Essential Creative Apps for 2013 Jenny and Lois discuss their essential apps and give the results of RUC listeners responses. You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes

Lois's must have apps Stip Designer, Explain Everything, TinyTap, Toontastic, AudioBoo, Edublogs, Educreations, Popplet

Jenny's essential apps Explain Everything, Evernote/Dropbox, Bookcreator, iMovie, Keynote, iTalk, Edublogs

Survey - 5 most essential apps result If you could only add 5 apps to your iPad..........

1. Explain Everything

2. Evernote

3. iMovie

4 Skitch

5 Twitter

Thanks to everyone who completed our survey.

How to choose apps Most apps are Bad? Research (thanks to John Pearce’s Scoopit)

Common Sense Media (site for searching for apps for a specific age, subject and purpose, rates age appropriateness also and there is an app)
The New Bloom’s Taxonomy/Models for assessing iPad Apps
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/01/new-version-of-blooms-taxonomy-for-ipad.html
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/blooms-taxonomy-for-ipad.html
http://teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com/Blooms+Taxonomy+with+Apps
SAMR model curtesy of Greg Swanson's website

From Britt
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/01/build-media-gallery-with-your-students.html#.UOtNkoletON

What's On TeachMeetMelb, Feb 2nd, Little Markov, Drummond S,t Carlton VIC 3053

MOTM2013, FEB 16 & 17, Melb – Inspire 9 Co working space

Cybersafety tips Instagram – Staying Safe Online TIPS When writing contractions like we’ll that won’t move from well use auto flick the exclamation mark to add an apostrophe.

Shrinkurl. free

Eyeconit free

Haiku deck thanks to @iPadSammy

WordFoto free or $1.99