ON THIS PAGE YOU WILL FIND iPAD INFORMATION, SMARTBOARD ACTIVITIES, BOARDMAKER SUPPORTS, ALPHASMART ASSISTANCE, & SWITCH ACTIVITIES
iPad Information
Apps and Folders
Apps that had a fee that are free now
Guided Access – keeps students in one app
Fun Apps for Elementary
Type on pdf App
Communication Apps
VisTimerFree
Stop Go!
Waitstrip Timer
VisuoTimer
LicketySplitLite
Sure Timer
Relaxation and Breathing Apps
Using AlphaSmarts
Smart Notebook
Big Line Little Line - handwriting without tears
Interactive shapes
Shape Fitting
Shapes
Tracing Numbers
Using Shapes to Draw Animals
Handwriting Cursive Unit
Magic C
Tangrams
Car wash
Themed Lessons (boardmaker and smart notebook)
Mitten
Boardmaker clothing sort
The mitten
Boardmaker Gingerbread man
Gingerbread man poem modified
Can't Catch Me Gingerbread Man
10 Little Gingerbread Men
The mitten sequencing smartboard
decorate the gingerbread man smartboard
gingerbread man story interactive - boardmaker
gingerbread man (mat man)
Boardmaker reindeer pokey
Boardmaker 8 little reindeer
Boardmaker Reindeer Reindeer What do you see?
Boardmaker Circle Time in December
Boardmaker Santa and Reindeer Labeling
Smartnotebook Where is Santa?
Smartnotebook Must be Santa
Smartnotebook Santa and his Reindeer
Smartnotebook The very Hungry Reindeer
Youtube - must be santa
Clean vs dirty
Circle the clean item
Switch Activities and Links
http://www.hiyah.net/software.html : Free online or free Download
http://www.specialbites.com/Ipad-switch-access-to-Youtube/ipad-app-Christmas-videos-switch-accessible-youtube.php : Free
http://www.helpkidzlearn.com/early-years : Free trial - minimal yearly fee
http://teachinglearnerswithmultipleneeds.blogspot.com/2011/01/updated-free-online-switch-activities.html : Most are free
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/home/specialneeds: Games are in the middle column
http://www.lburkhart.com/hand2sw4s.htm : Handout on information about switch use and teaching students
- Hold down on apps – to delete them
- Drag them into a folder, and name the folder to organize them
- Swipe finger as far as you can to the right to find the spotlight feature
- http://www.ipadinschools.com/ipad-apps-for-elementary-school/
- http://www.ipadinschools.com/ipad-apps-for-middle-school/
- http://www.ipadinschools.com/ipad-apps-for-high-school/
- http://palmbeachschooltalk.com/groups/ipadpilot/wiki/70925/High_School_iPad_Apps.html
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhogVEncdrs
Apps that had a fee that are free now
Guided Access – keeps students in one app
- Click on settings
- Click on General
- Scroll down and click on Accessibility
- Click on Guided Access
- Turn Guided Access on
- Set a passcode – simple 0000
- Click on the home screen
- Find the app you would like
- Triple click the home screen
- Click on Guided Access
- Circle areas you do not want touched
- Click start
- To get out – triple click the home button, put password in, click end
- Guided Access has now ended
- i Learn with Boing – Iceland Adventures – ABCs ($.99)
- ABC Magic 2 – help your child learn sounds of alphabet (Free)
- First words – match and recognize letters, learn sounds, learn names and how to spell ($1.99)
- Word SLapPs Vocabulary – teach vocabulary specific to a child’s world ($4.99)
- Goodnight ABC – puzzles, alphabet, coloring ($1.99)
- ABC Pop – alphabet ($1.99)
- Little Reader - learn to read four letter words (.99)
- ABC Pocket Phonics – learn to spell over 170 words ($2.99) Lite – (Free)
- iWrite Words – hand writing game ($2.99) Lite – (Free)
- AlphaTots – interactive alphabet game($1.99)
- Super Why ABC Adventures: Alphabet – ($2.99)
- Candy Count – match the colored jelly bean to the colored jar, then count them, work on most, fewest, more, fewer, arrange from fewest to most – (Free)
- Tally Tots – interactive counting game ($1.99)
- i Learn with Poko – Fun Counting and Addition ($.99)
- GiggleGhosts – counting ($.99)
- Montessori counting board – ($.99
- Injini – matching, patterns, puzzles, squares, tracing, etc., letters, colors, find it level changes support stages of development, includes 9 levels specifically designed for students with special needs ($29.99)
- Shapes Toddler Preschool (Free)
- Alien Buddies – matching, puzzles, dot-to-dot, free play ($1.99)
- Kandy Fish – music, shapes, colors, picture books, etc. ($1.99)
- Happy Little Farmer – 15 fun educational games ($1.99)
- Tappie Colorit– color and shape recognition, matching ($.99)
- Play 123 – colors, shapes, numbers (Free)
- Left Right Pup – learn left and right ($1.99)
- Button Board – Learning colors (Free)
- Bugs and Buttons – 18 colorful educational games, great graphics
- Bugs and Bubbles - 18 colorful educational games, great graphics
- Pocket Phonics - Description Independent research found kids learnt nine times as fast using PocketPhonics compared to a lesson in a classroom
- Bob's Books - Make the connection between letters and sounds. Sound out simple words. Spell the words they’ve read.
- Teach me kindergarten - • Sight Words: Dolch (Pre-K), Dolch (K), Addition: up to a total of 10, Subtraction: from 10 down, Spelling: complete words by choosing the first letter
- Word Bingo - The Dolch Word List is a list of English sight words by Edward William Dolch, PhD. The list is comprised of 220 words grouped by level, and includes pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and verbs. There are also 95 nouns on a separate list.
- First Words - First Words is an app that teaches letters and words in fun and interactive way. Very easy to use these apps will help support your little ones learning with great illustrations and bright colors. Each app supports kids learning and encourages kids to explore and discover by revealing, rewarding and teaching.”
- Word Wizard - Word Wizard is a unique app that lets kids hear the sounds of letters and words using a talking movable alphabet. Featuring advanced text to speech capabilities, the app can pronounce and spell-check an unlimited number of original words and sentences built using the movable alphabet.
- Happi Reads - With "Happi Reads", your child will see a word and three pictures on the screen. He or she will try to sound/read the word in order to match it to the correct picture. For every correct answer your child will earn a fruit to eat in a fun way once the level is complete. The words to read will increase in difficulty with each level. There are currently 100 words in 4 different levels.
- ABC Alphabet Phonics - Photo Touch is an exciting educational game that helps your child rapidly learn the ABC by sight, sound, and touch. The interface is so easy to use that even a 9 month old baby will delight in using this app. Ideal for ages 0 to 6.
- Pre-school connect the dots - Children can "tap" or "draw" to connect sequential numbers (123), upper case letters (ABC), and lower case letters (abc). Joining all the dots forms the outline of the shape and reveals the beautifully illustrated image, a really fun sound effect, and the object name spoken by a speech therapist that specializes in early childhood development!
- My Word Wall - Whether by assembling a jigsaw puzzle together in Jigsaw Words or playing a memory match game in Hide a Word, Word Wall provides hours of fun and practice in early reading skills engaging young readers to become successful and confident readers.
- Chicktionary - Unscramble a roost full of LETTERS and create as many WORDS as possible. Each chicken bears a letter. Touch them to and spell out a word, then watch as the word appears below them.
- Hear n Spell - Hear & Spell, by JRJA Software Solutions is a game of spellings where you get to listen to the actual word and also listen to the sound it makes and you are required to type the spelling just by listening. Correct answer gives you 10 points and the time limit for each word is 25 seconds. Words are picked at random.
- Sound Sort Blends - Sound Sort Blends HD version for iPad is the next step after a child has mastered their letter sounds using the "Sound Sorts" game. In this fun educational game, the child matches the pictures to the blend letters shown on top. At any time, the child can tap any picture or letter to hear what it sounds like.
- Letter Quiz - Letter Quiz is the best way to learn the English Alphabet. Four different games for every stage of learning; flashcards, identification, matching and handwriting. Designed for kids but great for all ages.
- Montessori Crosswords - Based on the proven Montessori learning method, Montessori Crosswords helps kids develop their reading, writing, and spelling skills by building words from a set of 320 word-image-audio-phonics combinations using a phonics-enabled movable alphabet.
- Phonics Awareness - Phonics Awareness, 1st Grade Reading, is a fun way for your child to learn core phonics. Bugs are used to add whimsy and help in the teaching. This tutorial is highly interactive, giving your 1st grader a chance to relate to phonics on a personal level and get instant feedback on how they are doing.
- Phonics Tic Tac Toe - Children build language skills in a fast-paced game of tic-tac-toe! Fun, interactive game explores vowel sounds, syllables and more. For ages 6-8 years.
- Vocabulary Spelling City - The November 2012 release has the following learning games available free to all users: Spelling TestMe, HangMouse, TeachMe, Sentence Unscramble, Word Unscramble, Missing Letter, Alphabetize, Audio Word Match
- Toontastic - Making cartoons with Toontastic is as easy as putting on a puppet show - simply press the record button, move your characters onscreen, and tell your story. Toontastic records your animation and voice as a cartoon video to share with friends and family on ToonTube, the app's global storytelling network for kids.
- ABC Spy - ABC Spy challenges children to create their own ABC experience by taking photos for each letter of the alphabet - take a photo, choose a frame, give it a name. Then make a movie of all your photos to share with friends and family!
- Starfall Learn to Read - Your child will hear, touch, read and eventually master this sound-spelling through a variety of engaging activities, movies, and songs.
- Word Magic - A picture is shown and the kids should select the missing letter for the picture. The picture for the word will be read out. There are three flavors. Based on the kids level, you can choose missing letter at the beginning or in the middle or in the last.
- ABC Pocket Phonics - PocketPhonics introduces kids to each of the key letter sounds. As they learn the sounds, the app guides them how to write each letter through its unique follow-me arrow making it easy to learn how to correctly form letters.
- ABC Spelling Magic - This app can help your child learn the sounds of the alphabet. This app indirectly teaches the essential reading skill of segmenting as well. Two levels of challenge are available.
- Howie Finding Vowel Lite/Full - Learning vowels helps your child to distinguish distinct words such as fan fin fine fun, and recognize those words easily. This app is useful not only for reading but spelling and writing also. It uses phonics to help your child learn new words by putting sounds together to make words (like /b/ /a/ /t/ bat). So your child will be able to read and write words correctly without memorizing.
- Rhyming Bee - Description Phonics Rhyme Sorting Free is a fun app for learning to recognize rhyming words, and sort them by sound. A bee carries a heart with a word on it, and your child selects which of two flower pots has a word that rhymes.
- Kindersmarts - This tutorial is highly interactive, giving your kindergartener a chance to relate to print concepts, phonological awareness and word recognition on a personal level and get instant feedback on how they are doing.
- Sticky Notes- Sticky Notes is the premium note taking application that is an amazing, multi-touch enabled noteboard designed specifically for iPad.You can use these for word/sound sorts.
- Making Words - kindergarten - Description Phonics Make a Word supports both Phonics and Spelling. The application is for children just beginning to read. The words all have short vowel sounds. More advanced children should try Phonics Advanced, with long vowel sounds and double vowels.
- Doras Rhyming word adventure - Rhyming Words focuses on your child’s emerging literacy skills. By matching rhyming words and more with Dora and Boots in this educational application, your child will become aware of individual sounds (phonemes) in words and how they are sequenced and changed to make new words. The ability to hear, discriminate and manipulate phonemes is highly associated with reading readiness in early childhood and considered a critical skill for the development of reading skills.
- Banner Lite - eBanner is an ultimate scrolling banner application. It displays your messages like LED dot matrix board. Spelling and Sound applications.
- Sound Literacy- If you use an Orton-Gillingham influenced program, this app will make perfect sense! If you are a parent that wants to reinforce the phonics principles that your child is being taught in school this app will help.
- Letter Jumble - Shuffle and arrange letters to form words in this fun, classic unscrambling game. Go through numerous categories and dozens of puzzles. Increase your vocabulary and spelling along the way. Anagram Twist is easy to learn but hard to put down.
Fun Apps for Elementary
- Magic Piano – touch lights to play music (Free)
- Uncolor – fine motor tool ($.99)
- Little Things – find small items within a large item ($2.99)
- Let’s Color – Coloring app (Free)
- Squiggles – coloring app (Free)
- PianoBall – Learn colors and music, learn to play songs by following the stars ($1.99)
- i Learn with Poko – Seasons and Weather ($1.99)
- Abby Monkey – animated puzzles ($1.99)
- Guess the Dress – what clothes to wear for the season, and other games ($2.99)
- Dr. Panda’s Restaurant – Cooking game for kids ($1.99)
- Little Fox Music Box – kids song – sing along ($2.99
- Laloo – Interactive book with a great message ($3.99)
- Collins Big Cat – free books
- It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown – book with activities ($4.99)
- The Ant and the Grasshopper 3D Popup book – (free)
- Evernote – note taking app (Free)
- Dropbox – store pictures and documents (Free)
- Moments Ago – fast and easy way to communicate with parents ($3.99)
- Super Duper Data Tracker – enter students name and goals, track student, create graphs on data ($1.99)
- Moms with Apps
- Smart Apps for Kids
- APPitic – search preschoool and then choose a topic
- BridgingApps – find apps based on skill level
- Appolicious
Type on pdf App
- Doc Scan HD (Free), You can upgrade for ($3.99)
- To use the app – take a picture of the worksheet.
- Select Use Move the green balls to the outside corners of the worksheet, click next Now you can zoom in or zoom out
- Zoom in, tap on the pen to write
- Tap on the pen again to move out
- You can also touch the 4 arrows to move all the way out, touch -/+ for brighten screen, touch the half moon for black and white, touch the 90 degrees to rotate, touch the color dot to change color of pen or make big/small. There are also undo and redo arrows
- Click save
- Name the document
- You can email the document by clicking on the paper and arrow or print if you have wireless printing
- To delete a document that you have saved – swipe left
- In settings: Go to "general" then "Accessibility" features, turn on VoiceOver
- Use the iBooks app. to store the books you want to read.
- tutorial on iPad's and VoiceOver
- http://theappwhisperer.com/2010/09/15/ipad-tutorial-of-the-day-making-your-ipad-talk/
- Project Gutenberg or another free site, select the epub format of the book. (see below for how to convert books)
- www.gutenberg.org
- Dragon dictation - free app for dictation
- PaperPort notes - free app for dictation
- U type I say - student types word, phrase and it will speak it outloud
- UTypeiTalk - student types word, phrase and it will speak it outloud
- StoryLines - a game of "telephone' with pictures. Creative group writing is fostered with this app.
- ABCnotes - sticky notes can be placed anywhere on the screen and multiple places on the iPad -great for note taking
- InkFlow- an app you can use for pre-writing strategies or social stories - allows for writing and drawing
- Scribble Press - allows for students to create books or social stories - typing and drawing in color are options
- QuickVoice - Allows you to record a message and play it back: writing down assignments, answering questions out loud, can "talk" a story but has difficulty writing it, for audio reminders such as homework assignments, or a low tech speaking device (can record messages for community support)
- iPad typer - practice gaining speed on the iPad
- Readit - type in a message, phrase etc. and it will read it outloud
- A free software program called Calibre can convert a book to the epub format.
- http://calibre-ebook.com/NeoJulie app: Free app, Can cut and paste large amounts of text to be read but doesn't save or keep track. Also use it to support writing.
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/neojulie/id334272012?mt=8
- Open bookshare books in safari
- Save as PDF
- Open PDF in Calibre
- Convert to MOBI for the Kindle or ePub for the iPad
Communication Apps
- Autism IHelp – visual cards
- Answers Free (yes no audible)
- ChoiceBoard Creator – Visual choices
- TapTo Talk – free basic visual communication of needs – upgrade for a fee
- PhraseBoard – communication app for medical needs offers yes/no, ability to type sentences and indicate pain
- Soundingbrd – Communication app for free with preloaded communication features
- Model Me Kids – videos of modeling social skills
- Talk4me – great free app with the ability to add custom pictures for communication
- MyLifeSkillsBox – app for sequencing visually a variety of activities
- FreeSpeech – basic communication of needs and wants
- Worksystem – very nice and simple app with a checklist – words only (no pictures)
- Put it Away – visual sequences and stories that show kids how to do clean up activities
- Reminders – Simple app with a checklist to mark off completed tasks (words only)
- Visual Working for Board – Use pictures of “reward” or “incentive activities” to support task completion
VisTimerFree
Stop Go!
Waitstrip Timer
VisuoTimer
LicketySplitLite
Sure Timer
Relaxation and Breathing Apps
- Coy Pond - fish in a pond appear on the screen
- iRelax - a variety of relaxing sounds
- Storybook - Healthy Star relaxation story for students
- MindSpaHD - Listen to messages to provide relaxation and focus
- Take a Break - restful music and sounds put on a timer
- BioBreathing - breath training with visual and audio feedback
- Relax HD - lite - breath training with visual and audio feedback
- timeout free - visual and audio clock for a time out
- STOP calm down - Visual sequence of how to take a calm down break
- We Cope - Record behavioral event, look for coping patterns, log book, daily assessment and patterns over time
- Habit maker - put in a student goal/behavior. Every time the student is successful or not successful it gets recorded and tracked over time
- Beep and Boop - fun way to teach desired or nondesired behavior tracking. Student can place a picture and hear beep or boop.
- Sensory-Lite - All the basic senses are on his app with a scale of 0-10 for the student to rate as liking or not liking the stimulus
- Autism Help! - Based on the Incredible 5 point Scale student creates a visual scale for anxiety and gets to record their own messages
- Handwriting without tears
- BT handwriting free
- Trace-It
- Alphabet Tracing
- ABC tracing
- Funnyletters (cursive)
- My second cursive ABC
- My first cursive ABC
- ABC cursive free
Using AlphaSmarts
Smart Notebook
Big Line Little Line - handwriting without tears
Interactive shapes
Shape Fitting
Shapes
Tracing Numbers
Using Shapes to Draw Animals
Handwriting Cursive Unit
Magic C
Tangrams
Car wash
Themed Lessons (boardmaker and smart notebook)
Mitten
Boardmaker clothing sort
The mitten
Boardmaker Gingerbread man
Gingerbread man poem modified
Can't Catch Me Gingerbread Man
10 Little Gingerbread Men
The mitten sequencing smartboard
decorate the gingerbread man smartboard
gingerbread man story interactive - boardmaker
gingerbread man (mat man)
Boardmaker reindeer pokey
Boardmaker 8 little reindeer
Boardmaker Reindeer Reindeer What do you see?
Boardmaker Circle Time in December
Boardmaker Santa and Reindeer Labeling
Smartnotebook Where is Santa?
Smartnotebook Must be Santa
Smartnotebook Santa and his Reindeer
Smartnotebook The very Hungry Reindeer
Youtube - must be santa
Clean vs dirty
Circle the clean item
Switch Activities and Links
http://www.hiyah.net/software.html : Free online or free Download
http://www.specialbites.com/Ipad-switch-access-to-Youtube/ipad-app-Christmas-videos-switch-accessible-youtube.php : Free
http://www.helpkidzlearn.com/early-years : Free trial - minimal yearly fee
http://teachinglearnerswithmultipleneeds.blogspot.com/2011/01/updated-free-online-switch-activities.html : Most are free
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/home/specialneeds: Games are in the middle column
http://www.lburkhart.com/hand2sw4s.htm : Handout on information about switch use and teaching students