English+Apps

=Dictionary=
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 * Purpose of app: ** Includes a word of the day, thesaurus, translator, and slide shows with interesting topics (Ex. spooky words for halloween). You can search for the word via text or voice.
 * Review: ** This is basically a glorified dictionary, but could be used to as an exploratory for vocabulary or even foreign language. The students could use the app to explore definitions, origins, and synonyms for words as well as search for the translation into another language.

=Dictation=
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 * Purpose of app: ** This app will take notes from you while speaking. It works pretty well!
 * Review: ** This would be an excellent resource for a who needs a scribe. They would just have to be able to proofread their work to make sure the app picked up their voice easily. Downfall would be that they would need to be in a quiet room

=eBook Search=
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 * Purpose of app: ** This is great way to get a class set of books that you do not have.
 * Review: ** You can search for a variety of free books and download them onto the ipads in many different file formats. I would just do this ahead of time, at least on one, so you can explain to the students how to do it on their ipad. From there the students can access any part of the book. This is especially good for classic literature, since the majority of those books are free.

= Firefly = = = = = **Purpose of the app**: Kurzweil for Ipad = = **Review**: Gives access to a variety of books, especially in classic literature. You would have to search (books sorted by author) to see if it is loaded onto the Ipad. The Ipad will then read the book to the student. There is also a place to input a username and password for an account. If you have an account you may have access to do more things. = =
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