Technology through Time

These are some of the iPad apps I like to use for working with world language teachers. Apps are described in order from left to right, top to bottom.  Duolingo:  An app that allows you to choose a language and practice 5-25 minutes a day on vocabulary and sentences. The app is free without Ads. This app is good for regular practice or for a fun general placement test.  Educreations provides you with a whiteboard, drawing tools, and a way to add pictures. This could be used for students explaining how to conjugate verbs or who to translate a sentence into Spanish.  Glogster is an interactive poster creation app. This could be used for students to collect and display a variety of vocabulary for food or animals and then embed audio/video clips of the pronunciation of the animals along with the word in Spanish and a picture of the animal.  Quizlet is a vocal practice app. It provides a variety of already remade cards created by other users...

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Web 2.0 vocabulary from Benjamin Garcia

One of the things we have learned in managing the 1-to-1 is sometimes it is better ot move towards an update rather than avoid it. Here is an article that is posted in our ITTunes about ios7 Tips and Tricks for iOS7 So what is new about iOS 7 besides the way it looks? Change can be hard, but you may find that you like the new features once you give them a try. Lets start with the biggest changes, which include the missing search screen and how to now close apps.  Upon updating to iOS 7 you may panic because of these missing features, but do not worry they are both still available. To reach the search dock, you must now drag your finger from the center of the home screen down and the search drawer will drop down. If you would like to close an app, you double click the home button and swipe up on the app to close it. Smaller additional changes include the fact that folders are now expandable and can contain many apps. You must scroll from right to left to ...