Deb Norton Tech

Last year we had the opportunity to begin using iPads with our students through our Media Center.  We had 12 iPads available. This made creating online content and utilizing educational apps very doable. This year we are supposed to be getting 12 more ipads in the Media Center which should make the possibilities even greater for student creation!  :) I plan to make the best use of these iPads and to help me out I can refer to the generous amount of iPad apps shared by various presenters at the Ripon Summer Tech Academy . Dan King shared multimedia apps in this presentation .  Consider using the  iTalk app and the VidEditor app. Dan also shared a nice collection of apps for creating ebooks.  Click here to see this presentation.  Last year we used the Book Creator app as well as Story Kit and I was very impressed with both of these apps. Tim Nielsen also shared wonderful lists of apps.  Click here to view the list of...

I have found a wonderful app!  Let me tell you about the situation. Last week a colleague of mine needed to get videos from one iPad onto another.  The goal was to get the videos into one photo stream so that the videos could be inserted into iMovie.  Perhaps you've had the same idea of students using several iPads to capture video and then put all of the videos into one iMovie.  We discovered that this is actually not an easy task. We tried several ways to transfer the videos through other apps without any luck.  We tried Dropbox and Google Drive, but neither offers an option to save the video to the Photo Gallery.  We tried emailing and the Bump App , but the videos were too large.  It seems that only videos under 30 seconds could be bumped.  So I started asking my Twitter friends, but no one seemed to have a solution.  I began searching and came across an app that looked promising.  It was called Wireless Transfer App . Th...

I love Spelling City and we use this site in our classrooms on a weekly basis.  It is worth the subscription that we pay each year.   Recently, Spelling City developed an iPad app and so I asked my spelling groups to put it to the test.  It was a huge hit and my students were impressed.  The things they liked were that they could sign in and access their spelling list, the activities and games worked super fast, and they liked the sounds and animations with the games. To explain more about what the app has to offer, I suggest reading Nic Peachey's blog post .  He does a nice job explaining the app thoroughly and with screen captures.