The long awaited (at least by us) iPad episode!! All things iPad. We talk about nearly a bazillion different apps. We’ll get around to listing them all here soon-ish (so we’ve started listing the apps in the links below, but there’s more to come!). We promise!

photo credit: joshfassbind.com

So here’s the beginning of our apps listing–check them out via our appolicious lists:

• Productivity apps
• More productivity apps
• Reference apps
• Reading apps
• Book apps
• Science-related apps

Need some more ideas? Check out 30 Interesting Ways to Use iPads in the Classroom

The show notes are coming soon-ish. We promise! In the meantime, you can just listen! Show notes are up! See below :D

Haiti donations (1:10)

• 2010 Earthquake in Haiti: The www.state.gov website serves as the State Department’s portal of information on U.S. foreign policy and information about the State Department. This site refers to information about the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Canadian ADE (3:58)

• ADE: Apple is currently accepting applications for the Class of 2010 ADEs in Canada. For more information and details on the application process review the guidelines for Canada on page 2 of the Contents section above. Deadline for application is February 13, 2010.

iBoard (4:22)

• iboard player: Approx 400 resources for students and teachers to use with IWB. Subscription is needed, but there are 15 sample activities available.

Kid Blog (7:12)

• Kidblog.org – Blogs for Teachers and Students: “Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. Kidblog’s simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs.”

Big Universe (9:30)

• Best Children’s Picture Books Online – BigUniverse.com: Award-winning education website for grades K-8. This engaging web community uses beautiful picture books to instill the love of reading, writing and learning, while providing an anywhere-anytime, standards-based, education resource that connects teachers, students and parents.

Audio Owl (15:22)

• AudioOwl – Free Audio Books – Download mp3 and iPod format today! Your source for free audio books. Downloads available in mp3, iPod and iTunes format

Cellphone contract (18:01)

• Child Cellphone Usage Policy: Sample cellphone contract that can be used with children

Toy to Tool Blog (20:42)

• From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning: “A conversation about integrating student cell phones into classroom curricula.”

iPod Touch in Education (24:10)

• iPod touch in Education: Resources for using the iPod Touch in education.

Best Kids Apps (26:01)

• iPhone Games Reviews, Apps Reviews, Tips & Tricks | Best Kids Apps: Review blog for parents who want to find the best children’s iPhone applications without slogging through the entire iTunes Store. Written by moms. Categorized by age and type.

Appolicious (28:00)

• iPhone Apps: Find, share and track | Appolicious ™ iPhone App Directory: Site where you can quickly find mobile apps you’ll love. Get recommendations from editors, peeps in your social network, and more. Search and view app names, ratings, reviews, social activity (which of your friends use the app) and media mentions, plus videos and pictures for the apps.

AppsFire (29:19)

• Appsfire: easily share your favorite selection of iPhone apps with anyone. Appsfire was born in early 2009 out of an encounter, a user frustration and a challenge: ‘crack’ the iPhone sandbox to collect the list of user apps, thereby allowing the creation of a service to facilitate peer-to-peer app recommendations… a few months afterwards, Appsfire.com was born, starting with a Mac OS X client app and a web front, followed by a native iPhone app and a PC port of the sync app.
• AppsFire: Helen’s Ed Apps: Widget created by Appsfire that has my picks for Education Apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch

Best App Ever voting (31:29)

• 2009 Best App Ever Awards: Lots of categories, including several for kids of all ages. You can also vote for your fave until Jan 31, 2010!

App Store Expense Monitor (33:02)

• WetFish Software » Software » App Store Expense Monitor: “This application gathers all iPhone applications from your iTunes folder on your computer, reads out the price information and presents the total amount of money you spent on the Apple App Store.”

Our app picks:

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox (36:12)

• Monkey Preschool: iPhone Games for Ages 2 to 5: “Monkey Preschool Lunchbox is a collection of six exciting educational games for your preschooler (ages 2 to 5). “

TeachersPick (37:37)

• TeachersPick: “Teacher’s Pick gives you the ability to randomly and uniquely choose students without having to rely on memory, cups of craft sticks or flash cards. Just add your class names and the students in each class. Teacher’s Pick keeps track of which students are active and inactive (already chosen) and gives you options to pick a student from the active group or pick from the full group (active or inactive).”

Posted from Diigo.

photo credit: Bob.Fornal

Resources

• Philosophy for Children — Philosophical questions for students based on children’s books. Each book has a link to the philosophical issues covered in the book and another link with discussion questions. Great way to do HOT with younger students!

• HippoCampus — (from the site) HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

• Google Earth 5 (beta release)
  

• Be the Boss! — Blog post from Principal’s Page. Even if you’re not the principal, find some good leadership ideas here.

• iEar – I Education Apps Review

iFaves

• Toddler Teasers — ($1.99 for all four or $.99 each in iTunes store) Learn letters, numbers, shapes, and colors!

• TextLater — ($.99 in iTunes store) Schedule SMS to be sent when you want it sent–need we say more?

In this episode of Tech Chick Tips…

photo credit: Fracture

We’re back from Canada and the Teacher2Teacher conference. Love our new friends! We blabber on a bit so if you’re not interested in our trip to Canada, fast forward to about 11:42 :)

Resources

• LookyBook – We say farewell!

• PageKeeper – quickly and easily create a webpage of links to share with your students and parents. Free with no advertising! Best example of its use: DJBecker’s Page

• DrivingKids – Here’s a first – we talk about something we pointedly do not recommend. Listen to the podcast to find out why! Well, okay – it’s because the navigation is clunky, the games aren’t easily discernible to ability level and the chat has very little protection for kids

• SmartPhone Filters – discussion of filtering on smartphones for students/kids and a link to one such application for the iPhone

• Lincoln’s FaceBook Page – what Abraham Lincoln’s Facebook page would look like if he had one

• WebSlides on Diigo – turn a collection of bookmarks (or an RSS feed!) into a slideshow. Look for an example at the end of this, and all forthcoming podcast episode notes

• TweetCall – call in your Twitter updates for free!

iFaves

• GeoLogTag ($4.99 @iTunes) – use your iPhone as a geotagger to snyc up your photos with your location

• The Chemical Touch Lite (free @iTunes) – the Periodic Table of Elements in your pocket!

photo credit: (nz)dave

Episode 50-Links that make us think…

Resources

• Jeopardy Labs -  Allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world.

• TikaTok – Imagine a story, create a book.

• Kinetic City – Amazing collection of games, science experiments, and projects. Beat the bugs and set things right.

• JayCut – Online video editing.

• Edmodo – Edmodo is a private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other.

• All About Explorers – All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Because we wanted to make a point about finding useless information even in a site which looked at first to be fairly well put together, all of the Explorer biographies here are fictional. While many of the facts are true or based on truth, many inaccuracies, lies, and even downright absurdity are mixed in indiscriminately. As such, it is important that you do not use this site as a source of reference for your own research! Follow @explorers on Twitter.

• In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update – NY Times article about how the job of librarians is changing in the digital age.

Faves

• Mancala FS5 ($FREE) – strategic thinking board game gone global (website).

• ABC Animals ($2.99) – ABC Animals provides a wonderful set of interactive flashcards that aid in teaching young children to recognize, say and print English alphabet letters (website).