Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Monthly Area Tech Meeting

We held our monthly area tech meeting today, covering the following topics:



  • ArkansasIDEAS, specifically the new commoncore site: http://www.arkansasideas.org/commoncore/

  • Arkansas iTunesU

  • NetQos offering from the state dept

  • Various iPad/iPod apps (listed below)

  • Apple TV demonstration (wifi features and AirPlay demo while showing apps listed below)

  • Tech plans, erate

  • Dirty Santa gift exchange (4 participants, made for a quick game)

Apps demonstrated (and some I remembered after the meeting)



  • Presidents vs Aliens - Learn about Presidents, knock out aliens. What's not to love?

  • Moxie 2 - Use randomly offered letters to build on/change existing words.

  • StoryCubes - Shake your iPad/iPod, roll the dice, and build a story!

  • Word Ball - Touch letters to build words. Forget to use certain letters long enough and they disappear!

  • 7 Little Words - Use clues to build words with letter tiles

  • Chicktionary - Make words using, well, chickens and eggs

  • SparkleFish - Use the microphone to record verbs, nouns, etc and create funny adventures

  • ToonTastic - Create cartoons, while learning the keys to good storytelling!

  • Find My Friends - Pretty much what it says.

  • ABC News - Again, pretty much what it says

  • FluentNews - A news aggregation app

  • Google - Yes, there is an app for Google. Give it a whirl!

  • iCard Sort - Create word decks, sort into categories and more. Take snapshot of a worksheet then make it interactive as an iCard sort!

  • ACE Multiply - Learn about matricies and find ways to solve them

  • Calc Made easy - Very handy and advanced calculator with note-taking capability!

  • http://www.techchef4u.com/ - Recourse for all kinds of apps, reviews, etc

  • http://www.iear.org - Reviews education apps

Enjoy!!

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