Fourth Grade - Rebecca Wildman

Rebecca is a fourth grade language arts teacher from Michigan. She authors a great site called iPadPD.com. You can follow her at @RebeccaWildman. Check out Rebecca's iPad and her favorite apps:

Rebecca's Top 5 Apps:

1. iTunes U
2. Book Creator
3. iMovie
4. Ask3
5. Edmodo

High School Social Studies: Jill Villasana's iPad

Jill Villasana teaches 9th grade social studies at Jefferson Junior High. She is possibly the most amazing teacher in all of the world. And it's purely coincidence that we share the same last name. You can follow her at @jillvill1. Here's Jill's iPad:

Jill's Top 5 Apps:

1. Rover: browser to view flash files on the web
2. Google Calendar Link: my favorite way to organize life & share it with my colleagues & family
3. Dropbox: a convenient way to share documents from iPad to desktop to print, edit, and share
4. Splashtop: run your desktop computer through your iPad, kids always think it is cool!
5. Evernote: how I take notes and will encourage my students to take notes (easy to index, search)

Fourth Grade - Allison Chostner

Allison teaches fourth grade at Midway Elementary. She is truly an iPad innovator and asks some of the most challenging questions I've ever fielded to push the technology envelope. Here's a look at her iPad:

Allison's Top 5 Apps:

1. Squeebles Fractions: Works on fraction equivalents, adding fractions, comparing fractions and picturing fractions with cakes. The students get to make their own profiles and earn cake ingredients to enter the "Cake Show". It was not free, but well worth the money.
2. SMART Notebook: Any smart notebook file you made on your PC can be accessible on your iPad. Students can edit files or create new ones. If made on iPad, then it can still be used on your PC. The files are easily shared from your PC and iPad through Dropbox. It does not have every feature Smart Notebook on you PC has, but the basics are there (text, pics, shapes, lines, stylus pens). It is not free.
3. SMART Office 2: This is Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint all in one for the iPad! Students can edit files already made on a PC or create new ones. If started on the iPad, then it can still be used on your PC. The files are easily shared from your PC and iPad through Dropbox. It does not have every feature as on your PC has, but can do all the basics. It was well worth the  cost!
4. Dropbox: This is you My Docs file folder that can be accessed from any PC or Apple Product (iphone, iPad). It automatically syncs with your pics on Apple Products so you can access them from you desktop at any time. This is what i use to open any files on either my PC or iPad! I find myself now saving everything on Dropbox instead of my My Docs. It is free to use!
5. Math Fact Master: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division: My favorite math fact app because it allows me to select the specific facts for a student to practice. For example, I have a student still needing to work on his multiplication facts x 8 and x 9. I can go in and select multiplication and then select 8 and 9. It will then only do facts x8 and facts x9. It did cost $1.99.

High School Math - Michael Collins

Michael teaches Algebra 1 and Geometry at Oakland Junior High. Take a look at some shots of Michael's iPad. I need to get some insight on the story of his wallpaper.

Michael's Top 5 Apps:

1. Google Drive-I use google drive almost exclusively to create both on my iPad or on my Laptop.  The app is great for managing and sharing docs, though the app itself is limited in terms of creation...though that's not the iPads primary use anyway!
2. Edmodo-my LMS until I'm certain that I can or cannot use Facebook.  It's a Facebook-esque closed social network designed for classrooms.  It's the app version for the web-based site.  Similar in nature to how the Facebook app is to the full web version.
3. Screen Chomp-interactive whiteboard with built in recording and hosting features.  IMO, vastl superior to educreations or skitch.
4. Noteability-Similiar to Goodnotes, but features auto synching to a cloud server (like google docs) and some recording features.  Teamed with Airserver, it's as useful as Smart Notebook.  Used in tandem with Smart Notebook, it gives you the capability for both you and your students to interact on a document simultaneously.
5. Doceri- similar to Splashtop, but offers more features, even in the free version.  You can control your PC, drop a whiteboard, and import pictures onto that whiteboard.  It also has a recording feature. 

Also, the app is brand new, but I think Markup is going to be a monster.  It allows for paperless grading.  Also of note is Class Dojo, especially teamed with airServer.

High School Media Specialist - Jayme Pingrey's iPad

Jayme is taking over the media center at Battle High, Columbia's newest high school. She is a fan of using a stylus, but don't hold that against her. You can follow Jayme at @jpingrey.

Jayme's Top 4 Apps:

1. Feedly: best RSS reader
2. Notability: annotating/ handwriting & drawing
3. iMovie- best movie making/ recording app 
4. Overdrive app- download ebooks from the library 

Elementary Art - Amber Ward

Amber is the art specialist at Ridgeway Elementary. Ridgeway has a set of 30 iPads to support teaching and learning. She is a frequent user of the cart, and would probably hide it in her room if she could get away with it. Here's a look at some of Amber's screens:

Amber's Top 5 Apps:

1. Evernote
2. Lino
3. (Passport) Notes
4. Keynote
5. Dictionary
6. I'm also starting to use Splashtop Presenter, but the jury is out on this one.

Middle School Science - Beth Newton

Beth is an innovative science teacher at Oakland Junior High. She is quick to try new things and even quicker at asking for equipment to use in her room! Check out Beth's iPad:

Beth's Top Five Apps:

1. Google drive:  like Evernote interfaces better with more apps/documents andeasier to edit documents
2. Notability. Like penultimate but interfaces better 
3. Qrafter. Great for creating links to media, resources , answer keys, assignments and study guides 
4. Penultimate. Interfaces well with Evernote
5. Evernote. My filing cabinet
6. iMovie (although iMovie is not on my iPad it takes up too much memory if I am not using it)