EdCeptional #043.5 - Apps for Summer Fun

EdCeptional Minute #043.5 is live and all about apps you can use this summer.  Check out some of fund ideas in this quick episode!

EdCeptional Minute #043.5 - Apps for Summer Fun

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Quick Key on Kickstater

Recently, an interesting app crossed my Twitter feed, and the creator is looking for a little help.  Quick Key is a simple app that can help you quickly and easily collect and grade formative assessments.  Think scantron for your phone!

I saw the demo that Walter posted and was instantly enthralled by it.  I immediately saw implications for tracking behavior as well as what it was originally created for.  It also connects with Learning Management Software (like PowerSchool and others), so you data is automatically uploaded and available in your grade book.

Walter is getting very close to releasing this app, but needs a little more help.  Take a moment and check out his Kickstarter campaign, to raise $20,000.  He's over halfway to his goal, and still 41 days to go!

http://tinyurl.com/QK-Kickstart

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#AppMondayTAS - Book Creator for iPad

Each week I will be featuring an app from BridgingApps.org.  These apps are features in the Bridging Apps newsletter each week and are reviewed by Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, and Special Education Teachers.  Come back each week for a new review.  If you’d like more information on how to use the BridgingApps.org website, or to find more app reviews, please click here.

Book Creator for iPad (iPad Only, $4.99)

Reviewer Comments

Book Creator for iPad is a well developed app that allows the user to create their own original eBooks. The layout and design are very clean, organized and user friendly.

We use the app primarily for creating social stories and retelling events with our students of all ages with a variety of special needs. With some assistance, our students are able to add text and bring in pictures from the photo album or from the web. It is then very easy to move and resize the pictures on each page. Formatting options are also very easy to use, for changing layouts, text size, fonts, etc. Video, music, and speech can also be recorded within each book to make it a complete multimedia experience. Students are able to practice skills related to literacy and add personal touches that reflect their creativity.

When the on-screen keyboard opens, students can also dictate what the text on the page should be, allowing all students the opportunity to be an author, regardless of your accessibility needs (Ipad 3s).

Another exciting feature of this app is the ease with which you can use/share the books you create. Book Creator offers several options including sending the books via email, Dropbox, and iTunes. You can even print the books and/or publish them as an iBook! It is great to see the students go to the iBookshelf and see books that they actually created. What a great sense of product and ownership.

Book Creator is in line with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for Literacy, and more specifically, writing, media, and technology.

Mobile Devices

iPad

Embedded Skills

oral sentence construction

receptive identification of pictures

Assistive Traits

Language & Literacy

Assistive/Independent

Independent

iTunes Categories

Education

Books

BridgingApps Categories

BridgingApps Reviewed App

Language Arts

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EdCeptional Live! #044

Join EdCeptional Live! on Tuesday, May 28.  We'll be recording live on Google+ and would love to have your participation.  Check out the invite here - EdCeptional Live #044

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weekly Diigo Post (weekly)

• Tick Tock Clock - Learn How to Tell Time Using Digital and Analog Clock with Roman and Arabic Numerals for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store

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• Number Pieces, by the Math Learning Center for iPad on the iTunes App Store

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Google Reader Replacements

If you are using Google Reader to follow blogs and other RSS feeds, I'm sure you are aware that it is shutting down on July 1, 2013.  I know that Google Reader was a big part of my daily routine, and personal learning network, but I think I've found a replacement.

I personally have chosen Feedly to replace my Google Reader.  It has a different interface, but after using it for a few days, it was as easy to navigate as Google Reader.  Here's a screen shot of what my Feedly looks like.

As you can see the layout is more like a magazine, with pictures and videos directly in the posts.  If you prefer an interface like Google Reader you can find it under the "all" option on the left side (where you pick the streams).  If you use your Google Reader login all your current subscriptions will transfer automatically!  To use Feedly you have to install it as an extension in Safari, Firefox or Chrome web browsers, and there are apps available for iOS, Android and Kindle.  What you read is synced across any device or computer you read them on.

If Feedly is not for you, there are some other options.  I would check out this post from Larry Ferlazzo on Google Reader Alternatives.   If you are interested in using RSS to follow this blog I would check out Feedly, or one of the alternatives, but as always you can come here to the site to read or subscribe by email (just look for the link on the right side of this blog).

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EdCeptional #043 - 2 More Mondays

The next episode of EdCeptional is up over at EdReach.us.  Deb (@slpdeb), Tricia (@tlazarro11) and I discuss some new features of Google Forms, personal #eduwins, and how Deb uses the Sunny Articulation App.

EdCeptional #043 - 2 more Mondays

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