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My Top Apps for education

For a long time teachers have been asking me what my top apps to recommend would be, so I finally decided to compile a list..... here it is folks!

To find educational apps for all subjects within the App store you can go to Education in the App Store 

Presentation Apps

1. Keynotes 
2. Prezi
3. Explain Everything
4. Puppet Edu
5. ShowMe
6. Topic
7. Google Slides

Collaboration Tools

1. Google Docs
2. Google Sheets 
3. Padlet - Not an app but a favourite collaboration tool of mine

File Storage

1. Google Drive
2. DropBox
3. SkyDrive 
4. File Hub

Video Creation

1. iMovie
2. Wevideo
3. Videolicious 
4. Animoto
5. GreenScreen by Do Ink

Screencasting Apps

1. Educreations
2. Knowmia
3. Screen Chomp

Whiteboard Apps

1. Educreations
2. BaiBoard
3. Doceri
4. Explain Everything 
5. ShowMe
6. ClassKick

Audi Recording Apps

1. SoundCloud
2. AudioBoom
3. iTalk Recorder 

Note Taking Apps 

1. Evernote
2. Notability
3. Penultimate

Digital Story Telling 

1. Puppet pals
2. Book creator
3. StoryMaker
4. ChatterPix
5. Tellagami

Mind Mapping Apps

1. Popplet
2. MindMeister
3. Idea Flip
4. Simple MInd 
5. MIndNode 

Speech to text Apps

1. iSpeech
2. Speak it
3. Speech Magnet
4. Dragon Diction

Fun Cool Apps

1. Aurasma
2. Post-it
3. Stage
4. Elements 4D

Question/Quiz Apps

1. Plickers
2. Socrative Teacher (there is a student one too)
3. Kahoot  Not an app yet, but students can interact using their iPads
4. Quizlet 

Student Portfolios

1. Showbie
2. Seesaw
3. 3Ring 
4. Easy Portfolio
5. Evernote

Reference 

1. ITunes U
2. iBooks
3. Skype      Skype in the Classroom
4. Youtube 

Apps for Planning & Grading

1. Grade Book Pro
2. Grade Keeper for iPad
3. Grade it

Blogging apps

1. Blogger
2. Wordpress 
3. Edublogs
4. Glogster