iLead+InstituteTools+for+Innovative+Leaders+Summer+2011

//**iLead Institute - Tools for Innovative Leaders**//
Day 1

__What we'll be covering:__
 * 21st Century Leadership Plans - Part 1 (Framework)
 * Building Goals for plan
 * Tools to become a digital 21st century leader
 * iPad out of the box
 * Apps for Digital Storage, collection, and FUN!!! - Dragon Dictation, Evernote, Dropbox, Mover Lite, etc.
 * Setting Up Google Accounts

__Activities:__
 * Syncing devices with PC
 * Verifying Google Accounts
 * adding e-mail accounts
 * Downloading iBooks - Getting PDFs & books
 * create an Evernote account - creating a note
 * Adding files and notes to Dropbox
 * Create a Framework for Observation form - Brainstorm activity

__Agenda:__
 * ** Welcoming Remarks: //Welcome to the Mobile World// **
 * **Goals and Objectives of the iLead Institiute**
 * ** What's in the box **
 * ** Getting connected **
 * **Customizing the look & feel of your iPad**
 * **Tips & Tricks**
 * **Folders & Shelves**
 * ** Books, PDFs and the iPad **
 * ** Lunch **
 * **Tools for Digitizing your data collection**
 * **Evernote App**
 * **Dropbox**
 * **Dragon Dictation**
 * **Google Forms Part 1**
 * ** Reflection **

__Resources:__ //e-Books://
 * ipad_ebook.pdf
 * Meet the iPad ebook.pdf
 * Create Google Docs Form eBook.pdf
 * [|Learning & Leading with Habits of Mind.pdf]
 * [|Reframing Teacher Leadership to Improve Your School.pdf]


 * @http://nyscateworkshop.pbworks.com/w/page/32784528/Agenda
 * //Getting Connected Video Tutorial//
 * Apps School - Facebook group
 * Apple in Education: []
 * Videos from Apple []
 * Download itunes - []
 * APPS for Special Ed Programs: []
 * Digital Roberto: [] Roberto updates and shares new mobile projects and apps being used around the country. Click on his link iMobile where he shares a list of education apps. You will also find other great resources for projects your teachers can implement with there students.
 * Replacing a Pile of Textbooks with an iPad - []
 * Notre Dame eReader Study - []
 * Google docs - http://docs.google.com
 * "WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time." - wordpress.org

Day 2

__What we'll be covering:__ __Activities:__ __Agenda:__ __Resources:__
 * 21st Century Leadership and Action Plans Part 2 (Implementation timeline)
 * Tools to become a digital 21st century leader
 * Apps in the Content Areas
 * Observations and Walk throughs with the iPad
 * Google Suite for mobile devices (Forms, calendars, docs)
 * create an Evernote account - creating a note
 * Adding files and notes to Dropbox
 * Recording voice notes with Dictation
 * Build a 21st century walk through template using Google Forms
 * **Review of Day 1 and Greetings**
 * **Logistics - Getting accounts and Apps set up and downloaded for days activities**
 * **Lunch**
 * **Using Twitter and RSS readers to stay in the now**
 * **The Power of Google Forms to Digitize Observations and Walk throughs - Creation and Mock WT**
 * **Apps in the Content Areas**
 * Principal 2.0 - Becoming the Lead Learner
 * ISTE NETS for Administrators
 * Partnership for 21st Century Skills: [|http://www.21stcenturyskills.org]
 * Top 25 Web 2.0 Tools for Educators: []
 * Admin Learning: Admin Learning
 * MacArthur Foundation, "Digital Media & Learning" []
 * A Summary of Research on the Effectiveness of K-12 Online Learning. iNacol, 2009 []
 * APPAppeal - Diigo Review []

Day 3

__What we'll be covering:__
 * 21st Century Leadeship and Action Plans - Part 3 (Assessment and Long term success Tools)
 * Google Reader RSS
 * Livescribe out of the box
 * iPad App and Livescribe
 * Administrative tools and Livescribe

__Activities:__ __Agenda:__ __Resources:__ https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en&key=t-4kMuXdRwOii1ENhNHz0SQ&hl=en#gid=0 NEWS
 * Adding RSS feeds to stay informed
 * Mock Observation using Livescribe
 * Sharing with School Leaders via Pencasting
 * **Opening Remarks**
 * **Review Day 2**
 * **Building long term success for a Digital Leader**
 * Support Team
 * Alignment to the CEP
 * 
 * **iPad Q & A**
 * **Livescribe Orientation**
 * **Hardware**
 * **Notebooks & Paper **
 * **Notes and recordings**
 * **Smart Pen in Education**
 * **Pencasting App (iPad)**
 * **Livescribe site**
 * **3 Day wrap up - What does this all mean?**
 * **Reflection**
 * [|USA TODAY for iPad]
 * [|NPR for iPad]
 * [|The Weather Channel Max for iPad]
 * [|CBS News for iPad]
 * [|PBS for iPad]

BOOK READER
 * [|iBooks]
 * [|Kindle]
 * [|Inkling]
 * [|Toy Story Read-Along]
 * [|Dragon Dictation]
 * [|QuickVoice® Recorder]

COMMUNICATION
 * [|Flipboard]

ENTERTAINMENT
 * [|Shazam for iPad]
 * [|Pandora Radio]

FILE STORAGE & ACCESS
 * [|Dropbox]
 * [|GoodReader for iPad]- $2.99
 * []
 * [|Google Mobile Ap]p
 * [|Box.net]

UPAD promised smoothness and speed, on top of countless differentiated features from other similar apps. ||
 * **[|AccuWeather]** || Free. ||
 * [|**Adobe Ideas**] || Adobe Ideas is your digital sketchbook, letting you capture and explore ideas anywhere you go. ||
 * [|**Air Video**] || Watch your video collection from your Mac on your iPad..anywhere! ($2.99) ||
 * **[|Bento]** || Bento for iPad can be used as a standalone database app, and it comes with 25 templates for such business purposes as inventory, contact management, and expense tracking. ($4.99) ||
 * [|**Big Calculator**] || Free. ||
 * [|**Big World**] || Big World is the ultimate location organizer and GPS-enabled navigation tool fused into one incredible iPad app! Create custom guides for travel, your favorite spots, your own “Best-of...” lists, your friends, family, or business clients’ Contact addresses, or for any reason you can think of! (Free) ||
 * [|**Chegg**] || Chegg, the #1 textbook rental company, helps students save hundreds of dollars off the price of textbooks. With millions of textbooks to choose from, Chegg has a variety of shipping options, free returns and plants a tree when you rent! (Free app) ||
 * [|**CleanWriter**] || Clean Writer is the minimalist text editor app focused on simplicity, designed for the creative people: bloggers, journalists or writers looking for their muse. A clutter free, Zen-like interface carefully designed for minimal impact on your writing process. ( ||
 * [|**Cloud Calendar**] || Synchs with Google Calendar ($4.99) ||
 * [|**Compass**] || Everyone needs a free compass! (Free) ||
 * [|**Conference Pad**] || Control a presentation on any number of iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches from your device, simultaneously and wirelessly over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Display it seamlessly on one or more external screens or projectors attached to any number of iPad and iPhone 4 devices. ($4.99) ||
 * [|**Connect My Mac**] || Description Connect to your Mac computers from iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch at anytime (Free). There is also a paid version with more functionality. ||
 * [|**CourseNotes**] || CourseNotes is a student's class companion for the iPad! ($4.99) ||
 * __Documents to Go__ || Documents to Go gives the ability to read MS Office and PDF documents, and it also gives the ability to edit them ||
 * [|**Dragon Dictation**] || Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email message. (Free) ||
 * [|**Dropbox**] || Dropbox offers mobile access to shared documents that are stored in a virtual cloud. Sync and share files easily across multiple computers without setting up a costly and complicated IT network. (Free) ||
 * **[|eBoard Meetings]** || The eBOARD Meetings app will enable board members, staff and public to access meeting agendas and packets natively on an iPad. Development and administration of meeting agendas requires a subscription to the eBOARD meetings module. All administration of meeting agendas is done through a web browser. (Free) ||
 * [|**Educational Apps**] || List of all educational apps by title in the iTunes App Store. ||
 * **[|Essay]** || This word processor offers the most essential text formatting options in an intuitive user interface to keep you focused on your text. Documents can automatically be synchronised via the free Dropbox service. ($3.99) ||
 * **[|EverNote]** || From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPhone to your Mac or Windows desktop. ||
 * [|**Flipboard**] || Flipboard is one of a growing category of iPad apps that build you a personal newspaper by grabbing content from your social networks. The difference with Flipboard is that it actually feels like picking up a magazine and flipping through it, but the supersimple interface hides some powerful features. (Free) ||
 * [|**Fotopedia Heritage**] || Get ready for an endless visual journey across the 890 UNESCO World Heritage Sites! (free) ||
 * [|**Free Translator**] || This application provides an interface to the free Google Translate API for many languages including Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Vietnamese. (Free) ||
 * [|**Friendly**] || Some districts and organizations now have Facebook sites. Friendly is a beautiful Facebook experience specially designed for your iPad. (Free) ||
 * [|**GoDocs**] || GoDocs is an app for your google docs on iPad/iPhone/iTouch. You can view your docs much faster and comfortably, use many google docs accounts simultaneously, download all your google docs files on your iPhone/iPad and send them by mail, share them. ($3.99) ||
 * **[|GoodReader]** || super-robust PDF reader with advanced reading, annotating, markup and highlighting capabilities, excellent file manager, TXT file reader and editor, audio/video player, Safari-like viewer for MS Office and iWorks files. ||
 * **[|Google Earth]** || Hold the world in the palm of your hand. With Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world's population and a third of the world's land mass. (Free) ||
 * [|**Google Translate**] || Translate words and phrases between more than 50 languages using Google Translate for iOS. For most languages, you can speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations. (Free) ||
 * [|**GoSkyWatch Planetarium**] || Easily and quickly identify and locate stars, planets, constellations and more with a touch or by simply pointing to the sky. (Free) ||
 * **[|GoToMeeting]** || GoToMeeting is the easiest and most convenient way to attend online meetings – and now you can take it to go! Download the free app and join a meeting on your iPad in seconds just by tapping the link in your invitation email. View slide presentations, design mockups, spreadsheets, reports – whatever meeting presenters choose to share. (Free) ||
 * [|**Groupboard**] || Groupboard turns your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad into a collaborative whiteboard, allowing you to draw and chat in real time with other people anywhere on the internet, even with users using a web browser.(Free) ||
 * [|**HMH Fuse: Algebra 1**] || HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 features the award-winning core content of the Holt McDougal Algebra 1 configured for mobile devices. ||
 * [|**iBook**] || "iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest best-selling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages." (Free) ||
 * [|**IEP Checklist**] || IEP Checklist is a tool for parents and teachers to consider as they develop the IEP. Not every item on the checklist is required by special education regulations. (Free) ||
 * [|**iObserve**] || iObserve is a data collection tool that will help you conduct surveys, complete inspections, judge sporting competitions, observe experiments, appraise items or bid on jobs. Administrators are also using it for teacher evaluations. ($4.99) ||
 * [|**iSwifter**] || View websites that contain flash. It says 'Free' but you really need to buy the paid version ($2.99) ||
 * [|**Join.me**] || Attend your next online meeting on your mobile device with the join.me mobile viewer. View someone’s screen and collaborate in real time, on your time. (Free) ||
 * [|**Keynote**] || Keynote is the powerful presentation app from Apple. ($9.99) ||
 * **[|LucyPhone]** || LucyPhone makes it easy to look up Customer Service numbers and place Customer Service calls. ||
 * **[|MarketDash]** || MarketDash from Yahoo! Finance gives you quick, easy access to your investment portfolios and watch lists, wherever you are. Tap to create a customizable list of stocks that you’d like to follow. Swipe to navigate our interactive comparison charts. And hover over stock prices to view them over different points in time. (Free) ||
 * [|**MaxJournal**] || MaxJournal is a simple and elegant way to make a daily diary or journal. Designed to be easy to use and easy to navigate - it makes it a joy to sit down and get introspective with your diary-writing self. Everything you need is at your fingertips. It's also a scrapbook - you can attach photos and images to your journal entries. ($2.99) ||
 * **[|mBook]** || mBook is the application for Moodle on iPad. ($3.99) ||
 * **[|Microsoft OneNote]** || Microsoft OneNote Mobile is the easy-to-use, powerful note-taking application for all of your ideas, brought to you by Microsoft Office. OneNote Mobile lets you create and view notes and lists whenever you need them. Sync your notes with free Windows Live online storage and access them from virtually anywhere using your phone, PC, or almost any web browser. (Free for a limited time) ||
 * [|**MobileNoter**] || MobileNoter is a powerful and multifunctional note taking application which is able to sync with Microsoft OneNote. Although you can use MobileNoter as a standalone application to take and store your notes, its real power comes into play when you start using it with Microsoft OneNote. (Free) ||
 * **__Mobile RSS Pro__** || Read Google Reader RSS feeds I tried a few free apps, but none of them gave me the functionality I was looking for, and ease of being able to thumb through my subscriptions quickly. That’s where Mobile RSS Pro does an excellent job. I can thumb through the articles even more quickly than I can on my desktop. I can also share what I’m reading very easily through Twitter or Facebook. (2.99) ||
 * [|**MoMa**] || The Museum of Modern Art in New York is home to the world's finest collection of modern and contemporary art. Now you can carry MoMA with you wherever you go. Use the MoMA App to find out about current exhibitions, plan a visit, browse or search tens of thousands of works in the collection, take multimedia tours, or learn about artists and art terms. Take a photo through MoMA Snaps and send it to a friend, or choose your playlist to create a soundtrack for your MoMA visit. (Free) ||
 * [|**mTouch+**] || The best and most functional native iOS app for Moodle with support for all standard Moodle modules. mTouch+ is for students and requires no server side tweaking or installation, you can begin using mTouch+ right away.($2.99) ||
 * **[|MyScratchWork]** || MyScratchWork allows you to take notes and browse the web while having the two side by side to avoid back and forth flipping. It also provides a custom math keyboard. (Free) ||
 * [|**Naturespace Holographic Audio**] || Naturespace Holographic Audio provides an audiophile-class listening experience to all headphone users, including earbuds. I have it, and when the world gets too noisy, I can escape to wome wonderful sounds of nature. (Free) ||
 * [|**Numbers**] || Numbers is the most innovative spreadsheet app ever designed for a mobile device. ($9.99) ||
 * **[|OmniCalc]** || OmniCalc lets you choose from 10 different calculator designs, 19 color schemes and 3 button styles. Includes: • Standard Calculator Functions, • Scientific Calculator Functions, • Statistical Calculator Functions, • Date Math Calculator Functions (Price reduced to Free) ||
 * **[|OverDrive Media Console]** || Description Download library books directly to your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. More than 13,000 libraries worldwide offer eBooks and audiobooks via OverDrive. Easily find your library, download titles on the go, and enjoy. (Free) ||
 * [|**Pages**] || Word processor let you create and edit documents but can import files from the corresponding Microsoft Office applications. ($9.99) ||
 * [|**PDF Reader Pro**] || Macworld review: "PDF Reader Pro ran fast on an iPhone 3GS and never crashed. PDF files look perfect. I recommend it for the ease-of-use, file-upload system, and accurate rendering." ($0.99) ||
 * [|**Penultimate**] || The best handwriting app for iPad. Stylish, powerful, and easy to use, Penultimate encourages you to take notes, keep sketches, or share your next breakthrough idea -- whether you're in the office, on the go, or home on the couch. ($3.99) ||
 * **[|PhotoSynch]** || PhotoSync will transform your photo handling forever. It‘s the first app that makes wireless transfer of your photos/videos from/to your Computer and other devices a breeze. You will never want to use a cable again! ($1.99) ||
 * [|**PhotoTransfer**] || Photo Transfer App allows you to easily download photos from your iPhone to your computer as well as exchange photos from and to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Transfer photos over WiFi, no cables or extra software required. $2.99 ||
 * [|**PlainText**] || For editing text on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. PlainText is a simple text editor with an uncomplicated, paper-like user interface. PlainText allows you to create and organize your documents in folders and sync everything with Dropbox.com. (Free) ||
 * [|**PressReader**] || PressReader brings over 1,500 full-content newspapers from 90 countries in 47 languages to your iPad & iPhone. For a limited time, download PressReader and your first 7 newspaper issues for FREE!* (App is free but subscription fees to newspapers may apply) ||
 * **[|Printopia]** || Printing from your iPhone or iPad is now easier than you've ever imagined. Run Printopia on your Mac to share its printers to any capable iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch running iOS 4.2. Printopia will also add a virtual printer, allowing you to save print-outs to your Mac as PDF files. ($9.95) ||
 * **[|PrintCentral]** || Print to ALL printers. Print direct to most WiFi/Wireless printers without additional software. Print to ALL printers and any document type via your Mac/PC. Print remotely over 3G and in corporate/other networks where WiFi is not available. ||
 * [|**Quick Graph**] || Quick Graph is a powerful, high quality, graphic calculator that takes full advantage of the multitouch display and the powerful graphic capabilities of the iPad and iPhone, both in 2D and 3D. A simple, yet intuitive interface that makes it easy to enter and/or edit equations and visualize them in mathematical notation. (Free) ||
 * [|**QuickOfficeConnect**] || Have full control of creating, editing, formatting, accessing and sharing Microsoft® Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel spreadsheets. ($19.99) ||
 * [|**ReaddleDocs**] || ReaddleDocs is all-in-one document viewer and file manager for iPad. Сatch documents from PC and Mac computers, web sites, email attachments, iDisk, Dropbox and other online file storages and even iPhones. All files are saved to your iPad locally so you can enjoy reading them anywhere! ($4.99) ||
 * [|**Simplenote**] || Simplenote is the fast, clean, synchronized notes app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. When you download Simplenote, you also get access to our free web app and a growing variety of desktop apps. Your notes will sync securely, wirelessly, and automatically in both directions. (Free) ||
 * **[|Smithsonian Channel]** || More than museums, so much more! Stay connected with Smithsonian Channel's original series, documentaries and fun facts — on the go, anytime, anywhere with the Smithsonian Channel app for iPhone and iPod Touch. View full episodes and hundreds of video clips of your favorite Smithsonian Channel programs. (Free) ||
 * [|**SoundPaper**] || SoundPaper is the best way to take notes on your iPad. It tracks what you type and draw while recording audio, so you'll never worry about missing an important detail. ($2.99) ||
 * [|**Spider Solitaire**] || We all need a break now and then! (Free) This iPad version has a fantastic user interface, beautiful graphics and subtle sound effects. ||
 * [|**Splashtop Remote Desktop**] || Enjoy all that your computer has to offer - on your tablet or smart phone. ($1.99) ||
 * [|**Tao**] || TAO (TranslateIt! Online) is an app for one-click translation of texts from one language to another powered by Google online translation engine. Customizable list of source and target languages, support for Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Indonesian, Catalan, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Filipino, Ukrainian (more to come in the future). (Free) ||
 * [|**TeamViewer**] || TeamViewer HD provides easy, fast and secure remote access to PCs and Macs. (Free) ||
 * [|**TextNow**] || Text Nowoffers unlimited free texting and picture messaging. It has been a hit on the iPhone, now it works great on an iPad too. TextNow is available for 99 cents at the App Store. However, users should be aware of additional costs. The download includes just three months of service. For $3.99, an additional one year of service can be purchased from within the app. For $7.99 (which is the best deal) users get a lifetime of texting with no future costs. ||
 * **[|TouchMouse]** || Touch Mouse by Logitech turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless trackpad and keyboard for your computer. (Free) ||
 * UPAD || Equipped with the best handwrite drawing engine in the world, UPAD will surprise you when you start to write on it with a stylus pen or your finger – because it brings a feeling very close to writing on an actual paper!
 * [|**Waken Shaken**] || This new application combines several novel features that are sure to wake you up and get you going. When the alarm sounds, simply SHAKE the device and the alarm turns off. (Free) ||
 * [|**Whiteboard**] || Transform your iPad into a presentation screen with Whiteboard. Whiteboard lets you connect to a TV or projection system using an Apple VGA or composite/component video-out cable and draw directly to an external screen using standard whiteboard markers and erasers. ($1.99) ||
 * **[|Wolfram Alpha]** || Get answers. Access expert knowledge. Wherever you are. Whenever you need it. ($1.99) ||
 * [|**Words With Friends HD**] || Free Scrabble-like game. (Free) ||
 * [|**World Book: This Day in History**] || This Day in History for iPad is an interactive multimedia calendar that displays historical events for the current day or any selected day, along with related media such as photos, illustrations, music, and speeches. You can hear the national anthems of countries on the day they became a nation, listen to presidents’ speeches on the anniversaries of their inaugurations, and play sound clips from famous artists on their birthdays. //(Great for those looking for some tidbits for morning announcements!)// (Free) ||