{"id":1980,"date":"2015-03-31T13:02:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2015-03-31T13:02:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:02:42","slug":"3-new-apps-now-available-to-all-teachers-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2015\/03\/31\/3-new-apps-now-available-to-all-teachers-and-students\/","title":{"rendered":"3 new Apps now available to ALL teachers AND students!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Though many of you are already familiar with these apps, up until now they haven&#8217;t been widely available to all of our schools and students. \u00a0However&#8230;as of today, we have completed a volume purchase making them available to all Bend-La Pine staff and students (<em>with the exception of Spelling Notebook, which has only been purchased for K-8<\/em>). \u00a0 They can be downloaded from an individual&#8217;s\u00a0purchased history in the App Store, or Self Service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2015\/03\/ee.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1983 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2015\/03\/ee.jpeg\" alt=\"ee\" width=\"127\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/explain-everything\/id431493086?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Explain Everything<\/strong><\/a> is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.\u00a0Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage. \u00a0This is a great tool for students to use to demonstrate and share their knowledge about a topic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2015\/03\/bc.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1982 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2015\/03\/bc.jpeg\" alt=\"bc\" width=\"87\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/book-creator-for-ipad-create\/id442378070?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Book Creator<\/a><\/strong> is a simple way to create awesome ebooks on the iPad. \u00a0Once created, these can be shared easily to other applications and even published to the iBooks store. \u00a0Many of our users are familiar with the free version of this app, which limits the number of books a user can create. \u00a0This educationally-purchased version is unlimited.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2015\/03\/sn.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1984 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2015\/03\/sn.jpeg\" alt=\"sn\" width=\"78\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/spelling-notebook\/id431505819?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Spelling Notebook<\/strong><\/a> is now available for all students and staff K-8. Students can use this app to create their own spelling lists, then practice their\u00a0words. \u00a0Although Spelling City is popular in many of our schools, it requires connectivity in order for students to access their lists. \u00a0We encourage teachers to switch to Spelling Notebook as it provides a clean interface and does not require an internet connection for students to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone, Though many of you are already familiar with these apps, up until now they haven&#8217;t been widely available to all of our schools and students. \u00a0However&#8230;as of today, we have completed a volume purchase making them available to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2015\/03\/31\/3-new-apps-now-available-to-all-teachers-and-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  3 new Apps now available to ALL teachers AND students!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":1981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stc_notifier_status":"","_stc_notifier_sent_time":"","_stc_notifier_request":false,"_stc_notifier_prevent":false,"_stc_subscriber_keywords":"","_stc_subscriber_search_areas":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}