Millbank+Public+School



At the moment at MPS we are trialling free apps at home and in the classroom. We have preference for apps that allow higher order thinking skills and creativity skills, and can be used across KLAs, rather than rote learning apps. Rather than ban ipods we encourage students to download these apps and then use them in class. Since we only have 5 ipads for 15 students this increases our devices significantly. We have three wifi modems giving us coverage across both classrooms, office and most of playground.

|| **Spelling**: Spelling test where words are said, put in sentence and clues given. Points for correct spelling. Easy, medium and hard. Leaderboard. || Used in year 5/6 class for a term. Students initially found it engaging but then lost interest because the words stayed the same. Best feature is that students/teacher can preset with own spelling words. Thus allows personalised spelling lists. || free || || **Maths**: tests times table || Similar to numerous other times table programs. || free || || **Spelling**: Grades 2-4. Prefixes and Suffixes, Homonyms, Word Roots, Rhyming words, Adjectives, Synonyms. Play individually, teams of two or against another person. || Words and game were still challenging to year 5/6. Used for 10 minutes a day during literacy. When competing the faster person can cause blizzards and storms that disrupt other persons game. I am regularly beaten by students. || free || || **Spelling**: Provides, meanings, synonyms, etymology || Used in class while doing spelling exercises. Some students prefer to use a digital dictionary to a book dictionary. This is one that some students have installed on own ipods and use in class. || free || || **Maths**: use sword to cut compound numbers into factors. Avoid the prime numbers. || While this is a fun game it really teaches only one thing- prime numbers. Having said that the students LOVE playing it. || free || || **Maths**: scientific calculator || Probably too complex for primary but we use it to increase the number of calculators available in the room || free || || **Maths:** need to be able to visualise fractions, improper factions, mixed fractions and decimals on a line in order to prevent eggs smashing. || I have used it when doing fractions and decimals. I like it because students need to practise visualising on a number-line. I was surprised how hard students found it. || free || || **Maths:** making and estimating fractions || This is a good game because it cuts the chocolate bar up into the denominator before recombining with the numerator, thus explicitly teaching concepts of fractions. It has easy to hard levels. || free || || **General:** While doing poetry I used Audioboo to record myself reading the poems then put the QR code of the Audioboo URL on each poem. Students stuck copies of poem +QR code in books. Last term the students and I made a website together. The QR code was on the board so students could quickly scan with ipads and get onto the site. Shortlisted Book Week books have QR code of URL for Teachers Notes on back cover to keep book and resources together. On our School Achievement Wall photos of ex-students are connected by QR code with information about what they are doing now. || free || || **Multimedia** This app is so easy that kindergarten students rapidly picked it up. || free || || **Multimedia** || **Audio** || **Audio:** || **Audio:** Year K-2 students use the video to record themselves telling a story. They can then rewind and rewatch until they have transcribed the story. Video can be uploaded into personal blog. || inbuilt ||
 * =**App.name**= || **Description** || **Lesson use** || Cost ||
 * **School A-Z**
 * Spelling Bee**
 * **School A-Z**
 * Maths Monkey**
 * **Bluster**
 * **Dictionary**
 * **Factor Samurai**
 * **Calculator+**
 * **Coop fractions**
 * **CandyFactory**
 * **Scan**
 * //QR code reader//** || I have used Scan in combination with QR code generators in a number of ways. An ongoing project is to put QR codes of videos of people talking about the history of the school scattered around the school. Videos are uploaded to Schooltube so that they are accessible to students.
 * **Sock Puppets**
 * 3 minutes of dialogue between two sock puppets.** || We have used this to interview different characters in a book about how they perceived an event. Students needed to plan work to stay in character and make maximum use of 3 minutes.
 * **Educreations**
 * Make a multimedia project using text, audio and images. Save or download.** || We used this to have year 5/6 students explain a maths concept that they had learnt about during the lesson. They had watched a similar video on youtube during lesson and were excited to make their own. Very good for checking students' understanding of a lesson. Could be used across all KLAs. Students rapidly picked up how to use and discovered features that I hadn't found. || free ||
 * **Soundprism**
 * Create music and then email it as mp3 (if downloaded on Mac) or mw4 (if downloaded on IBM)** || We use this to create music for our digital multimedia stories. However a problem is that the DET filter stops emails because it is coming from iPad gmail. We get around this by using teacher's iPad or students' ipods. When out of DET wifi, devices will then send to teacher's email who downloads and brings back to school. Students have embraced this app and installed it on own ipods. || free ||
 * **AudioMemos**
 * Record sounds and email them as a mp3 file.** || We have used this to create sound effects for our digital multimedia stories. However a problem is that the DET filter stops emails because it is coming from iPad gmail. We get around this by emailing teacher who forwards. || free ||
 * **Audioboo**
 * Using free version 3 minutes of recording which is enough for a poem, song, short piece music.** || Used in combination with QR codes to put audio recording of teacher reading poem attached to text version of poem. URL collected from address bar when go online. Also has embedding code so that audio recording can be put in blogs/websites. || free ||
 * [[image:camera_title.png width="130" height="40"]] || **Multimedia:**
 * Camera takes stills and videos. Can turn camera around to take stills/video of operator.** || Ipads are used as cameras by the students to take stills and videos of excursions, guest speakers, science experiments etc. Photos and videos are then uploaded into blogs, made into digital slideshows or digital multimedia stories. Students own ipods are also used during class for these purposes.
 * [[image:photobooth_title.png width="141" height="26"]] || **Multimedia** || Year 5/6 are currently making a digital multimedia story. Many of these stories are scary so they are using Photobooth to distort the photos they are taking to create different effects. || inbuilt ||
 * [[image:notes_title.png width="107" height="40"]] || **General** || Students have written texts on the ipads and then emailed to themselves, where they then copied and pasted into their blogs. || inbuilt ||
 * [[image:safari_icon.png width="41" height="65"]]** Safari ** || **Internet Browser:** || Students use the ipads to look up information in class. We have wifi in both classrooms and the office. Wifi also extends well into the playground enabling us to use ipads while in the playground. || inbuilt ||