Slide deck from "60 apps in 60 minutes: iOS, Web, DOE & Beyond" session at the 2014 NYCDOE Schools Technology Summit

1. Chris Casal
Technology Coordinator/Teacher
P. S. 10 Brooklyn (15K010)
ccasal@ps10.org
Twitter: @mr_casal
60 Apps in 60 Minutes
iOS, Web, DOE & Beyond!
School Technology Summit 2014 - 7/30/14
Presentation Materials:
http://goo.gl/irH2Mo (case sensitive)

2. Play along
Session hashtag
#60in60NYCSTS
Backchannel discussion
http://today.io/phkw
Sticky board
http://goo.gl/Oig9Gn

3. 1,200,000
That’s how many apps are in the Apple App Store
even more available when you factor in Android &
Web
We will cover 60* in 60** minutes
Brief overviews to get you started with a list you can
immediately use as a reference library for your
classroom & school

4. Asterisks...
* The number of apps & websites is a rough
estimate as some developers have multiple
versions of apps or “Lite” vs “Premium” options
** 60 minutes is the full session but there will be time
left for questions
Think of it as 60+ apps in 45-ish minutes...

5. Disclaimer
I have a lot of apps...
530 currently on my iPad
Each slide will contain 1-3 apps of a specific function
Most slides will also contain a picture of the
corresponding folder on my iPad, which sometimes
contains up to 20 apps of identical function

6. iPad…
some of these apps offer Android versions,
some don’t - check the developer’s website for
platform availability

7. Apple Apps
Camera
a great way to document student work & class
activities
iTunes U
Apple has a DOE-centric course:
Podcasts
TechLandia - @TechLandiaCast
Take5 - @DaveGuymon
OutOfSchool.net - @fraserspeirs & @bradleychambers

8. Apps
Track apps, read reviews, help make sense of the
1,200,000+ options
AppsGoneFree - $free - daily digest of 8-12 free
apps every day
AppShopper (iPhone) - $free - shows all price
changes & allows Wish List creation & price change
notification

9. Augmented Reality
Aurasma - $free - create and share your own augmented
reality experiences or browse from thousands in their library
Daqri - $free - explore 4D resources to make traditional
items like books and magazines come to life
Anatomy 4D - $free - from Daqri - makes exploring the
human anatomy far more engaging than a simple textbook
resources: http://www.twoguysandsomeipads.com/
@TechMinock & @TechBradWaid on Twitter

10. Bookmarking
Don’t keep your Bookmarks/Favorites on a single
computer, make them accessible anywhere
Diigo - $free web service & app
my favorite - can bookmark annotations & notes
too
create student accounts to “crowdsource”
references

11. Browsers
Safari is the built in & only default option but others
provide more flexibility and versatility
Chrome - $free - Google’s browser, syncs with
desktop version - great for GAFE schools
iCabMobile - $1.99 - very robust & versitle browser
with many add-ons & connections to other services
Rover - $free - geared to education & preloaded with
edu content
Puffin - $2.99 + Lite version - plays Flash content &
can download directly to cloud services

12. Cloud Storage
Keep your files accessible from anywhere
No more emailing files or USB drives
Dropbox - app free - storage fees vary, free->pay
market leader, most app integration
Box - app free - storage fees vary, free->pay
strong competitor, starts with more free space

13. Google
Drive - $free
central hub of all your files
access multiple accounts from single app
Docs - $free
creating & editing Google Documents
Sheets - $free
creating & editing Google Spreadsheets
Unfortunately no iOS app, yet, for Forms or Slides/Presentations (there is an Android app for Slides)

14. Common Core
Apps to help navigate the Common Core Standards
CommonCore Standards by Mastery Connect -
$free

15. Evernote
A great suite of note taking apps & syncing to online
companion - evernote.com
Apps allow you to handwrite & annotate images
Evernote - free service with paid upgrades
type notes, tag & file, add pictures & web content
Skitch - $free - annotate pictures & sync to Evernote
Penultimate - $free - notebook for freehand writing
+ inserting pictures - syncs with Evernote

16. Flipped
Create “flipped classroom” or general video tutorials
ExplainEverything - $2.99 - whiteboard, insert
images, add video - import & export from various
cloud platforms
Educreations - $free - basic whiteboard & audio
recording, insert pictures - upload to
educreations.com
ShowMe - $free - basic whiteboard & audio
recording, insert pictures - upload to showme.com

17. Fotopedia
15 free apps with amazing images from around the
world
Show your students in amazing clarity to world outside
the room

18. Haiku Deck
Haiku Deck - $free
an elegant presentation app
puts imagery above text
free, high-res Creative Commons pictures built in
antidote to “death by PowerPoint”

19. If This Then That
IFTTT - $free - create recipes
to let the internet work for you
auto save contacts to
Google Spreadsheet
auto silence cell phone when
you get to school
auto save Facebook photos
to Dropbox

20. News
Create custom magazines based on your content
source preferences
Currents - $free - Google’s magazine app
Flipboard - $free - “your personal magazine”
Zite - $free - “an intelligent magazine that helps you
discover interesting things to read”
NewsMix - $free - “your personalized newsstand”

21. Note-taking
If Evernote isn’t your thing consider:
Notability - $1.99 - supports freehand writing,
typing, images, audio & import/export to cloud
platforms - very versatile app

22. Paperless
If you create documents on your computer why print
them out just to file them away...?
GoodReader 4 - $6.99 - works on any iOS device -
great for paperless reading records, rubrics, signing
forms - syncs to cloud services & can email direct
from app

23. Productivity
Microsoft Office is irrelevant
Pages - $free* - Apple’s version of Word
Keynote - $free* - Apple’s version of PowerPoint
Numbers - $free* - Apple’s version of Excel
Available on your Mac & iPad, with syncing capabilities
via iCloud
“…free on the App Store for qualifying iOS 7 compatible devices activated on or after
September 1, 2013” otherwise $9.99 per (still cheaper than Office 365 subscription)

24. Reference
EasyBib - $free - look up MLA, APA & Chicago
citations for books
Biography - $1.99 - “... a journey with the world’s
most influential people... 100 biographies of eminent
people of all time..”

25. Scan
Use the iOS camera to scan documents
Not simply taking a picture, apps convert the image to
black & white (or color) PDF looking exaclty like you
scanned it on a traditional scanner
JotNotPro - $2.99 - scan multiple pages to single
file, connect to cloud services, etc

26. Social
Don’t think of it as “social media” think of it as
networking & connecting
Twitter - $free - network & connect
Google+ - $free - share & collaborate
Hangouts - $free - Google’s app for video chat/
conferencing - create distance learning opportunities
Pinterest - $free - digital scrapbook your resources

27. Tell a story
Adobe Voice - $free - easy way to mix pictures, music, and
voice to tell a story - great for students as publishing platform as
well as teachers for creating engaging “movies” without movie-
making knowledge - example - related blog post
Tellagami & Tellagami Edu - $free & $4.99 - create & share
quick animated videos. A more robust and engaging version of
Voki - example
BookCreator - $4.99 - create books on the iPad + share pages
and create collaborative books with other classes & schools.
Read a teacher’s take: http://www.redjumper.net/blog/
2013/10/going-global-book-creator/

28. VNC (Virtual Network Control)
Remotely control computers
Great for remote tech support & controlling IWBs from
anywhere in the room
Splashtop Personal - $4.99
remote access
Splashtop Whiteboard - $9.99
remote access + whiteboard tools - great if you
have laptop & projector but no IWB
Mocha VNC Lite - $free

29. Web…
not every “app” is tablet based, some are
websites

30. TagBoard
tagboard.com
Create a hashtag for your school
TagBoard aggregates from:
Twitter, Vine, Instagram, Facebook, and Google+
A living bulletin board for your community
Free!
Check out PS10Brooklyn’s:
tagboard.com/ps10bk
Ours: https://tagboard.com/60in60NYCSTS/

31. Graphite
graphite.org
Created by Common Sense Media
“a platform we created to make it easier for educators
to find the best apps, games & websites for the
classroom”
Reviews written by teachers
Free!
Follow my reviews: http://www.graphite.org/users/mrcasal

32. Padlet
padlet.com
live, real-time, collaborative tack board
students can add stickies
save & review later
One for right now…
http://goo.gl/Oig9Gn

33. Today’s Meet
todaysmeet.com
“backchannel” site for discussion
better for upper grades in 1:1 or BYOD environments
students can ask questions, others can answer,
follow up beyond lesson, etc
Ours for today:
https://todaysmeet.com/60in60NYCSTS

34. goo.gl
A Chrome (browser) extension
shortens links
creates QR codes
saves a history of links with analytics
chrome.google.com/webstore
http://goo.gl/ygGS6

35. edtechteacher
http://edtechteacher.org/apps/
Amazing resource for finding apps
Filter by platform or activity

36. educlipper
https://educlipper.net
Pinterest for teachers
Create student accounts
Create “assignments”, “classrooms” and “portfolios”
companion iOS app, Android being developed
Created by Adam Bellow, a teacher

37. WeLearned.it
http://welearned.it/
Not available until Fall 2014
From the developer of EduClipper
Keep an eye on it…

38. DOE…
because some things are just that specific…

39. Schoolview
http://schoolview.nycboe.net/principal/
Need to be within a school to access
Shows network health, bandwidth usage, MDF
temperature, etc
Great resource

40. TechShare
https://techshare.nycenet.edu/sites/
FinanceAdmin/DIIT/operations/TechShare/
default.aspx
Intranet site accessible outside of DOE
Great discussion board
Access to DOE software for download
including Mac & Windows OS, Office, etc

41. Wireless Client Configuration
https://www.nycenet.edu/applications/wcc/
Pages/Schools.aspx
find wifi information for other DOE schools

42. Network Grounds
http://networkgrounds.com/bookmarks - Flash
http://networkgrounds.com/mobile - text/html
NYCDOE bookmarks
visual catalog of all DOE services
Built by Dan Morio of CFN 405

43. Summary
64 highlighted linked apps, developers, and websites
Over 100 total resources
Some free, some paid
Hopefully this will give you some ideas of the versatility
& possibility for integrating technology into your
classroom

44. One last link…
http://goo.gl/DcY4M5
Google Spreadsheet
2 sheets
Apps - 240
Websites - 12
… and growing

45. Contact
Presentation Materials:
http://goo.gl/irH2Mo (case sensitive)
!
Christopher M. Casal
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
P. S. 10 (15K010)
Email: ccasal@ps10.org
Twitter: @mr_casal
Diigo: mrcasal
slideshare.net/mr_casal
thecasalos.blogspot.com
ps10ipads.wikispaces.com