TED will need no introduction for some people. If you are one of those who has enjoyed a TED talk in the past, go and get this free app and have TED talks streamed or downloaded onto your iPad for those moments when you are stuck on a train, waiting at the dentist or just need some inspiration. If you have never heard of TED, then go and get this free app and find out what you have been missing!
The app also allows you to search and bookmark talks, and has a few other nice tools too.
Tellagami is a fun app to play with. It lets you create characters (gamis) and place them on a background, which can be one of the built-in backgrounds or something from your camera roll. You can then make a 30 second recording like the one above. You can talk to your students from space, inside a cell or even chat through a formula!
Evernote just feels like it has been around forever so it probably has! It is one of those staple apps with a massive following. It's not a pretty app but it is definitely practical. Evernote is a supernote and organiser tool that works on (1) the web, (2) on PC/Mac desktop apps and (3) on mobile apps so basically you can get Evernote everywhere. Notes are stored in notebooks in the Evernote Cloud.
Last summer about sixteen staff attended a one-hour in-house training session with a ClickView trainer. During the session we were introduced to ClickView's new web interface, ClickView 24-7, which allows all staff in a ClickView school to save and edit their own footage from any TV programme broadcast 'free to air' in the last two weeks. This footage is then available indefinitely (which I guess means as long as the school continues to subscribe to the service). You could take a two minute segment from a news bulletin, an entire one hour programme, or even create your own playlists comprised of different extracts of different programmes.
Until a couple of days ago, you needed a paid subscription to be able to create or edit documents using Word, PowerPoint and Excel on the iPad. Although the Microsoft iOS apps were free to download they weren't much use to anyone who didn't have an Office 365 subscription. These subscriptions don't come cheap (they start at £59.99 pa) so I imagine that the user base for the iOS apps was small.
Things may shift a little after updates to these apps last Thursday, 6th November 2014.
Free for the next few days. Normally about £4.99. You should grab it while it is free just for a try.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/05/a-great-mindmapping-and-notetaking-ipad.html