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Assignment 2

[|Everyday Math Top-It] This is an app put out by McGraw Hill, the publisher of the __Everyday Mathematics__ series. A major component of this math series is the use of math games to reinforce skills. I use several variations of Top-It in fifth grade, so my students are familiar with the gameplay and will enjoy the digital format.

[|Virtual Manipulatives] This is a great app for helping students understand fractions, decimals, and percents. You can choose to work with tiles or circles that are broken into decimals, fractions, or percents. I will use this to help students understand equivalent fractions, as well as adding fractions.

[|TeacherPal] This is a gradebook app. I will use this to track my individual student conferences during my reader's workshop time. This will be a very useful tool to track growth and take anecdotal notes.

[|Common Rocks Reference] This is a rocks and minerals reference guide that will help me when I teach rocks and mineral in science. One thing I liked about this app is that it sepeates the rocks into the three categories that I teach. It also has great images of each of the rocks so my students could compare their samples to the images.

[|U.S. Westward Expansion] This is a pretty basic app that will really help teach U.S. Westward expansion. The app is in a game format and disusses causes and effect of Westward expansion in detail. It is vey user friendly and will be very helpful when I teach U.S. history.

[|Jungle Fractions] This app would be great for teaching kids equivalent fractions. It is in a game format, which would be highly engaging. A pie fraction is shown and you need to find the equivalent fraction. This app does cost $2.99.

[|NASA HD] This is a great app that is put out by NASA. It is a great virtual tour of the solar system. I will be able to use this app when I teach my space unit. I am thinking that this will be great for students to use when they do planet research.

[|VoiceThread]I This app allows you to use VoiceThread from your iPad. I will be using VoiceThread later in the year with my class, so this app will be another way for students to collaborate using technology.

[|Star Walk] This is a very cool app that allows you to identify the constellations you see in the night sky. I will use this app during my space unit. My students create a giant inflatable planetarium and this will help them to correctly place the constellations where they belong.

[|Dragon Dictation] This is a voice recognition app that is very cool. It is free and very accurate when translating talk to text. This will be very helpfule in the classroom, especially with those students who struggle to get their ideas on paper. I used this app to complete assignment 1 for this class.

[|Scan] This free app allows you to scan those bar codes that you see on all sorts of items. I will use this app to get coupons and deals from magazines, restaurants, and more.

[|ABC Player] This app allows you to watch all of the most recent ABC shows. I use this app when there is a conflict with my DVR and I have to miss one of my shows. I can just go to the ABC player and watch the show commercial free. The only downfall is that you can't download the show to your imovies.

[|Yahoo Fantasy Football] This app allows me to view and edit my fantasy football roster. I use this app every week to view my games and make last minute changes.

[|Oregon Trail] This is a more updated version of the classic game. Okay, I'll admit, this is a personal choice more than a professional one. I loved the game on the Apple IIe and had to try it on the iPad.

[|Chicken Balls] This app is a free knock-off of Angry Birds. I have spent way too much time using this particular app.