Spencer iPads: January 2012

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

helpful hints

Did you know that your iPad programs are always running in the background? You can close your programs (and save some battery life) by double clicking the HOME button at the bottom of your iPad. It will display all the open programs across the bottom. Hold your finger on the app and a minus sign will come up in the upper left hand corner of the app. Click the minus sign and the app will close. This will NOT hurt anything.

Has your iPad ever frozen while using an app? From Apple Support

Restarting your device

Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red "slide to power off" slider appears, and then slide the slider.
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.

Follow these steps to reset your device

Note: Reset your device only if it is no longer responding and the steps above do not work.

Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.

Monday, January 30, 2012

New Apps to explore

A few new apps have come onto my radar:

Words 4 Kids - Third grade - sight words for 3rd grade $.99

there are also other grade levels

FlashToPass Free Math Flashcards - FREE

BrainPop Featured Movies - FREE

World Book This Day in History - FREE

Thursday, January 19, 2012

helpful free apps

There are two apps that have been shared with me and I wanted to pass these along to you:

Common Core Standards - This app has all of the Common Core Standards K-12.

iBrainstorm - This app is really cool and allows kids to create graphic organizers using movable "sticky" notes and lines can be drawn to connect the notes. Once the graph is complete, it can be emailed to yourself to print or you can save it in your photos.

Both of these apps are FREE :)

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

a few apps to explore

Here are a few elementary apps to explore:

Miss Spell's Class - spelling app - FREE

Read Me Stories - children's books - FREE

Tap to Talk - FREE

Word Magic - $0.99

MyFood - Nutrition Facts - FREE

TumbleBooksToGo for iPad - approximately $1 a book, unfortunately it is not the entire package we can get on Tumblebooks.com which is a subscription through our public library.

Friday, January 6, 2012

iKidApps

Emerging Tech

Best iPad Apps for kids

Interactive Storybooks

Apple 140,000 apps

Apple education apps

"Natural Science for Kids. City of Light" is geared for 5-10 year-olds. It provides fun-filled, interactive learning of light phenomena and optic which are represented in an easy, visual and effective way. Kids will learn a lot of new and interesting facts after visiting 9 colorful pavilions of the City of Light. Most themes contain learning encouraging fun games so that kids could play and practice at the same time. City of Light has features that mark it out from other available apps.