Meeting+Notes

Friday, November 11, 2011 Meeting Notes
Soundnote and PaperDesk - Note taking apps Dragon Dictation VoiceOver OverDrive Media - a library of free ebooks (not compatible with Kindle)
 * Graham** - **Evernote**, Prezi (Prezi is also available for Macs and PCs since it's web-based.) as visual assist with lectures instead of PowerPoints.
 * Kim** - **Zite** - News conglomerate from newspapers and blogs, etc.
 * Tara** - **Relax Melodie**s Free Music site without words. Can have music without words and set timer for students so they can type, write to music but not be disturbed by words.
 * iHomework**
 * Jo Ray** - Speech to text, text to speech apps for use with students - dyslexic or not (List on Apps that seem useful page.

Friday, September 9, 2011 Meeting Notes
We will have one morning and one lunch meeting per month. Next meeting will be at lunch on Monday, September 26, during 6th grade lunch.

Holly has her whole gradebook on hers. GradebookPro works well. Plays music at the beginning of class from YouTube.

Emily uses for an app called Hurricane Tracker ($4 app) with her classes. It gives audio updates and starts tracking from Africa with video and audio updates, projected paths. Earth science apps Tectonic ($9.99) shows every catastrophic event that is happening in real time and provides .pdf maps. You can also select which events you want to track. Emily can project the images on her Smartboard, but usually shares with the students directly from the iPad.

Kevin uses Evernote when entering info like lesson plans ... can sync with your phone and other teachers. Can take a photos of any item and write a description without having to insert the image. Can insert can record text. It's a free app. Can copy and paste a .pdf and search. Easier to search than email shared docs. Kevin likes the way it organizes. Kevin mentioned that Owen Moncino really likes it because he can take notes and audio record at the same time.

Graham likes Evernote as well. Keeps football practice folders, notes about students for grade level meetings.

Joey uses an app 5678Dance. He used it in New York and in his classes for dance classes. Doesn't have to import music from iTunes. It's there and he can set point for buttons to start at a specific points. Kids can easily use the presets to help with practices. Also has found lots of good free Shakespeare apps. SIdes is one of them. Can highlight lines, blank out line for an actor so they have to remember theirs but can see the others.

Kim - finding Latin apps is a challenge. Global Ed info is available. Notes feature is useful. Kim's textbook is available online. It would be more useful if students had them.

Edna May likes the different angles that prevent carpal tunnel. Great apps like 60 minutes, This Day in History, Le Kiosk for foreign language mags is very good and cheap. Edna-May also mentioned skyping with a French speaker, and passing the person around for different students to converse with him or her.

Jane - drawings have been completely done on the iPad. You can see animation of how they are composed/created. Great for a demo. iPad has also been useful for art history.

Lisa has found the Elements is an app - you can see them in 3D. Molecules is a free app that shows 3D of molecules. Lisa is looking for her textbook online. Using it to collaborate with New York school on environmental science.

Nancy - uses iPad to find YouTube video to introduce parts of speech, play the Conjunction Junction song. Essay Grader app. can be useful, but so far it seems to require too much information to plug in. Literary analysis app is boring. Poetry foundation free app is good. Can search on a topic for your poetry. Civil War Today app is good. lives date by date info.