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Assignment 2 Personal Apps Sound hound: by pressing a button on this app you can identify a song, scroll lyrics instantly, link to the artist's website and make purchases. You can also sing into it and it will do all of the above. This app is freey Guitar Tuner: this app allows you to tune a guitar in standard tuning and to change settings for open tuning. This app is free Mindfulness Relax with Andrew Johnson: could be useful for dealing with the stress trying to learn how to use the iPad causes me. This app is free Urban spoon: locates restaurants by type of food, shows menus, connects to websites. Especially useful if your son is a vegan. This app is free NPR for iPads: easy to use format that provides better news coverage. This app is free Professional Apps Articulation Station: would be useful for deaf and hard of hearing students for practicing speech sounds. Only the first phoneme is free. Math Adventure with Fun Facts: fun games for all four operations, has four skill levels. Free for limited time. Splash Math: skills are aligned with the common core state standards, includes interactive games, scratchpad, and an incentive game that allows kids to build an aquarium based on points earned. This app is free Super Why PBS Kids: an early reading app with the usual phonics games, but is interesting because it has a cloze context reading component that requires kids to find missing words to fill in blanks to complete a story. This would be useful for deaf and hard of hearing kids in terms of language development, comprehension and word order. This costs $2.99 Sight Words CFC: uses over three hundred Dolch words that are not easily decidable to facilitate sight word recognition. Because our reading series emphasizes phonemic awareness, my students don't develop this skill. It includes six games, an once time program that give stickers. A useful feature is that lists can be customized, so lists can change, and a selection of words to practice within each category. Can be generated. This app costs $2.99 Kid Science Measure Lite: this is really more aligned with math. It focuses on measurement - linear, time, weight. It also provides practice with money skills. These are all skills that need ongoing practice. Free app Earth Science, Alex D. Jones: even though this app is designed for students who are slightly older than my students, the stunning photos would pull them right in. An audio component is included. Each photo is of a specific earth science concept, and has three labels for discussion. The description says that it sparks discussion. This is a great way to develop vocabulary with dhh kids. This app costs $.99 There is also a life science app by this same individual, same format. Scribble Press: this is a bookmaking app that allows kids to write and illustrate their own ebooks. They can also use templates based on familiar stories write a story. This app costs $3.99 Counting Money: this app has eight games that range from naming coins to patterns using coins in patterns. Skills include counting money and making change. The format is very colorful and lively. This app is free Mathlandia: this app reinforces basic math facts using a variety of games. It includes the usual interactive addition and subtraction games. Number concepts such plus/minus 1, and number sequencing are also included. The graphics are interesting for very young first graders. This app is fre