This document provides information about apps that can be used for educational purposes on iPads, including apps for communication, reading, math, sensory activities, and more. It also outlines homework assignments for attendees, such as developing lesson plans using iPad apps, creating social stories or schedules using apps, and researching additional apps not covered.

1. LaGrange Area Department of Special Education
So Many
Apps So
little
time
Presented by:
Sandy Chiampas and Ellen deutsch
september 24, 2011

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4. Basics
• Searching for an App
• Organizing Apps
• Per page
• In folders
• Closing an App
• Resetting Device
• Touch 2x to make app fill the screen

5. settings
• General
• Auto-lock
• Passcode Lock
• Restrictions
• WiFi

6. Taking a picture
• Camera
• Screen Shot
• Hold down the On/Off button and the Main
button at the same time
• Picture goes into your Photo Library

7. EMAILING A PICTURE
• Take picture or get picture from google
• Open Photo Library
• Touch e-mail icon
• Touch desired picture (s)
• Touch EMAIL
• Type e-mail address and send it

8. getting a google picture
• Touch SAFARI
• In GOOGLE BOX type name of picture
• Touch SEARCH
• Touch IMAGES
• Touch and hold desired picture until SAVE
IMAGE appears
• Touch SAVE IMAGE
• Picture is in your PHOTO LIBRARY

9. Editing a picture using
ps express app
• Open App
• Touch Crop
• Touch Select Photo
• Move corners to
• Touch Camera crop
Roll
• Touch OK
• Touch desired
• Touch Save
picture
• Touch Crop icon

10. Setting up an e-mail
account
• Touch the e-mail icon
• Choose e-mail carrier
• Address: type your e-mail address
• Password: type password to the account

11. how to look up an app
on your ipad
• You must be connected to wifi
• Touch the APP STORE
• Touch CATEGORIES
• Touch the TEXT BOX
• Type title, publisher, or subject
• Touch SEARCH
• Click on an icon to learn more about the app

12. How to look up an app
in itunes
• Open iTunes
• and click the App Store tab and search by category
to browse
• or Type title, publisher, or subject in the search box
in the top right corner
• Click on an icon to learn more about the app
• Note: Check the image and category as there may
be more than one app with the same name!

13. Alphabet apps
• ABC Magnets
• Pocket Phonics
• First Word Sampler
• ABC Tracer

14. Art
• Clicky Sticky
• Paint Sparkle
• Splatter
• Musee du Louvre
• My Coloring Book

15. autism
• ABA
• Story Kit
• Social Skills Sampler
• Hidden Curriculum
• ChoiceBoard Creator

16. BOOKS
• Read2Go
• Toy Story
• I Just Forgot
• Shakespeare in Bits
• Reading A-Z
• Bob Books
• Freight Train

17. ibooks
• Open app
• Touch STORE
• Search for book touch FREE or price to install
• Search for “I can read” for narrated early readers

18. Communication apps
• My Choice Board
• Smart Hands
• Scene Speak
• Neo Paul or Kate
• My Pictures Talk
• Spins Lite
• Photo Tell
• iSign Lite

19. Speech and Language
• Tap Speak
• Tap Speak Sequence
• iPacs
• Click n Talk
• Touch Chat

20. community &
independent
functioning
• Shopping List
• Everyday Skills
• Mans List
• Maps

21. Entertainment
• Ez Tunes
• Flick Tunes
• YouTube

22. fine motor
• Slide to Unlock
• Scoops
• Jigsaw Puzzle
• Shape Builder

23. Health and fitness
• PT Timer Lite
• My First Yoga-- Animal Poses
• Web Md
• MotionX Dice

24. Keyboarding and
Alternate access
• Dragon
• Monster Typer
• Typenology

25. Math
• Touch Math +
• Big Calc Free
• Everyday Math Baseball
• MathBoard
• Slide A Math
• Pizza Math
• Your Teacher (Two-Step Equations)

26. money management
• LookTel Money Reader
• K12 Money
• PicKid Money
• Coin Counting Calculator

27. Oral motor apps
• iBubble
• Paper Planes
• Blow
• Small Talk Oral Motor Exercises

28. Texting and e-mailing
• Text +
• Mail Templates
• A Special Phone
• A+ Talking Email

29. Reading
• Sight Words
• K-12 Timed Reading Passages
• Reading Machine
• Same Sound Spellbound

30. Rec/Leisure
• Glide Hockey
• Monopoly
• Checkers

31. Science
• 3 D Brain
• Life Cycle
• iSeismometer
• Solar System

32. Sensory
• Fluidity
• Fireworks
• iQuarium
• Sound Drop

33. Social Studies
• Brain Pop
• Stack the States
• ShakeEmUp
• Schmoop- History Titles

34. speech and language
apps
• Vocab PCS
• Artic Pics
• Milo Sequencing
• Sound Amp
• Conversation Builder

35. teacher/therapy tools
• ABC Data
• Sound Amp
• Time Timer

36. Therapy Activities
• Pumpkin Maker
• Toca Doctor
• More Grillin
• Picture Pusher

37. Time Management and
task completion
• First Then
• Google Organizer
• Flashcards Deluxe
• Picture Scheduler
• Day Leaf
• Task Timer The Anti Procastinator

38. Vocabulary
• Dictionary.com
• FourWords
• VocabAhead
• Vocabulary Cartoons

39. Writing
• Chalkboard
• Write My name
• Story Robe
• Spell That
• Story Builder
• Writer’s Studio
• Ilive Grammar
• Comic Life

40. Memo apps
• Notes
• Dragon Dictation (needs wifi)
• Files (needs wifi)

41. NOTES Add new note
E-mail note Throw out note

42. resources
• Ladse AT website: ladseitech.pbworks.co
• Switches and interfaces: rjcooper.com or
ablenetinc.com
• Adapter for projectors: VGA Adapter for iPad

43. Homework
1.Take home a device, develop and execute a lesson
plan using 1 or more apps. Be prepared to
demonstrate the lesson using the app and turn in your
lesson plan and an “essay” containing the following
information:
•Comparing and contrasting the lesson with and
without technology
•How the student responded to the technology
•The pros and cons of the app
•The perceived added value of using iTechnology in

44. Homework
2. Use a material development app to make a
social story, video model, schedule, task list etc.
E-mail Sandy (schiampas@ladse.org) the screen
shots and be prepared to discuss the following:
•Any roadblocks to programming the app

45. Homework
3. Determine the access needs of a student and adjust the
iTechnology to meet the student’s needs. Be prepared to
share the following information:
•Pictures/videos of the adaptation
•Any research you found on adaptations
•How you made the adaptation
•How well it worked and what you would do differently

46. homework
• 4. Research apps not presented in this strand.
Select several that you feel would be useful in
your position and be prepared to describe the
apps. Relate each app to specific IEP goals.