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Better late than never! In class the apps I've worked with is fractions and find the sum both for maths one on one support.

In love with candy crush on my phone quite addictive I must say.

Students today went on an app to do with time they had three clocks and had to pick the right one um... stay tuned to what its called.

My favourite has always been un block me always up for the challenge !!!

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Not really a huge app user on my phone but I have a few I play infrequently.

Angry Birds - addicting and free, the best combination.

100 doors - 100 levels of puzzles in which you must solve how to open up the door to advance to the next level. Some of the puzzles really make you think outside the box as it can get very challenging (currently stuck on 78!).

4 pics, 1 word - nifty word association game where you work out the word using the picture clues provided.

Pumpkin bingo - my Mum's favourite app! Not really bingo per say but works on finger-eye coordination matching the numbers that appear to the ones you need to appear.

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Keynote is something that Brianna used with the class to make our narrative story books with. It pretty much works a little like PowerPoint on a PC but makes it easy to insert pictures and effects onto the page. I was surprised at how well the kids knew their way around the app and will be something I could see myself use again in the future.

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One that I have taken a particular liking to and have used on occassions with my Big8 group is Scramble. It is a cool little app that is a bit of a word jumble type game where you make as many words as possible across a grid of letters. It is good for vocab, word blends, rhyming words too as the letters stay the same for each game. The timer keeps the game interesting especially towards the end as you begin the rush to beat your high score as the timer ticks down.

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I'm also a big fan of the Board Game Apps - Yahtzee, Monopoly, Scrabble, Connect 4 etc. I particularly like the fact they are easy to set up and pack up and you can silence the rolling dice! For my own children I like the fact that you cannot physically launch the pieces across the lounge room because you are losing (my children are competitive for some reason and no game of Monopoly has ever ended happily in our house.....)

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Comic Book. A great App for creating comic book style texts - very easy to use and doesn't necessarily require high level literacy skills. Uses photos or drawings and you can customise them to look like cartoon or comic book style.

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The Prezi App is also quite user friendly particularly for kids. It is web based so editing can be done either on line or within the App itself. A viable alternative for presentations.

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My script calculator is great Rhiannon! I've been using it quite a bit. It is great as the students are able to explore the number sentence in a linear fashion rather than the abstract concept of calculator buttons at an early age. It is also great with older kids. I've been using it for yr 9s to check learning in algebra etc...

Another great one for the JP/P years is a series of apps by Aleesha Kondys on development of number. There are about 10 so far including subitising, ten frames, place value, number lines and fractions... Worth checking out for the school iPads.

I've also been really getting into the TED app at the moment. It's great to see what else is happening around the world to be able to critically reflect on our own practices. Its videos are great but also the TED talks radio hour podcasts are great if you are stuck in the car bored out of your brain :-p I recommend 'unstoppable learning' in the podcasts and a video of John Hunter talking about his 'world peace game' that he plays with his year 4s. I would be very interested to see how our kids would respond to it. It certainly makes a case for depth of student learning and what is possible when you don't just focus on superficial learning tasks....

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Howstuffworks is a awesome little Bundle of information. It is viewed through websites and blogs and videos. If you have a question of how things work this is the place to go.

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Video Science is a collection of short videos of science demonstrations it help to serve as a colleague and science teaching companion. It helps you find inexpensive lab tools and lots of experiments that are easy, effective, and hopefully fun too.

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Scribblenauts Is my all time favourite app. In Scribblenauts, you could write down any object you could think of and watch it come to life as you helped Maxwell on his quest to capture the Starite. Super Scribblenauts took it a step further, letting you modify these objects using thousands of adjectives like turning a monkey in to a shy blue monkey! You can use this app to focus on adjective and nouns.

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Also, there is an app where you can do running records on the iPad. Haven't used it myself so I'm not sure how easy it is given the speed at which we have to do running records sometimes. It's called Record of Reading.

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I have the Imag.N.Tron app which allows interaction with the fabulous picture book - The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore. The pictures move, books fly around the classroom when you hold the iPad up, the characters wave and nod - it's very cool :) Numberlys is another app by same company. Students can interact with the alphabet as it is created in the story. Not as exciting as the flying books but is a cute story too.

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Just downloaded a new app called Number Tap. Similar to many other maths apps, it is good for accuracy and fluency in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I got it for free through the App of the Day app but its normally 99c I think.

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My favorite app at the moment is 7 Little Words. It's kind of a mix between a crossword and a jigsaw. It's free from the App Store and the version I have is probably a bit beyond most of our kids but I think there is a version for kids too. Makes the brain work...gives clues as to a word (like in a crossword) and you have to use the jumbled letter combinations to create the word. Some levels as really easy and others very tricky

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Must add that my most used app is the TORCH. More so on my I-phone but is also on my I-pad. Very handy for getting up to a teething one year old during the night!!

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JUNIOR PRIMARY: Tangrams, a Maths app with tangram puzzles. Great for colour, shape and patterns as well as fun and challenging!! Varying difficulties to unlock too.

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HAMISH'S CHOICE: My boys love the i-pad (especially Hamish) and anything Peppa Pig is awesome! He loves the app called Peppas Party. It has all the basic party-type games including writing the invitations and posting them, making the lolly bags, blowing out the candles, musical chairs, pass the parcel and hit the pinata. You can take photos and collect stickers as you go too!!

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ART APP: As an introduction to different famous artists I have found PlayART to be great! It had 5 different artists to learn about and includes an Art Gallery, information, a short video and gives students the opportunity to create their own art on the i-pad using bits and pieces from the artist's paintings. You can also load your pictures to your own Art Gallery, save and print which is a bonus!

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So searching new ideas for fine motor games and songs for the receptions coming in..... and how could I forget 'YouTube'. Songs, tutorials and videos- on everything!

But one of my fav authors Mo Willems has an app: Don't Let the Pigeon Run This App! Have a look- he makes me laugh.

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Just found an app called 'out and about'. It's a sight word app produced by the Queensland education department!! Only found it tonight so haven't tried it much - but looks really good!

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Finally I am going to put "iMovie" as my app of choice...we will be using this a lot through the remainder of the term as we create a class movie as part of our literacy curriculum. In addition to this I have been searching for other apps to help the students with the movie making process and have been recommended "index cards" which will help students to organise and plan their movie - this is an app I'm interested in looking into, as I think we need to focus more on the planning and organisation, and this might be a fun and helpful way to do so!

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Ok, not strictly an App itself but I recommend Twitter! It was the No.1 educational tool in 2012. Many people say they just don't 'get it' but you have to persist to make it worthwhile. Loads of news and info, educational ideas, research and articles, teaching ideas (and some funny stuff!). It's also good to see varying thoughts and opinions

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"Voice Thread" ...So I LOVE this one...but yet to utilise it! We played with it at uni, and I could imagine what the students could create with it - and also interact with each other. It is predominantly a website medium, but the app works well too. Here is the link for the web :)

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design discussions
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professional development
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replace text-only discussions
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Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

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The maths nerd in me loves "MyScript Calculator". You 'write' the sum and it automatically registers the equation and then gives an answer. I am hoping to put this on the iPads soon, as when we do algebra that is a lot of symbols that you use that don't always 'match' with the calculator, and can get confusing!

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I also really enjoy 'making sentences'. We make sentences/words and get the ipad to read it back out to us. It is great for teaching my year 1s to re-read their word, as sometimes it doesn't make sense.

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Pinterest.... were would be without it?

I also love hangman. I challenge my kids with words they know, then they challenge me :)

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Pinterest - a wonderful wealth of information on anything and everything!!!! Education, lessons, cooking, crafts, travel, themes etc etc!!! Hours and hours of wasted time spent finding things!!! Probably more useful for a teacher than a student / but could be interesting to try...

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Letter school - I loved this app not only for when Maddy was learning the letters and how to write them, but it was also great last year with the younger students to further develop their handwriting and letter recognition. It shows then how to write it by tracing, then gives them hints and then just the starters. Plus has groovy fun bits in between!! Kids love it.

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I'm with Kay, have just started getting into Pinterest, not addicted yet but I can seewhy it would be.

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MARTHA STEWART craft - an app where you can

produce cards, print them @ school or upload to snap

fish for a professional finish. Heaps of ready made

designs for ideas so that students or adults can create

their own cards.

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Another game LITTLE THINGS forever - its based

on Where's Wally? books and you have a list of

objects to find, a great one for all ages, excellect for

time, observational skills, persistence.

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One for the older students and a favourite of mine is quiz games such as LOGOS Quiz, What ICON?..... they are a quick activity where students use their prior knowledge and I've been surprised with what my 2 kids know about certain brands, logos. Can be played for 1 minute or more depending on your time frame.

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I need help with this app. I don't have a webcam, I don't know how to upload a file and I'm not sure what a URL is. AT LEAST BOOK CREATOR HAS A TUTORIAL :D

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Pinterest - I'm absolutely addicted

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Book Creator is fantastic for kids it even has a quick tutorial to help sad people like me :)

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I would like to try Angry Birds - the kids talk about it a lot and it sounds crazy! PS i know i am behind the times!

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I like Maths Bumpies  and Maths Bingo- its fun ,engaging and teaches lots about numbers

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Make sure you leave your name and the App title