Favorite Tools and TipsHumanities and Life Sciences

Alyssa Tormala and Carrie Yerton

St. Mary’s Academy

Broad Use AppsFree for individual teachers. School can purchase "Enterprise" version that offers some enhanced capabilities and creates school-based "umbrella" for purposes of administering programs. Has both website and app. Notability ($2.99) The BEST note-taking and annotation app. Can import almost any kind of document and type or write on it. Can record audio notes as well. Excellent for students but also for teacher grading.

Dropbox (Free) Cloud storage service. Free for up to 2GB. Monthly price for higher storage amount. Can gain more storage through referring friends.

Favorite Humanities Apps (but good for other uses too)

Explain Everything ($2.99) Great app for developing presentations that include images, video, and audio. Can export presentations to YouTube or camera roll as videos. Connects with Dropbox and other cloud storage services.

Book Creator ($4.99) Worth the price. Allows for creation of multi-media books (containing text, visuals, and audio) and publication to iBooks, all from the iPad. Super easy to use. Great option for portfolios, book reports, term projects, etc.

Kidblog (free) Website and app allow teachers to create a private blog for each class (up to 50 students per class) under which students can create their own personal blogs. Not public, but viewable within class. User-friendly and fun.

Favorite Humanities Apps (but good for other uses too)

Padlet (free). Website that allows users to create public or private "corkboard" style spaces for posting or collecting information. Works on any device. Highly versatile and easy to use.

YouTube Capture (free). Simple app that allows user to add clips of video together to create one larger video for uploading to YouTube. Great for quick assessments, video flashcards, etc.

Talkboard (free). Collaborative white space that students can work on together live from multiple devices. It's the simplest of collaboration apps (more robust ones include Quip and BaiboardHD) but works great for interactive work.

Some other great apps for humanities teachers...(if only I had more time...)

Apps For Anyone!

Free: Augmented reality App. “Aurasma uses advanced image and pattern recognition to blend the real-world with rich interactive content such as videos and animations called “Auras”.” https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aurasma/id432526396?mt=8

Stop Motion:Free. Allows you to take pictures of an object while moving the camera so that when you put it together it looks like the object is moving. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stop-motion-studio/id441651297?mt=8

iTunes U: Free. Largest online catalog of free education content from leading institutions that can be used in your classes. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-u/id490217893?mt=8

Science or Health Related Apps

3D Heart: Free. Allows you to take a look inside the heart and see how the arteries look if there is high blood pressure or high cholesterol and the dangers that it has on your body. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/explore-the-heart-in-3d/id520392909?mt=8

Virtual Heart: Free: Allows you to see the heart beating. You can speed it up and slow it down. You can see how the blood runs through it, how the valves work, and the electrical system. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/virtual-heart/id501539525?mt=8

3D Brain: Free. Shows all parts of the brain. You can manipulate the brain and move it in all directions. You can see inside the brain and learn information for each part of the brain. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/3d-brain/id331399332?mt=8

Science and Health related Apps cont’dVisAnatomy: Free. You can see the structure of every system and learn more information about each one. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/visual-anatomy-lite/id523422151?mt=8

iMuscle: $4.99: “iMuscle 2 provides users with the ability to zoom into an area on our 3D human body and tap on a muscle to reveal exercises and stretches targeted to the development and/or rehabilitation of that specific muscle.” https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imuscle-2/id430559374?mt=8

POMT-Bone: $0.99: Allows you to look at the inside of a bone all the way down to the DNA level. It also allows you to look at a broken bone and then watch it being repaired. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imuscle-2/id430559374?mt=8