Occupational Therapy: Apps for Kids

The Inspired Treehouse shares apps to promote fine motor and  motor visual skills in students.  Find 20 awesome apps at Occupational Therapy: The Best Apps For Kids!

http://theinspiredtreehouse.com/occupational-therapy-best-apps-for-kids/

How to Set Up Google Read & Write

Many students are using the app -Read & Write. The video below will demonstrate the initial set up for this app. You may also wish to subscribe to LEARNstyle LearnTube for more technology related materials.

 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPro5oIVhclY7c57B_OlkBw

Safe Classroom Communication

The app called Remind is a free and safe way for teachers to text students and parents.  Students and parents can receive reminders, homework, assessments and motivational messages directly to their phones.


http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/05/use-remind-101-iphone-app-to-keep.html#.VFbXWlPF800

Guided Access on your iPad

Guided Access is a feature of the iPad that allows you to temporarily restrict access to a particular app.


YouTube

Great App to Have Your Videos at your Fingertips!!

Download this app (Andoid & IOS) and you have a dashboard of videos you have created. you can respond to viewers' comments and see analytic data about your viewershp.
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Tips and Tricks for using Google Apps

The Powerful Learning Practice shares Tips & Tricks: 5 Tips for Using Google Apps (collaborating, sharing, use of templates, search features, and organization)

Accessibility through Google Apps

http://accessibilitythroughtechnology.blogspot.ca/2014/04/google-apps-i-love-to-organize-my-life.html

Casey Foote from LearnStyle shares some of her favourite accessibility apps on her Accessibility through Technology Blog.

7 Apps for Teaching Children Coding Skills | Edutopia

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/7-apps-teaching-children-coding-anna-adam?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=blog-7-apps-coding-image

Children at a very early age have the skills to begin coding!  7 Apps for Teaching Children Coding Skills | Edutopia:  'via Blog this' provides a list of apps that you may be interested in trying.

Book Creator... An App

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There is a free version of this app which is a simple way to create iBooks on the iPad!  This will work for students Kindergartern through to University. Stories can be read in iBooks, or sent to parents/guardians.  Ideal for social stories!!

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Apps for Autism

iskills Apps for Autism Research Project includes teacher recommended apps for students with ASD and Intellectual Disabilities.

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iPad Apps for Elementary Math

There has been a request for some Math apps for students working at the K-1 level.
Here are a few you may wish to try:

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• Show Me
• Bugs & Numbers
• Learn to Trance Numbers
• Squeebles Math Bing
• Interactive Telling Time Lite
• Jumping Grasshopper
• Caboose Express:  Patterns & Sorting for Preschool and Kindergarten
• Math Numbers

You may also find some at the following Website under Math Apps:

http://andersoncarla.blogspot.ca/2013/07/recommended-ipad-apps-from-our-ipad.html

http://andersoncarla.blogspot.ca/2013/08/iphone-and-ipod-touch-apps-for-special.html

French iPad Apps

As per request, here is link to French Apps For Kids.

iPhone and IPod Touch Apps for Special Education

Suggested Special Education Apps for iPhone and iPod Touch Apps.

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Recommended iPad Apps from our iPad Pilot Projects, 2012

Click here to see Recommeded iPad Apps