The amount of stuff that Apple comes out with every single day is truly staggering. In this podcast, Tony Vincent, an expert on using handheld devices such as the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch in the classroom and podcaster of Learning in Hand, says that the Apple “App” store grows by about 700 new apps EACH DAY! Luckily, Tony gave some good tips on which apps are particularly useful in the classroom. While there is no set way of finding good apps, I never knew that a person could simply type in a keyword into iTunes and it would pull up a list of findings that might match what you are looking for.
On his “Delicious” page, Tony has bookmarked over 30 apps that educators may find useful. “IEAR” is a site that allows teachers to look up resources by grade level OR by subject. Plus, each app is reviewed by actual educators who know what other teachers want. How useful! “AppGuide” sounds useful because it separates thousands of apps into individual categories as well. “IDevBooks” allows students to create their own math problems on an iPod and then it goes on to show you how it is solved and why it is solved that way. This resource sounds like it would be very effective because today’s students have grown up with these hand held devices and know how to work them and read them properly. It is truly hard not to spend hours surfing the web looking through these websites and apps because once you find one page you find interesting, there is a link to something else even more interesting!
The amount of apps is honestly very intimidating. This podcast was very helpful because it gave great resources that broke down the ways to obtain useful education apps so that I don’t have to go out and browse hundreds of thousands of apps. I appreciate Tony Vincent for realizing the power of Apple and giving useful hints and tips to make it much more manageable.
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