From last week!

A few ideas for the evening before conferences: 

1) A presentation with ideas on implementing iPads for productivity and individual app use: Creative Uses for iPads in the Classroom: http://www.slideshare.net/mamante/creative-uses-for-ipad-in-the-classroom 

2) What do you get when you combine Polar Bears, Discovery Education and webcasts? An cool opportunity for students grades 4- 8! Check this out for more information: http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2012/09/28/tundra-connections-join-us-live-from-the-tundra/ 

3) Teach your monster to Read by uploading a CSV file of your students and sign up for this fun opportunity for lower elementary students at: http://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com 

4) Something to overwhelm anybody. I know you may have a few minutes during conferences so go to http://www.google.com/edu/teachers/educator-resources.html and check out all the cool apps and tools that you can use from Google. Let me know if you would like to know anything about these. I use a lot of them and many on a daily basis. 

Have a great weekend and let me know if I can help in any way.

Samantha

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iPad Apps for Free (this is an email from a listserv I am part of, feel free to join too) 

This is something new - a heads up on an app that will be free tomorrow! The app Shapes Touch and Write will be free all day tomorrow (Friday, Oct 26) It is from a company called FizzBrain. Currently it is $2.99 but at 12am (PST) it will go free until midnight PST. It is Shapes Touch and Write - http://itun.es/i6DM39y

There are a lot of other interesting apps today. Quiet please is an app that measures sound levels and when the sound gets too loud is does a Shhh sound and it looks like you could record your own message as well. This could be a good tool for those kids who get loud the ability to self regulate themselves.

Quiet Please - http://itun.es/i6DG4jy

This is a tracing app.'

Trace & Share - http://itun.es/i6DG4jZ

Padstar Publishing has released several of their math apps for free - 

AppTutor IR - Introduction to Rounding - http://itun.es/i6DG4D9

AppTutor LA - Introduction to Long Addition - http://itun.es/i6Dm7tC

AppTutor AWP - Addition Word Problems - http://itun.es/i6Dm24C

AppTutor MT - Multiplication Tables - http://itun.es/i6Dm24Z

AppTutor LM - Introduction to Long Multiplication - http://itun.es/i6DG4Dq

And Talking Rex for the iPad is free for a day -

Talking Rex the Dinosaur for iPad - http://itun.es/i6DM39Q