Using the iPad and tablets for homeschooling.
Cost: Free Story Kit is an App that lets your kids (adults too) write stories. The stories can use text, pictures or recorded sound. My kids love to record their own stories. The stories can also be uploaded to www.childrenslibrary.org from the app. You can’t beat the price! Editing the book pages: Link to apple web page for Story kit app. Tweet
iPads may not be ready for the “classroom” but they are definately a tool for learning.
For those of you familiar with the Bob books you will be familiar with this App. The App is not a books but it is a game. The game has 12 pages from the Bob books. You have to spell some of the words on the page. There are four levels of dificulty for each page. Cost: $1.99 Age: 4 to 6 years old Subjects: Phonics, letters, & words http://itunes.apple.com/app/bob-books-1-reading-magic/id403753501?mt=8 TweetTweet
Just came across this Toy Story App that is currently free at the Apple App store. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toy-story-read-along/id364376920?mt=8
If you are using the latest iOS you can easily organize your apps for education. For Christmas two of my children got old iPhones (3G with iOS 4) from their too kind Uncle. Now I am trying to use iPhones for my kids education. To do this I decided to organize all the education apps based on the following categories: Pre-school Tracing (letters & numbers) Reading Writing Math Science Drawing ...
