Day 8

Today everyone in the class presented their top 3 apps.  What an amazingly diverse groups of applications available!  There were apps for pre-readers, early readers, reluctant readers, and established readers.  Obviously, in a collection of best app presentations there are going to be a number of great apps, but I would like to sum up a few of my favorite apps that were presented today.

Meggie presented an app called The Lettermen Books.  An app like this is so engaging for a child learning to form words and meaning of words.

Catherine presented the One Rainy Day app.  This is a great app for engaging a child with an extremely interactive story.  I will definitely be trying this app with my son, I’m sure he will be interested in the movement and sounds for the time being!  Check the vid:

It was hard not to be excited by the apps Joelle presented!  She was very enthusiastic and convinced me to get the Composure Zen Garden app!  I used it at lunch time before I had to do a presentation in my other class!  Love it.  In fact, I’ve decided to share a picture of me in a deep state of Zen while using the app!  I think Joelle would be proud!

Not only did I enjoy the comic stylings of Mark Toomey during his presentation, I also thought the iwrite words app was quite cool as well.  I’m going to try that one out at some point. 

There were a lot of other apps that were excellent, and that I am going to grab for my touch.  Apologies, but I forget who presented Memory Block; super addictive!  High score of 12 so far!!

I think Barb’s words after the presentation were very interesting when she was talking about a few of the huge bonuses of working with assistive technology in general.  For example, the ability to save money through conferencing and how research gained through technology is viewed in academic circles. 

I used the built in maps application on my ipod tonight.  I had a soccer game in New Ross and I wanted to figure out how far away a friend’s cottage was near the field, so I pulled out the map application and found out it was 37 km away!