Puppet Pals provides a simple user interface for creating digital stories and animated movies. Puppet Pals can be used in many grade levels and curriculum areas. Digital storytelling is one of the most powerful uses of an iPad in a 1:1 classroom. Puppet Pals allows students to create digital stories that explain literary works and concepts.
Cost: Free
The Google Blogger app is an App Essential for Burlington students and teachers. Blogger is used as our student digital portfolio platform. Students in grades PreK-12 will be using Blogger to journal their academic career in Burlington. The Blogger app provides students with quick access to postings and content on their portfolio.
Cost: Free
Google Drive is an App Essential for Burlington students and teachers. Google Drive provides 5Gb of free data storage and access to anything saved in your Google Drive account. Google Apps for Education users can use the app as creation app, storage solution, and digital portfolio. Students and teachers can access Drive content through the app or by logging into Google from any web enabled device. Drive has become one of the most used apps in Burlington Public Schools and allows our district to use their Google accounts much more effectively.
Cost: Free
JogNog provides thousands of assessment and review questions based on state standards by grade level. JogNog is a free app with several in-app purchase options. Students can use JogNog for preparation and practice before state testing. JogNog also provides teachers with quiz builders and ways to share quizzes with students. Teachers can see student progress and help them prepare for testing.
Marshall Simonds Middle School 8th graders will be part of a JogNog pilot during the first year of their 1:1 program.
Cost: Free (In-App Purchases and Subscription Content Available)
Geoboard allows students to use virtual bands to stretch around pegs to form line segments and polygons. This fun, visual app provides a great digital alternative to classic manipulatives. Students can learn about perimeter, area, angles, and fractions.
Cost: Free
Skitch is one of highly recommended App Essentials. Skitch is a simple yet powerful interactive whiteboard style app that allows users to take notes or create content that can easily be saved to their Evernote accounts. While Evernote is one of most important apps in Burlington, it does not have the ability to use hand writing for annotation. Skitch provides this missing feature and ties everything together well for users who rely on Evernote for notes and content organization. Skitch is also a great tool for creating how to guides and presentation materials.
Skitch is great for nearly all grade levels and curriculum areas. Skitch provides a perfect platform for math practice, hand written notes, and science labs.
Cost: Free
Explore the new world in the 15th century by funding and sending expeditions out into the unknown.
Cost: Free
Pattern Blocks is a geometry math app. Users have unlimited access to virtual shapes that can be added, dragged, rotated and removed to form patterns.
Cost: $0.99
