General Purpose Apps
Explain Everything - is a great interactive screencasting whiteboard app that students can use to explain their thinking.
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Chatterpix Kids can make anything talk and it's free. Can be used for biographies where famous people talk about themselves. Great way to practice speaking a foreign language. Can be used to have an animal talk about themselves, etc.
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Green Screen by Do Ink makes it easy to create incredible green screen videos and images right on your iPad. Can be used to make book reviews, travel videos, science videos, etc.
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Haiku Deck is an easy way to create a simple and beautiful presentation. Teachers or students can choose from pre-loaded themes, millions of Creative Commons stock photographs, personal images, charts, graphs, and colors, and then add text to present information slide by slide. Also available as a web app.
NOTE: some creative commons images may not be age appropriate. You can minimize issues by pre-screening search terms. |
iPevo Whiteboard
IPEVO Whiteboard allows you to draw and annotate directly onto real-time camera image from your iPad, images in the Photo Library, or a blank whiteboard.
If you use it as a document camera, click on the camera icon in the upper left hand corner. If you don't need to annotate, you can click on full screen to close the toolbar and get more visibility of your document. |
Shadow Puppet EDU
Shadow Puppet Edu - Easily create videos in the classroom! Students as young as five can make videos to tell stories, explain ideas, or document their learning. The app makes it easy to find "school project" appropriate images. When you share or export, image credits are automatically added to the end of all videos that include web images and maps, so students can learn about citing their sources. Image citation is on by default and can be disabled in the Shadow Puppet settings menu.
Shadow Puppet EDU Website Graphite Review iTunes Link Shadow Puppet YouTube Tutorial |
FEATURES
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Book Creator
Book Creator for iPad is an amazingly easy to use digital book-making tool. With guidance, even kids in early elementary school grades can use this technology tool to produce and publish their own simple books with images, videos, and audio. (source)
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FEATURES
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MANY WAYS TO SHARE YOUR BOOK
TIPS
How to work collaboratively - so each student can work on a part of the book and then you combine them at the end.
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