Resources for Using Apps Across the Curriculum
From Richard Beach and David O'Brien
App recommendation and review sites (see
also further links)
I Education Apps Review (IEAR) involves over 500
educators, administrators and app developers providing review of apps.
Appitic organizes recommendations and reviews
according to subjects (“Themes”), learning styles, Bloom taxonomy, and the NETS
standards.
Discovr Apps app that creates an
interactive map with links between apps based on similarities between apps so
that you can begin with your familiar, favorite apps and then find other
similar apps, along with descriptions and ratings for those apps.
Apps in Education is organized
according to apps for different disciplines.
Appadvice AppGuides provides a lot of
useful reviews organized according to a hierarchical category system of
“essential,” “notable,” “decent,” and “other.”
App Miner (also an app) provides updated information on
price change as well as search by topics or themes.
Teach with Your iPad
wiki includes lots of useful categories for identifying apps according to
grade level and use.
Appwylum includes a range of categories and
provides information about price changes, as well as featured apps.
Quixey involves a “functional search” in
which you enter in a certain task or activity you want to employ with an app
and it generates a list of apps designed to employ those tasks or activity.
Texas Computing Educational Association (TCEA)
is a Google Docs form with recommended apps based on specific types of
activities, particularly useful for earlier grades.
Crosswa.lk is organized around
interest groups, including a teacher group, who provide app recommendations.
Chomp includes (also an app) includes searches for free,
“trending,” new, and “all time greats” apps.
Best App Site: Education
includes reviews of apps in terms of relevancy to education.
EdShelf includes reviews of a wide range of
different types of apps.
eduTecher Backpack app provides reviews
of educational websites and apps
TechChef4u app includes recommendations
for apps by two teachers, particularly for elementary school.
App Start is an app that is particularly
useful for initial selection of apps when first to use an iPad, iPhone, or iPad
Touch.
i Meet app is an app that provides visual
results of recommendations according to apps within different categories.
Scoop.it: iPads in Education:
articles on uses of iPads in schools
