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Assignment 1 On I Tunes U I came across a great app called Living History from Michigan's MI Learning about the Civil War. The app has several video clips from key people from the era dressed in appropriate costumes and sharing information from the time period. Some of the ones I viewed were Custer, Grant and Lincoln. This app would be very useful for me in my teaching of Social Studies. We are just about start the unit on the Civil War this would help make the learning come alive more for my students. It would be a great we tointroduce the unit for some of my ELL students. This would be more engaging for them than just listening to me tell about the person and the time period.

Assignment 2 Here are several apps that I could use in my classroom: 1. Songify: I LOVE this one. Would be great to use to help students memorize things or learn content area info in a fun way. 2.World Book This Day in History: Interactive multimedia calendar that displays events for each day as well as photos, illustrations, speeches, video clips, etc Would be fun way to start the day with Social Studies type information. 3. Bluster: app to practice prefixes and suffixes, rhyming words, adjectives etc. Can choose grade level, etc. Seemed a little boring. 4. Brain Parade: Simple word recognition. May be good for low level ELL students who are just learning basic vocab. There are different categories of words and pictures. You choose 1 to 6 and create lessons to go with them. 5. Miss Spell's Class: They give you a word and you have to decide if it is correct or not. Challenging words...would be good for my better spellers. Goes back at the end to give the correct answers. 6. StoryKit: I LOVE this one too. Students can make orginal stories with photos, sound etc. 7. Tap to Talk: ELL type vocab for low level speakers or special ed. students. 8. History maps of the world: Free app. Good resource to have for Social Studies. 9. Face Jack: LOVE this one too. Can use this to present information on biographies or book reports. Really a fun way to share info! 10. Rocket Math: Fun way to review basic math operations. Included a mix of problem types. Kids would find it motivating.

Personal Apps 1.Big Calculator.-You can always use a calculator 2. Merriam Webster Dictionary-another great resource to have! 3. Personal Trainer Fitness videos- I like to be active and try to keep in shAPE. 4. Eating Well Guide-- I TRY....... 5. Storykit: Would be fun to use to make records of trips, etc.

I think the only app that had a charge was the National Geographic World Atlas and it was only $1.99. The rest were free!

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