16 Nov 2011 - Apple Solutions, General Info, Home Technology

Apple iPad 2 Learning Tour - App Information

This month's interactive event, the iPad 2 Learning Tour, was designed to demonstrate how Apple products can be used to facilitate student learning. We feel that the event was a complete success, as evidenced by the numerous requests for more information on the iOS apps used in the presentation. Visit the Apple-curated education center on the Apple website for the current innovations in educational apps. Alternatively, check out IEAR.org, a community-driven site for app reviews.

Below is the list of apps featured in the seminar. Click the icons to visit the iTunes Store page for that app.

Discovering Apps

App	Description	Price
AppStart	The first app to download on your iPad & iPad 2: An app starter kit with all the essential apps you'll ever need.	Free
AppAdvice	AppAdvice tells you everything there is to know about apps and your iPhone or iPad. What's the latest app news? Which apps came out and need to be downloaded right now? Want to see a detailed review of any app in the top 25?	$1.99
Discovr Apps	Discovr Apps is an interactive map of the App Store and makes it easy to discover new apps for your iPhone & iPad.	$1.99

Substitution

App	Description	Price
Pages	Pages is a word processor built for mobile devices. Use dictation in iOS 5 on your iPhone 4S to easily create and edit documents. Pages works with iCloud, so your documents stay up to date across all your iOS devices — automatically.	$10.49
iThoughtsHD	iThoughtsHD is a mind mapping tool for the iPad. Mindmapping enables you to visually organise your thoughts, ideas and information and is ideal for task lists, brainstorming, project planning and more.	$10.49
Evernote	Evernote helps you remember anything and everything that happens in your life: from notes, to ideas, to snapshots, to recordings, put it all into Evernote.	Free
Graphing Calculator HD	Graphing Calculator HD turns your iPad into an intuitive high-resolution function plotter and scientific calculator.	$1.99
Word Wizard	Words Wizard lets kids hear the sounds of letters and words using a talking movable alphabet, and provides spelling practice with a customizable List of more than 1,400 questions and answers.	$4.49
7notes HD	7notes allows you to take notes using the on-screen keyboard, or you can use your finger or stylus as a pen.  You can then save your notes to PDF, email them to yourself for later, or post them to Twitter, Facebook, Evernote or Dropbox.	Free

Augmentation

App	Description	Price
March of the Dinosaurs	March of the Dinosaurs is an interactive story book that comes alive in your hands with highly realistic 3D dinosaurs that spin and zoom at the touch of your fingers.	$8.49
The Elements	The Elements: A Visual Exploration lets you experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you've never seen before.	$14.99
Muscle System Pro II	The Muscle System Pro II is a learning tool that allows the user to visually show accurate muscle(s) to their patients or students - helping to educate or explain conditions, ailments and injuries.	$19.99
Al Gore - Our Choice	Al Gore's Our Choice is an interactive app, in which Al Gore surveys the causes of global warming and presents groundbreaking insights and solutions already  underway that can help stop the unfolding disaster of global warming.	$5.49
Superstash	Superstash is an enhanced web browser allows you to quickly take screenshots of any image or page on the web, annotate it, instantly share with friends and colleagues, or file it for future reference.	$4.49
When You Grow Up	Your child is the hero of this interactive animated adventure. Take the child's photo, then he or she appears in the story. When You Grow Up explores some of the wonderful possibilities the future holds for any child.	$0.99
Qwiki	Qwiki combines thousands of sources to present concise, interactive summaries of millions of people, places and things in an experience optimized for the iPad.	Free
Google Earth	With Google Earth  you can explore global satellite and aerial imagery, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world's population and a third of the world's land mass.	Free
Virtual History - Roma	Mondadori presents a fantastic voyage to Ancient Rome, the capital of the largest empire in the ancient world, which has been reconstructed in virtual form and can be explored in a “full-immersion” panoramic experience.	$10.49
Wind Tunnel	Turn your iPad into a wind tunnel simulator! Draw obstacles and watch the fluid flow around. Experiment with different sizes, shapes, aerodynamic profiles and see what happens!	$1.99
String Showcase	This app is intended as a showcase app for String Labs, and features demonstrations of String™ powered projects, games and demo pieces from around the world.	Free

Modification

App	Description	Price
Dragon Dictation	Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages.	Free
Home Design 3D	Home Design 3D is the perfect app to plan and design the home of your dreams! If you’re a fan of architecture and designing home floor plans, then you’ll love Home Design 3D.	$4.49
Dragon Search	Dragon Search is the Fast, Accurate and Smart way to search online content on your iPhone using your voice. Simply speak your search queries and get instantaneous results.	Free
iMovie	Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie. Make a movie in minutes by adding video, photos, music and sound effects, then add a theme, titles and transitions.	$5.49
Coaster Physics	Coaster Physics makes learning about the laws of Physics governing the motion of a roller coaster easy and fun, whether you need to know it for Physics class or are just curious about roller coasters.	$0.99
sling Note	sling Note allows you to position combinations of common applications side-by-side, stream lining complex tasks. It offers a notepad, browser, calculator and more.	$2.99
App Cooker	App Cooker supports you through the 5 key aspects of planning any mobile application: the idea, the mockups, the app icon, the communication and the business model.	$19.99
Codify	Codify is an elegant, easy-to-use code editor that lets you create games and simulations — or just about any visual idea you have. Codify is designed to let you touch your code.	$8.49

Redefinition

App	Description	Price
Aurasma Lite	Aurasma is a revolutionary, must-have platform that weaves the physical and virtual worlds together for the first time. Make the world around you fully interactive with the application the New York Times says "[blurs] the line between cyberspace and the physical world."	Free
iBooks	iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest best-selling books or your favorite classics – day or night.	Free
ShowMe	ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s a radically intuitive app that anyone will find extremely easy to use, regardless of age or background.	Free
Talking Tom Cat	Tom is your pet cat, that responds to your touch and repeats everything you say with a funny voice. Record your own videos of Tom, then send them as MMS or email, and share them on YouTube & Facebook.	Free