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LISTS AND ARTICLES ABOUT INTERESTING APPS (Red links are Really Ravishing)
Click HERE for HW at end of Day 1 of iCore
APP SEARCH
iPad Store by Obe H
Graphite by Common Sense
Our iCore GD Database

ART & ART HISTORY
Best Art Apps Katie Williams
10 apps for Art History
PDF of Art History Apps

ASSESSMENT
Free Online Assessment 
Tools for Teachers

AUTHENTIC SAMPLES
G1 Project with 
G2 Project w/Bamboo Paper & Exp Everything

CODING
Whiteboard blog
Hopscotch & Geom
Kids Must Code

CREATIVITY
Creation Apps for the One iPad Room
Creative Apps by Category
DRILL & PRACTICE
Alphabetical List

ENGLISH
(also see READING and WRITING)
Romeo and Juliet
Language Arts GA

GEOGRAPHY
From Greenwich Acad

GRADING PAPERS
Overview: 1 Video
Explain Everything: 1
iAnnotate: 1 2 Video
Markup: 1 Video
Notability: 1 2 3 Video
Showbie: 1

iCORE SPEED APPING
Summary

LANGUAGES
50 Apps for For Lang
80 Apps for Language
Blogs for For Lang
Fav HS For Lang Apps
French Apps
MATH
10 Apps Math Fluency
15 Apps for Algebra
4 Apps for Elem Math
Best Elem Math Apps
Branford Recs
Cool iPad Math Apps
Guided Math Grade 3
Lower Sch Math Apps
Math Rec Frank Griffin
NY Times Game of Math
Using iPads in Math

MIDDLE SCHOOL
Recs for several subjects

MISC
5 iPad Apps for the 21st Century Student: 
--Organize (GD/Scan Pro)
--Write (Pages)
--Take Notes (Notability)
--Create (Explain Everything)
--Read (iBooks)
5 Tools for Presentations
10 Best Apps for 2013
25 Tips for Teaching w/Apps
84 iPad Apps to Share With K-12 Teachers and Students
89 Cool Apps & Tools
  • MISC CONTINUED​
Apptivities
Bloomin Apps • Kathy Shrock
Book Cataloging Apps
Branford Public Schools
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Education Apps for Kids by
Katie Williams/Amsterdam
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Greenwich Academy has excellent iPad page
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iCore HW for Day 2 Misc Apps
Ipads in the Classroom - Settings, Security, Policies
Managing iPads
Retroactively Managing iPads
TCEA Matrix of Apps 
Teaching Tales Yellow Brick Rd
Univ of Maine Favorites
Why Some Teachers are Against Tech in Education


MUSIC
Music Theory
Best iPad Apps
Free iPad Music Apps: 1 2
Special Needs Apps
Music Learning Lab

PRESCHOOL
From Greenwich Academy
PreK Apps from Katie Williams
Toddler Apps From Katie Williams
READING
10 DigiTools for Readers
Guide Reading Grade 3

SCIENCE:
Chem & Bio from KWilliams
Greenwich Academy
Best Science Apps K Williams
Physics I Wolfram
Video Examples
9 Apps and Tools
Apps to record trajectory

SPORTS:
iPad App Smashing for Sport Coaching
Ubersense

TEACHER ORGANIZATION
Tools

VIDEOS
GD•IPADS•SCRATCH

WRITING: 
7 Writing Apps
23 iPad Alternatives to the Book Report
Digital Storytelling Apps

SELECTED APPS (with "quick look" links and some videos from our Online Course participants)

EXTRA LINK
Geometry.epub
Shared Public
Fractions by MV from LA
Video by DV from DC
PART 2 • EXTRA: 1 2 3 4
Video by CF from FL
Video by LC from MD
Redeem? Favorites then go to bottom and REDEEM
EXTRA LINK
We have an IXL account you can use for ICORE HW with login and password so you can go beyond the 20 free per day limit. Just ask!
EXTRA LINKS: 1 2 3
Video •RG from GA
EXTRA LINK
EXTRA: 1 2
EXTRA LINK
Puppet Pal Samples 
EXTRA LINKS: 1 2 3
Overview by HP from TX
Parts of Speech by MLE from FL
Terms & Definitions by BM / MD
VIDEOS: 1 2 3
Video by Monica TX
Skitch Samples
EXTRA LINKS: 1 2
EXTRA: 1 2 3
Tiny Tap Samples
G2Art | Fork&Spoon | Fr Vocab 
What Makes a Good Photo

THREE SUMMERCORE PRINCIPLES ABOUT APPS and SOFTWARE
Read Chapter 3 called "Thinking about Educational Apps and Software" from our Primer
Posters about iPads used at iCore

PRINCIPLE ONE: 
The Difficulty Principle

Learning to use software or an app is not necessarily easy. Some software programs and some app are easy to use but most programs are involved, have many nuances and details and it takes time, practice and support to become good with them. In the first first Summercore Primer from 1985, there is a graphic to illustrate that "software is more like a violin than a blender." In fact, we have said for almost 30 years that you can rate software (and now apps) by these categories similar to movies:

G: generally easy
PG: personal guidance appreciated
R: really tough without help
X: extremely complicated even with help

PRINCIPLE TWO: 
The Snob Principle

There are many wonderful creative software programs that facilitate audio, video and visually intriguing projects. But this does not mean that drill and practice is bad. A very significant part of education requires practice. There are so many computer people and people who travel to schools and speak to faculty that are disdainful and negative about drill and practice apps. Yes, of course education is much more than learning math facts, vocabulary words and spelling. But it is not an either/or proposition. Yes, projects are open ended and encourage creativity, problem-sovling and innovative thinking. But it is not an either/or proposition. There is no kinder phrase I can use to describe this phenomenon other than "intellectual snobbery or intellectual elitism." Frequently and interesting, the people who espouse this point of view are people who have never taught in schools.

PRINCIPLE THREE: 
The Money Principle

Software budget should match hardware budget. I have been saying this since the 1980s and numerous people recognize this as an important theme. Back in the early computer days, I would tell a family buying a $1500 computer to make sure they spent another $1000 or more on software. The apps on an iPad are what make the machine interesting, diverse and powerful. Schools that give individual teachers or departments iTunes gift cards or budget allocations for apps are doing the right thing. Yes, there are many wonderful free apps, but it is ridiculous to buy 25 iPads for almost 10K and not have a "software budget" or an "app budget" to spend a few thousand dollars on apps. 
Below is Our iCore Database of iPad APPS 
You May Find Better Searching at TINYURL.COM/ICOREAPPS IN GOOGLE DRIVE
(if you choose LIST under the VIEW MENU you will be able to SELECT by CATEGORY)