Best Educational Use of a Mobile Device

Blackboard Mobile Learn - Blackboard Inc.

Blackboard Mobileâ„¢ gives your community on-demand access to essential campus information, when and where they need it, helping you to attract and retain students, reinforce your brand, maximize your existing campus resources, and drive student engagement. With Blackboard Mobile Learn, your students and faculty have access to course materials, upload media to/comment on collaborative tools like documents, discussions, blogs and more.

Additional information can be found online at:

• News article about a client
• Case Study
• Case Study
• Demos

ClassLink LaunchPad iOS & Touch Apps - ClassLink, Inc.

ClassLink LaunchPad™ iOS & Touch Apps delivers a personal cloud desktop to your tablet or handheld. Access from these mobile devices allows schools to provide the same learning experience to all students regardless of device type. Whether using an Android, Apple or Windows mobile device, your students will have fast and easy access to all their school resources. LaunchPad is a cloud-based learning desktop that provides administrators, teachers and students personalized access to files and applications on any device at any time. LaunchPad Cloud Desktop delivers cost savings for schools and all reduces the complexity often inherent with technology. LaunchPad features a resource library, single sign-on to all applications and files, and the ability to collaborate in real time. Simple to set up and manage, LaunchPad’s easy-to-use cloud desktop is a great solution for schools looking to implement a successful Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or 1to1 instruction model. With more and different mobile devices showing up in the classrooms today, users expecting 24/7 access and schools needing to keep costs low, LaunchPad™ iOS & Touch will quickly provide the desired new approach.

Additional information can be found online at:

• LaunchPad overview
• LaunchPad Webinar
• BYOD Central Answers Schools BYOD questions

Insight 360 with Teacher app for iPad - eInstruction

Insight 360 with the Teacher app for iPad is the all-in-one classroom instruction system that enhances best teaching practices, utilizes existing lesson content, and drives student learning while integrating with new and existing education technology.

Each lesson now becomes a catalyst for assessment through instruction. Once a concept is taught educators can launch a question and receive instant feedback with CueTag. Students then use Pulse 360 or Spark 360 student response pads (clickers) to answer the questions and educators instantly receive feedback on the Teacher app for the iPad touch screen from anywhere in the classroom. The concept can then be re-taught and reassessed during the same lesson increasing student achievement every step along the way.

Key benefits include:
•Complete classroom instruction system
•Instant data and student progress tracking
•Tag and use any content that you have currently
•Mobility and ability on the iPad to interact with students anywhere in the classroom
•Interoperability with existing technology (open architecture)

Additional information can be found online at:

• Insight 360 Product Training Tutorials
• Insight 360 Product Availability Press Release
• Insight 360 - IESD White Paper
• eInstruction FaceBook page

Inspiration Maps - Inspiration Software, Inc.

Inspiration Maps is the app that brings visual thinking and learning to iPad, allowing all types of learners to capture their ideas, work smarter and build knowledge. Inspiration Maps is based on the award-winning Inspiration visual learning software, and designed specifically for the iPad.

Students take an active role in learning when they use Inspiration Maps. Rather than passively absorb information or play games, they build diagrams and outlines that stimulate creativity and aid comprehension. In addition, the proven visual learning methodologies in Inspiration Maps help develop the critical-thinking, cross-curricular literacy and writing skills that are delineated in the Common Core State Standards.

Teachers and students can view and work on all of their desktop-developed Inspiration 9 projects on iPad, moving freely between the desktop and iPad. Inspiration Maps is also available in Spanish, French and UK English versions.

Additional information can be found online at:

• Review of Inspiration Maps
• Review of Inspiration Maps

McGraw-Hill Anatomy & Physiology Revealed - McGraw-Hill Higher Education Group

The award winning McGraw-Hill Anatomy & Physiology REVEALED® was commercially ready for sale in 2006 and was primarily available online and via CD-ROM. Recently, McGraw Hill launched it on the iPad and Android devices. Anatomy & Physiology REVEALED® is an interactive cadaver dissection tool that enhances and supports learning for both the Anatomy and Physiology course lecture and lab, which students can use anytime, anywhere. It provides the ultimate virtual cadaver dissection experience…state-of-the-art layering lets students peel away layers of the human body to reveal structures beneath the surface. The Cat version is now available as well to support institutions utilizing Cat dissection in their lab settings. Instructors can customize the content to match their course through an easy to use online Faculty Portal. Students can study and practice on their own through unlimited access to the human body.

Additional information can be found online at:

• Full version in iTunes
• SKELETAL/MUSCULAR in iTunes
• App developer

iLit - Pearson

iLit inspires students to build literacy skills through the power of iPad. A core curriculum program for struggling readers, iLit is designed to meet the national crisis of students who simply cannot read at the appropriate grade level and who, by the time they reach high school, are dropping out, checking out, or acting out. iLit engages students like no other reading program. The first and only complete instructional solution built and delivered on iPad, iLit can offer each student personalized learning support based on their own instructional needs, through performance-based assessment, engaging interactivities, and built-in reward systems that motivate students and track their progress.
iLit is proven to be effective. It is designed using the proven instructional model found in the Ramp Up Literacy program, but has been updated by a renowned and diverse authorship team including Kelly Gallagher, Sharon Vaughn, Sharroky Hollie, William Brazos and Roger Bonair-Agard. The strategies and scaffolding in the iLit solution, when implemented to fidelity, can yield results as high as a two-grade-level improvement in reading achievement.

Additional information can be found online at:

• Introducing iLit from Pearson
• iLit Research & Efficacy
• How iLit Works
• iLit Demo

Pearson iBook2 Textbooks - Pearson

Pearson's new suite of multimedia textbooks for iPad are full-color books featuring the company's respected learning content brought to life with video, audio, assessment, interactive images and 3D animations -- personalizing learning in a whole new way.
The new titles re-imagined for iPad include Miller & Levine Biology, Environmental Science: Your World, Your Turn, Chemistry, Common Core Geometry and Common Core Algebra1 and Algebra 2. The suite contains approximately 7,000 pages of learning content, 1,000 interactive widgets (including 3D animations and Keynote presentations), more than 100 videos and some 5,000 test questions so that students can check their understanding.

The strategically designed and chunked content focuses students attention on one concept at a time with interactive elements that engage and empower them. Students see math and science unfold before their eyes with robust animations, videos and interactives that are personal and actionable with a simple swipe of the screen. They move 3D objects around, explore beautiful graphics and dive deeper into topics. By viewing chunked content, students can tap on new concepts or ideas at their own pace and access videos and animations at the ideal point in learning for them.

Additional information can be found online at:

• Overview Video
• Demo of Biology iBook
• Geometry iBook Video Case Study
• iBook Textbook Demo on San Diego TV Station, KUSI During ISTE 2012

PD 360 Mobile - School Improvement Network

PD 360 Mobile features library of 2,000+ on-demand professional development videos, and a fully integrated observation tool (Observation 360) available on all mobile devices running iOS and Android OS.

Additional information can be found online at:

• PD 360
• Observation 360

Sail Through Math app - The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

a great tool for reinforcing math from Elementary to early High School. The App provides students the chance to conquer the seven seas with
problems from addition and subtraction to solving equations. Students can practice their math skills in an engaging game format.

LabQuest 2 App - Vernier Software & Technology - Software Division

The LabQuest 2 app provides students with real-time graphing and analysis capabilities when using Vernier Software & Technology's LabQuest 2 handheld data-collection device. The app provides live sensor data display; linear and curve fits; a built-in periodic table, stopwatch, scientific calculator, and more; touch and stylus navigation for efficiency and precision; and more.

Additional information can be found online at:

• Instructional video
• Press release
• Reference guide