Tamera

Assignment 1 While exploring iTunesU I found the GarageBand app to be interesting. The cost is $4.99 The students I work with have special needs and they enjoy music. I would use this app in my classroom to allow the students to synergies and create while helping them learn about music and the different instruments. I feel this would be a good review when studying instruments in music class which would help improve their their skills and grades. GarageBand allows individuals to play the different instruments, hear the different sounds, and work together. Improves listening skills and individual creativity. The individuals can create, record, listen to, and share their own songs.

Assignment 2

Educational apps 1. Gwen's Picnic App. Cost $0.99 This is a game for memory matching and naming of foods. This app could be used with autistic children. I have a 6 year old student with autism who loves picnics and is learning to wait until freetime to have his picnic. I could use this along with his picnic game. Reviews: It is a great game to use with children to entertain them while thy are waiting. This game is fun and educational.

2. I communicate for iPad App. Cost 29.99 -Contains 100+ pictures -Can customize audio in any language -Can add pictures with a camera or google image search -Create pictures, flashcards, storyboards, routines, and visual schedules at the touch of the screen instead of folders of pic. syms or binders of social stories. Good program to use with individuals with autism, communication problems, and visually challenged. I would use this app with my students with autism. We use pic syms to help the individuals with their daily schedules as well as first-then to help the child complete the assigned task before they move to an activity they want. Social stories with pictures are used to prepare the child for an activity, fire drill, field trip or other activities that take the child out of his/her daily routine. When using these resources it lowers the chance of an outburst. Reviews: none

3. Autism Apps. Cost is free This app is a comprehensive list of apps that can be used with and by children and adults with autism and other special needs. The site can be linked to other information that can be found for each app. There are over 30 categories to search. I would use these apps with my special need students. Reviews: This app is a great site, has some problems with crashing and being slow but is improving.

4. Sight Words List App. Cost is free The sight words are from the Dolch Sight Word list. It contains 315 words that are arranged by age (grade) level. This will help beginning Readers become better readers. Reviews: This program can be used with sound to help the children sound out the words. The sound can be turned off to give the child an opportunity to practice sounding out the words and reading on their own. Easy to use and more fun than flashcards. The program allows you to create your own flashcards.

5. Telling Time - Photo Touch Game. Cost is free to $0.99 This is a game that will help children learn how to tell time and practice the skill. It is an exciting and educational game. I would use this as telling time review and practice. Reviews: Gives the ability to customize apps to meet the needs of the children. Specific skills can be selected to fit the level the child Is at with telling time. Simple yet very educational.

6. Sentence Maker App. Cost $0.99 The app has been updated and the sentences now include proper capitalization and punctuation. It is very important that children see the sentences written properly. There is a variety of sentences that are grouped into 30 categories which will help when you are working on specific sentences. It allows you to review sentences that you already wrote. The font can be changed. I would use this during the students writing time and other times they have writing lessons assigned. Reviews: Excellent app for sentence productions. This will. Help with speech and language.

7. Model Me Going Places 2. Cost is free Good app for children with autism and special needs. Visual teaching tool for helping children with special needs to go places in their community. Each location has a photo slideshow of children modeling appropriate behavior. I feel this is important for children to be able to see not just hear what is expected of them when they go places. Prepares a child to process what to expect and how to behave in the different environments they go to out in their community. Reviews: These social stories are great because the children will recognize some of the places in the story which will add meaning to each story. The child will be able to relate to where they are going, what they can expect and how they need to act. This program will also help with language development and the overcoming of fears. To evaluate this app I would use the Educational App Evaluation Rubric

8. Video Scheduler. Cost $12.99 This app will help individuals with autism and special needs plan and understand their day. The Video Scheduler is fo all Apple iOS devices. It allows for the easy construction of picture and video schedules. Included is the capability to share functionality for schedules and video modeling between video scheduler users. Has text-to-go with videos and photos. I would use this for the child's daily schedule. Reviews: none

9. IDress for Weather. Cost $1.99 This app could be used by anyone at any age and ability. Can be used as additive technology for individuals with special needs. Great tool to use in the classroom during calendar and dressing for recess. Reviews: FAntastic app for everyone. Perfect for students with disabilities. Great way to support independence. Background should be improved to match seasons.

10. Scene Speak. Cost $9.99 Good app to be used by individuals with autism, Apraxia, developmental disabilities, or anyone who needs to work on receptive language or visual memory. Personalized images can be added from a computer or through an online image search. All images can be croped and sized. Sound can be added by using Text-To-Speach feature from any of the five pre-loaded voices or you can add your own voice. Books can be created from the visual scenes. The books can be grouped by theme or interested and stored in the app library. This will help the individual see, hear, and process information. Each individual will be able to make books they can understand and relate to. Reviews: awesome app with great versatility. Easy to use and customize.

Personal apps

1. Garden Ideas. Cost. free I enjoy gardening and my yard is small. This app will give me some new ideas for planting my flower gardens. Includes photos and video guides.

2. Garden Design. Cost free This app will give ideas to help me with planning and designing a garden. I could take pictures of my garden, add a plant I want to add to the garden, and this app will let me see why it will look like before I add the plant.

3. Around Me. Cost free I enjoy traveling during the summer. With this app I could locate things to do, places to eat, and places to stay.

4. Golfshot. Cost free I enjoy golfing and would like to improve my score. This app gives golfing tips to help improve my golf game.

5. Free Books-23,469 Classics To Go. Cost free My husband and I both enjoy reading and free books Would be the way to go!

Assignment 3 Audiobooks/E-Books Educational E-book for children/ Dogs All Dressed Up/Classics Goose Berry Patch by Joanne and Vicki The students could find their favorite dog and write about it. Personal RV Cooking/Discover Series Publishing, xist This cookbook has some recipes for camping.