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**//Assignment 2: Fifteen Applications//**
The ten content specific educational applications that I found at the iTunes store of value to me and my students include the following:


 * [[image:msmilleripad/spanish_spelling_tips.jpg width="128" height="100" align="center" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spanish-spelling-tips-by-word/id436785093?mt=8"]] || The free **Spanish Spelling Tips** app created by Word Magic Software offers Spanish students a fun, interactive way to explore the complexities of Spanish spelling. Short Spanish spelling rules are organized within a collection of fifty-three groups of rules in six main categories including accents and tricky letters with similar sounds. Compelling examples are linked to specific rules, and the challenging use of the diacritical accent is addressed in a clear, helpful manner for Spanish language learners. ||
 * [[image:msmilleripad/Busuu.jpg width="123" height="90" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-spanish-busuu.com!/id379971531?mt=8%20"]] || The free **Learn Spanish with** **busuu.com** app was developed by a leading online community for world language learning. Busuu offers Spanish students an exciting iPad app to learn Spanish through interactive audio, video, photos, and activities. This app allows students engaging opportunities to practice with the Spanish language organized into thematic mini units. ||


 * [[image:msmilleripad/salsa.png width="118" height="81" align="center" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/salsa-spanish-language-learning/id444645338?mt=8%20"]] || The free **¡Salsa! - Spanish Language Learning Game** app by Mobile Madness LLCView offers students a simple yet fun way to practice their Spanish grammar and vocabulary. Version 1.o contains thirteen vocabulary categories. Choosing among thematic categories, students can practice forming correct Spanish sentences by clicking and dragging words. Correctly formed sentences can be shared with others via Facebook and Twitter. ||


 * [[image:msmilleripad/Spanish_Class_Lite.png width="116" height="76" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spanish-class-lite/id422600410?mt=8"]] || The free **Spanish Class Lite** app hosts an entire first semester of basic Spanish course that combines interactive verb, vocabulary, grammar and listening exercises. This app allows students engaging practice with verb conjugations, vocabulary, grammar, and sentence formation. This curriculum covers the following: present, gerund, and participle verb tenses; 300 vocabulary words sorted into thematic categories, basic grammar structures, and 50+ useful Spanish language phrases. Students can customize the exercises in a fun way that also tracks student progress with descriptive summaries and statistics. ||

|| The free **Spain Travel Guide** app created by Triposo Inc. offers students updated city guides for Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla and many other popular tourist destinations in Spain. Spanish students will complete the Vacations in Spain unit during May and use this app to explore the geography, culture, and attractions of Madrid. Photographs combine with interactive maps to allow users the feel of traveling through Spanish cities, and the option to create personal bookmarks allows travelers to individualize their own virtual city tours. ||


 * [[image:msmilleripad/poetry_creator.png width="122" height="115" align="center" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/poetry-creator-verses-poetry/id371925480?mt=8%20"]] || The free **Poetry Creator** basic app allows students to create instant poetry using the simple drag and drop style to write poems directly on the iPad in a new and creative format. This fresh spin on refrigerator magnet poetry motivates students to apply their creativity without the risk of losing any of the magnets. Using the screenshot and share options students can share their poems with one another quickly and easily and collaborate in their poetry writing. ||


 * [[image:msmilleripad/practice_english_grammar.png width="119" height="88" align="center" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/practice-english-grammar-2/id490759167?mt=8"]] || The free **Practice English Grammar 2** app created by CrowdUniView allows Language Arts students an interactive way to practice English by following the age-old principle “Practice makes perfect.” This app contains over 500 questions to practice English grammar in an individualized format that includes tests, flashcards, articles, and statistics. Students will be able to review and study the grammatical concepts that would best meet their own language needs. ||


 * [[image:msmilleripad/wiseHopper.jpg width="123" height="105" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wisehopper/id484781040?mt=8"]] || The free **wiseHopper** app created by Ganomaly, Inc. cleverly disguises learning, math, vocabulary, and grammar review within a game. This interactive app allows students to practice their word and grammar knowledge through games in both English and Spanish. Students will enjoy learning while helping the hopping animals to shore by answering questions correctly. Additional incentive to work quickly is to prevent the large bullfrog from jumping on top of the player’s chosen animal of grasshopper, butterfly, bee, cricket, or lightning bug. ||


 * [[image:msmilleripad/jIdioms.jpg width="129" height="97" align="center" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jidioms/id388883185?mt=8"]] || The free app **jIdioms** created by JoretoView simply yet efficiently lists the definitions of over 2,000 idioms from spoken English. This app allows Language Arts students to quickly search for idioms and export them to .CVS format to use later in Microsoft Excel. Students can also e-mail themselves specific idioms and their descriptions for future reference. Using idioms is one way to spice up or flavor students' oral communications both inside and outside the classroom. ||


 * [[image:msmilleripad/Irregular_Verbs.jpg width="136" height="128" align="center" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/english-irregular-verbs-for/id375765038?mt=8%20"]] || The free **English Irregular Verb Dictionary** app for English learners created by ANTA Entertainment View contains over 370 irregular verbs used in modern English. Students simply select the alphabetized set of irregular verbs they wish to study based on their current mastery of verb grammar. Options include listening to audio pronunciations of all three verbs (for example: //go, went, gone//), copying and pasting the set anywhere else on the iPad, and sending each set via text message. ||

Five applications that I can use for personal and professional growth include the following:


 * [[image:msmilleripad/pulse.jpg width="134" height="112" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pulse-news-reader/id371088673"]] || The free **Pulse News for iPad** app encourages teachers and students to read contemporary nonfiction and informative texts. Allowing users to choose and organize their news interest sites within an exciting, attractive format marked by striking visuals, Pulse News offers an innovative way to stay informed. Current events will be much more fun to read about in a personalized format that matches previously explored topics. ||


 * [[image:msmilleripad/dictionary.png width="132" height="104" align="center" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dictionary-com-dictionary/id308750436?mt=8#%20"]] || **Dictionary.com – Dictionary & Thesaurus for iPad ****,** a highly acclaimed free reference app, allows my Language Arts students and me to look up unfamiliar words, search suggested synonyms and antonyms, hear audio pronunciations, and share entries via e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter. One especially innovative feature is the option to tap the screen and speak a word to be searched in the dictionary. This option will be quite useful to students who can pronounce a word but remain unable to spell it correctly in the search bar. Each word in a definition entry can also be tapped to look up its additional meaning. ||


 * [[image:msmilleripad/kobo-app.jpg width="127" height="101" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kobo-1-million-free-books/id301259483?mt=8"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">**Kobo**, a free customizable library iPad app, allows my Spanish and Language Arts students and me to select and download millions of free or inexpensive Spanish and English ebooks. This app also encourages us as readers to collaborate and share our personal book reviews and favorite excerpts with one another on Facebook as well as selecting books that fellow readers can view in our personal libraries. Kobo exposes both students and teachers to new and exciting books and inspires us all to become lifelong readers and enjoyers of literature. ||


 * [[image:msmilleripad/AppStart.jpg width="135" height="88" align="right" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id408984648"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The **AppStart for iPad** (2012 Edition) app created by AppAdvice.com is free for a limited time to celebrate the launch of the new iPad. AppStart offers students and teachers just beginning to use their iPads an extremely useful iPad starter guide and suggested lists of apps to download including a top ten list. As my students and I begin to utilize the iPads in earnest fourth quarter, this app will also teach us inside tips and tricks such as adding six apps in the bottom tray and super fast scrolling and saving images in Safari. ||


 * [[image:msmilleripad/AppsGoneFree.png width="132" height="107" align="center" link="@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/appsgonefree/id470693788?mt=8%20"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The free **AppsGoneFree** app created by AppAdvice.com is an extremely useful app for people who wish to install high quality paid apps for free each day. This app daily features a list of highly rated apps that have reduced their price to free in addition to useful descriptions of how each app can be used. The experts at AppAdvice.com have already helped me to download several valuable paid apps for free! ||