I have compiled a list of the apps which I have used and highly recommend as "tools in the classroom". Used under supervision of a great teacher, these apps can provide a solid foundation to some outstanding lessons. I suggest that as a teacher you take just 2 or 3 relevant apps, and really deconstruct them. Evaluate how they might compliment your lesson plans. It is all to easy to get overwhelmed at the choice available on the App Store.
New apps for the Australian classroom
- Four Corners 50 Years - Australian Broadcasting Corporation Celebrate 50 Years of Four Corners... with more than seventy hours of content available, this is a unique archive of Australia’s current affairs history.
- Asialink - DreamWalk Mobile Asialink is Australia's leading centre for the promotion of public understanding of the countries of Asia and of Australia's role in the region. This app features the Asialink Essays - a series of monthly essays written by leading commentators who explore key issues in Australia's engagement with Asia.
- MyEnvironment - Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities Find the Australian environmental places that make up your neighbourhood or area of interest
- Constitution of Australia - UNILEX® This free app contains the full text of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (The Constitution), as well as hundreds of links to case law references on the AustLII website (internet connection required). With great features like full text search, keyword highlighting, and email, this app aims to be a highly useful and educationally rich companion guide to the study and practice of Australian Constitutional Law.
- Please Touch The Exhibit - icity2r mobile Celebrate Melbourne Museum’s tenth birthday and rediscover, explore and share some of Melbourne Museum’s most iconic stories.
My favourite apps
- WolframAlpha - Wolfram Alpha LLC
- SimplePhysics - Andrew Garrison
- Al Gore – Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis - Push Pop Press, Inc.
- Prezi Viewer - Prezi Inc.
- Explain Everything - MorrisCooke
Developers to check out for 2012
- iDevBooks.com - Educational Math Apps
- RealSimpleEdu.com - Handy reference apps across many subjects.
- Oxford University Press ELT - eBooks of famous stories with illustrations.
The complete list of my top 50 education apps of 2011
- 3D Brain FREE
- AsiaLink FREE
- BrainPOP FREE
- Calculator ++ FREE
- Cell Structure 1.99
- Chicktionary 1.99
- Clickview Player FREE
- Composer FREE
- Constitution of Australia FREE
- Dropbox FREE
- Evernote FREE
- Explain Everything 2.99
- Four Corners FREE
- Gallery FREE
- GarageBand 5.49
- Gibson L&M Guitar (iPhone) FREE
- Google Earth FREE
- Grammar Up 5.49
- Guardian Eyewitness FREE
- Hiragana 0.99
- History Maps FREE
- iBooks FREE
- iMovie 5.49
- J-ENesis FREE
- Keynote 10.49
- Kindle FREE
- Learn Chess FREE
- Mathemagics 0.99
- Monarchy The Definitive Guide 1.99
- Moxie HD 1.99
- Multiplication - iDevBooks 4.49
- MyEnvironment FREE
- NASA FREE
- Our Choice 5.49
- Pages 10.49
- PEEK Evernote FREE
- PleaseTouch FREE
- Popplet Lite FREE
- Prezi Viewer FREE
- QRReader FREE
- Shakespeare FREE
- SIB (Shakespeare in Bits) Romeo and Juliet 5.49
- Simple Physics 0.99
- Simplex Spell 1 0.99
- Star Walk 2.99
- TED FREE
- Voice Thread FREE
- Whiteboard FREE
- Whiteboard Splashtop 20.99
- Wolfram Alpha 2.99