Use the Gooru iPad App to Find Good Educational Videos

Gooru Collections is designed for students in grades five through twelve. Through the app students can find collections of resources for studying and learning about mathematics and science. To find some resources select science or math then choose a subject within either of those categories. Before you open a collection of resources you can preview the material to see if it contains videos, text, or links to websites. Gooru Collections is completely free to use. There are not any in-app purchases and you can use it without registering on Gooru. That said, registering on Gooru will open up extra benefits like the option to organize a shelf of your favorite resources.

Reposted from ipadapps4school.com, by Richard Byrne

Students Become World Explorers With This App

European Exploration: The Age of Discovery is a free iPad app that puts students in charge of exploring the “New World.” In the game students are in charge of selecting explorers and ships to send out to the New World. Students have to manage the finances of their expeditions so that they don’t run out of money before they can return home safely.
European Exploration: The Age of Discovery provides students with historical information about the explorers that are available to lead expeditions. Some of the explorers available include Giovanni da Verrazano, Christopher Columbus, and Juan Ponce de Leon. The explorers are graded based on their navigation, cartography, and shipkeeping skills. Each explorer has a different salary which students must account for when managing the budgets of their expeditions.
Reposted from  http://ipadapps4school.com, by Richard Byrne

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Three Good, Free iPad Timeline Apps for History Students

"As a student I loved looking at timelines in my social studies textbooks. As a history teacher I still love timelines. Timelines in a web browser or as a stand-alone app can offer students more information than a paper-based timeline. Recently, I spent a little time looking for free timeline apps to use on my iPad. While there are a lot of paid apps I didn't find too many free ones that I liked, but I did find three. Here are the three that I like".  Richard Byrne, Free Technology for Teachers.

American Revolution Interactive Timeline for iPad sports the best visuals of the three apps on this list. The timeline features images of artifacts related to the American Revolution. Students can click on the artifacts in the timeline to read a bit about each artifact's relevance to the American Revolution.

Timeline Eons is a freemium app that displays major events throughout the history of the world. The app's search function allows you to search for a date, an event, or a place. The free version of the app allows access to all the timelines for the first ten days that you use it. After the first ten days you're limited to 1950 to the present.

LineTime Presidents Edition is a timeline of all the U.S. Presidents. As students scroll through the app they can click on a president's image to open pop-up box containing the biography of that president. It should be noted that the biographies are pulled from Wikipedia entries.

CloudOn brings Microsoft Office® to your iPad

CloudOn is a free app that brings Microsoft Office® to your iPad and links it to your Box, Dropbox and Google Drive accounts. If that isn’t enough, the built-in Adobe Reader and File Viewer lets you open and view virtually any file type, including PDF, JPG, PNG, GIF, etc. And, because we know your work isn’t always just for you, you can easily email files to your contacts directly from the workspace.

The CloudOn Workspace allows you to:
-Use Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint on your iPad to create, review and edit documents.
-Rename, delete and manage documents with your Dropbox, Box or Google Drive accounts
-View virtually any type of file, including: PDF, JPG, PNG, GIF, etc.
-Send files via email directly from the workspace
-Display, edit or create charts, change formatting, spell check, insert comments, etc into any Word, Excel or PowerPoint files
-Track changes while reviewing Word documents
-Use pivot tables and insert formulas in Excel workbooks
-Display and edit transitions in PowerPoint slides and present in full PowerPoint mode (not in PDF)
-Open files directly from your iPad email accounts as well as Dropbox, Box and Google Drive
-Automatically save documents to avoid losing changes

Interesting Apps for the iPad listed by subject and grade level. Here are some of the Categories: Language Arts, Mathematics, Science,Social Studies, Interactive Books, Primary Grades, Other Subjects, Special Needs, Tools, Personal Use, and
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Cyberbullying Appp for the iPad

New apps include student file sharing, special education, cyber bullying information

By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

Name: Professor Garfield Cyberbullying

What is it? Teach kids anti-bullying messages and strategies for dealing with cyber bullies with the help of Garfield and friends.

Best for: Internet safety; elementary students; iPad

Price: Free

Rated: 4+

Features: Understand the meaning of cyber bully; learn to recognize different forms of cyber bullying; learn different strategies for dealing with a cyber bully; learn the importance of enlisting the help of a trusted adult when cyber bullied.

Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/professor-garfield-cyberbullying/id369171501?mt=8