list isn’t by any means a comprehensive list of apps. If you have any you like, we would love to hear from you. Please feel free to leave your recommendations in the comments below. We screen all comments, so that won’t appear immediately.