Spark App Review - Spark Research

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SPARK App Review Name of App App Description All Here Take attendance by importing rosters- Tap the student's picture once to mark them present, tap twice to mark as absent, or tap three times for tardy. If everyone is there simply tap the "All Here" button to mark them all as present. Anatomy 4D Explore the human body in detail, reveals the spatial relationships of our organs, skeleton, muscles, and body systems. Highlight organ systems individually. Zoom in to experience each organ or body part in-depth. AR Soccer Using your own feet to kick through the camera, you can now play a virtual juggling game. Point your camera at the ground and kick with your feet to juggle the virtual ball, it's fun and amazing! Aurasma Ball Strike Bit Gym Augmented reality app to bring tagged images, objects and even physical locations to life with interactive digital content, such as video, animations and 3D scenes. Lets you create and share your own augmented reality. Use Aurasma to get creative and share digital content in a new way. Simply stand in front of your device's camera and start having fun while burning calories! You are motivated and challenged by this fitness application, where you use your body to twist, turn, kick, hit and jump to make the balls explode. BallStrike makes working out fun. BitGym upgrades your cardio machine with interactive trails from around the world. Each tour can be streamed instantly or downloaded locally for use during physical activity. BitGym tracks your speed by using the front-facing camera on your device. Place it so you're in view and start exercising. Bracket Maker This is a great program to help you create brackets for tournaments. Able to customize team names for up to 32 teams. Pair teams by seeding or by random draw. Tournaments include single elimination, double elimination, round robin, and consolation tournaments. Bubble Sheet Take formative assessments using an iPad or iPhone. Save time grading students assignments and assessments. Complete during class time or at home. Create and upload assessments in any format. Cardiograph Cardiograph is an application, which measures your heart rate. You can save your results for future reference, and even keep track of multiple people with individual profiles. Class Dojo ClassDojo helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators. Beautiful reports and easy classroom management are all built in and everything syncs across all of your devices! Coach App One Coach My Video Beep test and multiple stopwatch in one app. Start the clock, and time the participants as they arrive, or when they drop out of the Beep test. Simply by tapping their name in the participants List. Allows you to video students in action to provide feedback on their movements and techniques. You can record a video then as you play the video back you can pause it to annotate the the video frame-by-frame. You can draw on the video to illustrate a movement or to point out something that needs correction. Coaches Eye Videos students performing a skill then play it back in slow-mo, backward, or frame by frame. Draw and record a playback with verbal comments. Overall, a really great app for skill assessment allowing instant feedback for students Coin Toss Simulates a coin toss by sliding your finger from the bottom to the top, and watching the coin spin and decide your fate. Decide Now Decide Now! is an app, that allows you to create items on a wheel then spin to come up with a random choice. Users can customize the choices on the wheel and create an unlimited number of wheels. Dropbox Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Access any file you save to your Dropbox from all your computers, iPhone, iPad, and the web. Easy Assessment Easy Assessment is the app teachers and coaches have been waiting for. A simple way to capture and assess performance in any context or situation. Experience a new level of efficiency. Easy Portfolio Easy Portfolio is the best way to create an electronic ePortfolio. A variety of records can be added including; photo and videos, audio recordings or music files, web links to online work/content, notes & text entries, digital documents direct from Dropbox or email. Edmoto This social, Facebook-styled platform, allows teachers to continue classroom discussions outside of class, answer questions, and check for understanding. Teachers can connect students to resources and tools that will help them better understand material, also personally measure student progress. Educreations Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Diagram a sports plays through voice recording, realistic digital ink, photo imports, and simple sharing through email, Facebook or Twitter. Fitness Tests The app allows for swift reference of over 30 fitness tests from aerobic capacity, through to flexibility. Upon selecting your test you will be provided with the aim, equipment, procedure and the norm standards so that you can easily and accurately complete the tests you desire. FitnessHD This app provides tools for teachers and students to improve their health by tracking their progress through the calorie counter and body tracker as well as view diagrams and videos of exercises and workouts. Fotobabble Capture moments in real-time and share with your audience via email, Facebook or Twitter. Fotobabble is faster than video, easier than typing, and more engaging descriptive than sending a picture alone. Giant Scoreboard Go Dance A generic scoreboard, featuring a timer/countdown (editable); Team names (editable); Giant digits, visible from 50ft; fits any sport; Simple, accurate and reliable. The game uses your device’s camera to capture and score your dance moves in real time. Set your iPhone or iPad on an inclined surface, and the game will use your device’s built-in FaceTime camera to judge your dancing while the display shows you which moves to perform next. Google Drive Google Drive is one safe place for all your stuff. Upload photos, videos, documents, and other files that are important to you, then access what you need wherever you go, on any device. Begin with up to 15GB of storage. iBooks Download and read books and pdfs. Organize your books and PDFs into personal Collections that appear on all your devices. Keep bookmarks, highlights, notes, and your current page up-to-date everywhere using iCloud.See all your iBooks downloads right on your bookshelf. iFitness HD An exercise companion app. Provides over 330 exercise images and full text descriptions. Allows tracking of progress for multiple users. Users create customized workouts. Instant Heart Rate Uses your iPhone's camera to detect the pulse from your fingertip. Place the tip of your index finger on the camera, and in a couple of seconds your pulse will be shown. A real-time chart will show you every heart beat. Interval Timer Keep track of your work and rest periods during workouts. Running foreground, background or with device locked. Allows you specify an overall time as well as program High/Low intensity interval and rest time between sets. Play songs from your playlist and play a sound at the end of each cycle. Klikaklu A photo hunt game that uses the device's GPS, camera, and advanced image matching technology. Quickly create and play treasure hunts and share with entire class. Reveal secrets and rewards when they crack your clues. Make Dice You can make dice anywhere anytime on the iPad, iPhone & iPod touch. Features include being able to write a text on dice, add photos on dice, use up to 6 dice with 6 different colors. Also choose from 5 color tables. Customize your movement cubes! Music Workout A unique interval timer that uses your music to inform you when it's time to rest and time to work. Simply set the work and rest duration, along with the number of sets to begin your workout. Then choose to pause music during rest period, quiet music during rest period, or sound the bell at the rest period. My Fitness Pal MyFitnessPal is the fastest and easiest-to-use calorie counter for iPhone and iPad. With the largest food database of any iOS calorie counter and amazingly fast food and exercise entry, remembers your favorites, add multiple foods at once, save and add entire meals, and more. My Media My Tube MyMedia allows you to freely download videos, songs, images and documents right to your device, like in a real browser. MyMedia is absolutely free and allows you to download without any limits. View your files anywhere and anytime. MyMedia is compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. My Tube synchronizes all of your YouTube personal data, allowing you to play YouTube videos at any time and any place. Save videos to a YouTube playlist and watch them later. Easily share your favorite videos using email, Facebook and Twitter. Name Selector A fun (and fair) way to select students for that special task or to answer that question. Add students to a class or group and then the app will randomly select students. All names will be displayed before a name is displayed for a second time. Numbers Numbers is the spreadsheet application for iPad. This App is needed to utilize SPARK iPad Rubrics. Plickers Plickers lets you poll your class for free, without the need for student devices. Just give each student a card (a “paper clicker”), and use your device to scan them to do instant checks-for-understanding, exit tickets, and impromptu polls. Data is automatically saved, student-by-student, at plickers.com. Pocket First Aid & CPR Includes the latest up-do-date emergency information from the American Heart Association. Hundreds of pages with illustrations, including topics such as CPR, choking, bites, bruises, burns, seizures, and more. Pocket Heart Interactive educational App to show how the human heart works in 3D. A great learning tool for cardiac anatomy and physiology. Polar GoFit QR Code Maker View and measure students’ performance by tracking live heart rate information. Helps students stay within target heart rate zones. Students wear heart rate sensor and the data automatically saved and stored. QR Code Maker is an application that is used to create those rectangle codes that you scan with your mobile device. This application will create codes for you and than save it for your photo library. Helps to advertise or display on posters or a website. QR Reader Scan QR codes, barcodes, words and even create PDF files with the "Scan to PDF" feature. Also create your own QR codes. Share using email, MMS, Facebook or Twitter. Remote Scoreboard Turn your iPad's display into a remote-controlled scoreboard for basketball and other sports! Customize team names, game length, and buzzer. Use another device as a remote to control the scoreboard display on your iPad. Snap Guide Share and view step-by-step how to guides. Students can show skill progression or demonstrate the rules of a game by creating their own guides and share through email, Twitter, Facebook and more. Socrative Super Multi Stopwatch Socrative brings smart clickers, student response and ease of use to a whole new level. See everyone's ideasand feedback in real time and interact with the responses. Ask your own poll questions or build a premade activity for your whole class. This app is a multiple timing stopwatch that allows you to manage an unlimited number of competitors. You can customize student's names and switch transparently from multiple to single timing stopwatch. Also use the auto-lap feature to set your finish line and automatically record the laps. Tango Remote Tango Remote is a great way to wirelessly control music and video between all your iOS devices. Connect one device to another IOS device, speaker, stereo, or TV and use another to play, pause, skip, adjust volume and more. See your playlists and choose your song. Teacher's Assistant Team Shake Team Snap Document student actions and achievements in the classroom. The app stores the name of the infraction/accolade, date, time, and where it occurred, any pictures you attached, which class period, a detailed description, what teacher action was issued, and whether the parent had been notified. Team Shake helps teachers to partner students and choose teams. Instead of a hat and scraps of paper, the user enters names in the app and give it a shake. The screen will then display a random set of color-coded teams. These teams can immediately be used for game play or saved via email. Helps with the day-to-day organization and communication of a team or group. Keep track of your team with TeamSnap’s Schedule, Roster, Messaging, Photos and more. Other features include refreshment tracking, maps, scores, player availability, and statistics. Timer Tools You get a suite of timers that are super easy to use. Timers include: Countdown, Stop Watch, Turn Timer, Seconds Up, Seconds Down, and Interval Timer. Access and set any timer with just a few clicks. Touchcast Type on PDF Creates video tutorials that require users plan, organize, and understand technical procedures. Use as a tool to research information for learning assignments, organizing the content, evaluating self and peers, and communicating information in the classroom and outside. Type on PDF makes filling out PDF forms extremely simple. Users can both type or write on PDF forms and then export them as PDFs via email or to any other app that accepts PDF. This version also allows you to place images from clipboard, camera, or library right on the PDF page. Virtual Active Turns your cardio workout into an outdoor adventure! Exercise through 16 extraordinary locations ensuring that your workout will never be boring. App can tell how hard you're exercising and adjust the video playback speed to synchronize with you. Place on a cardio machine and start exercising.