Dawson College Pedagogical Day – October 17th, 2014 
There is an App for That! 
The Best iPad Apps for Teaching 
Rafael Scapin, Ph.D. 
Coordinator of Educational Technology 
Office of Instructional Development 
Dawson College
“Any sufficiently 
advanced technology 
is indistinguishable 
from magic”. 
Arthur C. Clarke
The Beginning
iPad: A Landmark 
Steve Jobs announces the iPad on January 27th, 2010 
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F3EB5UT6KI
Ecosystem
1.2 million apps | 75 billion downloads
Cloud Computing
Safe?
The iPad was made for the Cloud 
[Video] Google Drive 
New iPads (Oct. 16th, 2014): 
16 Gb, 64 Gb, 128 Gb
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dropbox/id327630330?mt=8 
Bring yor computer files to your tablet! 
1 
2Gb for Free (up to 18 Gb) | 1 T for $10/month
2 
Google Drive 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/google-drive-free-online-storage/id507874739?mt=8 
Have all your files within reach from your iPad 
All your files in Drive – like your videos, photos, and 
documents – are backed up safely so you can’t lose 
them. 
Easily invite others to view, edit, or leave comments 
on any of your files or folders.
3 Air Server 
http://www.airserver.com/Download 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0sDPy1EsYA#t=68 
Mirror your display and stream 
content from your iOS device 
Use AirServer to mirror your iPad to 
your laptop. That allows you to 
project your iPad’s screen without 
being tethered to VGA cable.
4 PDF Expert 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/pdf-expert-5-fill-forms-annotate/id743974925?mt=8 
Add Drawing, Text & signatures to PDFs. 
Sync with your Dropbox folders to automatically update and add files 
directly to and from your iPad.
5 Explain Everything 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/explain-everything/id431493086?mt=8 
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and 
interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, 
import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
6 Book Creator 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/book-creator-for-ipad-create/id442378070?mt=8 
The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the 
iPad. 
Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them 
to the iBooks Store.
7 iMovie 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/imovie/id377298193?mt=8 
Browse your video library, share favourite moments, create 
beautiful movies.
8 
Formative assessments through 
quizzes and quick questions 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/socrative-student/id477618130?mt=8 
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers 
to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises 
and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
9 
Nearpod 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/nearpod/id523540409?mt=8 
The Nearpod platform enables teachers to use their iPads to manage 
content on students' iPads, iPhones or iPods. It combines presentation, 
collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated 
solution.
10 
iDoceo 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/idoceo-teachers-assistant./id477120941?mt=8 
iDoceo is your new powerful and easy to use gradebook for the iPad. 
Its spreadsheet engine will calculate averages in real time as you put 
information in. No internet connection is required to use it.
11 
The official Moodle app 
Moodle 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/moodle-mobile/id633359593?mt=8
12 
Showbie 
Assign, collect, and review student work from anywhere! 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/showbie-for-ipad/id548898085?mt=8
13 
Turn your iPad into your 
personal interactive 
whiteboard! 
ShowMe allows you to 
record voice-over 
whiteboard tutorials and 
share them online! 
Showme 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/showme-interactive-whiteboard/id445066279?mt=8
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Gradebook Pro 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gradebook-pro/id393777614?mt=8 
GradeBook Pro is a powerful paperless classroom management tool. 
Record grades, attendance, and student performance in an app designed with busy 
educators in mind.
15 
Educreations 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/educreations-interactive-whiteboard/id478617061?mt=8 
Educreations is a unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool that's 
simple, powerful, and fun to use. 
Annotate, animate, and narrate nearly any type of content as you explain any 
concept. Teachers can create short instructional videos and share them instantly 
with students, or ask students to show what they know and help
16 
Notability 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/notability/id360593530?mt=8 
Notability is the one place to create, share, and manage your notes. 
It combines handwriting, typing, audio recordings, and photos so you can create 
notes that fit your needs. Synchronized with iCloud and Dropbox
17 
Three Ring 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/three-ring/id504311049?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D8 
A fantastic, free service for digitizing and organizing your students’ physical work. 
You can take a picture of a student’s assignment and upload it to your Three Ring 
account. You can create folders for each student in each of your classes. Three 
Ring could be used by art teachers to create a digital record of each student’s work.
18 
Flip Grid 
Teachers create grids of short discussion-style questions that students respond to 
through recorded videos. Flipgrid boosts community and social presence in face-to-face, 
hybrid, and online classrooms, as well as enterprise organizations around the 
world. 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipgrid./id756972930?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
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TED 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ted/id376183339?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D8 
Find more than 1,700 TEDTalk videos (with more added each week) on the official 
TED app. The entire library is at your fingertips to browse at any time, even when 
you’re not online. Watch TEDTalks with subtitles in over 90 languages.
20 
Edmodo 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/edmodo/id378352300?mt=8 
Edmodo makes a teacher’s daily life easier by providing a safe and easy way for 
teachers and students to engage and collaborate for free, anytime, anywhere. .
21 
Evernote 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8 
Write notes of all types, from short lists to lengthy research, and access them on 
any device. 
Collect web articles, handwritten notes, and photos to keep all the details in one 
place and find your work quickly with Evernote’s powerful search. 
Present your work as it takes shape for better collaboration in meetings. .
22 
Doodlecast Pro 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doodlecast-pro/id469486202 
Doodlecast Pro is the easiest way to create presentations on your iPad. The 
app records your voice as you draw to create quick presentations. 
Doodlecast Pro saves videos to the camera roll making it easy to import 
them into popular video editors or presentation tools such as iMovie, 
Keynote, or iBooks Author.
23 
Haiku Deck 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/haiku-deck/id536328724 
Haiku Deck makes it a snap to create beautiful presentations that will 
wow your audience – whether you’re pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, 
telling a story, or igniting a movement.
24 
Photosync 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/photosync-wirelessly-transfer/id415850124?mt=8 
PhotoSync allows you to transfer your photos & videos between your 
iPhone, iPad, Mac or PC over your local Wi-Fi network. It also supports 
sending and receiving photos & videos to/from popular cloud & photo 
services.
25 
Cloudon 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/cloudon-document-editor-ms/id474025452?mt=8 
Create, review and edit Microsoft Word® docs, Excel® spreadsheets and 
PowerPoint® presentations on an iPad or your iPhone.
26 
Apps Gone Free 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/apps-gone-free-best-daily/id470693788?mt=8 
Find great apps without spending a dime! 
Get high quality paid apps for free each day. 
Every day hundreds of apps reduce their 
price to free for a limited time to try to 
stimulate excitement. AppsGoneFree finds 
ONLY the apps worth owning
Resources: How to Keep Yourself Up-to-Date 
https://www.apple.com/ca/education/ipad/teach-with-ipad/
Resources: How to Keep Yourself Up-to-Date 
iPad4Schools.org 
App Store - Education 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/genre/ios-education/id6017?mt=8 
http://ipadapps4school.com/ 
http://ipad4schools.org
Questions
rscapin@dawsoncollege.qc.ca 
rscapin 
Contact Me 
Rafael Scapin, Ph.D. 
DawsonITE Blog 
1404 
http://dawsonite.dawsoncollege.qc.ca
There is an App for That! The Best iPad Apps for Teaching

There is an App for That! The Best iPad Apps for Teaching

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    Dawson College PedagogicalDay – October 17th, 2014 There is an App for That! The Best iPad Apps for Teaching Rafael Scapin, Ph.D. Coordinator of Educational Technology Office of Instructional Development Dawson College
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    “Any sufficiently advancedtechnology is indistinguishable from magic”. Arthur C. Clarke
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    iPad: A Landmark Steve Jobs announces the iPad on January 27th, 2010 Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F3EB5UT6KI
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    1.2 million apps| 75 billion downloads
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    The iPad wasmade for the Cloud [Video] Google Drive New iPads (Oct. 16th, 2014): 16 Gb, 64 Gb, 128 Gb
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    https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dropbox/id327630330?mt=8 Bring yorcomputer files to your tablet! 1 2Gb for Free (up to 18 Gb) | 1 T for $10/month
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    2 Google Drive https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/google-drive-free-online-storage/id507874739?mt=8 Have all your files within reach from your iPad All your files in Drive – like your videos, photos, and documents – are backed up safely so you can’t lose them. Easily invite others to view, edit, or leave comments on any of your files or folders.
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    3 Air Server http://www.airserver.com/Download http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0sDPy1EsYA#t=68 Mirror your display and stream content from your iOS device Use AirServer to mirror your iPad to your laptop. That allows you to project your iPad’s screen without being tethered to VGA cable.
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    4 PDF Expert https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/pdf-expert-5-fill-forms-annotate/id743974925?mt=8 Add Drawing, Text & signatures to PDFs. Sync with your Dropbox folders to automatically update and add files directly to and from your iPad.
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    5 Explain Everything https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/explain-everything/id431493086?mt=8 Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
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    6 Book Creator https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/book-creator-for-ipad-create/id442378070?mt=8 The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBooks Store.
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    7 iMovie https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/imovie/id377298193?mt=8 Browse your video library, share favourite moments, create beautiful movies.
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    8 Formative assessmentsthrough quizzes and quick questions https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/socrative-student/id477618130?mt=8 Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
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    9 Nearpod https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/nearpod/id523540409?mt=8 The Nearpod platform enables teachers to use their iPads to manage content on students' iPads, iPhones or iPods. It combines presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution.
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    10 iDoceo https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/idoceo-teachers-assistant./id477120941?mt=8 iDoceo is your new powerful and easy to use gradebook for the iPad. Its spreadsheet engine will calculate averages in real time as you put information in. No internet connection is required to use it.
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    11 The officialMoodle app Moodle https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/moodle-mobile/id633359593?mt=8
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    12 Showbie Assign,collect, and review student work from anywhere! https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/showbie-for-ipad/id548898085?mt=8
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    13 Turn youriPad into your personal interactive whiteboard! ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online! Showme https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/showme-interactive-whiteboard/id445066279?mt=8
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    14 Gradebook Pro https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gradebook-pro/id393777614?mt=8 GradeBook Pro is a powerful paperless classroom management tool. Record grades, attendance, and student performance in an app designed with busy educators in mind.
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    15 Educreations https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/educreations-interactive-whiteboard/id478617061?mt=8 Educreations is a unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool that's simple, powerful, and fun to use. Annotate, animate, and narrate nearly any type of content as you explain any concept. Teachers can create short instructional videos and share them instantly with students, or ask students to show what they know and help
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    16 Notability https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/notability/id360593530?mt=8 Notability is the one place to create, share, and manage your notes. It combines handwriting, typing, audio recordings, and photos so you can create notes that fit your needs. Synchronized with iCloud and Dropbox
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    17 Three Ring https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/three-ring/id504311049?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D8 A fantastic, free service for digitizing and organizing your students’ physical work. You can take a picture of a student’s assignment and upload it to your Three Ring account. You can create folders for each student in each of your classes. Three Ring could be used by art teachers to create a digital record of each student’s work.
  • 27.
    18 Flip Grid Teachers create grids of short discussion-style questions that students respond to through recorded videos. Flipgrid boosts community and social presence in face-to-face, hybrid, and online classrooms, as well as enterprise organizations around the world. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipgrid./id756972930?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
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    19 TED https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ted/id376183339?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D8 Find more than 1,700 TEDTalk videos (with more added each week) on the official TED app. The entire library is at your fingertips to browse at any time, even when you’re not online. Watch TEDTalks with subtitles in over 90 languages.
  • 29.
    20 Edmodo https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/edmodo/id378352300?mt=8 Edmodo makes a teacher’s daily life easier by providing a safe and easy way for teachers and students to engage and collaborate for free, anytime, anywhere. .
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    21 Evernote https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8 Write notes of all types, from short lists to lengthy research, and access them on any device. Collect web articles, handwritten notes, and photos to keep all the details in one place and find your work quickly with Evernote’s powerful search. Present your work as it takes shape for better collaboration in meetings. .
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    22 Doodlecast Pro https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doodlecast-pro/id469486202 Doodlecast Pro is the easiest way to create presentations on your iPad. The app records your voice as you draw to create quick presentations. Doodlecast Pro saves videos to the camera roll making it easy to import them into popular video editors or presentation tools such as iMovie, Keynote, or iBooks Author.
  • 32.
    23 Haiku Deck https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/haiku-deck/id536328724 Haiku Deck makes it a snap to create beautiful presentations that will wow your audience – whether you’re pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement.
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    24 Photosync https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/photosync-wirelessly-transfer/id415850124?mt=8 PhotoSync allows you to transfer your photos & videos between your iPhone, iPad, Mac or PC over your local Wi-Fi network. It also supports sending and receiving photos & videos to/from popular cloud & photo services.
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    25 Cloudon https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/cloudon-document-editor-ms/id474025452?mt=8 Create, review and edit Microsoft Word® docs, Excel® spreadsheets and PowerPoint® presentations on an iPad or your iPhone.
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    26 Apps GoneFree https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/apps-gone-free-best-daily/id470693788?mt=8 Find great apps without spending a dime! Get high quality paid apps for free each day. Every day hundreds of apps reduce their price to free for a limited time to try to stimulate excitement. AppsGoneFree finds ONLY the apps worth owning
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    Resources: How toKeep Yourself Up-to-Date https://www.apple.com/ca/education/ipad/teach-with-ipad/
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    Resources: How toKeep Yourself Up-to-Date iPad4Schools.org App Store - Education https://itunes.apple.com/ca/genre/ios-education/id6017?mt=8 http://ipadapps4school.com/ http://ipad4schools.org
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    [email protected] rscapin ContactMe Rafael Scapin, Ph.D. DawsonITE Blog 1404 http://dawsonite.dawsoncollege.qc.ca