50 Fun Apps to Try with Students

50 Fun Apps to Try with Students (Highlighted apps are covered in today’s session)

1. Baby Aquarium has one large brightly colored fish on a simple background that when touched says a color name and changes 2. Baby Play Face – responds when touched with movement and name of body part – language can be changed from English to other languages 3. Life planner gives a graphic of how time is divided up in a day 4. Glow Coloring – bright neon coloring on a black background 5. Bug Hunter – has a magnifier that the student moves around the screen to find bugs and zap them 6. Choice Board Creator – a free app that allows you to make a choice board (from 2 to 6 choices) with pictures that you can take with the camera (you can change the size of the frame) 7. Smart Hands – sign dictionary 8. Tap to Talk – augmentative communication board 9. Baby DJ – musical app for cause and effect – with movement 10. Geared – game – put together the gears to make them spin 11. Show Me – allows you to write on a white board or use a picture and write over the picture to show the student 12. Touch and Say – simple face shows feelings, colors, songs, silly sounds, and will mimic sound student makes 13. Together – child chooses from a choice of 2 or 3 things that go together 14. Toontastic – students can create and animate their own cartoon. Excellent opportunities to talk about the story elements, settings, emotions, and characters. Students narrate their own stories. 15. Visual Cue Lite – create visual cues, first-then chart, visual schedules, and visual timers using pictures taken on the IPAD. 16. Talk to Me – communication board 17. Speakall! – create communication boards and sentences with speech 18. Chicktionary – word game, make words from letters given 19. Word-Blocks – make sentences from word blocks 20. SO (So Ouat) stories – highlight vowels, actions, naming words and have story read aloud with animation 21. Silly sentences – work on phonic skills 22. Starkey Hearing Loss Simulator – allows people to understand hearing according to a child’s audiogram 23. I Like Books – a collection of children’s book that can be read with audio setting, words are highlighted as read. 24. Talking Tom and Talking Ben have been fun to use in speech class 25. Functional Skills System (Social Skills Sampler) – we watch a segment and then discuss appropriate social skills before role playing (I also type up the dialogue for my student to read) 26. Google earth – when discussing mapping and locations 27. Jumbo calculator 28. Story Creator – Create personalized stories for students that include pictures and video 29. I Like Stories – a virtual library of stories that can be used for concept development. Stories can be auto read. 30. Peekaboo HD – students can guess what animal is hiding by listening to the sound it makes and then touch the screen to see the animal (good clear pictures, simple graphics) 31. iDress – iDress for weather shows current weather conditions and students can open a closet to look at clothing appropriate for the weather 32. Picture Select – students match pictures from a field of 2, pictures can be customized 33. Guided Video – Teachers create a personalized lesson using video and picture choices 34. Sensory Room – a cause/effect app that can be controlled with a Bluetooth switch from Enabling Devices 35. Speech Journal – students can record an auditory journal of their day or lesson 36. Bugs and Buttons 2 – play games that encourage sorting, matching, counting, patterning (excellent graphics!) 37. Bubble Sort – Students complete tasks that require sorting, matching, patterning, size/shapes/colors in context of a home or school (fun app) 38. Toca Store – students practice making choices, and buying items in a store (good prompts, students can work on vocabulary, counting, and following a sequence) 39. My Piggy Bank – student practice money skills (good simple graphics) 40. Endless ABC, Endless Reader, Endless 123 (all three apps are by the same company) Allows students to match letters, words, and numbers (includes phonics, sight words, and addition) 41. Letter School – students practice tracing and writing letters using highly motivating graphics that decrease amount of supportive prompts (excellent!) 42. Magnetic Board – a virtual magnetic board that is interactive 43. Kids Journal – allows students to create a daily journal that includes pictures to indicate feeling, where they are, and weather. Take a photo of the day and the teacher can help complete “What did I do today?” to model writing. Journals can be exported and students and review previous entries by using the calendar. 44. Kids Trains Boats and Cars – student problem solve by tracing simple paths for transportation (train, boat or car) 45. Toca Monsters, Toca Hair Salon, Toca Band (all by the same company): interactive games in which students can make choices and see cause effect 46. Bitsboard: create customized vocabulary or concept boards to teach students information, students can see flashcards, play memory, spelling, matching, bingo games 47. The Alphabet – a simple interactive alphabet with wonderful graphics 48. Garage – (Filimundus) An interactive game in which students fix cars of customers by “reading” the pictures and following steps (very fun, highly motivating) 49. Bamba Burger – Students make choices and follow a sequence to create a fast food meal. 50. SchoolKit Math – included simple number line, hundreds chart, ten frame, arrays, money, fraction kit, number houses, number tiles tether math

Apps that work with a Bluetooth switch (see YouTube video demonstrations by Enabling Devices)

Sensory Room – cause effect Five Little Aliens – counting Five Speckled Frogs – counting Memory Pairs – matching Matching Cards – matching Hurdle Champion – cause effect Inclusive Smarty Pants – emotions/feelings Touch to Jump – cause effect Treasure Island – scanning Jungle Adventure – visual attending Shhhh! - cause effect Space Shooter – game Little Lost Penguin – game Five Little Rock Stars – counting Racing Cars – game Big Trucks – cause effect Splat the Clowns – cause effect Train Tracker – game Bumper Cars – game