Imaging MAC Lab for a new school year

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Permalink Reply by Tyler Amidon on May 15, 2011 at 12:55pm

Google Earth.

Google Sketch Up

Kidspiration

Skype

Chrome

Firefox

iWork

iChat

iLife

Remote Desktop

Adobe Reader

Flip4Mac

MS Office

Photo Booth

Quicktime

Real Player

TweetDeck

 

Permalink Reply by Zee Ann Poerio on May 15, 2011 at 6:54pm

Thanks. We have a Mac lab for the students, but the teachers and the classroom computers (2 - 4 per classroom) are all PC.  We are thinking of using Google Apps for next year to make file sharing between the two systems easier.  Are you using Google Apps?  

Permalink Reply by kristen berg on May 17, 2011 at 11:41am

Keynote, Pages, iMovie and GarageBand are a must.  My first graders can do amazing things with Keynote (similiar to PowerPoint) including digital book reports, continent presentatipons and money slideshows.  I also use keynote and iMovie to present information to students.  Pages is simiar to Word.  My students use it to make self protraits, picture sof hteir favorite seasons, diagrams of bees, etc.  Garage Band is great for recording audio books and other podcasts.