Ipad apps for Secondary Schools

[jdibsdale]

Can anyone recommend some good iPad apps that teachers are using in the classroom or a website that has some good recommendations?

 

We've recently bought an iPad for school use, to see how we can integrate it into teaching and learning either as a teaching tool or a learning tool for the pupils or both.. or neither! We also want it to add another dimension to the classroom, rather than just using it for the excitement of using a new bit of technology and just replicating what you can easily do on a laptop. So far I've only installed lots of free apps but nothing has really excited me yet.

[GrumbleDook]

It would be worth chatting with Essa Academy about this ... but a few things which 'translate' to iPads include the work done on things like OneNote, Skype in the classroom, etc

 

Are you looking for subject specific applications? Any particular target subjects?

[jdibsdale]

Thanks GrumbleDook. I'm looking at both subject specific apps and ones that could work in all subjects like turning the iPad into a workspace that pupils can pass round with it displaying through the projector. I have found some subjects easier than others, I've found some good ones for Art, like Brushes, and I've been told there's a good pottery app too. Science, I love the Frog and Rat dissection apps and The Elements. Not being a teacher myself it's hard to know which areas can be improved with the iPad, but I at least want to find a few apps for each subject so I can get them started and excited about using it.