Technology+Zoo---++Gadgets,+Games,+and+Gurus

=**Fun Jeopardy software sites to use:**=

http://www.pppst.com/

http://www.jeopardylabs.com/

http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/

=iPads= Where to get info and lists of recommended apps for education: http://theresanappforthat.wikispaces.com/ (9 pages of apps) Appolicious App and Seek Tony Vincent's great list of Apps for K-12 education http://lrsdinstech.pbworks.com/f/App+List+-+Sullivan+April+2010+via+Tony+Vincent.pdf Apps Galore from Wrights Insights page http://myap.ps/jana_dixon

Kindle Good Reader Keynote Fandango Doodle Dropbox Evernote - note taking Expedition Web2vga (screenshorts).99 TouchAtomic Web Browser ($ .99) Atomic Web Browser - Browse FullScreen w/ Download Manager & Dropbox Web Browser that allows synchronizing and tab browsing
 * Some great apps:**Textfree

Good Reader for iPad or iPhone ($2.99) GoodReader for iPad PDF reader that allows annotations Join.me (Free) View someone else’s screen and collaborate in real time. Print n Share ($8.99) Print n Share for advanced printing Supposed to print to all printers. Penultimate ($1.99) Only for use with Live Scribe pen but allows you to write and take notes instead of typing. Noterize ($3.99) Share documents Quickoffice ($14.99) Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad Allows for viewing/editing of Office products iPad Apps: Here are Rachel's favs for preK, K, 1, and 2nd grades and these are free:

ABC Phonics Sight Words 123 Writing Alphabet Tracing Letter Trace Kokuban (drawing chalkboard, color selection) Toy Story (the one free one) Spelling Bee-maybe older than 2nd Miss Spell- maybe older kids Humpty Dumpty- little ones love it

Rachel's Favs for tools and her fav games: Evernote Animoto Dropbox Calendar Notes YouTube Facebook Maps Audiobooks B&N Reader Background App Backgrounds BibleReader Classics eReader eWiFi (finds the hot spots for you) Flashlight Gmail App Goodreads Goodreader iBackgrounds iBookshelf Kindle QuickWordlite KJV Bible TWC Stickies TouchMouse Solitaire Dictionary Mad Libs Nook Dragon Dictation Inflation (estimator)-econ classes Nightstand Shanghai Light (my favorite game) ChatterboxABC movie preview PDFReader Pro Quick Office Virtuoso SoundHound SIB Raj Lite - Shakespeare in bits Romeo and Juliet Flood-it! SpDict-Lite (Span-Eng dictionary) Touch Mouse Star Walk ($3.99) IVnc ($3.99) makes the ipad into a smart slate or interwrite pad as well as clicker

Apps for Mid Sch up thru high school from Lori Bush: Music: Ocarina(music from around the world being played real time) Band Virtuoso Math: Formulas Oregon Trail (not really HS but still fun!) Math Snacks Social Studies: HistoryMaps This Day in History AllCountries WW Capitals World Countries HD USA Laws Science: Stars Planets iSeismo Distant Suns iEphemeris Units Elemental Interactive Periodic Table Table of the Elements Periodic Table of the Elements HD Peripheral Vascular Disease Foreign Language: iTranslate Spanish LE Translator iSign Essentials English: iThesaurus General: Comic Touch StoryKit Kindle Nook My Library (from Gale) Google Earth Discovery Memeo Connect Reader Evernote Cooliriskindle app

Suggestions by techers; ACT Practice for Dummies - 9.99 SAT Practice for Dummies 9.99 ACT & SAT Vocabulary builder 2.99 and several more. A few are free. googlebooks app ABC Tracer Bee Spelled PollAnywhere Video Biology:http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/video-biology/id377011725?mt=8 Video Calculus for the iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vide97996587?mt=8 These are both free and include terrific lectures so you can learn wherever you are. You can purchase monthly access cheaply to get even more lectures. Basically a class in an app. Mystery Me is a great vocabulary builder Middle School Prep MySratchWork

=**OTHER DEVICES**= iTouch speaker system for your ipod or itouch portable speaker for your ipod or iouch cable to hook iPad to projector OR just put it under your document camera USB mini hubs memory card readers portable hard drives Flip video cameras and accessories Dell mini laptop (rubber cover)