Graphic Organizers
Popplet Lite Simple brainstorming capabilities Good started appIdea Sketch Good basic graphic organizer.
Popplet (4.99) makes it easy to quickly create a mind map to connect your ideas about a topic.
Connected Mind Mind maps you create via this tool can include a wide variety of multimedia materials including : text, images, shapes, arrows, and you also have access to a set of multiple colors and fonts to choose from. You can create as many maps as you like and save them for free in the cloud storage provided. Connected Mind Using Connected Mind you can create free-form mind maps or use a template to create a mind map. Connected Mind is available to use as a Chrome app, as an Android app, or as an iOS app. video tutorial
Ideament mind maps that can be converted to outline views
GRID With a combination of text, images and more, this app allows users to organize their thinking around a topic using squares on a grid. Customize the size and color of your boxes as you collect your thoughts and conduct research!
Venn Diagram The Venn Diagram app allows users to compare and contrast information in a visually appealing way.
Padlet - sticky notes or noteboards for brainstorming and organizing ideas. 5 Ways to Use Padlet
Lucidchart is a mind mapping tool that I’ve used off and on for a few years. Now you can get the same features on your iPad. The app is easy to use to create flowcharts, mindmaps, and graphic organizers.
Mindmapper currently SimTech Systems has their MindMapper app for iOS available for free in the Appstore. With MindMapper, you have all the usual capabilities of mindmapping software, and you can save an image file of your maps to your Dropbox account
GRID With a combination of text, images and more, this app allows users to organize their thinking around a topic using squares on a grid. Customize the size and color of your boxes as you collect your thoughts and conduct research.
Inkflow is an iPad app for visual thinkers who like to sketch to process what they're hearing, seeing, and learning. Inkflow can be used to sketch mind maps, draw pictures, write free hand, and just about anything else you might do with a pencil and paper. You can organize your Inkflow pages into books. The free version allows you to use black ink only and your books are limited to twenty pages. But you can have as many books as you want in the free version.
T-Charts Pros and Cons helps you organize your thoughts about a question or dilemma. This simple app provides a clean layout in which you can write your pros and cons lists. Each thing that you write on your lists can be given a different weight. Within T-Charts Pros and Cons you can create and manage multiple lists. All of your lists can be emailed to friends for their input and feedback.
Post-it Plus With this free app installed on your iPad you can snap a picture of a collection of physical sticky notes and have them quickly digitized. Once your notes are digitized you can re-arrange them, share them with collaborators, or send them to another application like Dropbox. If you have multiple sets of notes you can combine the best notes into one board through the Post-it Plus iPad app. Watch the video below for a short overview of the app.
Tools 4 Students for iPad (0.99) 25 Graphic organizers
Grafio Lite allows you to design your graphic organizer buy drawing the shapes on
Venn Diagram - The Venn Diagram app allows users to compare and contrast information in a visually appealing way. Sounds like a 21st Century Skill useful from fine arts to applied science.
Lekh Diagram can be used to make diagrams, flow chart, organizational chart, business process diagram, venn diagrams, mind maps and any kind of illustrations. Draw shapes and connections by dragging your finger on iPad and the Lekh Diagram will recognise drawing and convert them into diagrams.
Stickyboard - a whiteboard and sticky-notes for capturing lots of loose information and visualizing their relationships. It's easy to rearrange ideas, see the big picture, and discover important patterns. Stickyboard takes that flexibility and adds the convenience and power of your iPad. Don't worry about losing notes after a meeting.
Simple Mind Easy to use. no graphics or email capabilities.
Tools4Students (0.99) This handy app features 25 graphic organizers for students to use to organize their thinking while reading or preparing to write. Covers all common comprehension skills: cause /effect, main idea/detail, sequence events, pro/con, story elements, characterization, word meaning, plot, KWL and much more. Kids can save to their finished work to the iPad or email them to you. Have kids use it to organize notes while reading or as a pre-write activity.
iCardSort iCardSort is an excellent brainstorming tool that helps you to visually organize ideas quickly and easily. Perfect for the Word Sorts vocabulary strategy, iCardSort allows you to group, order, and explore your possibilities. Can be used as a presentation tool, by groups of students, or individually. Kids can create their own Word Sorts
iBrainstorm Quick and easy to use. Corkboard with line drawing capabilities
iMindMap a workspace for brainstorming ideas and note-taking
IdeaStorm is a nice simple free iPad app for brainstorming/mind mapping. A user can use an abundance of drawing tools to sketch, draw, and paint their ideas on a canvas. They can also save their sketches into stacks for future use.
Sharing Files - Workflow
Air Drop Tutorial | video
ShareDrop is a free service that makes it easy to transfer files between devices without creating any kind of account. To use the service just go to ShareDrop.io in Chrome or Firefox (latest versions) on your laptop, desktop, or mobile device. Then do the same on the device to which you want to transfer your file. As long as both devices are on the same wireless network you can then drag a file into ShareDrop on one device and open it on the other.
Chrome Remote Desktop How to set up makes it possible to access your Mac or PC from any iOS device with an Internet connection.
Google Drive for iPad Google Drive lets you keep all your stuff in one place. Upload all your files from your computer - even the big ones - and you can access them anywhere, including your iPhone or iPad. We get you started with 5 GB free. Although you cannot create or edit presentations you can now view Google Presentations through the Google Drive iOS app. It’s now possible to create student portfolios Set of directions on using the Google Drive iPad app to have students create portfolios. How-to post on the topic here. Guide | another Guide | A Video Guide to Using the Google Drive iPad App | Cheat Sheet for Using Google Drive with iPad
Google Drive Guide
LoiLoNote School is an active learning, teamwork and creativity tool for students. Video overview Instead of switching between multiple apps, this free, cloud-based app lets teachers create, import and share materials. Teachers can share their screen, push assignments, compare answers, share private feedback, monitor students’ activity, or lock their screens and communication. Students can create personalized multimedia ePortfolios, collaborate with peers in real time, accomplish a task or share their screen as they present to the class. website to check out the user-friendly interface and get started with LoiLoNote School. Drawback is that the free version allows only 40 students.
How To Create A Paperless Classroom With Your iPad - good visual guide to using Google Drive with students
How to Privately Share Media from Your iPad via Google DriveHere is a wonderful step by step guide on how teachers can use Google Drive iPad app to create, distribute, submit, grade and return assignments. The guide starts with setting up a Gmail for students...
Dropbox has an option to automatically upload content stored in the camera roll to an account. This could be a simple way for students to easily share their work with you or the class. DropittoMe a free service that works with Drop Box to allow people to upload files to your Drop Box account without giving them access to the contents of your Drop Box account. SendToDropbox With DROPitTOme you can securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox account. With DROPitTOme you get unique upload address: www.dropitto.me/username with password protection. Also you will receive email notification when new file is uploaded. When you don't want to receive any files - simply turn off the upload feature. Dropbox Cheat Sheet
OneDrive is Microsoft's answer to Google Drive, and is the brand’s in-house cloud storage service. Being from Microsoft, OneDrive offers seamless integration with Microsoft Office Online, as well as offline versions. OneDrive’s free account starts you off with a whopping 15 GB of storage, and is available for Apple users. With existing Office 365 users getting 1 TB by default,
Box Box has a clean, simple layout. On Box I can create public and private shared folders to which you can send files that you want others to access. Box on the iPadoffers the same features as Box on the web.
DropVox - Record Voice Memos to Dropbox for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store If you want to record voice memos to Dropbox, Dropvox will do that for you.
Instashare Transfer files the easy way, just drag & drop the file and we will handle the rest. Available for iOS and Mac OS X, support for different systems coming soon.overview It does not use the cloud, so sharing is done over wi fi. It picks up nearby devices to share with. Can share across IOS, Mac, Windows and Android devices.
While a Learning Management System (LMS) is a great tool for disseminating content to students, because of the lack of file structure inherent to iPad, it is not always the best solution for collecting back work created by students. Two FREE systems that work well for closing the loop in elementary classrooms are Edmodo and Schoology - though they do require that each student have an account. With Edmodo, anything in the Camera Roll can be uploaded and added to assignments or notes which can then either be "turned in" or shared. Schoology, on the other hand, includes the ability to submit projects from almost any app. The video from Jennie Magiera provides a great walk-through of workflow with Schoology.
School 4 One helps teachers manage workflow in their one-to-one iPad classrooms. It was designed to make managing classrooms with multiple devices easier for educators. Teachers can share files and assignments with students who can then annotate those documents from within the app and send the final product back to their teachers. Teachers can then assign grades to each piece of work and leave personal feedback for individual students using audio and visual tools.The user-friendly interface of School 4 One lets teachers easily track student progress and see which areas their children need intervention. With this platform teachers can figure out who needs extra help so that they can make informed decisions about their instruction. School 4 One also has pr made content in a few different subject areas that teachers can access and share with students. two classes free which is good for elementary teachers.
Skaffl is a mobile learning platform for classrooms with access to one to one iPad technology. Whether students use the same devices everyday or share them with other classes in a cart, Skaffl works to make one to one instruction easy for teachers and engaging for students. The goal of Skaffl is to keep teachers and students organized through an efficient workflow. Teachers can annotate student work from within the app and provide grades and feedback to students. The build in annotation tool gives students the power to complete their assignment in Skaffl, or they can save work from the many other creative apps that save as PDF or to the camera roll, with support for other file formats coming soon. Teachers can view student assignments by class or invidiual child.
WeLearnedIt is the latest offering from eduClipper. WeLearnedIt offers many of the great features of eduClipper along with additional digital portfolio elements. Through the WeLearnedIt iPad app you and your students can create digital portfolios that contain files from Google Drive, Dropbox, links from the web, images and videos captured with your iPad, and whiteboard videos created within the WeLearnedIt app. Applications for Education
The best aspects of WeLearnedIt are found in the feedback and sharing tools. Teachers can assign grades to elements of students’ digital portfolios. Grading is not limited to assigning scores. Teachers can give written feedback on each submission. Rubrics for assignments are available through the app too. School-wide implementations (a fee-based option) of WeLearnedIt allow teachers and administrators to share assessment data.
Showbie share files including videos and audio files. watch update video
Handouts is a paperless student/teacher platform for tablet-centered classrooms. With this app teachers can create handouts to distribute to students by taking a picture of a paper activity sheet or importing digital files they’ve already made. Teachers can select which handouts they want to distribute and send them to the whole class or individual students. Once students are sent handouts they can open them on their tablet and use their finger or a stylus to complete the activity. After they’ve finished, students can turn in their work straight to their teachers. Teachers can grade student work from within the app and send feedback for kids to review. With Handouts teachers can even select certain pieces of student work to put in a digital portfolio.
Bump Share photos and files by simply bumping two ipads together.
Chirp share files like Bump with a click instead of a bump Must be in the same room.
ShareDrop is a free service that makes it easy to transfer files between devices without creating any kind of account. To use the service just go to ShareDrop.io in Chrome or Firefox (latest versions) on your laptop, desktop, or mobile device. Then do the same on the device to which you want to transfer your file. As long as both devices are on the same wireless network you can then drag a file into ShareDrop on one device and open it on the other.
Chrome Remote Desktop How to set up makes it possible to access your Mac or PC from any iOS device with an Internet connection.
Google Drive for iPad Google Drive lets you keep all your stuff in one place. Upload all your files from your computer - even the big ones - and you can access them anywhere, including your iPhone or iPad. We get you started with 5 GB free. Although you cannot create or edit presentations you can now view Google Presentations through the Google Drive iOS app. It’s now possible to create student portfolios Set of directions on using the Google Drive iPad app to have students create portfolios. How-to post on the topic here. Guide | another Guide | A Video Guide to Using the Google Drive iPad App | Cheat Sheet for Using Google Drive with iPad
Google Drive Guide
LoiLoNote School is an active learning, teamwork and creativity tool for students. Video overview Instead of switching between multiple apps, this free, cloud-based app lets teachers create, import and share materials. Teachers can share their screen, push assignments, compare answers, share private feedback, monitor students’ activity, or lock their screens and communication. Students can create personalized multimedia ePortfolios, collaborate with peers in real time, accomplish a task or share their screen as they present to the class. website to check out the user-friendly interface and get started with LoiLoNote School. Drawback is that the free version allows only 40 students.
How To Create A Paperless Classroom With Your iPad - good visual guide to using Google Drive with students
How to Privately Share Media from Your iPad via Google DriveHere is a wonderful step by step guide on how teachers can use Google Drive iPad app to create, distribute, submit, grade and return assignments. The guide starts with setting up a Gmail for students...
Dropbox has an option to automatically upload content stored in the camera roll to an account. This could be a simple way for students to easily share their work with you or the class. DropittoMe a free service that works with Drop Box to allow people to upload files to your Drop Box account without giving them access to the contents of your Drop Box account. SendToDropbox With DROPitTOme you can securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox account. With DROPitTOme you get unique upload address: www.dropitto.me/username with password protection. Also you will receive email notification when new file is uploaded. When you don't want to receive any files - simply turn off the upload feature. Dropbox Cheat Sheet
OneDrive is Microsoft's answer to Google Drive, and is the brand’s in-house cloud storage service. Being from Microsoft, OneDrive offers seamless integration with Microsoft Office Online, as well as offline versions. OneDrive’s free account starts you off with a whopping 15 GB of storage, and is available for Apple users. With existing Office 365 users getting 1 TB by default,
Box Box has a clean, simple layout. On Box I can create public and private shared folders to which you can send files that you want others to access. Box on the iPadoffers the same features as Box on the web.
DropVox - Record Voice Memos to Dropbox for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store If you want to record voice memos to Dropbox, Dropvox will do that for you.
Instashare Transfer files the easy way, just drag & drop the file and we will handle the rest. Available for iOS and Mac OS X, support for different systems coming soon.overview It does not use the cloud, so sharing is done over wi fi. It picks up nearby devices to share with. Can share across IOS, Mac, Windows and Android devices.
While a Learning Management System (LMS) is a great tool for disseminating content to students, because of the lack of file structure inherent to iPad, it is not always the best solution for collecting back work created by students. Two FREE systems that work well for closing the loop in elementary classrooms are Edmodo and Schoology - though they do require that each student have an account. With Edmodo, anything in the Camera Roll can be uploaded and added to assignments or notes which can then either be "turned in" or shared. Schoology, on the other hand, includes the ability to submit projects from almost any app. The video from Jennie Magiera provides a great walk-through of workflow with Schoology.
School 4 One helps teachers manage workflow in their one-to-one iPad classrooms. It was designed to make managing classrooms with multiple devices easier for educators. Teachers can share files and assignments with students who can then annotate those documents from within the app and send the final product back to their teachers. Teachers can then assign grades to each piece of work and leave personal feedback for individual students using audio and visual tools.The user-friendly interface of School 4 One lets teachers easily track student progress and see which areas their children need intervention. With this platform teachers can figure out who needs extra help so that they can make informed decisions about their instruction. School 4 One also has pr made content in a few different subject areas that teachers can access and share with students. two classes free which is good for elementary teachers.
Skaffl is a mobile learning platform for classrooms with access to one to one iPad technology. Whether students use the same devices everyday or share them with other classes in a cart, Skaffl works to make one to one instruction easy for teachers and engaging for students. The goal of Skaffl is to keep teachers and students organized through an efficient workflow. Teachers can annotate student work from within the app and provide grades and feedback to students. The build in annotation tool gives students the power to complete their assignment in Skaffl, or they can save work from the many other creative apps that save as PDF or to the camera roll, with support for other file formats coming soon. Teachers can view student assignments by class or invidiual child.
WeLearnedIt is the latest offering from eduClipper. WeLearnedIt offers many of the great features of eduClipper along with additional digital portfolio elements. Through the WeLearnedIt iPad app you and your students can create digital portfolios that contain files from Google Drive, Dropbox, links from the web, images and videos captured with your iPad, and whiteboard videos created within the WeLearnedIt app. Applications for Education
The best aspects of WeLearnedIt are found in the feedback and sharing tools. Teachers can assign grades to elements of students’ digital portfolios. Grading is not limited to assigning scores. Teachers can give written feedback on each submission. Rubrics for assignments are available through the app too. School-wide implementations (a fee-based option) of WeLearnedIt allow teachers and administrators to share assessment data.
Showbie share files including videos and audio files. watch update video
Handouts is a paperless student/teacher platform for tablet-centered classrooms. With this app teachers can create handouts to distribute to students by taking a picture of a paper activity sheet or importing digital files they’ve already made. Teachers can select which handouts they want to distribute and send them to the whole class or individual students. Once students are sent handouts they can open them on their tablet and use their finger or a stylus to complete the activity. After they’ve finished, students can turn in their work straight to their teachers. Teachers can grade student work from within the app and send feedback for kids to review. With Handouts teachers can even select certain pieces of student work to put in a digital portfolio.
Bump Share photos and files by simply bumping two ipads together.
Chirp share files like Bump with a click instead of a bump Must be in the same room.
Projection
An Educator’s Guide to Airplay on iPads and Macs
Blackboard Presenter ( 0.99) is an iPad app that you can use not only to mirror your iPad screen to a projector but to turn your whole iPad to blackboard presenter. Using VGA cable, the app sends the blackboard to projector and whatever you do on your iPad will be automatically displayed on the projector.
Reflector mirror your iPhone or iPad to a Mac For example, you might use it to use the projection system connected to your Mac 10.6 or higher
video on using Reflector handout | Video tutorial
Splashtop Classroom launch on your mobile device and turn it into an interactive whiteboard. ‘Use the toolbar to draw, highlight or write over any content. Draw over flipchart backgrounds – or include your own worksheets. Use the spotlight and screen shade tools to keep students focused.’ You can move around the class while still controlling and interacting with students feedback on the lesson. You can even pass control to students and let them express their ideas by annotating and using the whiteboard features. video overview
Stage: Interactive Whiteboard and Document Camera Stage is a teaching and demonstration tool that students and educators can use to share ideas and interact with curriculum. Use the iPad camera to display live video of objects, textbooks, student work, and other projects, and sketch, write, label, or laser point in real-time. With options like storing labels, recording, and wireless connection to a projector via Airplay, Stage makes lessons fully interactive, collaborative, and engaging
AirServer $15.00 (Video Tutorials on Youtube) is a technology that allows you to wirelessly share the screen of your iPad or iPhone on other devices including Mac, PC, and TV. Teachers can use this piece of technology with their students in class to share slides , presentations, and tutorials. AirServer also gives you " the freedom to move around the class with your iPad in hand. AirServer also supports multiple simultaneous connections, so one or more students could mirror their iPads to share their ideas and their work with the rest of the class."
LogMein iPad app and desktop application (Mac or PC) allows for remote access and control of a desktop computer. After creating a LogMeIn account, users can download the free desktop application and begin to remotely control their computer. The free download allows for basic functionality and computer control from the iPad. (LogMeIn Download) The user interface on the iPad is extremely easy to use, and the mouse pointer is offset from where the user touches the iPad to allow precise control over a computer.
Unique Feature: On a MacBook, LogMeIn on the iPad will display the Application Doc, allowing remote iPad control to quickly open new applications on the MacBook.
The Team Viewer app allows the iPad to become a mobile tablet to control any computer that has established a connection between the two devices. Along with the free iPad app, a free download is needed on the computer (free for non-commercial use) to establish a connection between the iPad and computer. (TeamViewer)
Important Note: The computer based program will generate an ID and Password that is entered into the iPad app to take control of the computer remotely.
Air Sketch With Air Sketch Free, you can project live sketches to your students using a local computer. This can be done in three easy steps: First launch Air Sketch, then open the indicated URL in a web browser and now everything you draw appears in the browser as you draw it.
AppleTV Tips for Getting Started
X-Mirage Mirror Everything From Your iOS Devices To Your Mac $16.00
Blackboard Presenter ( 0.99) is an iPad app that you can use not only to mirror your iPad screen to a projector but to turn your whole iPad to blackboard presenter. Using VGA cable, the app sends the blackboard to projector and whatever you do on your iPad will be automatically displayed on the projector.
Reflector mirror your iPhone or iPad to a Mac For example, you might use it to use the projection system connected to your Mac 10.6 or higher
video on using Reflector handout | Video tutorial
Splashtop Classroom launch on your mobile device and turn it into an interactive whiteboard. ‘Use the toolbar to draw, highlight or write over any content. Draw over flipchart backgrounds – or include your own worksheets. Use the spotlight and screen shade tools to keep students focused.’ You can move around the class while still controlling and interacting with students feedback on the lesson. You can even pass control to students and let them express their ideas by annotating and using the whiteboard features. video overview
Stage: Interactive Whiteboard and Document Camera Stage is a teaching and demonstration tool that students and educators can use to share ideas and interact with curriculum. Use the iPad camera to display live video of objects, textbooks, student work, and other projects, and sketch, write, label, or laser point in real-time. With options like storing labels, recording, and wireless connection to a projector via Airplay, Stage makes lessons fully interactive, collaborative, and engaging
AirServer $15.00 (Video Tutorials on Youtube) is a technology that allows you to wirelessly share the screen of your iPad or iPhone on other devices including Mac, PC, and TV. Teachers can use this piece of technology with their students in class to share slides , presentations, and tutorials. AirServer also gives you " the freedom to move around the class with your iPad in hand. AirServer also supports multiple simultaneous connections, so one or more students could mirror their iPads to share their ideas and their work with the rest of the class."
LogMein iPad app and desktop application (Mac or PC) allows for remote access and control of a desktop computer. After creating a LogMeIn account, users can download the free desktop application and begin to remotely control their computer. The free download allows for basic functionality and computer control from the iPad. (LogMeIn Download) The user interface on the iPad is extremely easy to use, and the mouse pointer is offset from where the user touches the iPad to allow precise control over a computer.
Unique Feature: On a MacBook, LogMeIn on the iPad will display the Application Doc, allowing remote iPad control to quickly open new applications on the MacBook.
The Team Viewer app allows the iPad to become a mobile tablet to control any computer that has established a connection between the two devices. Along with the free iPad app, a free download is needed on the computer (free for non-commercial use) to establish a connection between the iPad and computer. (TeamViewer)
Important Note: The computer based program will generate an ID and Password that is entered into the iPad app to take control of the computer remotely.
Air Sketch With Air Sketch Free, you can project live sketches to your students using a local computer. This can be done in three easy steps: First launch Air Sketch, then open the indicated URL in a web browser and now everything you draw appears in the browser as you draw it.
AppleTV Tips for Getting Started
X-Mirage Mirror Everything From Your iOS Devices To Your Mac $16.00
Screen Capture - Screencasting
Comparison of screen casting apps
Review of screencasting apps
How to Screencast Your iPad onto your Mac
Skitch To capture whatever you're currently viewing on your iPad's screen simultaneously press the on/off switch and the center "home" button. Your screen capture will be saved to your iPad's camera roll. After creating my screen capture use Skitch for iPad to draw and type on the image. Using the latest version of Skitch for iPad you can register for an Evernote account and then your images will automatically be saved in Evernote. You can download Skitch for iPad here. Skitch Lesson | Skitch Lesson Ideas
Educreations is an iPad app that turns your iPad into a whiteboard. You can use the app to illustrate concepts and narrate what you're doing on the screen. You can draw images from scratch on the Educreations iPad app or you can upload images and draw on them. users can swipe up and down on the screen to increase the white space available to them instead of having to add a new slideYou can use offline. Your completed lesson can be shared directly to others or made public on the Educreations website. Similar to Show Me iPad app. All three of these free iPad apps could be used to deliver short lessons to students. You could also use these free iPad apps to have students develop and share short lessons with each other and you.
MonoSnop you can use to :
Lightshot Screenshot Allows you to capture any part of your Mac screen. After capturing you can upload picture to prntscr.com server and get nice short link. You can share your screens via Twitter or Facebook. Lightshot allows you to search visual similar images over the Internet.’
Snagit helps you transform the level and quality of your communication with video and images. You can quickly provide better feedback, encourage teamwork, and change the way you work together to get things done. You can capture any image and enhance it with effects or create a quick video of your computer screen. Easily customize any screenshot with effects to fit your needs’.
Know Recorder is a free iPad app and free Android app for creating whiteboard-style instructional videos. With Know Recorder installed on your iPad or Android device you can draw and talk while the app records everything that you do and say. Your video can have multiple pages which is a nice feature when you want to give a multiple step demonstration without having to erase anything. Know Recorder will let you import PDFs and pictures to display and annotate on screen in your instructional video.
Use your iPad as a document camera with the Stage Interactive Whiteboard and Document Camera. With this app, and the help of a dedicated, or DIY, mount you can use your iPad as a document camera, annotate over anything you set under the camera, and even record what you show. Got another $10? Make your own microscope attachment for up to x175 magnification!
VideoScribe Anywhere. It's for classroom activities and teachers to produce quick scribes. VideoScribe is a powerful whiteboard animation tool that enables you to add a variety of items to a whiteboard canvas. 'You can move around the items, add voice-overs and soundtracks and create videos that use different animations and drawing effects to take your audience through your story or topic in a visually engaging way.'
The way VideoScribe works is pretty simple. You add your multimedia items to the whiteboard canvas and VideoScribe will do the rest and turn them into beautiful animated videos. Some of the features provided by this tool include: thousands of professional images to add to your animations, a library of royalty-free original soundtracks, voice recording, adjust drawing times and sequences, export videos to camera roll and many more.
Playback is an excellent iPad app for creating screencasts. This is done by giving a user an interactive whiteboard to edit on. Also, a user can annotate over existing slides for Guided Learning. Best of all, a educator has the option to narrate their recordings which is ideal for Flipping a Classroom or for creating presentations such as a Pecha Kucha. All finished movies can then be exported into mp4 files or uploaded into Dropbox.
Ask3 Both teachers and students can create videos using drawing tools and images. After downloading the app, teachers and students both need to sign up. No email address is required. When teachers create a class they’re given a class code that students will need during the sign up process. Currently, teachers can only create one class. (Take a look at the FAQ’s for more information about current and upcoming features.) There three options. Create, Bulletin Board and Class. In Create, you have access to your iPad’s photo library, or you can take a picture using the built in camera. Drawing tools and shapes are provided as well as a selection of colors for using each of these. Record your video using these tools, press on the up facing arrow in the lower right and the video immediately is posted to the class Bulletin Board. video
ShowMe As a student looking to learn about a particular topic you can search Show Me by topic and subject. As a teacher, you can create your own videos or assign one from the community for students to view. You need to be online to use. If you would rather share your knowledge with your class, you will need to download the free iOS app. Video
educlipper iPad app new features. The most notable of these features is whiteboard recording. This new feature allows you to create explanatory videos in a Khan Academy style or to narrate and annotate an item from your eduClipper library. Complementing the whiteboard recording feature is a new option to download your eduClips to your iPad or to Airdrop them to a computer. The other new eduClipper iPad app features are updated annotation tools and a new notification center. The annotation tools now include options for changing the thickness of your lines, new line and font colors, and new font style choices. The new notification center resembles that of Google+ in that you're able to go back and view all notifications on each of your eduClips.
Monosnap download the version that is appropriate for your device. Once installed you can use Monosnap to capture a portion or all of your screen. Like other screen capture tools you can write on your captured images, draw arrows, and obscure parts of the image.
Stage: Interactive Whiteboard and Document Camera. This app works as a document camera and allows you to switch from a whiteboard, picture background, and camera while leaving text on the screen. It also has a laser pointer feature that allows the user to point out details on the screen without leaving a mark on the image.
Doceri Multiple backgrounds can be selected from a built-in library or you can create your own custom background. There are also lots of drawing tools available, including shapes and arrows. Finished recordings can be sorted into folders, saved to the camera roll, or shared to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. A paid desktop app is available for those looking to annotate a screencast of their desktop from the iPad.
Splashtop Whiteboard allows teachers and students to turn their iPad into an interactive white board. Once connected to their computer over Wifi, they can watch Flash media with fully synchronized video and audio, control PC and Mac applications then annotate lesson content all from an iPad. Now interact with students at their desk or teach from all four corners of the class!
Vittle lets you easily narrate and annotate your photos and PDF slide decks to create highly engaging videos. Some other features that Vittle provides to its users include :
Doodlecast Pro is the easiest way to create presentations on your iPad. The app records your voice as you draw to create quick presentations. Doodlecast Pro saves videos to the camera roll
Stage : Interactive Whiteboard and Document Camera a teaching and demonstration tool that students and educators can use to share ideas and interact with curriculum. Use the iPad camera to display live video of objects, textbooks, student work, and other projects, and sketch, write, label, or laser point in real-time.
Soundnote app ipad It tracks what you type and draw while recording audio, so you'll never worry about missing an important detail. While playing back your recording, just tap a word; SoundNote will jump right to that point in the audio.
Baiboard Visualize, share and collaborate via zoomable, multi-page whiteboard Have students in one room write math problems while others solve them Collectively analyze and annotate a pdf document Work on a graph or chart over and over again
Explain a Website 0.99 This app acts as an internet browser and allows you to record your actions and voice as you navigate a website. You can write all over the screen, discuss features of the website, and save your recording to your iPads Camera Roll. Check out the clip uploaded onto YouTube that gives a quick introduction.
ScratchWork allows students to view Web pages and take notes as they do. Students can then email the PDF of their notes to you or, if they are just writing about a single Web page, they can create a screenshot of the Web page and their summary or comments.
VoiceThread Create and share dynamic conversations around documents, snapshots, diagrams and videos -- basically anything there is to talk about. You can talk, type, and draw right on the screen. VoiceThread takes your conversations to the next level, capturing your presence, not just your comments
Review of screencasting apps
How to Screencast Your iPad onto your Mac
Skitch To capture whatever you're currently viewing on your iPad's screen simultaneously press the on/off switch and the center "home" button. Your screen capture will be saved to your iPad's camera roll. After creating my screen capture use Skitch for iPad to draw and type on the image. Using the latest version of Skitch for iPad you can register for an Evernote account and then your images will automatically be saved in Evernote. You can download Skitch for iPad here. Skitch Lesson | Skitch Lesson Ideas
Educreations is an iPad app that turns your iPad into a whiteboard. You can use the app to illustrate concepts and narrate what you're doing on the screen. You can draw images from scratch on the Educreations iPad app or you can upload images and draw on them. users can swipe up and down on the screen to increase the white space available to them instead of having to add a new slideYou can use offline. Your completed lesson can be shared directly to others or made public on the Educreations website. Similar to Show Me iPad app. All three of these free iPad apps could be used to deliver short lessons to students. You could also use these free iPad apps to have students develop and share short lessons with each other and you.
MonoSnop you can use to :
- Capture full screen, just part of the screen, or a selected window
- Highlight important details with pen, text, arrows and shapes
- Hide private information with our blur tool
- Open snapshots in your favorite external editor
- Drop images on the Monosnap icon to upload them to the cloud
- Upload your snapshot to our storage in one click
- Or save it to your local folder and copy it to clipboard
Lightshot Screenshot Allows you to capture any part of your Mac screen. After capturing you can upload picture to prntscr.com server and get nice short link. You can share your screens via Twitter or Facebook. Lightshot allows you to search visual similar images over the Internet.’
Snagit helps you transform the level and quality of your communication with video and images. You can quickly provide better feedback, encourage teamwork, and change the way you work together to get things done. You can capture any image and enhance it with effects or create a quick video of your computer screen. Easily customize any screenshot with effects to fit your needs’.
Know Recorder is a free iPad app and free Android app for creating whiteboard-style instructional videos. With Know Recorder installed on your iPad or Android device you can draw and talk while the app records everything that you do and say. Your video can have multiple pages which is a nice feature when you want to give a multiple step demonstration without having to erase anything. Know Recorder will let you import PDFs and pictures to display and annotate on screen in your instructional video.
Use your iPad as a document camera with the Stage Interactive Whiteboard and Document Camera. With this app, and the help of a dedicated, or DIY, mount you can use your iPad as a document camera, annotate over anything you set under the camera, and even record what you show. Got another $10? Make your own microscope attachment for up to x175 magnification!
VideoScribe Anywhere. It's for classroom activities and teachers to produce quick scribes. VideoScribe is a powerful whiteboard animation tool that enables you to add a variety of items to a whiteboard canvas. 'You can move around the items, add voice-overs and soundtracks and create videos that use different animations and drawing effects to take your audience through your story or topic in a visually engaging way.'
The way VideoScribe works is pretty simple. You add your multimedia items to the whiteboard canvas and VideoScribe will do the rest and turn them into beautiful animated videos. Some of the features provided by this tool include: thousands of professional images to add to your animations, a library of royalty-free original soundtracks, voice recording, adjust drawing times and sequences, export videos to camera roll and many more.
Playback is an excellent iPad app for creating screencasts. This is done by giving a user an interactive whiteboard to edit on. Also, a user can annotate over existing slides for Guided Learning. Best of all, a educator has the option to narrate their recordings which is ideal for Flipping a Classroom or for creating presentations such as a Pecha Kucha. All finished movies can then be exported into mp4 files or uploaded into Dropbox.
Ask3 Both teachers and students can create videos using drawing tools and images. After downloading the app, teachers and students both need to sign up. No email address is required. When teachers create a class they’re given a class code that students will need during the sign up process. Currently, teachers can only create one class. (Take a look at the FAQ’s for more information about current and upcoming features.) There three options. Create, Bulletin Board and Class. In Create, you have access to your iPad’s photo library, or you can take a picture using the built in camera. Drawing tools and shapes are provided as well as a selection of colors for using each of these. Record your video using these tools, press on the up facing arrow in the lower right and the video immediately is posted to the class Bulletin Board. video
ShowMe As a student looking to learn about a particular topic you can search Show Me by topic and subject. As a teacher, you can create your own videos or assign one from the community for students to view. You need to be online to use. If you would rather share your knowledge with your class, you will need to download the free iOS app. Video
educlipper iPad app new features. The most notable of these features is whiteboard recording. This new feature allows you to create explanatory videos in a Khan Academy style or to narrate and annotate an item from your eduClipper library. Complementing the whiteboard recording feature is a new option to download your eduClips to your iPad or to Airdrop them to a computer. The other new eduClipper iPad app features are updated annotation tools and a new notification center. The annotation tools now include options for changing the thickness of your lines, new line and font colors, and new font style choices. The new notification center resembles that of Google+ in that you're able to go back and view all notifications on each of your eduClips.
Monosnap download the version that is appropriate for your device. Once installed you can use Monosnap to capture a portion or all of your screen. Like other screen capture tools you can write on your captured images, draw arrows, and obscure parts of the image.
Stage: Interactive Whiteboard and Document Camera. This app works as a document camera and allows you to switch from a whiteboard, picture background, and camera while leaving text on the screen. It also has a laser pointer feature that allows the user to point out details on the screen without leaving a mark on the image.
Doceri Multiple backgrounds can be selected from a built-in library or you can create your own custom background. There are also lots of drawing tools available, including shapes and arrows. Finished recordings can be sorted into folders, saved to the camera roll, or shared to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. A paid desktop app is available for those looking to annotate a screencast of their desktop from the iPad.
Splashtop Whiteboard allows teachers and students to turn their iPad into an interactive white board. Once connected to their computer over Wifi, they can watch Flash media with fully synchronized video and audio, control PC and Mac applications then annotate lesson content all from an iPad. Now interact with students at their desk or teach from all four corners of the class!
Vittle lets you easily narrate and annotate your photos and PDF slide decks to create highly engaging videos. Some other features that Vittle provides to its users include :
- Annotate and sketch using the ultra-smooth ink of our proprietary Inkflow Engine,
- Resize and move anything around the page,
- Zoom in to focus on key points,
Doodlecast Pro is the easiest way to create presentations on your iPad. The app records your voice as you draw to create quick presentations. Doodlecast Pro saves videos to the camera roll
Stage : Interactive Whiteboard and Document Camera a teaching and demonstration tool that students and educators can use to share ideas and interact with curriculum. Use the iPad camera to display live video of objects, textbooks, student work, and other projects, and sketch, write, label, or laser point in real-time.
Soundnote app ipad It tracks what you type and draw while recording audio, so you'll never worry about missing an important detail. While playing back your recording, just tap a word; SoundNote will jump right to that point in the audio.
Baiboard Visualize, share and collaborate via zoomable, multi-page whiteboard Have students in one room write math problems while others solve them Collectively analyze and annotate a pdf document Work on a graph or chart over and over again
Explain a Website 0.99 This app acts as an internet browser and allows you to record your actions and voice as you navigate a website. You can write all over the screen, discuss features of the website, and save your recording to your iPads Camera Roll. Check out the clip uploaded onto YouTube that gives a quick introduction.
ScratchWork allows students to view Web pages and take notes as they do. Students can then email the PDF of their notes to you or, if they are just writing about a single Web page, they can create a screenshot of the Web page and their summary or comments.
VoiceThread Create and share dynamic conversations around documents, snapshots, diagrams and videos -- basically anything there is to talk about. You can talk, type, and draw right on the screen. VoiceThread takes your conversations to the next level, capturing your presence, not just your comments
Timelines
myHistro is a timeline builder and map creation tool rolled into one nice package. On myHistro you can build a personal timeline or build a timeline about a theme or event in history. Each event that you place on your timeline can be geolocated using Google Maps. myHistro timelines can be created online or you can use the free iPad app to create events on your timeline. When you first sign into myHistro you will be shown a screen for creating your first event. An event is a stand-alone item. If you want to create a timeline you need to click on your account dashboard then select "stories" to create a story. "Story" is myHistro's name for timelines. Create a story then add events to your story. Each event can include videos, images, text and be geolocated on a map.
LittleBigHistory has a browser friendly interface with an adaptable scale that changes according to the area displayed.
Capzles create multimedia timelines
RWT Timeline (by Read Write Think) an easy drag-n-drop interface and allows users to add linkable images to text text to create a beautiful looking timeline. Also, a user can create their own profile for saving purposes and share via email or print out via a PDF.
Time Toast timeline generator. With this app, students can add images and text; they can also cite their sources and embed the finished product on any of their favorite social networking sites.
LittleBigHistory has a browser friendly interface with an adaptable scale that changes according to the area displayed.
Capzles create multimedia timelines
RWT Timeline (by Read Write Think) an easy drag-n-drop interface and allows users to add linkable images to text text to create a beautiful looking timeline. Also, a user can create their own profile for saving purposes and share via email or print out via a PDF.
Time Toast timeline generator. With this app, students can add images and text; they can also cite their sources and embed the finished product on any of their favorite social networking sites.
Photo Tips
5 Tips for taking pictures with the iPad
"Everyone Can Create: Photo", students will get introduced to a variety of educational photo-based activities that will help them learn new photography skills and explore new learning possibilities using the power of photos. More specifically, they will get to learn how to create: a personified picture, a portrait from the past, a story in a single photo, a moment in motion, a personalized collage, a photo documentary, a portfolio of their favourite photos and many more. We invite you to check the guide out and share with us your feedback on our social media platforms.Cool Long Exposure Trick for Your iPhone Camera Is Really Easy To Do
Keynote for iPad includes drawing tools. You can use these tools to make a cartoon version of a photo by tracing! You can trace with a finger, stylus, or Apple Pencil. Using drawings in your presentations and graphics can give them a friendly and unique look. You can simplify by excluding the photo’s background. And with a drawing, you can change colors and other details–your traced drawing doesn’t have to exactly match the photo you’re tracing. For example, you can trace a map and add your own color coding.
Tip 1: Stretch your fingers to zoom into the slide before drawing. It will be easier to draw when the image is as large as possible.
Tip 2: Drawings in Keynote are vector graphics. That means you can enlarge the drawing and it won’t get pixelated.
Rule of Thirds mini lesson
8 of the Best Smartphone Camera Accessories
App That Turns a Smartphone into a Photo AnimatorEnlight Pixaloop, an app for iOS and Android Seamlessly bridges the gap between still photography and video with tools that anyone can master. To start, users import an image that can benefit from some movement and place arrows, or “paths,” on the screen to define that motion. They then add anchors to create boundaries for the portion they want animated. With their finger, they paint areas to “freeze” and protect from the transformations. For example, they can draw up and down arrows on a flag and then block out the surrounding skyline. Or they can use left and right paths to create flowing water in a pool while leaving the rest of the environment still. After they hit Play, Pixaloop moves the annotated zones of the image along the lines users have drawn. They can experiment with the speed and looping until they get it just right. When they are happy with their creation, users can export it in a range of formats and sizes for personal use or for social media. Costs: Free, with in-app purchases for unlimited access, starting at $3.99.
Camera+ If you want a little extra control while using your camera and iPad camera, have a look at Camera+. It offers you some tools that are missing on the native camera app. Some of the tools include being able to separate exposer and focus, Surprisingly, there are scene modes just like on your digital cameras when taking photos. There are some great image editing tools too, as well as effects and borders for finishing your images.
#hashpic for taking picture notes. It’s a powerful and reliable alternative for using your iPad’s camera to snap pictures of things you want to remember. You no longer have to waste those precious moments scrolling through your camera roll to find pictures you have taken awhile ago. With you can easily grab a photo and add hashtags to it so you can find it effortlessly. You can even import pictures you already have in your camera roll and hashpic them too. 0.99
"Everyone Can Create: Photo", students will get introduced to a variety of educational photo-based activities that will help them learn new photography skills and explore new learning possibilities using the power of photos. More specifically, they will get to learn how to create: a personified picture, a portrait from the past, a story in a single photo, a moment in motion, a personalized collage, a photo documentary, a portfolio of their favourite photos and many more. We invite you to check the guide out and share with us your feedback on our social media platforms.Cool Long Exposure Trick for Your iPhone Camera Is Really Easy To Do
Keynote for iPad includes drawing tools. You can use these tools to make a cartoon version of a photo by tracing! You can trace with a finger, stylus, or Apple Pencil. Using drawings in your presentations and graphics can give them a friendly and unique look. You can simplify by excluding the photo’s background. And with a drawing, you can change colors and other details–your traced drawing doesn’t have to exactly match the photo you’re tracing. For example, you can trace a map and add your own color coding.
Tip 1: Stretch your fingers to zoom into the slide before drawing. It will be easier to draw when the image is as large as possible.
Tip 2: Drawings in Keynote are vector graphics. That means you can enlarge the drawing and it won’t get pixelated.
Rule of Thirds mini lesson
8 of the Best Smartphone Camera Accessories
App That Turns a Smartphone into a Photo AnimatorEnlight Pixaloop, an app for iOS and Android Seamlessly bridges the gap between still photography and video with tools that anyone can master. To start, users import an image that can benefit from some movement and place arrows, or “paths,” on the screen to define that motion. They then add anchors to create boundaries for the portion they want animated. With their finger, they paint areas to “freeze” and protect from the transformations. For example, they can draw up and down arrows on a flag and then block out the surrounding skyline. Or they can use left and right paths to create flowing water in a pool while leaving the rest of the environment still. After they hit Play, Pixaloop moves the annotated zones of the image along the lines users have drawn. They can experiment with the speed and looping until they get it just right. When they are happy with their creation, users can export it in a range of formats and sizes for personal use or for social media. Costs: Free, with in-app purchases for unlimited access, starting at $3.99.
Camera+ If you want a little extra control while using your camera and iPad camera, have a look at Camera+. It offers you some tools that are missing on the native camera app. Some of the tools include being able to separate exposer and focus, Surprisingly, there are scene modes just like on your digital cameras when taking photos. There are some great image editing tools too, as well as effects and borders for finishing your images.
#hashpic for taking picture notes. It’s a powerful and reliable alternative for using your iPad’s camera to snap pictures of things you want to remember. You no longer have to waste those precious moments scrolling through your camera roll to find pictures you have taken awhile ago. With you can easily grab a photo and add hashtags to it so you can find it effortlessly. You can even import pictures you already have in your camera roll and hashpic them too. 0.99
Photo Editing
ToonCamera ToonCamera is an amazing video and photography app that turns your world into a live cartoon. Apply real-time cartoon and art effects to your camera feed, record video, snap photos, and convert existing video and photos from your albums to create instant works of art. Save your creations and share them with friends through email, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Instagram, and YouTube, all from within ToonCamera’
Drawing Photo Editor lets you create artistic drawing-style photos in few easy steps: you simply select an effect, take a shot and save or share it.
Enlight Pixaloop, an app for iOS and Android Seamlessly bridges the gap between still photography and video with tools that anyone can master. To start, users import an image that can benefit from some movement and place arrows, or “paths,” on the screen to define that motion. They then add anchors to create boundaries for the portion they want animated. With their finger, they paint areas to “freeze” and protect from the transformations. For example, they can draw up and down arrows on a flag and then block out the surrounding skyline. Or they can use left and right paths to create flowing water in a pool while leaving the rest of the environment still. After they hit Play, Pixaloop moves the annotated zones of the image along the lines users have drawn. They can experiment with the speed and looping until they get it just right. When they are happy with their creation, users can export it in a range of formats and sizes for personal use or for social media. Costs: Free, with in-app purchases for unlimited access, starting at $3.99.
PhotoScissors lets you remove the background from any picture, not just selfies. Watch this short video (www.freetech4teacers.com)
Sketch Me! Sketch and Cartoon Turn your photos into drawing, cartoons or sketch images in one click to create instant works of art. 19 effects easy to use with full control. Save your creations and share them with your friends through Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, and Email.’
Cartoon Photo Editor Provides users with a fun and easy way to ‘create cartoon style photograph. Some of its features include: a wide vareity of camera filters; beautiful effects that include sketch, cartoon, swirl ect; save photos to social media accounts or photo library, and print photos.
Photo Editing Avairy Nice editing and special effect tools
Pixlr Mobile for Android and iOS.Pixlr Mobile lets you edit your images with eraser tools, cropping tools, drawing and writing tools, and basic exposure adjustments. The app also includes a large selection of collage creation templates
Snapseed extensive photo editing tools.
Pixlr Express Plus provides intuitive tools for cropping your pictures, fixing the light balance, removing red eyes, and changing the contrast of your pictures. Pixlr Express Plus also provides some Instagram-like filters that you can apply to your images. Norequired an account.
Canva Create beautiful designs and professional graphics with Canva. Whether it’s a photo editor, pic collage, logo, invitation or poster maker you’re looking for — Canva makes graphic design easy. Canva is available on your iPhone, iPad and computer so you can create, edit and share your designs when it suits you most.’
Pic Collage (Android PicCollage )Choose from hundreds of photo grid layouts and sizes, exclusive stickers, cute background patterns and textures, and draw on your collages with “Doodle”!’
Adobe Photoshop Express Adobe Photoshop Express Collages feature combines powerful Photoshop editing and quick Style Transfer to help you create studio-caliber collages in just 5-7 taps. Photoshop Express Collages gives you flexibility and control of images ranging from border size, color, individual pan, and zoom.
VanillaPen - Poster maker Vanillapen is a powerful tool that will transform your regular posts into creative posters within seconds. Whether you need to update your status, write a quote, design a poster for your blog, send a photo message or wish someone a happy birthday, Vanillapen is just a tap away.’
Poster Maker Mix and combine unlimited combinations of text and artwork and create the best poster art for your social media channels.’
Pixlr-O-Matic good for photo special effects Easy to add an effect, overlay and border to get that retro, grunge, clean or stylish look, all in just three simple steps. And with more options than any other photo app, you will never be out of new styles.
Fotor Photo Editor gives users the power to edit photos easily. Students can resize, crop, and rotate photos. There is also the option to add effects, frames, texts and stickers to an image. Using Fotor Photo Editor your students can enhance each picture before sharing it with their class or placing it in a digital portfolio. Fotor Photo Editor is free to download and contains in-app purchases for extra effects.
Fotor This is a great tool where users can upload a image and then edit it with an abundance of different tools, effects, etc. Also, a person can create their own digital card through a wide variety of templates as well as beautiful looking collage. This is a very powerful and user friendly site for all your photo editing needs.
Skitch screen capture with editing and drawing on screen tools Good for flashcards
Skitch now allows you to import and annotated single and multiple page PDFs. New stickers and call-outs have been added to Skitch as well. If you're an Evernote Premium account holder you'll have access to even more features including an annotations summary page. Skitch Lesson Ideas
123D Catch Use your camera to capture the people, places and things around you as amazingly realistic 3D experiences. Capture friends, sculptures, buildings or anything else you can photograph. Automatically transform them into interactive 3D models that can be shared with friends, family, and an ever growing community of 3D photographers.
123 Design Create amazing 3D printable designs, right on your iPad!
123D Sculpt Choose a shape from the library of creatures, humans, vehicles, and more. Then push, pull and paint to make the sculpture your own. When you are done, take snapshots in the camera room or create animated QuickTime turntable movies to upload to YouTube or email to friends.
123 D Creature Create 3D characters with 123D Creature. Design your creature, then sculpt detailed features and paint on skin, fur, feathers, or whatever you imagine. Export your finished creature as an image or 3D model, or have it 3D printed into a real sculpture!
VSCO. The application has a simple interface that lets you play with and manipulate photos using a variety of features, including filters and editing tools like separate focus and exposure rings.
ThingLink allows you to import pictures from your iPad’s camera roll and or take new pictures to turn into interactive images. You can start using the app without creating a ThingLink account. To get started just import a picture from your iPad or take a new picture with your iPad. After selecting a picture tap it to add interactive placemarks. Each placemark that you add through the app can include text and or video links. When you’ve finished adding placemarks you can publish your image publicly or keep it private in your ThingLink account
65 Ways to Use Thinglink
Dermander Create Panoramic Photos 1.99
Bill Atkinson PhotoCard Postcard create custom-designed postcards including text
Trading Cards s app allows kids and teens a unique way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters. Create trading cards for any number of categories, including:
• Fictional person, Real person, Fictional place, Real place, Object, Event, Vocabulary word
Photography Assignment Generator could be a helpful iPad and iPhone app for photography teachers and students or anyone else interested in taking better pictures. The app provides users with assignments that are designed to help them learn about various elements of photography. The assignments range from using different camera settings like shutter speed and white balance to creative composition prompts. Each assignment includes a description, basic directions, and some sample images to model the assignment. The apps comes in a free version and in a paid version. The paid version includes more assignment prompts.
Smilebox Turn iPhone photos into creations that come to life and tell a story—in seconds. With Smilebox, you can quickly and easily add animation, create collages, apply filters, and enhance photos with captions, frames, stickers, and more.
Toonpaint Create Cartoon paintings from your photos 1.99
TinyTap (K-4) allows you to create simple games based on pictures that you take. The purpose of the games you build is to help young students practice identifying objects and patterns. To create a game on TinyTap you upload pictures or take new pictures and arrange them into a set. Then select each image to create questions about it. To create your question press the record button and start talking. When you have finished talking select a portion of your picture to serve as the answer. sixteen ways to use TinyTap in your classroom.
123D Catch The app makes it possible to turn your pictures into a 3D model that you can manipulate on your iPad. Click here for Autodesk’s official tutorials.
GifBoom: lets you capture and share your moments. It's simple, fast and effortless to create amazing clips with added features. Gifboom combines video and gif editing with social networking features. Multiple capture modes: Stop Motion, Burst, Auto and Timer as well as dozen of vintage real time filters
Moquu: Animate your photos! Create animated GIFs and share them with ease! Moquu helps you simplify the way you do and lets you focus on your creative side to create fantastic loops. On top of that, with our unique MultiMe feature you're going to be able to impress your friends with awesome multilayered photos.
Gif Camera Top #10 Photography App in more than 50 countries! Shoot pics into GIF animations, and easily share to social media. Tap the screen and capture frames from camera, one by one. Tap the play button at any time, to preview your GIF. Feel free to adjust the speed as your animation is playing. Save or share it!
123D Catch Use your camera to capture the people, places and things around you as amazingly realistic 3D experiences. Capture friends, sculptures, buildings or anything else you can photograph. Automatically transform them into interactive 3D models that can be shared with friends, family, and an ever growing community of 3D photographers.
GifMill lets you create animated GIFs and share them via social media. Make animated GIFs with photos from your Camera Roll or take video or photos with your device camera. Adjust the frame speed, and rearrange and delete frames. Save GIFs to your device, or share it via email, text message, Tumblr or Twitter.
PhotoPad This app is very similar to "Instagram", without the social networking aspect. It allows you to edit your photographs using a variety of filters, image adjustments and painting techniques.
Foldify 3.99 is an iPad app that students can use to design all kinds of 3D figures on their iPads. After designing their figures students can print their designs with directions for folding their designs into 3D paper objects. Foldify provides basic templates for objects like cars, houses, and people. Students complete the templates by coloring them in, adding their own pictures to the templates, and adding fun digital stamps to the templates.
Edit & Share app for creating and editing collections of images. By using the app you can crop images, alter the colors of images, and add text notes to your images. You can edit and notate images on an individual basis or create collections of images with notes. Your images can be shared individually or as a group.
Pixntell quickly create simple narrated photo stories. To create a story using Pixntell all that you need to do is start a new project, select some images, place them in order, and then start talking about each of your pictures. You control the timing for each image.When your project is complete you can upload it directly to YouTube, share it on Facebook, or send to friends via email.
Strip Designer 2.99 create comic strips with photos on your iPad
Comic Book 1.99 create comic strips and novels.
Reviews of more photo apps
Drawing Photo Editor lets you create artistic drawing-style photos in few easy steps: you simply select an effect, take a shot and save or share it.
Enlight Pixaloop, an app for iOS and Android Seamlessly bridges the gap between still photography and video with tools that anyone can master. To start, users import an image that can benefit from some movement and place arrows, or “paths,” on the screen to define that motion. They then add anchors to create boundaries for the portion they want animated. With their finger, they paint areas to “freeze” and protect from the transformations. For example, they can draw up and down arrows on a flag and then block out the surrounding skyline. Or they can use left and right paths to create flowing water in a pool while leaving the rest of the environment still. After they hit Play, Pixaloop moves the annotated zones of the image along the lines users have drawn. They can experiment with the speed and looping until they get it just right. When they are happy with their creation, users can export it in a range of formats and sizes for personal use or for social media. Costs: Free, with in-app purchases for unlimited access, starting at $3.99.
PhotoScissors lets you remove the background from any picture, not just selfies. Watch this short video (www.freetech4teacers.com)
Sketch Me! Sketch and Cartoon Turn your photos into drawing, cartoons or sketch images in one click to create instant works of art. 19 effects easy to use with full control. Save your creations and share them with your friends through Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, and Email.’
Cartoon Photo Editor Provides users with a fun and easy way to ‘create cartoon style photograph. Some of its features include: a wide vareity of camera filters; beautiful effects that include sketch, cartoon, swirl ect; save photos to social media accounts or photo library, and print photos.
Photo Editing Avairy Nice editing and special effect tools
Pixlr Mobile for Android and iOS.Pixlr Mobile lets you edit your images with eraser tools, cropping tools, drawing and writing tools, and basic exposure adjustments. The app also includes a large selection of collage creation templates
Snapseed extensive photo editing tools.
Pixlr Express Plus provides intuitive tools for cropping your pictures, fixing the light balance, removing red eyes, and changing the contrast of your pictures. Pixlr Express Plus also provides some Instagram-like filters that you can apply to your images. Norequired an account.
Canva Create beautiful designs and professional graphics with Canva. Whether it’s a photo editor, pic collage, logo, invitation or poster maker you’re looking for — Canva makes graphic design easy. Canva is available on your iPhone, iPad and computer so you can create, edit and share your designs when it suits you most.’
Pic Collage (Android PicCollage )Choose from hundreds of photo grid layouts and sizes, exclusive stickers, cute background patterns and textures, and draw on your collages with “Doodle”!’
Adobe Photoshop Express Adobe Photoshop Express Collages feature combines powerful Photoshop editing and quick Style Transfer to help you create studio-caliber collages in just 5-7 taps. Photoshop Express Collages gives you flexibility and control of images ranging from border size, color, individual pan, and zoom.
VanillaPen - Poster maker Vanillapen is a powerful tool that will transform your regular posts into creative posters within seconds. Whether you need to update your status, write a quote, design a poster for your blog, send a photo message or wish someone a happy birthday, Vanillapen is just a tap away.’
Poster Maker Mix and combine unlimited combinations of text and artwork and create the best poster art for your social media channels.’
Pixlr-O-Matic good for photo special effects Easy to add an effect, overlay and border to get that retro, grunge, clean or stylish look, all in just three simple steps. And with more options than any other photo app, you will never be out of new styles.
Fotor Photo Editor gives users the power to edit photos easily. Students can resize, crop, and rotate photos. There is also the option to add effects, frames, texts and stickers to an image. Using Fotor Photo Editor your students can enhance each picture before sharing it with their class or placing it in a digital portfolio. Fotor Photo Editor is free to download and contains in-app purchases for extra effects.
Fotor This is a great tool where users can upload a image and then edit it with an abundance of different tools, effects, etc. Also, a person can create their own digital card through a wide variety of templates as well as beautiful looking collage. This is a very powerful and user friendly site for all your photo editing needs.
Skitch screen capture with editing and drawing on screen tools Good for flashcards
Skitch now allows you to import and annotated single and multiple page PDFs. New stickers and call-outs have been added to Skitch as well. If you're an Evernote Premium account holder you'll have access to even more features including an annotations summary page. Skitch Lesson Ideas
123D Catch Use your camera to capture the people, places and things around you as amazingly realistic 3D experiences. Capture friends, sculptures, buildings or anything else you can photograph. Automatically transform them into interactive 3D models that can be shared with friends, family, and an ever growing community of 3D photographers.
123 Design Create amazing 3D printable designs, right on your iPad!
123D Sculpt Choose a shape from the library of creatures, humans, vehicles, and more. Then push, pull and paint to make the sculpture your own. When you are done, take snapshots in the camera room or create animated QuickTime turntable movies to upload to YouTube or email to friends.
123 D Creature Create 3D characters with 123D Creature. Design your creature, then sculpt detailed features and paint on skin, fur, feathers, or whatever you imagine. Export your finished creature as an image or 3D model, or have it 3D printed into a real sculpture!
VSCO. The application has a simple interface that lets you play with and manipulate photos using a variety of features, including filters and editing tools like separate focus and exposure rings.
ThingLink allows you to import pictures from your iPad’s camera roll and or take new pictures to turn into interactive images. You can start using the app without creating a ThingLink account. To get started just import a picture from your iPad or take a new picture with your iPad. After selecting a picture tap it to add interactive placemarks. Each placemark that you add through the app can include text and or video links. When you’ve finished adding placemarks you can publish your image publicly or keep it private in your ThingLink account
65 Ways to Use Thinglink
Dermander Create Panoramic Photos 1.99
Bill Atkinson PhotoCard Postcard create custom-designed postcards including text
Trading Cards s app allows kids and teens a unique way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters. Create trading cards for any number of categories, including:
• Fictional person, Real person, Fictional place, Real place, Object, Event, Vocabulary word
Photography Assignment Generator could be a helpful iPad and iPhone app for photography teachers and students or anyone else interested in taking better pictures. The app provides users with assignments that are designed to help them learn about various elements of photography. The assignments range from using different camera settings like shutter speed and white balance to creative composition prompts. Each assignment includes a description, basic directions, and some sample images to model the assignment. The apps comes in a free version and in a paid version. The paid version includes more assignment prompts.
Smilebox Turn iPhone photos into creations that come to life and tell a story—in seconds. With Smilebox, you can quickly and easily add animation, create collages, apply filters, and enhance photos with captions, frames, stickers, and more.
Toonpaint Create Cartoon paintings from your photos 1.99
TinyTap (K-4) allows you to create simple games based on pictures that you take. The purpose of the games you build is to help young students practice identifying objects and patterns. To create a game on TinyTap you upload pictures or take new pictures and arrange them into a set. Then select each image to create questions about it. To create your question press the record button and start talking. When you have finished talking select a portion of your picture to serve as the answer. sixteen ways to use TinyTap in your classroom.
123D Catch The app makes it possible to turn your pictures into a 3D model that you can manipulate on your iPad. Click here for Autodesk’s official tutorials.
GifBoom: lets you capture and share your moments. It's simple, fast and effortless to create amazing clips with added features. Gifboom combines video and gif editing with social networking features. Multiple capture modes: Stop Motion, Burst, Auto and Timer as well as dozen of vintage real time filters
Moquu: Animate your photos! Create animated GIFs and share them with ease! Moquu helps you simplify the way you do and lets you focus on your creative side to create fantastic loops. On top of that, with our unique MultiMe feature you're going to be able to impress your friends with awesome multilayered photos.
Gif Camera Top #10 Photography App in more than 50 countries! Shoot pics into GIF animations, and easily share to social media. Tap the screen and capture frames from camera, one by one. Tap the play button at any time, to preview your GIF. Feel free to adjust the speed as your animation is playing. Save or share it!
123D Catch Use your camera to capture the people, places and things around you as amazingly realistic 3D experiences. Capture friends, sculptures, buildings or anything else you can photograph. Automatically transform them into interactive 3D models that can be shared with friends, family, and an ever growing community of 3D photographers.
GifMill lets you create animated GIFs and share them via social media. Make animated GIFs with photos from your Camera Roll or take video or photos with your device camera. Adjust the frame speed, and rearrange and delete frames. Save GIFs to your device, or share it via email, text message, Tumblr or Twitter.
PhotoPad This app is very similar to "Instagram", without the social networking aspect. It allows you to edit your photographs using a variety of filters, image adjustments and painting techniques.
Foldify 3.99 is an iPad app that students can use to design all kinds of 3D figures on their iPads. After designing their figures students can print their designs with directions for folding their designs into 3D paper objects. Foldify provides basic templates for objects like cars, houses, and people. Students complete the templates by coloring them in, adding their own pictures to the templates, and adding fun digital stamps to the templates.
Edit & Share app for creating and editing collections of images. By using the app you can crop images, alter the colors of images, and add text notes to your images. You can edit and notate images on an individual basis or create collections of images with notes. Your images can be shared individually or as a group.
Pixntell quickly create simple narrated photo stories. To create a story using Pixntell all that you need to do is start a new project, select some images, place them in order, and then start talking about each of your pictures. You control the timing for each image.When your project is complete you can upload it directly to YouTube, share it on Facebook, or send to friends via email.
Strip Designer 2.99 create comic strips with photos on your iPad
Comic Book 1.99 create comic strips and novels.
Reviews of more photo apps
CamFind is a free iOS and Android app that enables you to take a picture of any object and then instantly conduct a web search about it. For example, when I take a picture of my computer bag CamFind instantly starts to search for objects like it as well as web pages about computer bags. I've also used CamFind to take pictures of blocks of text and let CamFind then search for web articles related to the text in my picture.
Applications for Education
One obvious use of CamFind is on field trips or simple walks around your school's neighborhood. Students could use the app to find information about plants while they walk. They could use the app to learn more about a landmark on a field trip.
Another possible use of CamFind is to have students scan passages of text (zoom-in on the page first) and then let CamFind search for related articles. Once they have a list of related articles students could dive deeper by entering search terms into a Google search.
Applications for Education
One obvious use of CamFind is on field trips or simple walks around your school's neighborhood. Students could use the app to find information about plants while they walk. They could use the app to learn more about a landmark on a field trip.
Another possible use of CamFind is to have students scan passages of text (zoom-in on the page first) and then let CamFind search for related articles. Once they have a list of related articles students could dive deeper by entering search terms into a Google search.
Advanced Photo Editing
Advanced Photo Editing Apps This category of apps allows for more complex editing, such as layers, masks and blend modes.. Some will even allow for editing super large files. These apps are more likely than not to have to be paid for. Prices for these full featured apps can run from free
- Photo Studio offers extensive, flexible, real-world functionality in a tight mobile package. Free
- Enlight
($3.99) does everything from simple edits to advanced special effects to beautiful filters and artistic illustrations. You can make masks to selectively apply each effect you use and the app’s non-destructive editing means you can always go back to a previous version. Better yet, you can work with high resolution images without sacrificing quality. - PS Touch If you are an experienced Photoshop user you may want to check out PSTouch, it is made by Adobe. The interface is a bit challenging, but with that you get some selection tools, gradients, cloning, masking, layers and blend modes. There are also some very good tutorials built into the app. This is not to be confused with the free PS Express App. The cost for Photoshop Touch is 9.99.
- Filterstorm There is a 5 layer max, if you make a 6th the bottom 2 merge automatically. The price is 3.99 for the standard app and 14.99 for the Pro version. The difference is in file organization and batch processing. Also the pro is dedicated to the iPad where the regular version is universal.
- Adobe Capture CC, amalgam of Brush CC, Color CC, Hue CC, and Shape CC. The idea behind the app is to allow designers to access various tools to create or capture assets, be it a special color theme, vector graphics, or video filters. Capture CC is also free and available for Android and iOS.
Special Effects
PhotoFunia add a spark to your photos, make them special and more original. In only a few seconds an amazing photo collage is ready, absolutely free. PhotoFunia is so straight forward to use, that anyone, at any age, can use it with ease. Would you like to see your picture on the cover of a magazine or on advertising billboards of Times Square? How amazing will it be to see your portrait on the walls of Louvre or Hermitage museums? Want to try out an astronaut or a Santa suit? Or you prefer something more exotic, just like a dancer at the Rio's carnival? Excited to find out how good you look with a witch's hat or a queen's crown on?
Prisma transforms your photos into artworks using the styles of famous artists: Munk, Picasso as well as world famous ornaments and patterns. A unique combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence helps you turn memorable moments into timeless art.
MSQRD — Live Filters & Face Swap for Video Selfies Transform the way you look through amazing masks and effects! Turn into a panda, zombie or even face swap with your friends. Save and share photos and videos, and now broadcast yourself live to your friends, family and fans on Facebook while wearing your favorite masks.’
Dynamic Light simple to yet professional lighting effects capabilities
Pixlr-O-Matic good for photo special effects Easy to add an effect, overlay and border to get that retro, grunge, clean or stylish look, all in just three simple steps. And with more options than any other photo app, you will never be out of new styles.
MasterFxHD Day Dreaming doesn’t need to stay in your head, Turn Your Imagination Into Full HD Photos. MasterFX is finally here and it will make you the Master of Designers ! MasterFX allows you to literally build a photo and make it come to life. No need to learn fancy photo editing techniques, its simple and suits everyone !
Smilebox Turn iPhone photos into creations that come to life and tell a story—in seconds. With Smilebox, you can quickly and easily add animation, create collages, apply filters, and enhance photos with captions, frames, stickers, and more.
GifBoom: lets you capture and share your moments. It's simple, fast and effortless to create amazing clips with added features. Gifboom combines video and gif editing with social networking features. Multiple capture modes: Stop Motion, Burst, Auto and Timer as well as dozen of vintage real time filters
Moquu: Animate your photos! Create animated GIFs and share them with ease! Moquu helps you simplify the way you do and lets you focus on your creative side to create fantastic loops. On top of that, with our unique MultiMe feature you're going to be able to impress your friends with awesome multilayered photos.
Gif Camera Top #10 Photography App in more than 50 countries! Shoot pics into GIF animations, and easily share to social media. Tap the screen and capture frames from camera, one by one. Tap the play button at any time, to preview your GIF. Feel free to adjust the speed as your animation is playing. Save or share it!
GifMill lets you create animated GIFs and share them via social media. Make animated GIFs with photos from your Camera Roll or take video or photos with your device camera. Adjust the frame speed, and rearrange and delete frames. Save GIFs to your device, or share it via email, text message, Tumblr or Twitter.
Prisma transforms your photos into artworks using the styles of famous artists: Munk, Picasso as well as world famous ornaments and patterns. A unique combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence helps you turn memorable moments into timeless art.
MSQRD — Live Filters & Face Swap for Video Selfies Transform the way you look through amazing masks and effects! Turn into a panda, zombie or even face swap with your friends. Save and share photos and videos, and now broadcast yourself live to your friends, family and fans on Facebook while wearing your favorite masks.’
Dynamic Light simple to yet professional lighting effects capabilities
Pixlr-O-Matic good for photo special effects Easy to add an effect, overlay and border to get that retro, grunge, clean or stylish look, all in just three simple steps. And with more options than any other photo app, you will never be out of new styles.
MasterFxHD Day Dreaming doesn’t need to stay in your head, Turn Your Imagination Into Full HD Photos. MasterFX is finally here and it will make you the Master of Designers ! MasterFX allows you to literally build a photo and make it come to life. No need to learn fancy photo editing techniques, its simple and suits everyone !
Smilebox Turn iPhone photos into creations that come to life and tell a story—in seconds. With Smilebox, you can quickly and easily add animation, create collages, apply filters, and enhance photos with captions, frames, stickers, and more.
GifBoom: lets you capture and share your moments. It's simple, fast and effortless to create amazing clips with added features. Gifboom combines video and gif editing with social networking features. Multiple capture modes: Stop Motion, Burst, Auto and Timer as well as dozen of vintage real time filters
Moquu: Animate your photos! Create animated GIFs and share them with ease! Moquu helps you simplify the way you do and lets you focus on your creative side to create fantastic loops. On top of that, with our unique MultiMe feature you're going to be able to impress your friends with awesome multilayered photos.
Gif Camera Top #10 Photography App in more than 50 countries! Shoot pics into GIF animations, and easily share to social media. Tap the screen and capture frames from camera, one by one. Tap the play button at any time, to preview your GIF. Feel free to adjust the speed as your animation is playing. Save or share it!
GifMill lets you create animated GIFs and share them via social media. Make animated GIFs with photos from your Camera Roll or take video or photos with your device camera. Adjust the frame speed, and rearrange and delete frames. Save GIFs to your device, or share it via email, text message, Tumblr or Twitter.
Turn Pictures into Comics or Cartoons
Sketch Cartoon Me is a easy to use and funny app that lets you convert your photos into sketches or cartoon avatars by applying up to 14 different image effects.
MySketch sketch maker with more than 10 million amazing users! Some of the features it has include:
XnSketch 1.99 is an iPad app that allows you to take pictures on your iPad and turn them into cartoons or add sketch effects to your pictures. You can also use the app to affect the color saturation and clarity of your pictures.
Toonpaint Create Cartoon paintings from your photos 1.99
PICME Moviebook - Your kids can now star in their own PICME cartoons by superimposing their faces onto characters, just like the TV show.
My Cartoon lets you turn your photos and videos into beautiful cartoons. Photos can be taken directly from caera or photo album. My Cartoon also lets you add amazing and funny captions to your cartoons before you share them via email or through popular social media websites.
ToonCamera video and photography app that turns your world into a live cartoon. Apply real-time cartoon and art effects to your camera feed, record video, snap photos, and convert existing video and photos from your albums to create instant works of art. Save your creations and share them with friends through email, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Instagram, and YouTube, all from within ToonCamera.
MySketch sketch maker with more than 10 million amazing users! Some of the features it has include:
- Turn your photos to Beautiful Realistic Sketch
- Create unlimited sketches
- High Resolution
- Choose 20 different type of Sketches
XnSketch 1.99 is an iPad app that allows you to take pictures on your iPad and turn them into cartoons or add sketch effects to your pictures. You can also use the app to affect the color saturation and clarity of your pictures.
Toonpaint Create Cartoon paintings from your photos 1.99
PICME Moviebook - Your kids can now star in their own PICME cartoons by superimposing their faces onto characters, just like the TV show.
My Cartoon lets you turn your photos and videos into beautiful cartoons. Photos can be taken directly from caera or photo album. My Cartoon also lets you add amazing and funny captions to your cartoons before you share them via email or through popular social media websites.
ToonCamera video and photography app that turns your world into a live cartoon. Apply real-time cartoon and art effects to your camera feed, record video, snap photos, and convert existing video and photos from your albums to create instant works of art. Save your creations and share them with friends through email, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Instagram, and YouTube, all from within ToonCamera.
Photo Collages
PicKids is the kid friendly version of PicCollage. create collages using stickers, text, web images and freeform cut-outs! Five Ideas for Using It In Your Classroom
PicCollage create collages using stickers, text, web images and freeform cut-outs! Provides fifteen frames, including a blank layout, for your collage. You can pick from dozens of background colors and patterns to use on your collage. To complete your collage add blocks of text and stickers to it. When you’re done with your project you can save it to your camera roll, share it to your favorite social networks, or email it and print it. How to Use PicCollage - And Five Ideas for Using It In Your Classroom
Photo Collage Creator Good flexibility features
Moldiv Collage tool that is simple to use and has got some great features like text and stamps.
Glogster lets you create multimedia posters.
PicsArt Photo Studio provides you with everything you need to make amazing photo edits, artistic camera shoots, photo collages, create digital drawings, and communicate with other creatives who have joined our mission to beautify the world.
StoryMe lets you design personalized comic strips from your own photos. Create beautiful framed collages with speech bubbles and captions – then apply a unique cartoon filter! Turn individual images into a story in seconds.
PhotoFunia add a spark to your photos, make them special and more original. In only a few seconds an amazing photo collage is ready, absolutely free. PhotoFunia is so straight forward to use, that anyone, at any age, can use it with ease. Would you like to see your picture on the cover of a magazine or on advertising billboards of Times Square? How amazing will it be to see your portrait on the walls of Louvre or Hermitage museums? Want to try out an astronaut or a Santa suit? Or you prefer something more exotic, just like a dancer at the Rio's carnival?
Sadun's Collage You can pinch, zoom, and drag live camera feeds to create art. It also lets you make simple and easy collages of pictures in your library.
PicStitch easily create photographic collages. It is very easy to use and has a userfriendly interface.
Turbo Collage Lite Add text to collages
PicCollage create collages using stickers, text, web images and freeform cut-outs! Provides fifteen frames, including a blank layout, for your collage. You can pick from dozens of background colors and patterns to use on your collage. To complete your collage add blocks of text and stickers to it. When you’re done with your project you can save it to your camera roll, share it to your favorite social networks, or email it and print it. How to Use PicCollage - And Five Ideas for Using It In Your Classroom
Photo Collage Creator Good flexibility features
Moldiv Collage tool that is simple to use and has got some great features like text and stamps.
Glogster lets you create multimedia posters.
PicsArt Photo Studio provides you with everything you need to make amazing photo edits, artistic camera shoots, photo collages, create digital drawings, and communicate with other creatives who have joined our mission to beautify the world.
StoryMe lets you design personalized comic strips from your own photos. Create beautiful framed collages with speech bubbles and captions – then apply a unique cartoon filter! Turn individual images into a story in seconds.
PhotoFunia add a spark to your photos, make them special and more original. In only a few seconds an amazing photo collage is ready, absolutely free. PhotoFunia is so straight forward to use, that anyone, at any age, can use it with ease. Would you like to see your picture on the cover of a magazine or on advertising billboards of Times Square? How amazing will it be to see your portrait on the walls of Louvre or Hermitage museums? Want to try out an astronaut or a Santa suit? Or you prefer something more exotic, just like a dancer at the Rio's carnival?
Sadun's Collage You can pinch, zoom, and drag live camera feeds to create art. It also lets you make simple and easy collages of pictures in your library.
PicStitch easily create photographic collages. It is very easy to use and has a userfriendly interface.
Turbo Collage Lite Add text to collages
Photo Captions
StoryMe lets you design personalized comic strips from your own photos. Create beautiful framed collages with speech bubbles and captions – then apply a unique cartoon filter! Turn individual images into a story in seconds.
Adobe Post lets users add text to images and create posters straight from templates or from scratch.
Phonto text on image with unique paths
Quick- Add text to photos fast IOS The fastest app for adding text to photos. Perfect for busy people who tell, sell, buy, share, organize, memorize, and more.Quick has a super slick, streamlined experience that lets you add stylish text to your photos in the blink of an eye!’
Perfect Captions use this app with primary source documents, but it’s also perfect for reinforcing literacy skills. Have students create captions to record their predictions, to jot questions that they have, or write dialogue for the main character.
Typic IOS Take your photos further with Typic! Add text to your photos and turn them into great design pieces! Add unique filters and effects, add a nice inspiring text, and give your photos a final touch with design elements to make them stand out.
Photo Notes Caption and collage app. One teacher recommends students add captions to demonstrate their understanding of what a fiction character or historical figure might be thinking.
Annotable Some of its features include: ‘All the expected common tools: rectangles, ovals, arrows, lines and texts; fully customizable: colors, sizes, outlines, fonts; stylishly obscure private information with Blur and Pixelation; you can even mark text on screenshots of apps like Notes, Twitter, and Safari. It feels like magic, and can really save the day when you want to share a web page screenshot with some words highlighted but forgot to select the words when you took the screenshot.’
Perfect Captions use this app with primary source documents, but it’s also perfect for reinforcing literacy skills. Have students create captions to record their predictions, to jot questions that they have, or write dialogue for the main character.
Edit & Share app for creating and editing collections of images. By using the app you can crop images, alter the colors of images, and add text notes to your images. You can edit and notate images on an individual basis or create collections of images with notes. Your images can be shared individually or as a group.
Adobe Post lets users add text to images and create posters straight from templates or from scratch.
Phonto text on image with unique paths
Quick- Add text to photos fast IOS The fastest app for adding text to photos. Perfect for busy people who tell, sell, buy, share, organize, memorize, and more.Quick has a super slick, streamlined experience that lets you add stylish text to your photos in the blink of an eye!’
Perfect Captions use this app with primary source documents, but it’s also perfect for reinforcing literacy skills. Have students create captions to record their predictions, to jot questions that they have, or write dialogue for the main character.
Typic IOS Take your photos further with Typic! Add text to your photos and turn them into great design pieces! Add unique filters and effects, add a nice inspiring text, and give your photos a final touch with design elements to make them stand out.
Photo Notes Caption and collage app. One teacher recommends students add captions to demonstrate their understanding of what a fiction character or historical figure might be thinking.
Annotable Some of its features include: ‘All the expected common tools: rectangles, ovals, arrows, lines and texts; fully customizable: colors, sizes, outlines, fonts; stylishly obscure private information with Blur and Pixelation; you can even mark text on screenshots of apps like Notes, Twitter, and Safari. It feels like magic, and can really save the day when you want to share a web page screenshot with some words highlighted but forgot to select the words when you took the screenshot.’
Perfect Captions use this app with primary source documents, but it’s also perfect for reinforcing literacy skills. Have students create captions to record their predictions, to jot questions that they have, or write dialogue for the main character.
Edit & Share app for creating and editing collections of images. By using the app you can crop images, alter the colors of images, and add text notes to your images. You can edit and notate images on an individual basis or create collections of images with notes. Your images can be shared individually or as a group.
Panorama
Photosynth A panorama creation app allowing panorama creation from left to right and also up and down enabling the capture of a full "sphere". Uses interactive capture, advanced stitching, and an immersive viewer.
Tourwrist It allows you take a 360 degree panoramic view of any location and upload it using your iPhone or iPad.
Tourwrist It allows you take a 360 degree panoramic view of any location and upload it using your iPhone or iPad.
Audio Photos
SPOKEnPHOTO Album - take a photo, add your voice, and get a spoken photo album.
Narrable - An innovative site for adding audio to photos to create an engaging slideshow.
Sharalike Making an audio slideshow video on Sharalike is an easy three step process. First, import some pictures into your account. Second, put the pictures into the order in which you want them to appear. Third, select a sound track. Sharalike will do the rest of the video production process for you. Sharalike can be used in your web browser or you can use their free Android app or free iOS app to make a video. video
Imagistory This is a "wordless" picture book where students can record their own narration of the story that they select. As they open the book, the story begins to record through the iPad's microphone. Once a story is finished it can then be saved and played back or record a new version of your story. This is a great app for the younger kids to introduce them to digital storytelling and get their creative juices flowing.
Talking Pictures
Shadow Puppet EDU videos creations can now be up to 30 minutes long and include 100 slides of pictures. Users have the ability to add images from NASA, Flickr Creative Commons, and the Library of Congress’ archive without leaving the app. Shadow Puppet EDU has numerous of educational features that you’ll want to check out. The Map Search option lets kids search for and clip images from maps and satellite images to use in their videos. Users can also add images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The British Library, Wikimedia Commons, and OpenClipart without leaving the app. This easy image search makes video creation simple for students of all ages – there is even automatic image citation that happens at the end of each video.
Shadow Puppet create short audio slideshows. To get started just select a set of pictures from your iPad’s camera roll or take a collection of new pictures with your iPad’s camera. Next arrange your pictures into sequence. After putting your pictures into order you simply tap the record button and talk about each picture for as long as you like. While you are talking you can zoom-in and or re-center your pictures to call attention to an important aspect of your pictures.
Talk n Photos add text and voice recording to album covers as well as each entry (picture) within an album
Funny Movie Maker in you classroom. Use a picture from your camera roll and insert your mouth or entire face to make the image come to life.
Morfo 3D Faces 0.99 create short biographies. Use to create a talking picture of person’s face. You can take a picture of a person or you can take a picture of a picture of a person (think taking a picture of a picture of George Washington). Once you’ve captured the picture you can customize the face by altering the eyes, mouth, and nose to move as you talk. After customizing the picture you can record yourself talking. For example, to create short biographies about historical figures students record themselves talking as if they were the historical figure.
PicView create simple photo stories. PicView allows you to create an audio recording about a picture. You can add narration to pictures that you take with your iPad or pictures that you already have in your iPad’s camera roll. Your images can be enhanced with some simple color filters, border designs, a title, and markers
Pixntell is an iPad app for quickly creating simple narrated photostories. To create a story using Pixntell all that you need to do is start a new project, select some images, place them in order, and then start talking about each of your pictures.
Skqueak Add voice, sketches and live zooming to your pictures to explain their backstory. Tap record, zoom in, and start drawing while you speak.
Morfo quickly turn a photo of your friend's face into a talking, dancing, 3D character
Narrable - An innovative site for adding audio to photos to create an engaging slideshow.
Sharalike Making an audio slideshow video on Sharalike is an easy three step process. First, import some pictures into your account. Second, put the pictures into the order in which you want them to appear. Third, select a sound track. Sharalike will do the rest of the video production process for you. Sharalike can be used in your web browser or you can use their free Android app or free iOS app to make a video. video
Imagistory This is a "wordless" picture book where students can record their own narration of the story that they select. As they open the book, the story begins to record through the iPad's microphone. Once a story is finished it can then be saved and played back or record a new version of your story. This is a great app for the younger kids to introduce them to digital storytelling and get their creative juices flowing.
Talking Pictures
- ChatterPix Kids lets your students put their voice to any image, photo or drawn, with an animated mouth whether it’s a historical figure, a character from their favorite book, or a photo of a friend
- TalkrAllows you to make any picture talk. You can create scenes speaking in your own voice or a modified version of your voice. Also allows yo to make different faces talking to each other. Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+ IOS
- PosePose is a talking photo app that lets you animate any photo using recorded messages. You can either record your own voice or use pre-recorded voice lines. Pose also enables you to change facial expressions, add funny stickers and filters, add voice effects (e.g., Helium, macho, etc), and more. IOS
- Record videos of yourself talking as a celebrity, politician, or even a realistic painting or doll. Then save the video or share it on iMessage, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, or other social media sites. iOS/ Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+
- Talkr Live Talkr Live enables you to 'record videos of yourself talking as a celebrity, politician, or even a realistic painting or doll. Then save the video or share it on iMessage, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, or other social media sites. Talkr Live's advanced 3D algorithms detect your facial movements and apply them to the photo, making you instantly more attractive and popular.' iOS / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+
- SpeakPicBring faces to life using SpeakPic. Simply input text or audio and let the narrator voice does its job. The photo speaks your words and audio. SpeakPic supports multiple languages and you can easily change the voice and add effects to make it funny. Compatibility: Android / Price: Free / Age: 4+
- WomboWombo uses the power of artificial intelligence to make selfies talk. The way it works is simple: upload an image, add a tune from the app's music selection and make your picture sing. You can share your final product with friends and through social platforms Compatibility: iOS and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 12+
- Yakit Simple interface. Similar to ChatterPix. Limits talking time.
- KnowMe lets you string together photos, videos and more to create edited, personalized videos. Just touch and hold a picture as you talk to record your voice, then let go to add the clip to your timeline.
- FaceTalker It works pretty much like ChatterPix Kids. You can use a photo from your Facebook or grab one using your iPad camera and record what you want to say. The photo will speak back the audio recording you input to it. FaceTalker also allows you to record videos to share with others through emails or social media websites.
- 30hands - A user-friendly iOS app for creating a story by adding narrations to photos. Also has an excellent video tutorial to help users create a story.
Shadow Puppet EDU videos creations can now be up to 30 minutes long and include 100 slides of pictures. Users have the ability to add images from NASA, Flickr Creative Commons, and the Library of Congress’ archive without leaving the app. Shadow Puppet EDU has numerous of educational features that you’ll want to check out. The Map Search option lets kids search for and clip images from maps and satellite images to use in their videos. Users can also add images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The British Library, Wikimedia Commons, and OpenClipart without leaving the app. This easy image search makes video creation simple for students of all ages – there is even automatic image citation that happens at the end of each video.
Shadow Puppet create short audio slideshows. To get started just select a set of pictures from your iPad’s camera roll or take a collection of new pictures with your iPad’s camera. Next arrange your pictures into sequence. After putting your pictures into order you simply tap the record button and talk about each picture for as long as you like. While you are talking you can zoom-in and or re-center your pictures to call attention to an important aspect of your pictures.
Talk n Photos add text and voice recording to album covers as well as each entry (picture) within an album
Funny Movie Maker in you classroom. Use a picture from your camera roll and insert your mouth or entire face to make the image come to life.
Morfo 3D Faces 0.99 create short biographies. Use to create a talking picture of person’s face. You can take a picture of a person or you can take a picture of a picture of a person (think taking a picture of a picture of George Washington). Once you’ve captured the picture you can customize the face by altering the eyes, mouth, and nose to move as you talk. After customizing the picture you can record yourself talking. For example, to create short biographies about historical figures students record themselves talking as if they were the historical figure.
PicView create simple photo stories. PicView allows you to create an audio recording about a picture. You can add narration to pictures that you take with your iPad or pictures that you already have in your iPad’s camera roll. Your images can be enhanced with some simple color filters, border designs, a title, and markers
Pixntell is an iPad app for quickly creating simple narrated photostories. To create a story using Pixntell all that you need to do is start a new project, select some images, place them in order, and then start talking about each of your pictures.
Skqueak Add voice, sketches and live zooming to your pictures to explain their backstory. Tap record, zoom in, and start drawing while you speak.
Morfo quickly turn a photo of your friend's face into a talking, dancing, 3D character
Interactive Images
ThingLink allows you to import pictures from your iPad’s camera roll and or take new pictures to turn into interactive images. You can start using the app without creating a ThingLink account. To get started just import a picture from your iPad or take a new picture with your iPad. After selecting a picture tap it to add interactive placemarks. Each placemark that you add through the app can include text and or video links. When you’ve finished adding placemarks you can publish your image publicly or keep it private in your ThingLink account
65 Ways to Use Thinglink
Examples:
Smilebox Turn iPhone photos into creations that come to life and tell a story—in seconds. With Smilebox, you can quickly and easily add animation, create collages, apply filters, and enhance photos with captions, frames, stickers, and more.
Plum’s Creaturizer from PBS Kids lets students create their own creatures. They can snap pictures of the outdoors to show where their creature might live and complete missions. This app pushes students to think about what type of habitat their creature might live and details about their lives.
TinyTap (K-4) allows you to create simple games based on pictures that you take. The purpose of the games you build is to help young students practice identifying objects and patterns. To create a game on TinyTap you upload pictures or take new pictures and arrange them into a set. Then select each image to create questions about it. To create your question press the record button and start talking. When you have finished talking select a portion of your picture to serve as the answer.
123D Catch The app makes it possible to turn your pictures into a 3D model that you can manipulate on your iPad. Click here for Autodesk’s official tutorials.
GifBoom: lets you capture and share your moments. It's simple, fast and effortless to create amazing clips with added features. Gifboom combines video and gif editing with social networking features. Multiple capture modes: Stop Motion, Burst, Auto and Timer as well as dozen of vintage real time filters
Moquu: Animate your photos! Create animated GIFs and share them with ease! Moquu helps you simplify the way you do and lets you focus on your creative side to create fantastic loops. On top of that, with our unique MultiMe feature you're going to be able to impress your friends with awesome multilayered photos.
Gif Camera Top #10 Photography App in more than 50 countries! Shoot pics into GIF animations, and easily share to social media. Tap the screen and capture frames from camera, one by one. Tap the play button at any time, to preview your GIF. Feel free to adjust the speed as your animation is playing. Save or share it!
GifMill lets you create animated GIFs and share them via social media. Make animated GIFs with photos from your Camera Roll or take video or photos with your device camera. Adjust the frame speed, and rearrange and delete frames. Save GIFs to your device, or share it via email, text message, Tumblr or Twitter.
65 Ways to Use Thinglink
Examples:
- Science Lab Safety
Best Places to Live in Canada
WWII Vets: Memories of D-Day
Food and Nutrition
US Regions
Gray Wolves
The Heart
Timeline: District Articles in the News
Smilebox Turn iPhone photos into creations that come to life and tell a story—in seconds. With Smilebox, you can quickly and easily add animation, create collages, apply filters, and enhance photos with captions, frames, stickers, and more.
Plum’s Creaturizer from PBS Kids lets students create their own creatures. They can snap pictures of the outdoors to show where their creature might live and complete missions. This app pushes students to think about what type of habitat their creature might live and details about their lives.
TinyTap (K-4) allows you to create simple games based on pictures that you take. The purpose of the games you build is to help young students practice identifying objects and patterns. To create a game on TinyTap you upload pictures or take new pictures and arrange them into a set. Then select each image to create questions about it. To create your question press the record button and start talking. When you have finished talking select a portion of your picture to serve as the answer.
123D Catch The app makes it possible to turn your pictures into a 3D model that you can manipulate on your iPad. Click here for Autodesk’s official tutorials.
GifBoom: lets you capture and share your moments. It's simple, fast and effortless to create amazing clips with added features. Gifboom combines video and gif editing with social networking features. Multiple capture modes: Stop Motion, Burst, Auto and Timer as well as dozen of vintage real time filters
Moquu: Animate your photos! Create animated GIFs and share them with ease! Moquu helps you simplify the way you do and lets you focus on your creative side to create fantastic loops. On top of that, with our unique MultiMe feature you're going to be able to impress your friends with awesome multilayered photos.
Gif Camera Top #10 Photography App in more than 50 countries! Shoot pics into GIF animations, and easily share to social media. Tap the screen and capture frames from camera, one by one. Tap the play button at any time, to preview your GIF. Feel free to adjust the speed as your animation is playing. Save or share it!
GifMill lets you create animated GIFs and share them via social media. Make animated GIFs with photos from your Camera Roll or take video or photos with your device camera. Adjust the frame speed, and rearrange and delete frames. Save GIFs to your device, or share it via email, text message, Tumblr or Twitter.
Learning the Basics
Daisy the Dinosaur! Learn the basics of computer programming with This free app. It has an easy drag and drop interface that kids of all ages can use to animate Daisy to dance across the screen. Kids will intuitively grasp the basics of objects, sequencing, loops and events by solving this app's challenges.
Beebot: The app makes use of Bee-Bot's keypad functionality and enables children to improve their skills in directional language and programming through sequences of forwards, backwards, left and right 90 degree turns. The app has been developed with 12 levels encouraging progression. Each level is timed and the faster it is completed the more stars you get
LEGO MINDSTORMS Fix the Factory - Learn basic programming and logic skills while issuing commands to help a robot out of a factory maze.
Cato's Hike: A Programming & Logic Odyssey Cato stepped through and discovered that this world unlike his own didn't follow the same rules. Every time he tried to take a step or an action he'd find himself stuck in place. Stuck that is until he finally discovered the rules in this universe: by writing a program for himself he would be able to overcome all obstacles and learn something new along the way!https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/catos-hike-programming-logic/id574335479?mt=8&uo=4
A.L.E.X:is a fun puzzle game and a great way to train your brain. A.L.E.X. helps you think and plan logically as you program your robot A.L.E.X. with a sequence of commands to get through each level from start to finish.
Daisy the Dinosaur! Learn the basics of computer programming with This free app. It has an easy drag and drop interface that kids of all ages can use to animate Daisy to dance across the screen. Kids will intuitively grasp the basics of objects, sequencing, loops and events by solving this app's challenges.
Beebot: The app makes use of Bee-Bot's keypad functionality and enables children to improve their skills in directional language and programming through sequences of forwards, backwards, left and right 90 degree turns. The app has been developed with 12 levels encouraging progression. Each level is timed and the faster it is completed the more stars you get
LEGO MINDSTORMS Fix the Factory - Learn basic programming and logic skills while issuing commands to help a robot out of a factory maze.
Cato's Hike: A Programming & Logic Odyssey Cato stepped through and discovered that this world unlike his own didn't follow the same rules. Every time he tried to take a step or an action he'd find himself stuck in place. Stuck that is until he finally discovered the rules in this universe: by writing a program for himself he would be able to overcome all obstacles and learn something new along the way!https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/catos-hike-programming-logic/id574335479?mt=8&uo=4
A.L.E.X:is a fun puzzle game and a great way to train your brain. A.L.E.X. helps you think and plan logically as you program your robot A.L.E.X. with a sequence of commands to get through each level from start to finish.
Video tutorials apps
Udacity Udacity courses are taught by industry experts from Facebook, Google, Cloudera and MongoDB. The classes range from teaching you the very basics of programming, to more advanced courses that help you make sense of data. Learn to code in HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, Java and other programming languages.
Udemy
Whether you want to get promoted, break into a new industry, start a company, continue your education, further a passion, or just accelerate your life, Udemy has a course to help you get there and get there faster.
Khan Academy
This is the official iPad app of the popular Khan Academy platform. The app provides you access to a wide variety of video lessons covering multiple subject areas including: math, biology, chemistry, science and many more.
Tree House
Learn from over 1000 videos created by expert teachers on web design, coding, business, and much more. The library is continually refreshed with the latest on web technology so you'll never fall behind.
Udacity Udacity courses are taught by industry experts from Facebook, Google, Cloudera and MongoDB. The classes range from teaching you the very basics of programming, to more advanced courses that help you make sense of data. Learn to code in HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, Java and other programming languages.
Udemy
Whether you want to get promoted, break into a new industry, start a company, continue your education, further a passion, or just accelerate your life, Udemy has a course to help you get there and get there faster.
Khan Academy
This is the official iPad app of the popular Khan Academy platform. The app provides you access to a wide variety of video lessons covering multiple subject areas including: math, biology, chemistry, science and many more.
Tree House
Learn from over 1000 videos created by expert teachers on web design, coding, business, and much more. The library is continually refreshed with the latest on web technology so you'll never fall behind.
Computer languages apps
A- L2Code HTML
L2Code HTML teaches you how to code with its detailed instructions, step-by-step practice tutorials, and it even checks your work along the way. Many other websites and apps may give you the instructions, but only L2Code HTML includes the one tool you need to successfully learn HTML and build your webpage - a built-in text editor! This feature allows you to test your code immediately to see if your webpage will appear the way you want it.
L2Code CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the next step after basic HTML. If you want more control over the look and formatting of your webpage, then the L2Code CSS app is for you. It provides step-by-step instructions and practice tutorials to help you master layout, colors, fonts, and more.
iLOGO
LOGO was created in 1967 for educational use, is a computer programming language with functional programming capability. This version of LOGO is an interpreted language, but isn't a lite version. Functional programming with global and local variables is implemented.
A- L2Code HTML
L2Code HTML teaches you how to code with its detailed instructions, step-by-step practice tutorials, and it even checks your work along the way. Many other websites and apps may give you the instructions, but only L2Code HTML includes the one tool you need to successfully learn HTML and build your webpage - a built-in text editor! This feature allows you to test your code immediately to see if your webpage will appear the way you want it.
L2Code CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the next step after basic HTML. If you want more control over the look and formatting of your webpage, then the L2Code CSS app is for you. It provides step-by-step instructions and practice tutorials to help you master layout, colors, fonts, and more.
iLOGO
LOGO was created in 1967 for educational use, is a computer programming language with functional programming capability. This version of LOGO is an interpreted language, but isn't a lite version. Functional programming with global and local variables is implemented.
Game-based coding apps
The Foos is easy to learn and full of playful characters. Everything happens in realtime, so it's easy to experiment.
Stencyl - A wonderful site for creating iOS or Flash based games by putting blocks together (i.e. Scratch).
Cargo Bot
Presenting Cargo-Bot. The first game programmed entirely on iPad® using Codea™. Cargo-Bot is a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates.
My Doodle Game app (gr. 2 - 6) is a fun and creative game making tool, with it you can literally draw your own games and then have hours of fun playing them! Make a scrolling shoot-em-up or a fun platformer, it's so simple to use and the results are instant. The application comes with some pre-made characters and games. You can use these or just draw your own and build up a personal library. You can mix and match heroes and enemies and make some really wacky games. Personalise your games with your own wav sound effects and mp3 music
Pixel Press Floors iPad app that allows students to draw their own video game without programming! Lesson Plans
Gamepress is an app for creating games. It is extremely easy to use while giving you the power necessary to bring your ideas to life. It uses an intelligent drag, drop and connect system for assigning commands to graphical elements in your game.
Flowlab Create your own online & iPhone games (right in your browserLightbot
Lightbot is a programming puzzle game- a game whose game mechanics require using programming to solve levels. Simply guiding a robot to light up tiles and solve levels using commands, Lightbot cultivates a real understanding of procedures, loops, and conditionals for players.
Kodable
Kodable is a free educational iPad game offering a kid-friendly introduction to programming concepts and problem solving. For kids ages 5 and up, and tools for grownups too!
Hakitzu Elite Become the ultimate code warrior and hack your friends with Hakitzu Elite. An epic multiplayer robot combat game, where you learn the basics of coding while battling robots in both single and multiplayer missions. Victory is in the code
Sketch Nation: Creating a game is super simple: Just draw the in game objects, play around with the customization options and before you can say "Sketch Nation Studio," you will be enjoying your own self-created game!
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sketch-nation-studio/id506337826?mt=8&uo=4
Make Games with Us: Build an iOS Game in Your Browser
Teaches you how to makyour first iPhone game! Your game will be written in Objective-C, the language that is used to write all native iPhone apps. You will be using a game engine called Cocos2D that is very popular in the game industry." And all this is done in a browser with an embedded text editor and a Run command that emulates the iPhone environment.
The Foos is easy to learn and full of playful characters. Everything happens in realtime, so it's easy to experiment.
Stencyl - A wonderful site for creating iOS or Flash based games by putting blocks together (i.e. Scratch).
Cargo Bot
Presenting Cargo-Bot. The first game programmed entirely on iPad® using Codea™. Cargo-Bot is a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates.
My Doodle Game app (gr. 2 - 6) is a fun and creative game making tool, with it you can literally draw your own games and then have hours of fun playing them! Make a scrolling shoot-em-up or a fun platformer, it's so simple to use and the results are instant. The application comes with some pre-made characters and games. You can use these or just draw your own and build up a personal library. You can mix and match heroes and enemies and make some really wacky games. Personalise your games with your own wav sound effects and mp3 music
Pixel Press Floors iPad app that allows students to draw their own video game without programming! Lesson Plans
Gamepress is an app for creating games. It is extremely easy to use while giving you the power necessary to bring your ideas to life. It uses an intelligent drag, drop and connect system for assigning commands to graphical elements in your game.
Flowlab Create your own online & iPhone games (right in your browserLightbot
Lightbot is a programming puzzle game- a game whose game mechanics require using programming to solve levels. Simply guiding a robot to light up tiles and solve levels using commands, Lightbot cultivates a real understanding of procedures, loops, and conditionals for players.
Kodable
Kodable is a free educational iPad game offering a kid-friendly introduction to programming concepts and problem solving. For kids ages 5 and up, and tools for grownups too!
Hakitzu Elite Become the ultimate code warrior and hack your friends with Hakitzu Elite. An epic multiplayer robot combat game, where you learn the basics of coding while battling robots in both single and multiplayer missions. Victory is in the code
Sketch Nation: Creating a game is super simple: Just draw the in game objects, play around with the customization options and before you can say "Sketch Nation Studio," you will be enjoying your own self-created game!
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sketch-nation-studio/id506337826?mt=8&uo=4
Make Games with Us: Build an iOS Game in Your Browser
Teaches you how to makyour first iPhone game! Your game will be written in Objective-C, the language that is used to write all native iPhone apps. You will be using a game engine called Cocos2D that is very popular in the game industry." And all this is done in a browser with an embedded text editor and a Run command that emulates the iPhone environment.
Start programming
HopScotch
Hopscotch is programming designed for everyone. Kids can use simple, intuitive building blocks to create games, animations and apps in this colorful, interactive environment. Program your characters to move, draw, and collide with each other, and use shaking, tilting, or even shouting at the iPad to control them. Hopscotch (gr. 4 - 6) Similar to drag and drop Scratch format. Very simple to get started. Hopescotch Challenge is an eBook on Kindle (free) of challenges for students to complete using the Hopscotch can be used to introduce students to basic concepts of software coding and computational thinking. Download Hopscotch, access the official Hopscotch blog, and get more information about the app on www.gethopscotch.com. These challenges are designed for 9 – 11
Codea Codea lets you create games and simulations — or just about any visual idea you have. Turn your thoughts into interactive creations that make use of iPad features like Multi-Touch and the acceleromete
HopScotch
Hopscotch is programming designed for everyone. Kids can use simple, intuitive building blocks to create games, animations and apps in this colorful, interactive environment. Program your characters to move, draw, and collide with each other, and use shaking, tilting, or even shouting at the iPad to control them. Hopscotch (gr. 4 - 6) Similar to drag and drop Scratch format. Very simple to get started. Hopescotch Challenge is an eBook on Kindle (free) of challenges for students to complete using the Hopscotch can be used to introduce students to basic concepts of software coding and computational thinking. Download Hopscotch, access the official Hopscotch blog, and get more information about the app on www.gethopscotch.com. These challenges are designed for 9 – 11
- Overview of Hopscotch on Educade (includes video tutorial & block category descriptions)
- Hopscotch Lesson Ideas is a free guide available for free download in iTunes.
- Preparing for STEM Lessons on Coding with Hopscotch for iPad (by @wfryer - 10 Nov 2013)
- Hopscotch Lesson Plan by Paul Hamilton
- Hopscotch in the Maths Classroom (by @johnstillitano - 5 Nov 2013)
- Official Hopscotch Blog
- Hopscotch for Young Learners (by @techsavvygirl - 30 Nov 2013
- 3 Video Tutorials by @PaulHamilton8: Lesson 1 Moving character, Lesson 2 Leaving a trail, Lesson 3 Adding Another Object
Codea Codea lets you create games and simulations — or just about any visual idea you have. Turn your thoughts into interactive creations that make use of iPad features like Multi-Touch and the acceleromete
Scratch Jr for iPad uses the same drag and drop programming principles used in Scratch. On Scratch Jr students can program multimedia stories and games.
Scratch: .99 This Scratch Maze app contains a number of video tutorials which will guide you through creating your own maze game in the popular programming environment Scratch.
Tynker features stories that students animate by completing a series of programming challenges. The programming happens by organizing a series of blocks that represent commands. In that way it is similar to apps like Daisy the Dinosaur and MIT's App Inventor. Tynker website
LEGO MINDSTORMS Fix the Factory - Learn basic programming and logic skills while issuing commands to help a robot out of a factory maze.
Scratch: .99 This Scratch Maze app contains a number of video tutorials which will guide you through creating your own maze game in the popular programming environment Scratch.
Tynker features stories that students animate by completing a series of programming challenges. The programming happens by organizing a series of blocks that represent commands. In that way it is similar to apps like Daisy the Dinosaur and MIT's App Inventor. Tynker website
LEGO MINDSTORMS Fix the Factory - Learn basic programming and logic skills while issuing commands to help a robot out of a factory maze.
Infographic: This is Why eTextbooks
eReaders
GoodReader a file viewer but also much more. The app supports PDF and TXT files and can handle most other file types: MS Office -.doc, .ppt, .xls,(.docx, pptx, .xlsx), iWork ‘08/’09, HTML, and Safari webarchives, images, and audio/video files. One of its best features is the ability to annotate PDF files. $4.99 pdf/dropbox video
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Blio: offers all the same features of any basic e-reader, and also a few things that make it unique. Through synchronized highlighting and a serial presentation view, the app helps those with reading disabilities make sense of the text, something many other similar apps don't offer.
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Blio: offers all the same features of any basic e-reader, and also a few things that make it unique. Through synchronized highlighting and a serial presentation view, the app helps those with reading disabilities make sense of the text, something many other similar apps don't offer.
Microsoft Office Tools and Apps
PS Office is one of the best free iPad apps you can use to view, edit and create Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents. It is fully compatible with Microsoft Office, PDF and several other document formats. WPS Office also supports a number of file formats that include doc, docx, ppt, xls, xlsx, tif, rtf, pdf and zip.
_Quickoffice allows you to create and to edit Microsoft® Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations on your iPhone and iPad. Once you sign in with your Google Account, work can be saved in Google Drive, which gives you up to 15GB of free storage and lets you access your files from any mobile device or computer.
WPS Office is one of the best free iPad apps you can use to view, edit and create Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents. It is fully compatible with Microsoft Office, PDF and several other document formats. WPS Office also supports a number of file formats that include doc, docx, ppt, xls, xlsx, tif, rtf, pdf and zip.
WPS Office is one of the best free iPad apps you can use to view, edit and create Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents. It is fully compatible with Microsoft Office, PDF and several other document formats. WPS Office also supports a number of file formats that include doc, docx, ppt, xls, xlsx, tif, rtf, pdf and zip.
Children's eBooks
Go Social Studies Go (gr 5 - 8) a series of multimedia books about common social studies topics. The site is divided into four main sections; World Geography, World Religions, World History, and U.S. History. Within each section is a series of booklets containing text, pictures, videos, and links to additional resources.
MeeGenius ebooks for kids. MeeGenius allows users to turn narration on and off for each book. When narration is turned on each word in the story is highlighted as it's read.
Speakaboos offers a growing library of 150+ stories & songs featuring animation, interactivity, music, and read-along text.
Story Time for Kids an interactive story telling app that is bundled with beautifully illustrated story books for children. Each story is bundled with original colorful illustrations, narrations and sound effects! With Story Time, reading is so much fun. All the stories highlight the text as its read along. Children not only read but also learn how to read and pronounce the words clearly.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (free) allows children to read an interactive storybook by themselves, with help, or simply listen to it read aloud.
Goodnight Safari is a beautifully illustrated interactive book that children can explore independently.
Pickatale children’s reading skills, to help them learn about animals, cultures, historical figures and more, and to have fun learning through reading storybooks. The app currently has 200+ interactive stories in English!
The Dog and the Bone is an interactive storybook Children can tap on the screen to hear the words read aloud and play a game that asks them to sequence eventsfrom the story. This app also includes comprehension questions for students to check their understanding of what they have read.
iStoryBooks offers more than two dozen children's books for free. The service offers iOS, Android, and Windows 8 apps. Most of the stories in the app are adaptations of classic children's tales like The Ugly Duckling. The app gives you the option to read each story or to read along with each story while listening to the narrator.
Frotz- Interactive Fiction gr 4- 12 readers interact with the stories by thinking, writing and reflecting.
Storybots students become a character in the story
Dr. Seuss Treasury app gives you easy access to 50+ classic Dr. Seuss books in a single, portable, digital library. Each book is a dynamic and interactive reading experience, complete with custom narration and sound effects, tappable words and pictures, and 3 reading modes that help even the youngest of readers connect with each story.
Collins Big Cat Interactive Books
Short story and part story creation tool It contains a short story that students can read to themselves or have narrated to them. The story contains interactive elements. After reading or listening to the story children can create their own stories using settings and characters that match the theme of the story they just read
.It Was a Cold, Dark Night | The Steam Train | Around the World | My Bike Ride | In The Garden | At the Dump | Playing Story The Farmer's Lunch
Penguin Leveled Reader Students can listen to narration, read along, and manipulate the story. This app comes with one free text from each of the four levels offered and more can be downloaded with in-app purchases.
Aesop's Fables interactive book from the Library of Congress. The book is available to read on the Web, on an iPad, and on an Android device. The book contains more than 140 of Aesop's Fables for children. The level of interactivity varies widely depending upon which story you're reading.
Hideout features six interactive stories based on the sounds and words created with the letter combinations “ap,” “en,” “it,” “op,” “ag,” and “et.” The narrator reads the letters to the student, explains the sound, then challenges the student to create four words with the letter combination. After making four words students move onto an interactive story in which they identify the objects that match the words they just made.
The Dreamhold is an interactive fiction story that is designed to introduce readers to the concept of exploring story via text only (No graphics. No animation. Only words and imagination).
Zalarios Adventure Books interactive ebooks. The adventure series filled with dastardly villains and impossible predicaments? Be immersed in the amazing world of the Zalairos, an extraordinary group of young friends who work together to solve mysteries.
Oxford Owl is a collection of free children’s ebooks for kids ages 3-11. Each ebook has accompanying audio so that students can choose to read along, or read independently. The books also have activities that focus on reading comprehension and story recall.
Dino Store a twenty-three page story about a father and son going to the grocery store and accidentally coming home with dinosaur eggs that hatch at home. On each page of the story children can tap objects to make them change color, make sounds, move the dinosaurs, and discover other fun surprises.
Even Monsters Get Sick is a children’s story that is available in an interactive format for your child’s iPad.
Adventure Books Do you like action – adventure? Do you dream of being stranded on a desert island? Would you like to live in a tree, or experience adventures on the high seas--with pirates, storm, shipwreck, and mysterious creatures? The adventure books of this application feature some of the most memorable legends in literature. These adventure books are full of excitement and lots of information and their actions of the characters will usually pull the reader along.
Tell a Tale - a user verbally tells a story based on the first and last sentence of a story and three images.
Free eBooks: This collection includes many children’s classics in ebook format. You generally have the option to download these texts to your Kindle, iPad, Nook or computer. Video tutorials are included on the page. You may also want to visit our resource: Download 20 Popular High School Books Available as Free eBooks & Audio Books.
DK Readers Kids can scroll through each nonfiction book, identify text features, and read along with the highlighted text. This app comes with five free books and more can be downloaded with in app purchases.
Storia is an ereader app for children's lit. When you download you get 5 free started books. You can create a classroom bookshelf or you can create individual bookshelves for all of your students. This would be great for reading differentiation and providing students with books at their instructional reading levels.
Penguin Leveled Reader for young readers. Students can listen to narration, read along, and manipulate the story. This app comes with one free text from each of the four levels offered
Shout Science is an interactive book that tells stories behind science discoveries. Students can scroll through a timeline and read about famous scientists.
Expedition Insects is a neat interactive book from the Smithsonian Science Education Center. The new book was written to helps students in third through fifth grade learn about insects from all over the world. The book is full of pictures and videos to complement the text. Throughout the book students can click or tap on underlined words to quickly access their definitions. Created for the iBooks platform. It is interactive if you read it on a Mac or on an iPad.
MeeGenius ebooks for kids. MeeGenius allows users to turn narration on and off for each book. When narration is turned on each word in the story is highlighted as it's read.
Speakaboos offers a growing library of 150+ stories & songs featuring animation, interactivity, music, and read-along text.
Story Time for Kids an interactive story telling app that is bundled with beautifully illustrated story books for children. Each story is bundled with original colorful illustrations, narrations and sound effects! With Story Time, reading is so much fun. All the stories highlight the text as its read along. Children not only read but also learn how to read and pronounce the words clearly.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (free) allows children to read an interactive storybook by themselves, with help, or simply listen to it read aloud.
Goodnight Safari is a beautifully illustrated interactive book that children can explore independently.
Pickatale children’s reading skills, to help them learn about animals, cultures, historical figures and more, and to have fun learning through reading storybooks. The app currently has 200+ interactive stories in English!
The Dog and the Bone is an interactive storybook Children can tap on the screen to hear the words read aloud and play a game that asks them to sequence eventsfrom the story. This app also includes comprehension questions for students to check their understanding of what they have read.
iStoryBooks offers more than two dozen children's books for free. The service offers iOS, Android, and Windows 8 apps. Most of the stories in the app are adaptations of classic children's tales like The Ugly Duckling. The app gives you the option to read each story or to read along with each story while listening to the narrator.
Frotz- Interactive Fiction gr 4- 12 readers interact with the stories by thinking, writing and reflecting.
Storybots students become a character in the story
Dr. Seuss Treasury app gives you easy access to 50+ classic Dr. Seuss books in a single, portable, digital library. Each book is a dynamic and interactive reading experience, complete with custom narration and sound effects, tappable words and pictures, and 3 reading modes that help even the youngest of readers connect with each story.
Collins Big Cat Interactive Books
Short story and part story creation tool It contains a short story that students can read to themselves or have narrated to them. The story contains interactive elements. After reading or listening to the story children can create their own stories using settings and characters that match the theme of the story they just read
.It Was a Cold, Dark Night | The Steam Train | Around the World | My Bike Ride | In The Garden | At the Dump | Playing Story The Farmer's Lunch
Penguin Leveled Reader Students can listen to narration, read along, and manipulate the story. This app comes with one free text from each of the four levels offered and more can be downloaded with in-app purchases.
Aesop's Fables interactive book from the Library of Congress. The book is available to read on the Web, on an iPad, and on an Android device. The book contains more than 140 of Aesop's Fables for children. The level of interactivity varies widely depending upon which story you're reading.
Hideout features six interactive stories based on the sounds and words created with the letter combinations “ap,” “en,” “it,” “op,” “ag,” and “et.” The narrator reads the letters to the student, explains the sound, then challenges the student to create four words with the letter combination. After making four words students move onto an interactive story in which they identify the objects that match the words they just made.
The Dreamhold is an interactive fiction story that is designed to introduce readers to the concept of exploring story via text only (No graphics. No animation. Only words and imagination).
Zalarios Adventure Books interactive ebooks. The adventure series filled with dastardly villains and impossible predicaments? Be immersed in the amazing world of the Zalairos, an extraordinary group of young friends who work together to solve mysteries.
Oxford Owl is a collection of free children’s ebooks for kids ages 3-11. Each ebook has accompanying audio so that students can choose to read along, or read independently. The books also have activities that focus on reading comprehension and story recall.
Dino Store a twenty-three page story about a father and son going to the grocery store and accidentally coming home with dinosaur eggs that hatch at home. On each page of the story children can tap objects to make them change color, make sounds, move the dinosaurs, and discover other fun surprises.
Even Monsters Get Sick is a children’s story that is available in an interactive format for your child’s iPad.
Adventure Books Do you like action – adventure? Do you dream of being stranded on a desert island? Would you like to live in a tree, or experience adventures on the high seas--with pirates, storm, shipwreck, and mysterious creatures? The adventure books of this application feature some of the most memorable legends in literature. These adventure books are full of excitement and lots of information and their actions of the characters will usually pull the reader along.
Tell a Tale - a user verbally tells a story based on the first and last sentence of a story and three images.
Free eBooks: This collection includes many children’s classics in ebook format. You generally have the option to download these texts to your Kindle, iPad, Nook or computer. Video tutorials are included on the page. You may also want to visit our resource: Download 20 Popular High School Books Available as Free eBooks & Audio Books.
DK Readers Kids can scroll through each nonfiction book, identify text features, and read along with the highlighted text. This app comes with five free books and more can be downloaded with in app purchases.
Storia is an ereader app for children's lit. When you download you get 5 free started books. You can create a classroom bookshelf or you can create individual bookshelves for all of your students. This would be great for reading differentiation and providing students with books at their instructional reading levels.
Penguin Leveled Reader for young readers. Students can listen to narration, read along, and manipulate the story. This app comes with one free text from each of the four levels offered
Shout Science is an interactive book that tells stories behind science discoveries. Students can scroll through a timeline and read about famous scientists.
Expedition Insects is a neat interactive book from the Smithsonian Science Education Center. The new book was written to helps students in third through fifth grade learn about insects from all over the world. The book is full of pictures and videos to complement the text. Throughout the book students can click or tap on underlined words to quickly access their definitions. Created for the iBooks platform. It is interactive if you read it on a Mac or on an iPad.
Middle, High and Adult eBooks
Free Books - 23,469 classics to go iPad app
CK-12 Biology Interactive Edition Free iBookss textbook is a comprehensive biology text for high school. it includes images, illuatrations, and interactive features
Go Social Studies Go (gr 5 - 8) a series of multimedia books about common social studies topics. The site is divided into four main sections; World Geography, World Religions, World History, and U.S. History. Within each section is a series of booklets containing text, pictures, videos, and links to additional resources.
How to Read .ePub Ebooks on Firefox and Chrome [Quicktip]
eBook Search
Search EBooks is a service dedicated to helping you find free ebooks. When you find an ebook on Search EBooks you can view a preview of it, download, or grab an embed code without ever leaving the search results page. Many useful books and how-to manuals are published as ebooks.
Library of Congress iBooks six free iBooks that can be quickly downloaded and are useful for having students interact with primary source evidence. The six titles are The Constitution, The Dust Bowl, The Harlem Renaissance, Immigration, Symbols of the United States, and Understanding the Cosmos.
Book Results eBook search engine which you can use to search for free eBooks available online. Just type in the title of the eBook and you will be presented with a list of results to choose from.
free ebook collection on Amazon.com. There you will find titles (some promotional, some public domain) made free by Amazon as well as links to Project Gutenberg, Open Library, Many Books, and the Internet Archive. All four of those places offer free downloads.
Google Books hosts thousands of books that are in the public domain. Many of the public domain books can be viewed and downloaded in their entirety for free. To find public domain books go into the advanced search options and select the "public domain only" and "full text" options to find free full-length books. Upload Your Own PDFs and EPUBs to Google Play Books
You can now upload your own PDFs and EPUB files to Google Play Books. Upload your files and you can read them on your iPad or Android device with the Google Play Books app (click here for iOS app, click here for Android app). When you upload your files you will be able to bookmak, highlight, and the dictionary tools just like you can with any other book in the Google Books app. Directions for uploading files to Google Play Books are included here.
Open Library is a collection of more than one million free ebook titles. The collection is cataloged by a community of volunteer online librarians. The ebooks in the Open Library can be read online, downloaded to your computer, read on Kindle and other ereader devices, and embedded into other sites. Some of the ebooks, like Treasure Island, can also be listened to through the Open Library. Much like Google Books
mapFAST uses Google Maps for finding texts about places all over the world. Visit mapFAST, type in a location and mapFAST will generate a list of texts about that location. You can specify how close you to the actual location you want your texts to be by setting a radius parameter. For example, when I entered "Portland, Maine" I set the radius at 30km so any texts about places within 30km of Portland would show up in my results. The book lists generated by mapFAST come from Google Books and WorldCat. Through Google Books you may be able to read and print some titles for free.
CLRN If you're teaching high school-level math, science, history or social science, what you want to pay attention to is the free textbooks link, of which there are 30.
Feed Books . While both places have large collections of free ebooks, Easier to navigate than Google Books
EBook-X vast collection
Big Universe huge collection
The Price is Right: 11 Excellent Sites for Free Digital Textbooks
High School and College level
CK-12 Biology Interactive Edition Free iBookss textbook is a comprehensive biology text for high school. it includes images, illuatrations, and interactive features
Go Social Studies Go (gr 5 - 8) a series of multimedia books about common social studies topics. The site is divided into four main sections; World Geography, World Religions, World History, and U.S. History. Within each section is a series of booklets containing text, pictures, videos, and links to additional resources.
How to Read .ePub Ebooks on Firefox and Chrome [Quicktip]
eBook Search
Search EBooks is a service dedicated to helping you find free ebooks. When you find an ebook on Search EBooks you can view a preview of it, download, or grab an embed code without ever leaving the search results page. Many useful books and how-to manuals are published as ebooks.
Library of Congress iBooks six free iBooks that can be quickly downloaded and are useful for having students interact with primary source evidence. The six titles are The Constitution, The Dust Bowl, The Harlem Renaissance, Immigration, Symbols of the United States, and Understanding the Cosmos.
Book Results eBook search engine which you can use to search for free eBooks available online. Just type in the title of the eBook and you will be presented with a list of results to choose from.
free ebook collection on Amazon.com. There you will find titles (some promotional, some public domain) made free by Amazon as well as links to Project Gutenberg, Open Library, Many Books, and the Internet Archive. All four of those places offer free downloads.
Google Books hosts thousands of books that are in the public domain. Many of the public domain books can be viewed and downloaded in their entirety for free. To find public domain books go into the advanced search options and select the "public domain only" and "full text" options to find free full-length books. Upload Your Own PDFs and EPUBs to Google Play Books
You can now upload your own PDFs and EPUB files to Google Play Books. Upload your files and you can read them on your iPad or Android device with the Google Play Books app (click here for iOS app, click here for Android app). When you upload your files you will be able to bookmak, highlight, and the dictionary tools just like you can with any other book in the Google Books app. Directions for uploading files to Google Play Books are included here.
Open Library is a collection of more than one million free ebook titles. The collection is cataloged by a community of volunteer online librarians. The ebooks in the Open Library can be read online, downloaded to your computer, read on Kindle and other ereader devices, and embedded into other sites. Some of the ebooks, like Treasure Island, can also be listened to through the Open Library. Much like Google Books
mapFAST uses Google Maps for finding texts about places all over the world. Visit mapFAST, type in a location and mapFAST will generate a list of texts about that location. You can specify how close you to the actual location you want your texts to be by setting a radius parameter. For example, when I entered "Portland, Maine" I set the radius at 30km so any texts about places within 30km of Portland would show up in my results. The book lists generated by mapFAST come from Google Books and WorldCat. Through Google Books you may be able to read and print some titles for free.
CLRN If you're teaching high school-level math, science, history or social science, what you want to pay attention to is the free textbooks link, of which there are 30.
Feed Books . While both places have large collections of free ebooks, Easier to navigate than Google Books
EBook-X vast collection
Big Universe huge collection
The Price is Right: 11 Excellent Sites for Free Digital Textbooks
High School and College level
eBook Authoring Tools
Create ePub with Pages
Scribble Press Deluxe $ draw, narrate, and import graphics, no audio recording
Bookabi free add text, characters, audio record, import graphics, no drawing capabilities. Simple tutorial
Book Creator (Android Book Creator )includes record narration and video options Get the Book Creator Kickstart Guide How-to share your book with Dropbox click here
Writer's Studio 4.99 Numerous art, audio and text tools but not video tutorial
Flip Book for iPad, for Android, and for use in your web browser (Chrome or Firefox is recommended).
RWT Flip Book lets students create books by typing or by drawing on the pages in their books. There is a variety of page templates that students can choose to use within their books. Some templates are text-only, some are drawing-only, and some are a mix of drawing and text templates. To use RWT Flip Book students simply open the app, enter their first names, then start creating their first pages.
Little Story Creator is a wonderful new iOS app for creating digital scrapbooks or storytelling. As w/ similar apps a user can add text, images/stickers, backgrounds, and even import video into their project. A user can record audio to narrate a story. A finished project can then be shared via email or viewed on the web.
Story Creator To create a page just tap the “+” icon and import a picture, draw a picture, type some text, or do all three. After completing one or all three of those previous actions tap the microphone icon to record your narration. After making your recording you can quickly adjust it so that each word of text is highlighted to match the timing of your narration. to share them with others via email. If you share them via email your recipient needs to have Story Creator on his or her iPad in order to play your story.
Creative Book Builder (gr. 6-12) 3.99 Similar to Book creator, but no drawing tools. video tutorial
iBook Author
Lucidchart. Lucidpress is a slick tool for creating multimedia documents.
Widbook is part multimedia book authoring tool and part social network. (video) On Widbook you can create a digital book that contains text, images, and videos. Widbook is collaborative because you can invite others to make contributions to your books. If you allow it, other Widbook users can add content and or comments to your books. Likewise, you can search for others' books and make contributions to their books.
YUDU is a means for distributing content online. It supports PDF, DOC, and PPT documents as well as MP3 audio and JPG or PNG images. Material can be tagged, rated by the community, and shared publicly or set as private. The author can add notes to a document. Users can download the offline player if desired.
Issuu - Create magazines. Save a file as pdf and upload it to Issuu which converts it to an e-magazine
Calaméo Similar to issuu and scribd, but allows word as well as pdf upload. Embed rich-media content to your publications Embed code provided for uploaded documents.
Scribd allows pdf upload. New feature allows Google Documents to be directly uploaded within your scribd account. Scribd files can then be embedded.
Bookrix allows students to publish and share their work socially. Within Bookrix, authors can create a profile & blog that can be shared with social media websites.
Flipbook social magazine creator video and article
2EPUB (site)
dotEPUB (site)
- Pages ePub Template
- Using Pages to Create ePUBs (pdf)
- video tutorial
- Creating ePUBs with Pages (Apple)
- iPad PrimerThere is an ePub chapter in the iPad Primer with Embedded Video Tutorials. iPad Primer is a multimedia eBook full of tutorials and show-me movies that you study with iBooks on your iPad. The ePub chapter, which is entitled Writing ePubs for iBooks with Pages, contains a show-me movie that provides a video tutorial on writing ePubs with Pages. The iPad Primer enables you to experience the kind of multimedia learning environment you will be able to create after working through these tutorials.
- Inserting video 2013 version
- Inserting video 2010 version
- Converting Word to ePub download free utility
Scribble Press Deluxe $ draw, narrate, and import graphics, no audio recording
Bookabi free add text, characters, audio record, import graphics, no drawing capabilities. Simple tutorial
Book Creator (Android Book Creator )includes record narration and video options Get the Book Creator Kickstart Guide How-to share your book with Dropbox click here
Writer's Studio 4.99 Numerous art, audio and text tools but not video tutorial
Flip Book for iPad, for Android, and for use in your web browser (Chrome or Firefox is recommended).
RWT Flip Book lets students create books by typing or by drawing on the pages in their books. There is a variety of page templates that students can choose to use within their books. Some templates are text-only, some are drawing-only, and some are a mix of drawing and text templates. To use RWT Flip Book students simply open the app, enter their first names, then start creating their first pages.
Little Story Creator is a wonderful new iOS app for creating digital scrapbooks or storytelling. As w/ similar apps a user can add text, images/stickers, backgrounds, and even import video into their project. A user can record audio to narrate a story. A finished project can then be shared via email or viewed on the web.
Story Creator To create a page just tap the “+” icon and import a picture, draw a picture, type some text, or do all three. After completing one or all three of those previous actions tap the microphone icon to record your narration. After making your recording you can quickly adjust it so that each word of text is highlighted to match the timing of your narration. to share them with others via email. If you share them via email your recipient needs to have Story Creator on his or her iPad in order to play your story.
Creative Book Builder (gr. 6-12) 3.99 Similar to Book creator, but no drawing tools. video tutorial
iBook Author
- DIY Journol’s Learn iBooks Author.
- A Simple Guide for Getting Started with iBook Author
- 10 Video Tutorials The general process behind creating these interactive ebooks is pretty basic; however, there are certain features and tips teachers need to pay heed to in order to tap into its full potential. These tutorials are made for this purpose.
Lucidchart. Lucidpress is a slick tool for creating multimedia documents.
Widbook is part multimedia book authoring tool and part social network. (video) On Widbook you can create a digital book that contains text, images, and videos. Widbook is collaborative because you can invite others to make contributions to your books. If you allow it, other Widbook users can add content and or comments to your books. Likewise, you can search for others' books and make contributions to their books.
YUDU is a means for distributing content online. It supports PDF, DOC, and PPT documents as well as MP3 audio and JPG or PNG images. Material can be tagged, rated by the community, and shared publicly or set as private. The author can add notes to a document. Users can download the offline player if desired.
Issuu - Create magazines. Save a file as pdf and upload it to Issuu which converts it to an e-magazine
Calaméo Similar to issuu and scribd, but allows word as well as pdf upload. Embed rich-media content to your publications Embed code provided for uploaded documents.
Scribd allows pdf upload. New feature allows Google Documents to be directly uploaded within your scribd account. Scribd files can then be embedded.
Bookrix allows students to publish and share their work socially. Within Bookrix, authors can create a profile & blog that can be shared with social media websites.
Flipbook social magazine creator video and article
2EPUB (site)
dotEPUB (site)
Video
Video Search
Youtube Kids child appropriate videos filtered. Parent tools to turn off search and set time limits.
Vodio Vodio tracks videos as they’re shared by thousands of people and sources around the world, and organizes them into categories, including: most popular, entertainment, tech, music, sports, news, comedy, science and more. Simply swipe through Vodio’s huge variety of channels and discover videos to enjoy – anytime, anywhere. You can also create personalized video streams to suit your preferences.
Squrl It is the one place to discover and watch videos from the most popular content sources available on mobile today. Squrl is also the only mobile service to deliver personalized recommendations based on users interest and viewing behaviors, and the only search engine on mobile integrating both free and premium video including YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, TED, Vimeo, Aol, Blip.tv, Facebook, Twitter, and more.
Brainfeed has a fantastic app with tons of free content for streaming educational videos. There are clips on theenvironment, the human body, and even geometry. A subscription lets users access the entire library, but this app has plenty of content for you to view with the free download.
Vodio Vodio tracks videos as they’re shared by thousands of people and sources around the world, and organizes them into categories, including: most popular, entertainment, tech, music, sports, news, comedy, science and more. Simply swipe through Vodio’s huge variety of channels and discover videos to enjoy – anytime, anywhere. You can also create personalized video streams to suit your preferences.
Squrl It is the one place to discover and watch videos from the most popular content sources available on mobile today. Squrl is also the only mobile service to deliver personalized recommendations based on users interest and viewing behaviors, and the only search engine on mobile integrating both free and premium video including YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, TED, Vimeo, Aol, Blip.tv, Facebook, Twitter, and more.
Brainfeed has a fantastic app with tons of free content for streaming educational videos. There are clips on theenvironment, the human body, and even geometry. A subscription lets users access the entire library, but this app has plenty of content for you to view with the free download.
All Purpose Video Editors
Clips allows you to easily create beautiful videos in real time and with no controls. Its editor is simple and easy to use. It no tracks, timelines, or complex editing tools. You can simply record your video, snap pictures or upload photos from your library, add a music track or select one from built-in soundtracks. Next add different effects to illustrate your video content. These include artistic filters, animated text, fun stickers (featuring characters from Star Wars, Disney, Pixar and more.), posters, emoji, live titles and many more. When your video is ready you can save it to your iCloud, share it on social media websites, or share it with others via Messages.
Cliptomatic ( also Windows ) Add text to videos
WeVideo Video Editor (Android ) is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, cloud-based video editor. Capture your favorite moments in photos and video clips and edit them on the go.The WeVideo Editor is easy to use for kids but designed to be enjoyed by the whole family. Enjoy an intuitive interface and animated interactions where you can see your images and video clips on a visual storyboard. Start a video on your mobile device and pick up a where you left off on our full-featured desktop editor.
Zigazoo (gr. K - 5) is a TikTok-style video sharing app for posting short videos of kids completing a variety of kid-appropriate challenges. Teachers can use Zigazoo to inspire their students to think about new topics and explore the world around them through project-based learning. Teachers will likely want to start by browsing the project ideas to find ones that might be relevant for their students. They can also make their own challenges. With a bit of creativity, teachers could make video assignments to match virtually any topic they're covering in class. Challenges can introduce a topic to establish what students already know, occur midway through to see what they're learning, or occur at the end of a unit to assess comprehension and open discussion for deeper learning or connections to other topics.
Video Editor ( Android) This is a simple but powerful video editor, make video edit on Android device so easy. New feature: Image rotate in slideshow making. First app to support this feature!
Cliptomatic ( also Windows ) Add text to videos
WeVideo Video Editor (Android ) is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, cloud-based video editor. Capture your favorite moments in photos and video clips and edit them on the go.The WeVideo Editor is easy to use for kids but designed to be enjoyed by the whole family. Enjoy an intuitive interface and animated interactions where you can see your images and video clips on a visual storyboard. Start a video on your mobile device and pick up a where you left off on our full-featured desktop editor.
Zigazoo (gr. K - 5) is a TikTok-style video sharing app for posting short videos of kids completing a variety of kid-appropriate challenges. Teachers can use Zigazoo to inspire their students to think about new topics and explore the world around them through project-based learning. Teachers will likely want to start by browsing the project ideas to find ones that might be relevant for their students. They can also make their own challenges. With a bit of creativity, teachers could make video assignments to match virtually any topic they're covering in class. Challenges can introduce a topic to establish what students already know, occur midway through to see what they're learning, or occur at the end of a unit to assess comprehension and open discussion for deeper learning or connections to other topics.
Video Editor ( Android) This is a simple but powerful video editor, make video edit on Android device so easy. New feature: Image rotate in slideshow making. First app to support this feature!
Video Capture App The advantage of using this app over the built-in camera app to take a video is that you can quickly do some basic editing, trim ends, add music and title. video tutorial
Loopster Closest free alternative to iMovie. It provides a four track editor. There are tracks for video and images, transitions, sounds, and text. You can import images and videos from your iPad’s camera roll or shoot a new video with the app and edit it. On the video editing track you can trim clips and combine clips. On the text track you can add speech bubbles and other text effects. Loopster has a slow motion effect that is available on the iPad app too.
MovieToons ideal for digital storytelling. Encourage students to embrace their creativity by selecting characters, backgrounds, and animations, to create their very own unique 3D digital story. A finished story can then be shared online for others to view and rate. video tutorial
Clips Fast simple video editor
Enlight Pixaloop, an app for iOS and Android Seamlessly bridges the gap between still photography and video with tools that anyone can master. To start, users import an image that can benefit from some movement and place arrows, or “paths,” on the screen to define that motion. They then add anchors to create boundaries for the portion they want animated. With their finger, they paint areas to “freeze” and protect from the transformations. For example, they can draw up and down arrows on a flag and then block out the surrounding skyline. Or they can use left and right paths to create flowing water in a pool while leaving the rest of the environment still. After they hit Play, Pixaloop moves the annotated zones of the image along the lines users have drawn. They can experiment with the speed and looping until they get it just right. When they are happy with their creation, users can export it in a range of formats and sizes for personal use or for social media. Costs: Free, with in-app purchases for unlimited access, starting at $3.99.
PuppetMaster kids can use to create animated movies. The app is designed for elementary school students and therefore doesn't require students to create accounts in order to use it. All movies made with the PuppetMaster app are saved to the camera roll on a student's iPad. ( Richard Byrne)
RePlay allows you to insert slow motion (Slow-mo) effect or fast-forward effect within your captured video or any video inside your device Photo Library.
Write-on Video a user-friendly tool that allows you to annotate and animate videos and pictures. Arrange photos and videos into a stunning slideshows complemented by free-hand drawing, text boxes, stickers, audio and sound clips. Write-on Video automatically organizes each annotated frame into a storyboard so that you can add comments and information beside each scene. All text in the storyboard is true text that can be edited in reader apps. 3.99
Perfect Video allows you to annotate your videos in a variety of ways. You can add animated text or images to videos, display a logo on your video, add different sound effects, select from a number of pre-defined transitions, merge multiple videos, change the video orientation and many more.
Videoshop Through the app you combine video clips and images into one video project. You can import video clips and images from your iPad’s camera roll into your project or you can capture new footage through the app. After adding your video clips and images to your project you can edit each of the clips by trimming their lengths and adding slow-motion effects. To the pictures and video clips in your projects you can add voice-overs, background music, and text. Transition effects can be inserted between each clip and picture. The last step before publishing your video is to choose Instagram-like visual effects to your project
Stop Motion Studio for creating stop motion videos. The app is available for iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac operating systems. The basic (free) version of Stop Motion Studio lets you take as many pictures as you like and string them together in a sequence that plays back at a frame-per-second rate of your choosing. Each frame can be edited individually before you produce the final video. You can also add narration to your video in the basic version of the app.
Youtube Capture Create beautiful movies on the go with YouTube Capture 2.0. Start recording in a snap, then edit and share videos of any length right from your phone.
Features:
* Capture the moment: Start recording instantly
* Stitch together an unlimited number of clips as you build your story
* Trim and rearrange clips right from your phone
* Add a soundtrack from your music collection or YouTube’s audio library
* Touch up videos with color correction and stabilization
* Upload to YouTube and share on Google+, Facebook, and Twitter - all in one step
Videolicious combine your videos, photos, music and stories into a movie masterpiece. Just talk and tap to create
Magistro is an easy way to automatically edit videos and photos and share them with your friends and family. Magisto will turn your video and photos into beautiful edited movies, complete with music and effects, in minutes. Create sensational movies using as little as 5 photos.
VideoCollage With our Video Collage App you can easily create beautiful Photo and Video Collage in few minutes. All you need to do is, just choose the photo or video to create collage, add extra effects to your Photos/videos, add music of your own choice and Save that Video.
Lego Movie Maker makes sharing and telling your story extremely easy. Do you remember the days of claymation? Lego Movie Maker uses the same principles of claymation to combine your iPad and the power of image, as you tell your story frame by frame.
Whether you are using Lego figurines or using objects (or people) around your room, this App is extremely easy to use.
ClipStitch is the ultimate app for creating fun, beautiful, and creative video collages. Have fun making your own video, and share it to boost your popularity. Here is how it works:Choose what videos to include in your collage, place them in the frame exactly as you like, be creative with colors and background themes, share on Instagram, Facebook, save to your camera roll, and much more ’
Toontastic create cartoon videos Now free
Toontastic 3D, | android kids can draw, animate and narrate their own adventures, news stories,
Clips Many teachers use portfolios to collect and showcase student work throughout the year. These portfolios demonstrate growth over time, provide a means for authentic assessment, promote communication and reflection, and can give some students an alternative means to demonstrate mastery of skills. While portfolios often reflect long-term projects or activities, they don’t necessarily have to. Small moments, ideas, and “aha’s” happen daily. How can these be captured, reflected and expanded on? The Clips app is for making and sharing videos, incorporating text, voice over, music, and graphics. Using the camera on an iOS device, like iPad, students (or teachers) can capture everyday moments as students work individually or collaboratively.
After the images are collected, they are uploaded into the Clips app. The combined clips are saved to make a video.
Perfect Video Perfect Video is the easy to use video editing app for quick and straight forward editing. With help of it, you can quickly trim, merge, add subtitles, add photos, add text, pick transitions, add music and export your video clips. Its simple lay-out and workflow does not need any explanation.
Splice: Splice together HD photos and videos in an amazingly simple way. Add music tracks from your iPod library, sound effects, transitions, borders, effects (like Ken Burns, slow motion and fast forward), trim video and audio, narrate with your own voice, and much more.
Rocketium is a site/app android and IOS for making beautiful slideshows and presentations that reminds me of Animoto. This is done w/ a very easy-to-use interface, where users can add text, images, music, backgrounds, and more to engage their audience.
KnowMe lets you string together photos, videos and more to create edited, personalized videos. Just touch and hold a picture as you talk to record your voice, then let go to add the clip to your timeline.
Lego Super Hero Movie Maker Build your Lego super hero adventure
Video Star makes you and your friends the stars of awesome music videos. There's no other app like it! Select from hundreds of built-in effects. Then add Power Packs to crank up the awesome. Create "backwards" clips, act along with "clones" of yourself, and make awesome stop motion and green screen effects. Pause at any time to set up a new scene. No matter how many scenes you shoot, the music stays in perfect sync.
Reel allows you to create, edit and share movie clips on your iPad. Smooth or blend transition between scene changes are its biggest feature but it also does Ken Burns, text overlays, music imports and voice over capabilities. A great storytelling app.
Video Editor Free add photos, music, voices, and transitions to your videos to create awesome slideshows. It can also help you trim, merge, and share your video clips.
Shadow Puppet for creating digital stories/videos has just released their biggest update. Version 2.0 allows users to upload video, search the web for animated gifs/images, add music from your iTunes library, and even draw on the screen for annotating. This is a very easy tool to use and allows educators/students to "flip" a lesson, cover a topic, or introduce digital storytelling. Also, Shadow Puppet has updated their site which has lots of different lesson plans, samples, and examples of how teachers are integrating SP into their classroom.
Storehouse It is an app for telling stories through collages of your pictures and video clips. The basic idea behind Storehouse is to create stories by combining images, text, and video clips on a blank canvas. You can now allow commenting on your stories. The commenting feature could be useful for giving students feedback about their stories.
Story Story allows you to pull in pictures and videos from your device’s camera roll and arrange them into photostory books.
Givit Video Editor: Givit with Highlight is a revolutionary way to stitch together multiple scenes from a single or several videos. Add transitions, effects, titles, photos, and finish with music from Givit or songs in your iDevice. Your final "Highlight" will be a highly entertaining video to share with the world or friends and family.
MovieToons ideal for digital storytelling. Encourage students to embrace their creativity by selecting characters, backgrounds, and animations, to create their very own unique 3D digital story. A finished story can then be shared online for others to view and rate. video tutorial
Clips Fast simple video editor
Enlight Pixaloop, an app for iOS and Android Seamlessly bridges the gap between still photography and video with tools that anyone can master. To start, users import an image that can benefit from some movement and place arrows, or “paths,” on the screen to define that motion. They then add anchors to create boundaries for the portion they want animated. With their finger, they paint areas to “freeze” and protect from the transformations. For example, they can draw up and down arrows on a flag and then block out the surrounding skyline. Or they can use left and right paths to create flowing water in a pool while leaving the rest of the environment still. After they hit Play, Pixaloop moves the annotated zones of the image along the lines users have drawn. They can experiment with the speed and looping until they get it just right. When they are happy with their creation, users can export it in a range of formats and sizes for personal use or for social media. Costs: Free, with in-app purchases for unlimited access, starting at $3.99.
PuppetMaster kids can use to create animated movies. The app is designed for elementary school students and therefore doesn't require students to create accounts in order to use it. All movies made with the PuppetMaster app are saved to the camera roll on a student's iPad. ( Richard Byrne)
RePlay allows you to insert slow motion (Slow-mo) effect or fast-forward effect within your captured video or any video inside your device Photo Library.
Write-on Video a user-friendly tool that allows you to annotate and animate videos and pictures. Arrange photos and videos into a stunning slideshows complemented by free-hand drawing, text boxes, stickers, audio and sound clips. Write-on Video automatically organizes each annotated frame into a storyboard so that you can add comments and information beside each scene. All text in the storyboard is true text that can be edited in reader apps. 3.99
Perfect Video allows you to annotate your videos in a variety of ways. You can add animated text or images to videos, display a logo on your video, add different sound effects, select from a number of pre-defined transitions, merge multiple videos, change the video orientation and many more.
Videoshop Through the app you combine video clips and images into one video project. You can import video clips and images from your iPad’s camera roll into your project or you can capture new footage through the app. After adding your video clips and images to your project you can edit each of the clips by trimming their lengths and adding slow-motion effects. To the pictures and video clips in your projects you can add voice-overs, background music, and text. Transition effects can be inserted between each clip and picture. The last step before publishing your video is to choose Instagram-like visual effects to your project
Stop Motion Studio for creating stop motion videos. The app is available for iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac operating systems. The basic (free) version of Stop Motion Studio lets you take as many pictures as you like and string them together in a sequence that plays back at a frame-per-second rate of your choosing. Each frame can be edited individually before you produce the final video. You can also add narration to your video in the basic version of the app.
Youtube Capture Create beautiful movies on the go with YouTube Capture 2.0. Start recording in a snap, then edit and share videos of any length right from your phone.
Features:
* Capture the moment: Start recording instantly
* Stitch together an unlimited number of clips as you build your story
* Trim and rearrange clips right from your phone
* Add a soundtrack from your music collection or YouTube’s audio library
* Touch up videos with color correction and stabilization
* Upload to YouTube and share on Google+, Facebook, and Twitter - all in one step
Videolicious combine your videos, photos, music and stories into a movie masterpiece. Just talk and tap to create
Magistro is an easy way to automatically edit videos and photos and share them with your friends and family. Magisto will turn your video and photos into beautiful edited movies, complete with music and effects, in minutes. Create sensational movies using as little as 5 photos.
VideoCollage With our Video Collage App you can easily create beautiful Photo and Video Collage in few minutes. All you need to do is, just choose the photo or video to create collage, add extra effects to your Photos/videos, add music of your own choice and Save that Video.
Lego Movie Maker makes sharing and telling your story extremely easy. Do you remember the days of claymation? Lego Movie Maker uses the same principles of claymation to combine your iPad and the power of image, as you tell your story frame by frame.
Whether you are using Lego figurines or using objects (or people) around your room, this App is extremely easy to use.
ClipStitch is the ultimate app for creating fun, beautiful, and creative video collages. Have fun making your own video, and share it to boost your popularity. Here is how it works:Choose what videos to include in your collage, place them in the frame exactly as you like, be creative with colors and background themes, share on Instagram, Facebook, save to your camera roll, and much more ’
Toontastic create cartoon videos Now free
Toontastic 3D, | android kids can draw, animate and narrate their own adventures, news stories,
Clips Many teachers use portfolios to collect and showcase student work throughout the year. These portfolios demonstrate growth over time, provide a means for authentic assessment, promote communication and reflection, and can give some students an alternative means to demonstrate mastery of skills. While portfolios often reflect long-term projects or activities, they don’t necessarily have to. Small moments, ideas, and “aha’s” happen daily. How can these be captured, reflected and expanded on? The Clips app is for making and sharing videos, incorporating text, voice over, music, and graphics. Using the camera on an iOS device, like iPad, students (or teachers) can capture everyday moments as students work individually or collaboratively.
After the images are collected, they are uploaded into the Clips app. The combined clips are saved to make a video.
Perfect Video Perfect Video is the easy to use video editing app for quick and straight forward editing. With help of it, you can quickly trim, merge, add subtitles, add photos, add text, pick transitions, add music and export your video clips. Its simple lay-out and workflow does not need any explanation.
Splice: Splice together HD photos and videos in an amazingly simple way. Add music tracks from your iPod library, sound effects, transitions, borders, effects (like Ken Burns, slow motion and fast forward), trim video and audio, narrate with your own voice, and much more.
Rocketium is a site/app android and IOS for making beautiful slideshows and presentations that reminds me of Animoto. This is done w/ a very easy-to-use interface, where users can add text, images, music, backgrounds, and more to engage their audience.
KnowMe lets you string together photos, videos and more to create edited, personalized videos. Just touch and hold a picture as you talk to record your voice, then let go to add the clip to your timeline.
Lego Super Hero Movie Maker Build your Lego super hero adventure
Video Star makes you and your friends the stars of awesome music videos. There's no other app like it! Select from hundreds of built-in effects. Then add Power Packs to crank up the awesome. Create "backwards" clips, act along with "clones" of yourself, and make awesome stop motion and green screen effects. Pause at any time to set up a new scene. No matter how many scenes you shoot, the music stays in perfect sync.
Reel allows you to create, edit and share movie clips on your iPad. Smooth or blend transition between scene changes are its biggest feature but it also does Ken Burns, text overlays, music imports and voice over capabilities. A great storytelling app.
Video Editor Free add photos, music, voices, and transitions to your videos to create awesome slideshows. It can also help you trim, merge, and share your video clips.
Shadow Puppet for creating digital stories/videos has just released their biggest update. Version 2.0 allows users to upload video, search the web for animated gifs/images, add music from your iTunes library, and even draw on the screen for annotating. This is a very easy tool to use and allows educators/students to "flip" a lesson, cover a topic, or introduce digital storytelling. Also, Shadow Puppet has updated their site which has lots of different lesson plans, samples, and examples of how teachers are integrating SP into their classroom.
Storehouse It is an app for telling stories through collages of your pictures and video clips. The basic idea behind Storehouse is to create stories by combining images, text, and video clips on a blank canvas. You can now allow commenting on your stories. The commenting feature could be useful for giving students feedback about their stories.
Story Story allows you to pull in pictures and videos from your device’s camera roll and arrange them into photostory books.
Givit Video Editor: Givit with Highlight is a revolutionary way to stitch together multiple scenes from a single or several videos. Add transitions, effects, titles, photos, and finish with music from Givit or songs in your iDevice. Your final "Highlight" will be a highly entertaining video to share with the world or friends and family.
Green Screen
Green Screen Project Flow Chart
Green Screen Resource Page tutorials and examples
Green Screen Tips
Pexels Videos is a good place to find free video clips to use as background in green screen productions.
Pexels Videos offers hundreds of short videos that you can download for free and re-use in your own video productions. You can browse the collection or search according to keyword. You can also just jump to this selected collection of video clips suitable for green screen productions. (www.freetech4techers.com )
What to Buy for a Green Screen Classroom
What to Buy and Tips #2
Green Screen Ideas Guide
Green Screen Project Flow Chart
Creative Ways to Use Green Screen unique project ideas
A step by step lesson plan on using the green screen in your classroom. Text and video examples are provided.
Planning Movie Trailers with PDF's and Green Screens
Green Screen Resource Page tutorials and examples
Green Screen Tips
Pexels Videos is a good place to find free video clips to use as background in green screen productions.
Pexels Videos offers hundreds of short videos that you can download for free and re-use in your own video productions. You can browse the collection or search according to keyword. You can also just jump to this selected collection of video clips suitable for green screen productions. (www.freetech4techers.com )
What to Buy for a Green Screen Classroom
What to Buy and Tips #2
Green Screen Ideas Guide
Green Screen Project Flow Chart
Creative Ways to Use Green Screen unique project ideas
A step by step lesson plan on using the green screen in your classroom. Text and video examples are provided.
Planning Movie Trailers with PDF's and Green Screens
Basic Fabric Green ScreenTo get started it is cheapest and easiest to buy a basic muslin fabric green screen. Please not that the product here is only the fabric and the stand is not included.
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Green Screen Paint
If you have a spare wall in your classroom or school that you can paint green (preferably with a wooden deck) painted green on the floor as well (but not essential) you can create your own green screen. There is no need to buy expensive green screen paint from an art shoppe rather the above green paint from home depot works exactly the same way It is called Gamma Sector Green and is part of the Disney Collection. link |
Advanced Kit
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iMovie 4.99 You can import your green screen videos into iMovie. A nice feature is the editing tools for resizing the video to play inside another video clip.
iMovie green tutorial
Veescope Live is a free iPad app for creating green screen videos. Of the free iPad apps for making green screen videos that I've tried, including all of the most popular ones, Veescope Live is easiest to set-up and use even with the annoying quirk of menus not always closing on the first tap (and that might be a reflection of my iPad and not the app itself). Even though it is a green screen video app, you can actually use the Veescope Live when recording against any flat, solid color backdrop. I was actually able to use it against the beige wall in my office, although it did work better when I used an actual green screen backdrop. Directions www.freetech4teachers.com
Doink 2.99 Good starter app. It has editing tracks to add stills, video and animation. Companion animation app bundle 5.99
Touchcast free Create TV broadcasts. More tools included besides green screen for add various files. guide | also at website
Veescope Live Excellent sophisticated green screening tool.
Hands-on Green Screen Movie Effects uses a special effect known as Chroma Key to replace a standard green screen with a variety of images. Most importantly your voice will be synced with the video allowing you to use it in other editing software or share on the fly.
iMovie green tutorial
Veescope Live is a free iPad app for creating green screen videos. Of the free iPad apps for making green screen videos that I've tried, including all of the most popular ones, Veescope Live is easiest to set-up and use even with the annoying quirk of menus not always closing on the first tap (and that might be a reflection of my iPad and not the app itself). Even though it is a green screen video app, you can actually use the Veescope Live when recording against any flat, solid color backdrop. I was actually able to use it against the beige wall in my office, although it did work better when I used an actual green screen backdrop. Directions www.freetech4teachers.com
Doink 2.99 Good starter app. It has editing tracks to add stills, video and animation. Companion animation app bundle 5.99
- How to Combine, Trim and Save to the Camera Roll Two Videos in the Green Screen
- How To Use All 3 Layers in the Green Screen by Do Ink app
- How to Change Position, Size and Orientation of Images
- Cropping images
- How to Use the Mask Tool to Create a Moving Newspaper
Touchcast free Create TV broadcasts. More tools included besides green screen for add various files. guide | also at website
Veescope Live Excellent sophisticated green screening tool.
Hands-on Green Screen Movie Effects uses a special effect known as Chroma Key to replace a standard green screen with a variety of images. Most importantly your voice will be synced with the video allowing you to use it in other editing software or share on the fly.
Special Effects
Video FX Live With its HUGE variety of real time video effects,
ACTION MOVIE FX lets you add Hollywood FX to iPhone AND iPad movies that YOU shoot!
RePlay allows you to insert slow motion (Slow-mo) effect or fast-forward effect within your captured video or any video inside your device Photo Library.
Quo Movie FX Add Hollywood effects to a video in your camera roll.
Creatures FX has a versatile library of special effects so you can create a funny flick, horror film, or video hoax.
ACTION MOVIE FX lets you add Hollywood FX to iPhone AND iPad movies that YOU shoot!
RePlay allows you to insert slow motion (Slow-mo) effect or fast-forward effect within your captured video or any video inside your device Photo Library.
Quo Movie FX Add Hollywood effects to a video in your camera roll.
Creatures FX has a versatile library of special effects so you can create a funny flick, horror film, or video hoax.
Coaching
Ubersense Coach/Hudl Technique ( iOS - Android )records video and plays it back in slow motion, so you can analyze physical performances frame-by-frame.
Coach My Video allows coaches to video their players in action to provide feedback on their movements and techniques. With Coach My Video installed you can record a video of your player(s) in action 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. 4.99
Coach's Eye You can’t fix what you can’t see!Video capture with slow-motion review, drawing tools, and simple sharing. “The ability to film, evaluate, review with the athlete and then send it to them without leaving the deck has never been easier.”
Coach My Video allows coaches to video their players in action to provide feedback on their movements and techniques. With Coach My Video installed you can record a video of your player(s) in action 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. 4.99
Coach's Eye You can’t fix what you can’t see!Video capture with slow-motion review, drawing tools, and simple sharing. “The ability to film, evaluate, review with the athlete and then send it to them without leaving the deck has never been easier.”
Television Shows
TeleStory takes you behind the scenes to create and broadcast your own TV show! Record a music video, teleport to an alien planet, film a high-speed-chase, or perform on a reality TV show - TeleStory is a TV studio in your pocket. video tutorial
Watchup This free app allows you to create your own news program by choosing short clips from different news sources (EuroNews, AP, PBS, etc.).
Touchcast free Create TV broadcasts. More tools included besides green screen for add various files. video tutorial
Watchup This free app allows you to create your own news program by choosing short clips from different news sources (EuroNews, AP, PBS, etc.).
Touchcast free Create TV broadcasts. More tools included besides green screen for add various files. video tutorial
Music Videos
Video Star music videos. Select from hundreds of built-in effects. Then add Power Packs to crank up the style. Create "backwards" clips, act along with "clones" of yourself, and make awesome stop motion and green screen effects. Pause at any time to set up a new scene. No matter how many scenes you shoot, the music stays in perfect sync.
Timelapse
Android Hyperlapse - IOS Version Create time lapse videos with Hyperlapse. Using Instagram’s in-house stabilization, Hyperlapse shoots polished time lapideos that were previously impossible without bulky tripods and expensive equipment.
Time lapse video OSnap is an iPad app (available in a free version and in a paid version) that you can use to create stop motion and time lapse videos. The app is quite easy to use. To create a video with the OSnap app you simply need to start a project and take a series of still pictures using your iPad’s camera. Then adjust the number of frame per second to edit your video. If you want to, you can add a sound track to your video by selecting audio files that are stored on your iPad.
iMotion HD an intuitive and powerful time-lapse and stop-motion app for iOS.
Take pictures, edit your movie and export* HD 720p videos to your device or directly to Youtube...."
Lapse It full featured app for capturing amazing time lapse and stop motion videos. It is easy, fast and intuitive. Android version available
Stop Motion Studio Create stop motion animated movies anywhere instantly on your device. It's simple to use. Share it with with others or on YouTube, Facebook and other sites. Numerous themes, titles and sound effects are easy to add, too.’
Time lapse video OSnap is an iPad app (available in a free version and in a paid version) that you can use to create stop motion and time lapse videos. The app is quite easy to use. To create a video with the OSnap app you simply need to start a project and take a series of still pictures using your iPad’s camera. Then adjust the number of frame per second to edit your video. If you want to, you can add a sound track to your video by selecting audio files that are stored on your iPad.
iMotion HD an intuitive and powerful time-lapse and stop-motion app for iOS.
Take pictures, edit your movie and export* HD 720p videos to your device or directly to Youtube...."
Lapse It full featured app for capturing amazing time lapse and stop motion videos. It is easy, fast and intuitive. Android version available
Stop Motion Studio Create stop motion animated movies anywhere instantly on your device. It's simple to use. Share it with with others or on YouTube, Facebook and other sites. Numerous themes, titles and sound effects are easy to add, too.’
Animation
GoldieBlox and the Movie Machine It teaches students foundational animation skills and lets them create their own mini movies. This app might remind you of simple flipbook cartoons but it takes this idea to the next level.
Easy Studio this app allows users to create animations and videos on their iPads using shapes and and cartoons.
FlipaClip: Cartoon Animation An app for creating animated drawings. You can "draw cartoons with frame-by-frame animation to bring them to life, add audio and share your animated works with the world". Some of its features include:
Stop Motion Studio is a filmmaking app that can be used across the content areas. Similar to the Lego movies you may have seen made by filmmakers on YouTube or claymation characters moving across the screen. Apple has created an iBook full of lesson ideas for teachers using Stop Motion Studio with their students. It includes activities for Science, Social Studies, and more.
KomaKoma Stop Motion Animation iPad App that can compile together a series of photos taken in the app and then export them to the Camera Roll as a video.
I Can Animate Lite Capture frames using either camera on your iOS device
Animation and Drawing Rotoscoping! Draw or trace over images and videos in the drawing editor. The new asset layers tool lets you use images and videos as drawing templates. In addition, you can now designate inactive "scratch" layers in the drawing editor, making it easy to sketch out a rough draft of a drawing or animation, and then non-destructively draw over it to produce the finished artwork.
Cute CUT Now you can DRAW a movie! Do you want to create your own unique movie? Just draw it by yourself with Cute Cut! Beside providing the utilities of a common video editor, Cute Cut gives more than you expect. Just drag and drop, you can arrange your media segments easily. Supports both portrait/landscape.
VideoScribe Anywhere. It's for classroom activities and teachers to produce quick scribes. VideoScribe is a powerful whiteboard animation tool that enables you to add a variety of items to a whiteboard canvas. 'You can move around the items, add voice-overs and soundtracks and create videos that use different animations and drawing effects to take your audience through your story or topic in a visually engaging way.'
The way VideoScribe works is pretty simple. You add your multimedia items to the whiteboard canvas and VideoScribe will do the rest and turn them into beautiful animated videos. Some of the features provided by this tool include: thousands of professional images to add to your animations, a library of royalty-free original soundtracks, voice recording, adjust drawing times and sequences, export videos to camera roll and many more.
Easy Studio this app allows users to create animations and videos on their iPads using shapes and and cartoons.
FlipaClip: Cartoon Animation An app for creating animated drawings. You can "draw cartoons with frame-by-frame animation to bring them to life, add audio and share your animated works with the world". Some of its features include:
- " Draw with practical tools like Brushes, Lasso, Fill, Eraser, Ruler shapes, and insert Text with multiple font options all for free!
- Use up to 3 animation layers for free!
- Animating frame-by-frame is super easy with an intuitive animation timeline and practical tools
- Easily add and edit audio clips using up to six audio tracks for free.
- Add dialogue to your animation with voice recording!
- Animate images you import or draw on top of your videos.
- Add rotoscopes to your videos.
- Share your animation anywhere!
- Post to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, or Tumblr."
Stop Motion Studio is a filmmaking app that can be used across the content areas. Similar to the Lego movies you may have seen made by filmmakers on YouTube or claymation characters moving across the screen. Apple has created an iBook full of lesson ideas for teachers using Stop Motion Studio with their students. It includes activities for Science, Social Studies, and more.
KomaKoma Stop Motion Animation iPad App that can compile together a series of photos taken in the app and then export them to the Camera Roll as a video.
I Can Animate Lite Capture frames using either camera on your iOS device
Animation and Drawing Rotoscoping! Draw or trace over images and videos in the drawing editor. The new asset layers tool lets you use images and videos as drawing templates. In addition, you can now designate inactive "scratch" layers in the drawing editor, making it easy to sketch out a rough draft of a drawing or animation, and then non-destructively draw over it to produce the finished artwork.
Cute CUT Now you can DRAW a movie! Do you want to create your own unique movie? Just draw it by yourself with Cute Cut! Beside providing the utilities of a common video editor, Cute Cut gives more than you expect. Just drag and drop, you can arrange your media segments easily. Supports both portrait/landscape.
VideoScribe Anywhere. It's for classroom activities and teachers to produce quick scribes. VideoScribe is a powerful whiteboard animation tool that enables you to add a variety of items to a whiteboard canvas. 'You can move around the items, add voice-overs and soundtracks and create videos that use different animations and drawing effects to take your audience through your story or topic in a visually engaging way.'
The way VideoScribe works is pretty simple. You add your multimedia items to the whiteboard canvas and VideoScribe will do the rest and turn them into beautiful animated videos. Some of the features provided by this tool include: thousands of professional images to add to your animations, a library of royalty-free original soundtracks, voice recording, adjust drawing times and sequences, export videos to camera roll and many more.
Management, Organization and Workflow
Evernote Organizational Create text, photo and audio notes that auto-synchronize your notes to your Mac or PC. Makes text within snapshots searchable. Add, sync, access, and share files (PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, and more) among the different versions of Evernote. **For preparing your next presentation! Try sketching out your presentation and gathering research with this app! Evernote for Schools is a micro site on the Evernote page that has useful resources to help educators and students use Evernote more effectively as an education tool. It has a collection of resources including education-related case studies, videos, and a discussion forum for connecting and sharing tips and ideas for using Evernote in a school setting. Evernote for Educators resources Users Guide | 6 Apps You Should Be Using with Evernote | More tutorials | 5 apps to use with Evernote
Evernote video tutorials and more
Evernote Clearly
This is another great tool to use with your Evernote, Clearly clears away the distractive features from web pages and makes blog posts, articles and webpages clean and easy to read. it also allows you to save your clean version to read later.
Evernote Web Clipper
This is an extension I have installed on my Chrome browser and which allows me to clip any web content and save it to my Evernote account to read it later. This tool also provides you with a set of mark-up features that you can use to annotate your clipped content. You can also share what you have clipped with others through a generated link, via email, or through the popular social media websites.
NoteLedge and it’s available as an Android app, as an iPad app, as a Mac app, and as a Windows app. In NoteLedge students can create notebooks in which they can draw or sketchnote with a variety of digital pens, pencils, and brushes. In my testing I found it was a lot easier to use NoteLedge on my iPad and on my laptop than on my phone. That said, the core features are the same whether you use NoteLedge on a tablet, laptop, or phone. One of the best features of NoteLedge is the option to insert videos into the pages of your notebooks. Those videos can appear on their own pages or on the same page as your drawings. Notebooks made in NoteLedge can be exported as PDFs and can be presented as slides. Here’s a short video overview www.freetech4teachers.com
Voice2Note is a fantastic way for students to turn their Evernote voice notes into text. Students record their voice (just like they normally do in Evernote), Voice2Note takes that note and converts it into text. Students can even tag their notes by saying “Tag with” at the end of their note! Now students can search even their voice notes! To use Voice2Note, students need to login to the Voice2Note website to register and connect their Evernote account. Then, students just record their voice note as they normally would. Many students have fantastic ideas but struggle with getting their ideas out in writing. Voice2Note means that they can say their ideas, have them transcribed into text directly in Evernote, and edit from there. Not only is this ideal for struggling writers, it is also helpful for emerging writers who may have a large spoken vocabulary, but their writing is limited by what they know how to spell.
Postach.io is a slick blogging tool. Postach.io allows you to blog from your Evernote account. To blog through Postach.io you authorize it to access Evernote on your behalf. Once authorization is granted Postach.io creates a notebook called "Postach.io" in your Evernote account. Then to write a blog post you simply write a note or send a note to the Postach.io notebook in your Evernote account.
Trello project management tool that makes collaboration easy
WonderBox - for students learning a number of different subjects (i.e Math, Geography, Science, etc) through use of videos, maps, images, and more.
Workflow is a powerful application that allows you to enhance your daily workflow through a combination of actions across various iOS devices such as iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Some of the things you can create via Workflow app include: ‘make animated GIFs; add a home screen icon that calls a loved one; make PDFs from Safari or any app with a share sheet; get directions to the nearest coffee shop in one tap; tweet the song you're listening to; get all of the images on a web page; send a message including the last screenshot you took.
IFTTT Post a new photo to Facebook, and automatically save it into Dropbox. Receive an email from a new contact, and see that person's information appear in a spreadsheet. Anyone can create automations like those two I just mentioned if they use IFTTT. IFTTT (it rhymes with "gift") stands for "if this, then that." This free service is one of my favorite productivity apps because it lets you connect a wide variety of Internet-connected apps, services, and devices,
Liquid Text offers a fast, tactile way to review, gather, and organize information across all your documents and webpages – then apply the results to writing reports, meeting prep, or simply studying. Pull out key facts and connect them together, squeeze a document to compare sections, comment on multiple pages at once, build upon your thoughts, and much more.
Evernote video tutorials and more
Evernote Clearly
This is another great tool to use with your Evernote, Clearly clears away the distractive features from web pages and makes blog posts, articles and webpages clean and easy to read. it also allows you to save your clean version to read later.
Evernote Web Clipper
This is an extension I have installed on my Chrome browser and which allows me to clip any web content and save it to my Evernote account to read it later. This tool also provides you with a set of mark-up features that you can use to annotate your clipped content. You can also share what you have clipped with others through a generated link, via email, or through the popular social media websites.
NoteLedge and it’s available as an Android app, as an iPad app, as a Mac app, and as a Windows app. In NoteLedge students can create notebooks in which they can draw or sketchnote with a variety of digital pens, pencils, and brushes. In my testing I found it was a lot easier to use NoteLedge on my iPad and on my laptop than on my phone. That said, the core features are the same whether you use NoteLedge on a tablet, laptop, or phone. One of the best features of NoteLedge is the option to insert videos into the pages of your notebooks. Those videos can appear on their own pages or on the same page as your drawings. Notebooks made in NoteLedge can be exported as PDFs and can be presented as slides. Here’s a short video overview www.freetech4teachers.com
Voice2Note is a fantastic way for students to turn their Evernote voice notes into text. Students record their voice (just like they normally do in Evernote), Voice2Note takes that note and converts it into text. Students can even tag their notes by saying “Tag with” at the end of their note! Now students can search even their voice notes! To use Voice2Note, students need to login to the Voice2Note website to register and connect their Evernote account. Then, students just record their voice note as they normally would. Many students have fantastic ideas but struggle with getting their ideas out in writing. Voice2Note means that they can say their ideas, have them transcribed into text directly in Evernote, and edit from there. Not only is this ideal for struggling writers, it is also helpful for emerging writers who may have a large spoken vocabulary, but their writing is limited by what they know how to spell.
Postach.io is a slick blogging tool. Postach.io allows you to blog from your Evernote account. To blog through Postach.io you authorize it to access Evernote on your behalf. Once authorization is granted Postach.io creates a notebook called "Postach.io" in your Evernote account. Then to write a blog post you simply write a note or send a note to the Postach.io notebook in your Evernote account.
Trello project management tool that makes collaboration easy
WonderBox - for students learning a number of different subjects (i.e Math, Geography, Science, etc) through use of videos, maps, images, and more.
Workflow is a powerful application that allows you to enhance your daily workflow through a combination of actions across various iOS devices such as iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Some of the things you can create via Workflow app include: ‘make animated GIFs; add a home screen icon that calls a loved one; make PDFs from Safari or any app with a share sheet; get directions to the nearest coffee shop in one tap; tweet the song you're listening to; get all of the images on a web page; send a message including the last screenshot you took.
IFTTT Post a new photo to Facebook, and automatically save it into Dropbox. Receive an email from a new contact, and see that person's information appear in a spreadsheet. Anyone can create automations like those two I just mentioned if they use IFTTT. IFTTT (it rhymes with "gift") stands for "if this, then that." This free service is one of my favorite productivity apps because it lets you connect a wide variety of Internet-connected apps, services, and devices,
Liquid Text offers a fast, tactile way to review, gather, and organize information across all your documents and webpages – then apply the results to writing reports, meeting prep, or simply studying. Pull out key facts and connect them together, squeeze a document to compare sections, comment on multiple pages at once, build upon your thoughts, and much more.
Three Ring is a new free service offering iPhone apps for digitizing and organizing student work. Using the app teachers can take a picture of a student's work and upload it to a free Three Ring account. Three Ring offers teachers a lot of organizational flexibility. You could organize artifacts by student name, class, date, or just about any other tagging system that works for you.
Edmodo Customize your classroom and revolutionize the way you connect with your students (and their parents) in a private, closed community. Create a virtual classroom and add your students. Once you do this, you’ll be able to share content, upload homework assignments and notifications, and continue discussions
Drawp for School is a powerful app for tablets that works on both iPads and Android devices. It’s easy-to-use and contains features for promoting a collaborative and creative learning environment in your classroom. Students can work with their peers by easily swiping across their screen. This action lets them share their creations with anyone in their class. Drawp for School makes workflow in an iPad classroom. With Drawp students can swipe across their screen to turn in work or share with others. They can easily send their creations to teachers, other students in their class or even their parents if teachers allow it. When teachers want to push work out to their students all they have to do is tap their screen. With a touch of a button all students are sent assignments from the teacher. Teachers can see the flow of work as students share it with each other before it comes to them. Also the work that is submitted is automatically sorted by class and student.
Photos for Class with it installed on your Edmodo group your students can search for Creative Commons licensed images and download them with citations attached to them. In the video demonstration of how to install Photos for Class. The second half of the video demonstrates a students' perspective of using Photos for Class within Edmodo.
Freshgrade website | App tool for educators looking to create digital portfolios of their students work. The way this works is through an easy to use mobile app (i.e. parents, students, and teachers) that allows teachers to capture student work through, video, audio, photos, text (notes), etc. Also, FreshGrade easily allows educators to share student's work through a tap of a button, to either the student or parent. Finally, using the web app a user can use FreshGrade to assign activities, assess them in real-time, and even differentiate instruction.
Handouts creation, distribution, collection, and grading of worksheets, printables, homework, quizzes and assignments.
Otus is a innovative new mobile learning system for the iPad. Educators can track assignments, assess students, poll, browse the web, take attendance, and more. It is a complete all-in-one solution for the mobile learning environment. Educators can even "flip" a lesson for at home instructions. Also, the simple to use split-screen allows students to take notes while working on assignments.
Canaryflow is designed to help teachers and students follow a simple workflow inside and outside of the classroom. With this tool a teacher creates a lesson, adds an assignment, and schedules the lesson. Students access the lesson and assignment, and submit the work for the assignment. The teacher then collects the assignment, annotates and grades the assignment, and publishes grades. Students can then review grades and annotations.
Teacher app Student app
Ignite Teaching students can use to collaborate on the development of multimedia projects. Through Ignite Teaching teachers can create project titles that they share with students through an invitation code. Students then join the project and build slides that include pictures, text, and video. Students can work on their contributions to the project at their own pace. When they are finished working on the project, students submit their work and their teacher can see it in his or her account. ChallengeU is an online educational platform that allows teachers to create and share learning activities. Teachers can make content available to students anywhere at anytime, and ChallengeU is compatible on all devices and completely free. Teachers can upload different file types and student questions all in the same activity. Students can then hand in assignments in the form or videos, audio, pictures and a handful of other file types. They can even comment on the work of their peers and develop online learning communities. Teachers can track students progress and instantly let students see comments, corrections and feedback on assignments.
Skaffl designed to help you distribute, collect, and grade assignments. In the app you can create classrooms that your students join through a class code. Once your classroom is created you can distribute assignments and hand-outs to your students. Assignments can be created in the app or you can attach items created outside of the Skafll app. Your students can submit work through the app. You can grade your students’ assignments directly within the app. For assignments that aren’t going to be graded (a rough draft of an essay, for example) can annotated by you to provide students with feedback. School 4 One is a tool for teachers managing a one to one iPad classroom. Their learning platform can transform your workflow by placing cloud storage and feedback tools all in one place. Teachers can track their students’ performance as they address the Common Core State Standards. School 4 One makes it easy to assign schoolwork to students and collect their assignments.
Frolyc as a tool for teachers to design lesson-based interactive activities.
Chalkup provides tools to help students work and study together. Kids can collaborate with their peers through the online platform to complete projects and correspond with one another. Students can also pose questions when they are struggling to understand an assignment or a core concept. Chalkup gives teachers the power to create an environment where students are not passively taking in a lecture. They are engaged, on task and growing as learners.
Easy Portfolio create portfolios of your work and or your students’ work. You can create multiple portfolios containing pictures, videos, links, notes, documents, and audio recordings. You can import files from your iPad to any of your portfolios. You can also create new media from scratch within each of your portfolios. You can share individual portfolio elements or entire portfolios via email or Dropbox.
Snapguide create your own guides and use others at the site by using the search. There is a guide on how to use Snapguide.. You can include photos and videos in the guides. Teachers and students can create "How to" guides
Flipboard curates sites and organizers similar sites in a flipboard format
Readdle Documents Excellent organiser for your files... documents, pdfs, eBooks, the cloud & the web Guide
Edmodo Customize your classroom and revolutionize the way you connect with your students (and their parents) in a private, closed community. Create a virtual classroom and add your students. Once you do this, you’ll be able to share content, upload homework assignments and notifications, and continue discussions
Drawp for School is a powerful app for tablets that works on both iPads and Android devices. It’s easy-to-use and contains features for promoting a collaborative and creative learning environment in your classroom. Students can work with their peers by easily swiping across their screen. This action lets them share their creations with anyone in their class. Drawp for School makes workflow in an iPad classroom. With Drawp students can swipe across their screen to turn in work or share with others. They can easily send their creations to teachers, other students in their class or even their parents if teachers allow it. When teachers want to push work out to their students all they have to do is tap their screen. With a touch of a button all students are sent assignments from the teacher. Teachers can see the flow of work as students share it with each other before it comes to them. Also the work that is submitted is automatically sorted by class and student.
Photos for Class with it installed on your Edmodo group your students can search for Creative Commons licensed images and download them with citations attached to them. In the video demonstration of how to install Photos for Class. The second half of the video demonstrates a students' perspective of using Photos for Class within Edmodo.
Freshgrade website | App tool for educators looking to create digital portfolios of their students work. The way this works is through an easy to use mobile app (i.e. parents, students, and teachers) that allows teachers to capture student work through, video, audio, photos, text (notes), etc. Also, FreshGrade easily allows educators to share student's work through a tap of a button, to either the student or parent. Finally, using the web app a user can use FreshGrade to assign activities, assess them in real-time, and even differentiate instruction.
Handouts creation, distribution, collection, and grading of worksheets, printables, homework, quizzes and assignments.
Otus is a innovative new mobile learning system for the iPad. Educators can track assignments, assess students, poll, browse the web, take attendance, and more. It is a complete all-in-one solution for the mobile learning environment. Educators can even "flip" a lesson for at home instructions. Also, the simple to use split-screen allows students to take notes while working on assignments.
Canaryflow is designed to help teachers and students follow a simple workflow inside and outside of the classroom. With this tool a teacher creates a lesson, adds an assignment, and schedules the lesson. Students access the lesson and assignment, and submit the work for the assignment. The teacher then collects the assignment, annotates and grades the assignment, and publishes grades. Students can then review grades and annotations.
Teacher app Student app
Ignite Teaching students can use to collaborate on the development of multimedia projects. Through Ignite Teaching teachers can create project titles that they share with students through an invitation code. Students then join the project and build slides that include pictures, text, and video. Students can work on their contributions to the project at their own pace. When they are finished working on the project, students submit their work and their teacher can see it in his or her account. ChallengeU is an online educational platform that allows teachers to create and share learning activities. Teachers can make content available to students anywhere at anytime, and ChallengeU is compatible on all devices and completely free. Teachers can upload different file types and student questions all in the same activity. Students can then hand in assignments in the form or videos, audio, pictures and a handful of other file types. They can even comment on the work of their peers and develop online learning communities. Teachers can track students progress and instantly let students see comments, corrections and feedback on assignments.
Skaffl designed to help you distribute, collect, and grade assignments. In the app you can create classrooms that your students join through a class code. Once your classroom is created you can distribute assignments and hand-outs to your students. Assignments can be created in the app or you can attach items created outside of the Skafll app. Your students can submit work through the app. You can grade your students’ assignments directly within the app. For assignments that aren’t going to be graded (a rough draft of an essay, for example) can annotated by you to provide students with feedback. School 4 One is a tool for teachers managing a one to one iPad classroom. Their learning platform can transform your workflow by placing cloud storage and feedback tools all in one place. Teachers can track their students’ performance as they address the Common Core State Standards. School 4 One makes it easy to assign schoolwork to students and collect their assignments.
Frolyc as a tool for teachers to design lesson-based interactive activities.
Chalkup provides tools to help students work and study together. Kids can collaborate with their peers through the online platform to complete projects and correspond with one another. Students can also pose questions when they are struggling to understand an assignment or a core concept. Chalkup gives teachers the power to create an environment where students are not passively taking in a lecture. They are engaged, on task and growing as learners.
Easy Portfolio create portfolios of your work and or your students’ work. You can create multiple portfolios containing pictures, videos, links, notes, documents, and audio recordings. You can import files from your iPad to any of your portfolios. You can also create new media from scratch within each of your portfolios. You can share individual portfolio elements or entire portfolios via email or Dropbox.
Snapguide create your own guides and use others at the site by using the search. There is a guide on how to use Snapguide.. You can include photos and videos in the guides. Teachers and students can create "How to" guides
Flipboard curates sites and organizers similar sites in a flipboard format
Readdle Documents Excellent organiser for your files... documents, pdfs, eBooks, the cloud & the web Guide
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Collaboration and Communication
Real-time Collaboration Apps for the iPad real-time collaboration apps to enhance instruction. The most popular of these include the whiteboard apps, most of which work when connected to the same wireless network
Class Story is an excellent alternative to a public classroom website or blog and teachers can use it as a secure and private space where they can communicate with parents and engage in the learning of their kids.
Flipgrid One iPad and Android app allows teachers to empower and amplify student voices by creating a digital community, or “grid,” in which they and their students record short videos to spark discussions, share perspectives and engage with one another on equal footing.
appear.in - Create a video conferencing room for up to 8 people via this website or mobile app.IOS and Android
Piiig Talk - Use your mobile device like a walkie talkie with this family-friendly iOS app.
Remind 101 free iPhone app.is a service for sending text messages to groups of students and their parents. The service is an opt-in service which means that students and parents have to enter a confirmation code to state that they do want to be contacted by you through the service. Remind 101 keeps phone numbers hidden so that the parties cannot see each other's numbers. Learn more about Remind 101 in the video below. video
MolaSync - Collaborative cloud notes! Sound recording, Sharp Drawing, Typing, Chatting and collaboration
You can draw to record your inspiration at anytime, anywhere, insert pictures and words and even record to write notes and annotate to modify the PDF document. With the collaboration function you can exchange views and work together with your friends. Together complete a painting, a document, a design, a trip plan, and share your achievements or show them via social network.
Ignite Teaching - for Project Based Learning through collaborative digital presentations/projects.
ViewChat is a free collaborative app designed to allow you to easily share content with one another. ( video overview ) What makes this app particularly special is the text, chat, and voice features available while you are reviewing documents or any other content. The simple and easy to use interface allows you to drag and drop photos, PDFs, Office and iWork files, videos, web pages and emails for everyone to view. From there, ViewChat allows users to open multiple tabs so that you can switch back and forth between content. You can even have a blank whiteboard to sketchnote on and use the interactive features to allow others to contribute. Furthermore, ViewChat connects to all major cloud accounts allowing you to bring and send content from and to the cloud. Help support | Website support
Sendboo is the next-generation instant messaging app featuring real-time translation, allowing you to communicate with anyone you want around the world, without worrying about language barriers and without having to use separate translators.
SendHub is a fast and simple communications tool designed to help educators communicate more effectively with their students after the school day ends. Their simple user interface enables teachers and administrators to make calls, send messages to individual students or entire classes, and also stay in touch with parents.
Talkboard This app is useful for any collaboration work because you can share whiteboard screens and work together effectively.
Join.me With the join.me mobile app you can join an online meeting no matter where you go. Or get the most out of mobile meetings by using your join.me pro account and your iPad to host meetings and present files from your device.
Too Noisy (free and pro versions available) designed to help students learn to recognize the appropriate volume for conversations. The app measures the volume of the noise in a room and displays a meter indicating whether or not the the room is too noisy. Too Noisy has four situation settings that you can use in your classroom; silent, quiet, group, and class. You can adjust the sensitivity of the meter for each situation.
Together Learn, the app provides the chance for multiple people, in different places, to watch the same video in real time while at the same time having live video / audio chats while at the same time using a live shared chalkboard. The app lets you fast-forward, rewind, skip chapters, and pause a wide variety of videos while it lets you video conference. Think interactive Skype conversation with a cool video playing in the background that is the focus of the conversation.
BuzzMob. lets parents and teachers connect on a private network that requires authorization before a user can see updates. Ease of use is another advantage of the new collaboration method, says Vose, who points out that not all mobile phones displayed her classroom website correctly. Similar to Twitter or Facebook on the public social networking side, BuzzMob allows you to make quick updates on the fly.
Class Story is an excellent alternative to a public classroom website or blog and teachers can use it as a secure and private space where they can communicate with parents and engage in the learning of their kids.
Flipgrid One iPad and Android app allows teachers to empower and amplify student voices by creating a digital community, or “grid,” in which they and their students record short videos to spark discussions, share perspectives and engage with one another on equal footing.
appear.in - Create a video conferencing room for up to 8 people via this website or mobile app.IOS and Android
Piiig Talk - Use your mobile device like a walkie talkie with this family-friendly iOS app.
Remind 101 free iPhone app.is a service for sending text messages to groups of students and their parents. The service is an opt-in service which means that students and parents have to enter a confirmation code to state that they do want to be contacted by you through the service. Remind 101 keeps phone numbers hidden so that the parties cannot see each other's numbers. Learn more about Remind 101 in the video below. video
MolaSync - Collaborative cloud notes! Sound recording, Sharp Drawing, Typing, Chatting and collaboration
You can draw to record your inspiration at anytime, anywhere, insert pictures and words and even record to write notes and annotate to modify the PDF document. With the collaboration function you can exchange views and work together with your friends. Together complete a painting, a document, a design, a trip plan, and share your achievements or show them via social network.
Ignite Teaching - for Project Based Learning through collaborative digital presentations/projects.
ViewChat is a free collaborative app designed to allow you to easily share content with one another. ( video overview ) What makes this app particularly special is the text, chat, and voice features available while you are reviewing documents or any other content. The simple and easy to use interface allows you to drag and drop photos, PDFs, Office and iWork files, videos, web pages and emails for everyone to view. From there, ViewChat allows users to open multiple tabs so that you can switch back and forth between content. You can even have a blank whiteboard to sketchnote on and use the interactive features to allow others to contribute. Furthermore, ViewChat connects to all major cloud accounts allowing you to bring and send content from and to the cloud. Help support | Website support
Sendboo is the next-generation instant messaging app featuring real-time translation, allowing you to communicate with anyone you want around the world, without worrying about language barriers and without having to use separate translators.
SendHub is a fast and simple communications tool designed to help educators communicate more effectively with their students after the school day ends. Their simple user interface enables teachers and administrators to make calls, send messages to individual students or entire classes, and also stay in touch with parents.
Talkboard This app is useful for any collaboration work because you can share whiteboard screens and work together effectively.
Join.me With the join.me mobile app you can join an online meeting no matter where you go. Or get the most out of mobile meetings by using your join.me pro account and your iPad to host meetings and present files from your device.
Too Noisy (free and pro versions available) designed to help students learn to recognize the appropriate volume for conversations. The app measures the volume of the noise in a room and displays a meter indicating whether or not the the room is too noisy. Too Noisy has four situation settings that you can use in your classroom; silent, quiet, group, and class. You can adjust the sensitivity of the meter for each situation.
Together Learn, the app provides the chance for multiple people, in different places, to watch the same video in real time while at the same time having live video / audio chats while at the same time using a live shared chalkboard. The app lets you fast-forward, rewind, skip chapters, and pause a wide variety of videos while it lets you video conference. Think interactive Skype conversation with a cool video playing in the background that is the focus of the conversation.
BuzzMob. lets parents and teachers connect on a private network that requires authorization before a user can see updates. Ease of use is another advantage of the new collaboration method, says Vose, who points out that not all mobile phones displayed her classroom website correctly. Similar to Twitter or Facebook on the public social networking side, BuzzMob allows you to make quick updates on the fly.
Animation Creators
Animation HD Express With simple, yet powerful drawing tools, shake to undo, color palettes, color sliders, and easy to use frame management, you're only limited by your imagination! Your animations will look smooth and life-like with the high frame rate playback of Animation Creator HD!
Puppet Pals Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time!free iBook activities | Puppet Pals HD Lesson Ideas
Puppet Pals 2 - A fan of the Puppet Pals app? Here is their encore, re-imagined and easier to use. It takes telling stories with digital puppets to the next level. iBook activities
Toontastic 3D With Toontastic 3D you can draw, animate, and narrate your own cartoons. It’s as easy as play. Just move your characters around onscreen, tell your story, and Toontastic records your voice and animations and stores it on your device as a 3D video. Toontastic is a powerful and playful way to create interstellar adventures, breaking news reports, video game designs, family photo albums, and anything else you might imagine!’
Puppet Pals Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time!free iBook activities | Puppet Pals HD Lesson Ideas
Puppet Pals 2 - A fan of the Puppet Pals app? Here is their encore, re-imagined and easier to use. It takes telling stories with digital puppets to the next level. iBook activities
Toontastic 3D With Toontastic 3D you can draw, animate, and narrate your own cartoons. It’s as easy as play. Just move your characters around onscreen, tell your story, and Toontastic records your voice and animations and stores it on your device as a 3D video. Toontastic is a powerful and playful way to create interstellar adventures, breaking news reports, video game designs, family photo albums, and anything else you might imagine!’
Flipbook Lite
Creative Kids The app gives children over six a step by step method for creating their own animations and moving images using color pencils, paper, and a tablet computer. Fine motor skills, creativity, and imagination are stimulated in a playful and fun way.
Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is a neat tool for creating animated stop motion movies. Creating your animated stop motion video is a simple drag and drop process on Stop Frame Animator.
Animator Free stop motion animation
Creation Engine That Brings Ideas to LifeWhat if students could bring their ideas to life by just saying them out loud? Using the Moatboat app for iOS, students speak, and the app does what they say. Students can give characters things to do with more than 1,000 objects and actions across 15 unique environments. Using simple sentences, they can add objects and apply actions. For example, they can say, “I need horse” to add a horse into their world. Then they can give the horse something to do by saying, “Horse eat grass” or “Horse jump over fence.” Everything they add becomes part of a working system. By layering multiple objects and actions, they can keep increasing the complexity of their creation. Using the augmented reality (AR) version of Moatboat, students can place their creations onto a real-world table and invite others to join them in a shared experience.
Kids Animation free version of the successful 'Animation Studio' App provides all the tools you need to create great Animations on your iPad! Paint, draw, add Fun Stamps and even your own Soundtrack! For Help, Tap the "?" Button and check out our full In-App Tutorial! Easy!
ABCya Animate from ABCya (disclosure, an advertiser here)allows students to create animated GIFs containing up to 100 frames. On ABCya Animate students build their animation creations by drawing, typing, and inserting images.
Flip Book Lite
Stop motion cafe simple to use. You select your frames-per-second rate, press “capture frames” and hit the screen to add a new frame. When you’re done, press “elaborate movie” and it will save to your Camera Roll. It gives you the ability to save a project to work on later and it also has an edit function so you can remove frames you’re not so thrilled about.
Gifmator Ever wondered how to create Gif images. The kinds that move and repeat themselves? Have you made one of them and wondered how you could put some nostalgic creativity into them? Gifmator is your answer. Gifmator is an easy way to create animated GIFs on all iOS enabled devices.
123D Catch is a free iPad app from Autodesk. The app makes it possible to turn your pictures into a 3D model that you can manipulate on your iPad. Take a series of pictures of that object as you either walk around it or rotate it slowly as you take pictures of it. Then select the best images from those that you took (20+ images works best) to let Autodesk process and turn into a 3D model for you.123D Catch could be a great app for creating virtual manipulatives to use in a math or science lesson. The app could also be used to create 3D models of interesting landmarks that you visit during a vacation, but that your students would otherwise only see in 2D pictures.
IAnimation I App- instruct students to take a series of pictures for a story they will be creating. Students can use this app to animate these stories, then string these together for a digital story.
Animation Express Create simple animated drawings. When you open the app you will see a sample animation that provides a sense of what you can do with the app. After watching the sample animation tap “+” in the upper-right corner of the screen to start creating your own animation. Draw each frame of your animation using your finger or a stylus. After creating the frames you can add a sound track and or a background image. You can also change the colors of the digital ink that you use. Animation express allows you to specify how many frames per second appear in your animation. Your finished product can be exported to YouTube or saved on your iPad.
Creative Kids The app gives children over six a step by step method for creating their own animations and moving images using colour pencils, paper, and a tablet computer. Fine motor skills, creativity, and imagination are stimulated in a playful and fun way.
Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is a neat tool for creating animated stop motion movies. Creating your animated stop motion video is a simple drag and drop process on Stop Frame Animator.
Pix Stop stop motion animation
Animation Creator HD Lite For IPad- students can create their own animations for a story. They can use this app to create the characters for a story and even add audio. Have them create dialogues, flesh out characters, or create graphic novel type stories with the animations they create.
Creative Kids The app gives children over six a step by step method for creating their own animations and moving images using color pencils, paper, and a tablet computer. Fine motor skills, creativity, and imagination are stimulated in a playful and fun way.
Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is a neat tool for creating animated stop motion movies. Creating your animated stop motion video is a simple drag and drop process on Stop Frame Animator.
Animator Free stop motion animation
Creation Engine That Brings Ideas to LifeWhat if students could bring their ideas to life by just saying them out loud? Using the Moatboat app for iOS, students speak, and the app does what they say. Students can give characters things to do with more than 1,000 objects and actions across 15 unique environments. Using simple sentences, they can add objects and apply actions. For example, they can say, “I need horse” to add a horse into their world. Then they can give the horse something to do by saying, “Horse eat grass” or “Horse jump over fence.” Everything they add becomes part of a working system. By layering multiple objects and actions, they can keep increasing the complexity of their creation. Using the augmented reality (AR) version of Moatboat, students can place their creations onto a real-world table and invite others to join them in a shared experience.
Kids Animation free version of the successful 'Animation Studio' App provides all the tools you need to create great Animations on your iPad! Paint, draw, add Fun Stamps and even your own Soundtrack! For Help, Tap the "?" Button and check out our full In-App Tutorial! Easy!
ABCya Animate from ABCya (disclosure, an advertiser here)allows students to create animated GIFs containing up to 100 frames. On ABCya Animate students build their animation creations by drawing, typing, and inserting images.
Flip Book Lite
Stop motion cafe simple to use. You select your frames-per-second rate, press “capture frames” and hit the screen to add a new frame. When you’re done, press “elaborate movie” and it will save to your Camera Roll. It gives you the ability to save a project to work on later and it also has an edit function so you can remove frames you’re not so thrilled about.
Gifmator Ever wondered how to create Gif images. The kinds that move and repeat themselves? Have you made one of them and wondered how you could put some nostalgic creativity into them? Gifmator is your answer. Gifmator is an easy way to create animated GIFs on all iOS enabled devices.
123D Catch is a free iPad app from Autodesk. The app makes it possible to turn your pictures into a 3D model that you can manipulate on your iPad. Take a series of pictures of that object as you either walk around it or rotate it slowly as you take pictures of it. Then select the best images from those that you took (20+ images works best) to let Autodesk process and turn into a 3D model for you.123D Catch could be a great app for creating virtual manipulatives to use in a math or science lesson. The app could also be used to create 3D models of interesting landmarks that you visit during a vacation, but that your students would otherwise only see in 2D pictures.
IAnimation I App- instruct students to take a series of pictures for a story they will be creating. Students can use this app to animate these stories, then string these together for a digital story.
Animation Express Create simple animated drawings. When you open the app you will see a sample animation that provides a sense of what you can do with the app. After watching the sample animation tap “+” in the upper-right corner of the screen to start creating your own animation. Draw each frame of your animation using your finger or a stylus. After creating the frames you can add a sound track and or a background image. You can also change the colors of the digital ink that you use. Animation express allows you to specify how many frames per second appear in your animation. Your finished product can be exported to YouTube or saved on your iPad.
Creative Kids The app gives children over six a step by step method for creating their own animations and moving images using colour pencils, paper, and a tablet computer. Fine motor skills, creativity, and imagination are stimulated in a playful and fun way.
Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is a neat tool for creating animated stop motion movies. Creating your animated stop motion video is a simple drag and drop process on Stop Frame Animator.
Pix Stop stop motion animation
Animation Creator HD Lite For IPad- students can create their own animations for a story. They can use this app to create the characters for a story and even add audio. Have them create dialogues, flesh out characters, or create graphic novel type stories with the animations they create.
QR Resources
BeeTagg QR Reader Universal Scanner This is a QR Code scanner and generator. When QR Codes are scanned the appropriate iOS action is taken. The generator creates QR Codes for all sorts of things including URL’s and contacts.
To learn more about how to use QR Codes in class, check out these guides:
Adobe Scan app with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) functionality that allows you to scan anything you want to PDF. You can turn any type of document into an editable PDF which you can edit and re-use the way you want.
-QR Code Reader and Scanner . IOS
QR Code Reader . Android
QR & Barcode Scanner Android
i-nigma turns your camera into a sophisticated barcode reader. Thanks to exceptionally quick and robust scanning, it is regularly ranked as top performer in this category.
QR Code Generator Once you have generated your code you can save it, print it, email it, share it with your friends or make fun things like t-shirts and Moo cards. Quikqr is totally free and you don't need to sign in.
Scan - Use QR codes with your students or colleagues? This simple, free app also works with other kinds of barcodes. It is a scanner and reader.
QR Code Maker gives users the ability to copy and paste any URL and turn their link into a QR code. Save the QR code to your camera roll and share with students.
Qrafter QR reader
To learn more about how to use QR Codes in class, check out these guides:
- QR Codes in The Classroom by Kathy Schrock
- 25 Fun Ways to use QR Codes for Teaching and Learning, Emerging EdTech
- Twelve Ideas for Teaching With QR Codes
- How to Create QR Codes to Use in Your Classroom, Mrs Wideen's Blog
Adobe Scan app with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) functionality that allows you to scan anything you want to PDF. You can turn any type of document into an editable PDF which you can edit and re-use the way you want.
-QR Code Reader and Scanner . IOS
QR Code Reader . Android
QR & Barcode Scanner Android
i-nigma turns your camera into a sophisticated barcode reader. Thanks to exceptionally quick and robust scanning, it is regularly ranked as top performer in this category.
QR Code Generator Once you have generated your code you can save it, print it, email it, share it with your friends or make fun things like t-shirts and Moo cards. Quikqr is totally free and you don't need to sign in.
Scan - Use QR codes with your students or colleagues? This simple, free app also works with other kinds of barcodes. It is a scanner and reader.
QR Code Maker gives users the ability to copy and paste any URL and turn their link into a QR code. Save the QR code to your camera roll and share with students.
Qrafter QR reader
PDFs and Guides
PaperPort Notes is an app for importing PDF files,e.g., from Dropbox, and adding text.
Notability Integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording and organizing your note taking. Allows media insertion and organizing, protecting and sharing of information. Cost - $0.99
LiquidText annotate your PDFs, gather and organize your information across all your documents and webpages. You can create your own workspace in LiquidText and start importing your documents from popular cloud storage platforms such as Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Box, or email. And if you use Safari, you can send web content directly to workspace. LiquidText is free to download but it does offer in-app purchases.
Foxit PDF ‘This is an easy-to-use PDF reader which allows you to view, annotate, and protect PDF files on iOS devices while on the go. Unlike other PDF readers, this app comes with ConnectedPDF, a breakthrough technology that brings new levels of accountability, collaboration, and productivity to the sharing and tracking of PDF documents worldwide.
Adobe Fill and Sign lets you fill, sign, and send any form fast. You can even snap a picture of a paper form and fill it in on your phone or tablet. Then e-sign and send. No printing or faxing needed.’
The NaturalReader text-to-speech(TTS) application converts PDF files, MS Word documents, and e-books into spoken words. You can have any text read to you in one of over 18 natural-sounding voices.(offline voices) It is also an efficient proofreading tool; it not only picks out mistakes in your work, but gives you a good sense of the natural flow of what you have written.Moreover, NaturalReader is a great help to students with dyslexia or other learning difficulties. By listening to text rather reading, students are better able to comprehend reading materials or detect spelling errors in their own work.
Finally, NaturalReader is a great tool with which to learn a foreign language. You can practice your comprehension and pronunciation skills by listening to any written words being spoken at your preferred speed.
Snapguide create your own guides and use others at the site
Synopsis lets users create notes by highlighting different sections of a PDF document. Students can then modify the notes they have created by adding their own text. Synopsis gives students the power to summarize any text so they won’t need to go back to a PDF document to study material. Each individual note can be converted to its own flashcard there is no need to buy flashcards or type and create your own.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/easy-annotate-split-screen/id727622263?mt=8
LiquidText for researching, annotating, and highlighting your documents, websites, and PDF's.
Clarisketch Android to create flipped classroom videos, explain a complex process or illustrate a given topic using both annotated commentary and recorded audio. You will be able to walk the students through your explanations using features such as highlights, drawings and audio prompts.
Easy Annotate gives teachers and students a simple and dynamic way to interact with documents. Users can upload PDF documents to Easy Annotate for side-by-side editing. Easy Annotate lets students highlight, write, and take notes all over documents. It’s a great choice for researchers and readers interacting with text on their mobile device. PhotoScan by Google
SignEasy is the simplest and fastest way to sign documents or getting documents signed from your iPhone and iPad. Some of its features include:sign, fill and send any document format - PDF, Word, Excel, Text, Pages, JPG, PNG etc; send documents to others for signing; seamlessly sign documents from Email, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Evernote and Google Drive…’
PDF Expert PDF Expert 6 is an essential app for anyone who reads, highlights, signs and fills out PDFs on their iPhone and iPad. With an additional in-app purchase PDF Expert 6 acquires the unique superpower to edit existing PDF text, replace images and hide sensitive data.’
DocuSign is the easiest and most secure way to sign and get documents signed from your iPhone or iPad. Some of its features include: fill out and eSign documents for free, there is no monthly limit; send documents for others to sign; securely store, manage, and access your documents from anywhere… ’
iAnnotate 4 $ t’s the best way to read, annotate, and share PDFs, Microsoft Office files, images and web pages! Over 1 million people turn to iAnnotate to take notes, sign agreements, highlight documents, insert stamps and more.
PDF Markup Cloud
‘PDF Markup Cloud, the brand-new PDF Reader by Kdan, is an expert of PDF viewing, editing, and organizing. Like Adobe Acrobat Reader you’re used to, it allows you to add PDF annotations, sign or write on documents, highlight web pages, and back up files with all the popular cloud storage services directly from your iPhone or iPad.’’
PDF Expert 6
‘PDF Expert allows you to markup documents with highlights and handwriting, insert text and stamps, sign and merge PDFs. Plus, PDF Expert is the best choice for filling out PDF forms on your iPad and iPhone.’
GoodReader
‘GoodReader is the super-robust PDF reader app that Mashable describes as “a Swiss Army knife of awesome!” Millions of users and reviews worldwide hail it as “essential,” “the best,” “magnificent” and “the killer app”. With GoodReader on your iPad or iPhone, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: documents, books, movies, maps, pictures. ’
PDF Viewer
‘Whether you’re working on your own or collaborating with a team, PDF Viewer maximizes productivity, allowing you to view, search, and annotate PDF documents with ease on your iPhone and iPad.’
iAnnotate 4
‘iAnnotate is all new and better than ever. It’s the best way to read, annotate, and share PDFs, Microsoft Office files, images and web pages! Over 1 million people turn to iAnnotate to take notes, sign agreements, highlight documents, insert stamps and more.’
PDF Reader
‘PDF Reader is one of the world’s most popular PDF apps for viewing, annotating and signing PDFs. It allows you to make notes and organize all annotated PDF documents within a few taps. You can quickly backup and send files to friends, classmates, and colleagues via email or all the popular Cloud storage services.’
Adobe Acrobat Reader
‘Convert, edit, and organize PDFs on the go by subscribing to one of Adobe’s online services. You can get started without ever leaving your app, and subscriptions work across all your computers and devices.’
Notability Integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording and organizing your note taking. Allows media insertion and organizing, protecting and sharing of information. Cost - $0.99
LiquidText annotate your PDFs, gather and organize your information across all your documents and webpages. You can create your own workspace in LiquidText and start importing your documents from popular cloud storage platforms such as Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Box, or email. And if you use Safari, you can send web content directly to workspace. LiquidText is free to download but it does offer in-app purchases.
Foxit PDF ‘This is an easy-to-use PDF reader which allows you to view, annotate, and protect PDF files on iOS devices while on the go. Unlike other PDF readers, this app comes with ConnectedPDF, a breakthrough technology that brings new levels of accountability, collaboration, and productivity to the sharing and tracking of PDF documents worldwide.
Adobe Fill and Sign lets you fill, sign, and send any form fast. You can even snap a picture of a paper form and fill it in on your phone or tablet. Then e-sign and send. No printing or faxing needed.’
The NaturalReader text-to-speech(TTS) application converts PDF files, MS Word documents, and e-books into spoken words. You can have any text read to you in one of over 18 natural-sounding voices.(offline voices) It is also an efficient proofreading tool; it not only picks out mistakes in your work, but gives you a good sense of the natural flow of what you have written.Moreover, NaturalReader is a great help to students with dyslexia or other learning difficulties. By listening to text rather reading, students are better able to comprehend reading materials or detect spelling errors in their own work.
Finally, NaturalReader is a great tool with which to learn a foreign language. You can practice your comprehension and pronunciation skills by listening to any written words being spoken at your preferred speed.
Snapguide create your own guides and use others at the site
Synopsis lets users create notes by highlighting different sections of a PDF document. Students can then modify the notes they have created by adding their own text. Synopsis gives students the power to summarize any text so they won’t need to go back to a PDF document to study material. Each individual note can be converted to its own flashcard there is no need to buy flashcards or type and create your own.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/easy-annotate-split-screen/id727622263?mt=8
LiquidText for researching, annotating, and highlighting your documents, websites, and PDF's.
Clarisketch Android to create flipped classroom videos, explain a complex process or illustrate a given topic using both annotated commentary and recorded audio. You will be able to walk the students through your explanations using features such as highlights, drawings and audio prompts.
Easy Annotate gives teachers and students a simple and dynamic way to interact with documents. Users can upload PDF documents to Easy Annotate for side-by-side editing. Easy Annotate lets students highlight, write, and take notes all over documents. It’s a great choice for researchers and readers interacting with text on their mobile device. PhotoScan by Google
SignEasy is the simplest and fastest way to sign documents or getting documents signed from your iPhone and iPad. Some of its features include:sign, fill and send any document format - PDF, Word, Excel, Text, Pages, JPG, PNG etc; send documents to others for signing; seamlessly sign documents from Email, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Evernote and Google Drive…’
PDF Expert PDF Expert 6 is an essential app for anyone who reads, highlights, signs and fills out PDFs on their iPhone and iPad. With an additional in-app purchase PDF Expert 6 acquires the unique superpower to edit existing PDF text, replace images and hide sensitive data.’
DocuSign is the easiest and most secure way to sign and get documents signed from your iPhone or iPad. Some of its features include: fill out and eSign documents for free, there is no monthly limit; send documents for others to sign; securely store, manage, and access your documents from anywhere… ’
iAnnotate 4 $ t’s the best way to read, annotate, and share PDFs, Microsoft Office files, images and web pages! Over 1 million people turn to iAnnotate to take notes, sign agreements, highlight documents, insert stamps and more.
PDF Markup Cloud
‘PDF Markup Cloud, the brand-new PDF Reader by Kdan, is an expert of PDF viewing, editing, and organizing. Like Adobe Acrobat Reader you’re used to, it allows you to add PDF annotations, sign or write on documents, highlight web pages, and back up files with all the popular cloud storage services directly from your iPhone or iPad.’’
PDF Expert 6
‘PDF Expert allows you to markup documents with highlights and handwriting, insert text and stamps, sign and merge PDFs. Plus, PDF Expert is the best choice for filling out PDF forms on your iPad and iPhone.’
GoodReader
‘GoodReader is the super-robust PDF reader app that Mashable describes as “a Swiss Army knife of awesome!” Millions of users and reviews worldwide hail it as “essential,” “the best,” “magnificent” and “the killer app”. With GoodReader on your iPad or iPhone, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: documents, books, movies, maps, pictures. ’
PDF Viewer
‘Whether you’re working on your own or collaborating with a team, PDF Viewer maximizes productivity, allowing you to view, search, and annotate PDF documents with ease on your iPhone and iPad.’
iAnnotate 4
‘iAnnotate is all new and better than ever. It’s the best way to read, annotate, and share PDFs, Microsoft Office files, images and web pages! Over 1 million people turn to iAnnotate to take notes, sign agreements, highlight documents, insert stamps and more.’
PDF Reader
‘PDF Reader is one of the world’s most popular PDF apps for viewing, annotating and signing PDFs. It allows you to make notes and organize all annotated PDF documents within a few taps. You can quickly backup and send files to friends, classmates, and colleagues via email or all the popular Cloud storage services.’
Adobe Acrobat Reader
‘Convert, edit, and organize PDFs on the go by subscribing to one of Adobe’s online services. You can get started without ever leaving your app, and subscriptions work across all your computers and devices.’
Scanning
PhotoScan by Google Create enhanced digital scans on tablet or phone, with automatic edge detection, perspective correction, and smart rotation. Android
Camscanner Office documents snapshot & Smart image doc management Hand-written annotation & Customizable watermark generation Also Android at the same site
DocScan (Android) Scan documents to produce high-quality images. Enter texts, fill forms, sign, draw, and send. Share as PDF / JPEG by email, FAX, SMB, Cloud Services, WebDAV, and iTunes / WiFi file sharing.
TextGrabber ($) is an excellent app that allows you to easily scan printed text from almost any printed material and save it in different formats. You can also edit your saved text and share it with others through SMS, e-mail, Evernote or via popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Additionally, TextGrabber enables you to translate scanned text into more than 100 languages and you can even use VoiceOver to hear your translated text spoken aloud. However, translation is not a free feature. It’s provided as an in-app purchase.
Office Lens trims, enhances and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable. Office Lens can convert images to editable Word and PowerPoint files too. Automatically recognizes and crops any paper document that you place under your mobile device and the before and after results are quite remarkable. Regardless of the angle of your device, the final image is cropped, straightened and enhanced to look just the way you would want it to.
SayText : App scans documents and then reads the text contained in the document to you. Simply place your device center of a document and double-tap the “Take picture” -button. Then slowly elevate the device over the document. When it detects your document, it will beep and start scanning. While the OCR is running, tap the screen to hear the progress status. When the camera is done scanning, swipe the screen to initiate a read back of the text. Cost: Free
Doc Scan HD
Scannable is an app that allows you to easily scan papers and save them to your Evernote or share them with others via email or text. Simply point your iPad or iPhone camera at the document you want to scan (this could be a post-it note, information on a business card or notes on a whiteboard), Scannable immediately captures it and make it available to you in the form of a shareable document. Besides being able to scan and save documents, Scannable also automatically rotates, crop and adjusts images so your scans are clear and easy to read. Video tutorial
Translate Photo Free extracts texts from any printed sources: documents, books, signs, instructions or announcements and allows to immediately translate them to any of 70 languages. Take a picture of the text and after the text is recognized, you can immediately edit, hear, translate, share it on Facebook, Dropbox or simply send by email.
PDF Pen Scan With PDFpen Scan+, use your iPhone or iPad to scan and OCR multi-page documents to create searchable PDFs. Scan directly with your iPhone or iPad camera. Crop and enhance the scan. Perform OCR. Copy OCR text. Email, export, and share PDF documents.
Prizmo s a universal photo-based scanner app that lets you scan and recognize text documents, business cards, and images, and then export them as PDF/Text, vCard, or JPEG/PNG. Prizmo relies on state-of-the-art technologies, like a highly accurate OCR, real-time page detection, and beautiful image cleanup. Using iCloud, you can even shoot the picture on your iPhone, and finish editing on your iPad or Mac.
Pixter Image and Document Scan Pixter Scan OCR is a combination between Pixels (your pictures) and text (what you will get) by Optical character recognition usually abbreviated to OCR which is the mechanical or electronic conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text.
Text Grabber TextGrabber + Translator easily and quickly scans, translates and saves your chosen text from virtually any printed material. Simply take a picture of the text and immediately edit, hear it spoken aloud via VoiceOver, translate it into over 40 languages, send your text by SMS or e-mail, or share it quickly on Facebook, Twitter or Evernote.
CamScanner helps you scan, store, sync and collaborate on various contents across smartphones, iPads, tablets and computers. Some of its features include:scanning and digitize all kinds of paper documents, cropping and auto enhancing, printing and sharing documents in PDF or JPEG format with friends via various ways.
Scanner Pro
‘Scan any papers, ranging from a receipt to multi-page documents. Scanner Pro will automatically detect borders, correcting distortion and geometry. Share, email and upload your perfect scans. Use OCR to convert any scan into a text.’
Camscanner Office documents snapshot & Smart image doc management Hand-written annotation & Customizable watermark generation Also Android at the same site
DocScan (Android) Scan documents to produce high-quality images. Enter texts, fill forms, sign, draw, and send. Share as PDF / JPEG by email, FAX, SMB, Cloud Services, WebDAV, and iTunes / WiFi file sharing.
TextGrabber ($) is an excellent app that allows you to easily scan printed text from almost any printed material and save it in different formats. You can also edit your saved text and share it with others through SMS, e-mail, Evernote or via popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Additionally, TextGrabber enables you to translate scanned text into more than 100 languages and you can even use VoiceOver to hear your translated text spoken aloud. However, translation is not a free feature. It’s provided as an in-app purchase.
Office Lens trims, enhances and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable. Office Lens can convert images to editable Word and PowerPoint files too. Automatically recognizes and crops any paper document that you place under your mobile device and the before and after results are quite remarkable. Regardless of the angle of your device, the final image is cropped, straightened and enhanced to look just the way you would want it to.
SayText : App scans documents and then reads the text contained in the document to you. Simply place your device center of a document and double-tap the “Take picture” -button. Then slowly elevate the device over the document. When it detects your document, it will beep and start scanning. While the OCR is running, tap the screen to hear the progress status. When the camera is done scanning, swipe the screen to initiate a read back of the text. Cost: Free
Doc Scan HD
Scannable is an app that allows you to easily scan papers and save them to your Evernote or share them with others via email or text. Simply point your iPad or iPhone camera at the document you want to scan (this could be a post-it note, information on a business card or notes on a whiteboard), Scannable immediately captures it and make it available to you in the form of a shareable document. Besides being able to scan and save documents, Scannable also automatically rotates, crop and adjusts images so your scans are clear and easy to read. Video tutorial
Translate Photo Free extracts texts from any printed sources: documents, books, signs, instructions or announcements and allows to immediately translate them to any of 70 languages. Take a picture of the text and after the text is recognized, you can immediately edit, hear, translate, share it on Facebook, Dropbox or simply send by email.
PDF Pen Scan With PDFpen Scan+, use your iPhone or iPad to scan and OCR multi-page documents to create searchable PDFs. Scan directly with your iPhone or iPad camera. Crop and enhance the scan. Perform OCR. Copy OCR text. Email, export, and share PDF documents.
Prizmo s a universal photo-based scanner app that lets you scan and recognize text documents, business cards, and images, and then export them as PDF/Text, vCard, or JPEG/PNG. Prizmo relies on state-of-the-art technologies, like a highly accurate OCR, real-time page detection, and beautiful image cleanup. Using iCloud, you can even shoot the picture on your iPhone, and finish editing on your iPad or Mac.
Pixter Image and Document Scan Pixter Scan OCR is a combination between Pixels (your pictures) and text (what you will get) by Optical character recognition usually abbreviated to OCR which is the mechanical or electronic conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text.
Text Grabber TextGrabber + Translator easily and quickly scans, translates and saves your chosen text from virtually any printed material. Simply take a picture of the text and immediately edit, hear it spoken aloud via VoiceOver, translate it into over 40 languages, send your text by SMS or e-mail, or share it quickly on Facebook, Twitter or Evernote.
CamScanner helps you scan, store, sync and collaborate on various contents across smartphones, iPads, tablets and computers. Some of its features include:scanning and digitize all kinds of paper documents, cropping and auto enhancing, printing and sharing documents in PDF or JPEG format with friends via various ways.
Scanner Pro
‘Scan any papers, ranging from a receipt to multi-page documents. Scanner Pro will automatically detect borders, correcting distortion and geometry. Share, email and upload your perfect scans. Use OCR to convert any scan into a text.’
Notetaking
Resources for Visual Notetaking, Notetaking, and Edusketching
Take Note: How to Curate Learning Digitally
How—and Why—to Introduce Visual Note-Taking to Your Students Smashing Magazine’s Article on How to sketchnote. Sketchnoting 101, for those with little artistic talent Sketchnoting in the classroom: 12 ways to get started Sketchnotes 101Visual Note Taking Explained for Teachers (9 Books) author Craighton Berman describes sketchnotes as “visual notes that are drawn in real time. ” By drawing pictures of what they are hearing, students’ minds are engaging multiple modalities, often leading to increased retention of information." The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures , by Dan Roam (Author) There is no more powerful way to prove that we know something well than to draw a simple picture of it. Drawing on twenty years of experience and the latest discoveries in vision science, Roam teaches readers how to clarify any problem or sell any idea using a simple set of tools. The Graphic Facilitator’s Guide: How to use your listening, thinking and drawing skills to make meaning Paperback, by Brandy Agerbeck Graphic facilitation is serving a group by writing and drawing their conversation live and large to help them do their work. It is a powerful tool to help people feel heard, to develop a shared understanding as a group, and to be able to see and touch their work in a way they couldn’t access before. Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity, by David Sibbet ‘Visual Meetings explains how anyone can implement powerful visual tools, and how these tools are being used in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to facilitate both face-to-face and virtual group work. |
Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance, by David Sibbet (Author)
‘Visual Teams uses visual tools and methods to help teams—both face-to-face and virtual—reach high performance in today's work environment. As teams become more and more global and distributed, visualization provides an important channel of communication—one that opens up the group's mind to improving work systems and processes by understanding relationships, interconnections, and big picture contexts.’ The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking, by Mike Rohde This gorgeous, fully illustrated handbook tells the story of sketchnotes--why and how you can use them to capture your thinking visually, remember key information more clearly, and share what you've captured with others. Author shows you how to incorporate sketchnoting techniques into your note-taking process--regardless of your artistic abilities--to help you better process the information that you are hearing and seeing through drawing, Draw Your Big Idea: The Ultimate Creativity Tool for Turning Thoughts Into Action and Dreams Into Reality, by Nora Herting Heather Willems Draw Your Big Idea presents more than 150 drawing exercises tailored to brainstorming, refining, and executing ideas in the home, design studio, and office. The Graphic Facilitator’s Guide: How to use your listening, thinking and drawing skills to make meaning Paperback, by Brandy Agerbeck Graphic facilitation is serving a group by writing and drawing their conversation live and large to help them do their work. It is a powerful tool to help people feel heard, to develop a shared understanding as a group, and to be able to see and touch their work in a way they couldn’t access before. |
A study conducted at the University of Waterloo found that people who create simple, quick drawings are better able to remember a list of words than people who simply write words down, look at pictures of the words, or create a list of characteristics related to the words. Interestingly, the quality of the drawings was not important.
According to Mike Rohde, author of The Sketchnote Handbook, sketchnoting has several pluses:
It engages your whole mind
It creates a visual map
It helps your concentration
It taps our visual language
Sketchnoting is relaxing
Creating Sketchnotes is dynamic and fun.
According to Mike Rohde, author of The Sketchnote Handbook, sketchnoting has several pluses:
It engages your whole mind
It creates a visual map
It helps your concentration
It taps our visual language
Sketchnoting is relaxing
Creating Sketchnotes is dynamic and fun.
- Rachel Smith provides an excellent overview of visual notetaking, which she calls “visual recording,” in the first three minutes of her video, “Visual Recording on the iPad.”
- Visual NoteTaking for Educators: A Teacher’s Guide to Student Creativity
- Kathy Schrock's Guide to Visual Notetaking includes tools, resources, videos and applications
- Resources: How to Get Started Teaching Sketchnoting extensive resources
- How to Introduce Sketchnoting to Students - the process of getting started
- Sketchnotes 101, author Craighton Bermandescribes sketchnotes as “visual notes that are drawn in real time.” By drawing pictures of what they are hearing, students’ minds are engaging multiple modalities, often leading to increased retention of information.
- Ms. Wendy’s World Wonders – a treasure trove of Wendy’s work in the classroom RIGHT NOW
- Using Visual Notes in the Secondary Classroom – a how-to post from Wendy Pillars
- Visual Notetaking in the Classroom – a getting started guide from Wendy
- Note Taking Skills for 21st Century Students (Videos and tips on how I teach visual notetaking to my students.)
- Sketchnoting Fans: paper 53 Built a Sketchnote Community
- Sketchnoting for Beginners by Sylvia Duckworth
Tools for Sketchnoting
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With some apps, sketchnoting can best be done through the use of a stylus or pen. There are several styluses out there but the ones we recommend the most are: Adonit Jot Pro , Pencil by 53, Sensu Artist Brush & Stylus, or DotPen
- Start with this video and this one also
- It’s about ideas, not art. It’s about having it makes sense to you. Stick figures are okay.
- Don’t forget. Your images don’t have to be complicated.
- It’s also okay to add text. But try to pair images with your text.
- Use basic shapes, connectors, and boxes.
- Arrange your design on the page in a way that makes sense to you.
- Start with your paper horizonal (so it’s wider than it is tall). You may want to switch to a portrait orientation later when your Sketchnote skills improve.
- Use pen, not pencil. If you make a mistake, no biggie. Draw a KC Chiefs logo over it. All good.
- Use color if possible.
- The teacher (that’s you) needs to understand that they will need to slow down and be more intentional about what they say.
inClass students take and keep track of the notes they record in all of their courses. inClass allows students to organize notebooks for each of their courses. Within each notebook students can include typed notes, audio notes, video notes, and pictures. The ability to store those four types of notes makes inClass a great app for students to use in a science lab where they might want to have a little video clip of an experiment along with their own typed notes about the lab experiment. In addition to being a notebook inClass is also a reminder service.
Clarisketch Android to create flipped classroom videos, explain a complex process or illustrate a given topic using both annotated commentary and recorded audio. You will be able to walk the students through your explanations using features such as highlights, drawings and audio prompts.
Knowt - Notes, AI-Generated Quizzes, and Awesome Way to Retain Information Knowt is a free note-taking tool, which uses the power of AI to help students review notes in a quiz format!. First, it syncs across multiple accounts and devices. Whether you are using a Macbook, Chromebook, iPad, or Android device, you can use this tool! Secondly, it connects to your Google account, making it easy to import notes from Google Docs. Plus, its simple interface makes it easy to use and access for students of all grade levels and abilities. Finally, there is nothing that you have to do to generate the quiz. Simply choose the Quiz button in the top and Knowt automatically generates multiple-choice or fill in the blank questions. Don't like a question? You can give Knowt feedback so that it can generate better quality questions.
Muse app for iOS provides a spatial canvas for research notes, reading material, sketches, screenshots, bookmarks, and more. Users can pull in relevant notes and photos from the web, email, Twitter, Slack, their files, and their phone, and then arrange the information as they wish. Muse lets them sift and sort through it all, helping them find new patterns and insights. Users can also sketch on the Muse canvas.
Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders. Evernote video tutorials
How To Use Evernote, The Missing Manual is a free 34 page guide to using Evernote. The guide will help you use Evernote in your web browser, on your iPad, on your Android tablet, on your phone, and on your desktop. The guide is available to download as a PDF or EPub.
***** See article Take Note: How to Curate Learning Digitally
LiquidText for reading and taking notes on documents, whether they're Word docs, PDFs or PowerPoint presentations. You can pull out sections of documents for reference and take notes on them, eliminating the need to print out your documents for editing and studying.
Clarisketch Android to create flipped classroom videos, explain a complex process or illustrate a given topic using both annotated commentary and recorded audio. You will be able to walk the students through your explanations using features such as highlights, drawings and audio prompts.
Mic Note is a free Chrome and Android app that allows you to create voice recordings, text notes, and image-based notes on one concise notebook page. The notes that you record with your voice can be time-stamped by clicking on your Mic Note note page while you're recording. You can also take notes without recording any audio. All notes support inclusion of images and links. The best part of Mic Note is that you can sync all of your notes to your Google Drive or Dropbox account. Watch the video
MolaSync - Collaborative cloud notes! Sound recording, Sharp Drawing, Typing, Chatting and collaboration
You can draw to record your inspiration at anytime, anywhere, insert pictures and words and even record to write notes and annotate to modify the PDF document. With the collaboration function you can exchange views and work together with your friends. Together complete a painting, a document, a design, a trip plan, and share your achievements or show them via social network.
VideoNotebooks This app allows you to take notes while watching a video. Notes are organized in notebooks, and each notebook corresponds to one video.The app also allows tagging individual notes to be able to retrieve a specific subset of notes across all notebooks later. Notebooks can be also tagged for better organization.
Margin Note Reader allows you to annotate and take notes on on the margins of your PDFs, ePub and saved documents. You have the choice to use three different note taking styles: handwriting, typing, and highlighting. The power of Margin Note reader for student researchers like myself is that it lets you pull out citation, summary and mind map altogether so that you can easily quote articles while doing your research writing.
Some of the features that include: seamless syncing with your accounts on Dropbox and Evernote. You can also arrange your notes by outline and mind map integration and export them in print ready format or save them on your iPad or in the Cloud. Additionally, Margin Note Reader also provides a wide variety of useful tips to help students perform better when taking notes in classroom. Notability Integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording and organizing your note taking. Allows media insertion and organizing, protecting and sharing of information. Cost - $0.99
Fetchnotes is a simple service for creating and organizing notes for yourself. The Fetchnotes iOS app was updated today to make it easy to add reminders to your notes.
davinci note - Publish image-rich stories, notes, and blog posts with this free iPad app.
Sticky for keeping your notes, dreams, ideas, and memories. It's a new yet simple way to think, organize, and express yourself privately. Sticky lets you create as many notebooks as you'd like and stay organized in a colorful, fun, and tactile manner.
Outline has gone free. It used to cost $15 and now is completely free to download and use. Outline is a robust app for note taking and drawing. Everything you create into it is saved in a notebook format with sections, groups and pages exactly like the old paper notebook.
Paper can be used to sketch notes, draw pictures, or write outlines in notebooks in the app. Sketching notes allows you to create outlines in any format that you like, quickly connect ideas through arrows and lines, and illustrate ideas when words aren’t enough. Sketchnoting on an iPad enables me to edit and share sketched notes more quickly and easily than ever before.
Synopsis lets users open up and read any PDF document and create notes by highlighting different sections of the text. Kids can then modify the notes they have created by adding their own text. This free app helps users summarize any text so they won’t need to go back to a PDF document to study material. Each individual note can be converted to its own flashcard there is no need to buy flashcards or type and create your own.
SquirrelThat is a free iPad app that is excellent for note taking. This is a great tool that students can use when researching a project or taking notes during a lecture. Best of all, it's simple to use and lets students share their notes w/ others. Also, the abundance of features for makes SquirrelThat a nice learning tool as students can annotate on their notes, draw, add media, and more.
NoteLedge handy for both teachers and students. It lets users take notes on their iPad that includes video and audio recordings. You can even record audio of a lecture as you are typing notes on your screen. It has a varitey of options for notetaking including drawing pictures and highlighting text. Students can customize their notes by choosing from a selection of templates and stickers to help them stay organized.
Audio Note app for recording and annotating notes. Can also use text and share notes with others
Super Note helps you create notes very rapidly and make voice recordings during. The notes are color coded so you can find them instantly, and you can
swipe through them to go from one to the other. You can also set alert reminders on your notes or change the note color / category on the fly.
ScratchWork Take notes side by side with a web page and save as pdf
Audio Recorder - Voice Notes Audio Recorder lives in your menubar and makes it easy to start recording audio at a click of a button. Use it to record voice notes, lectures, meetings, interviews and much more. Supports high quality audio recording.’
Voice Notes Record directly to MP3 for you & share the recording with your friends at the touch of a button. Add notes, to-dos, tags, markers and photos to your audio recording in second with this useful app.’
Memo - Sticky Notes Memos are like sticky notes on your computer screen (minus the residue). Pop open a new memo in less than a second and use it to jot down phone numbers, messages, meeting notes, or write down ideas before you forget them. You can assign different colors to your memos to visually set them apart. Choose from yellow, red, green, blue, or purple. The Memo app supports rich text in dozens of font families.’
Microsoft OneNote Capture your thoughts, discoveries, and ideas and simplify overwhelming planning moments in your life with your very own digital notebook. With OneNote, you can plan that big event, seize that moment of inspiration to create something new, and track that list of errands that are too important to forget. Whether you're at home, in the office, or on the go, your notes are available to you across all of your devices.’
Simplenote The Simplenote experience is all about speed and efficiency. Open it, write some thoughts, and you're done. As your collection of notes grows, you can search them instantly and keep them organized with tags and pins. You can also share notes and publish them for other people.’
Notebook Take notes, create checklists, record audio, capture moments with Notebook. All your notes are instantly synced across your devices and to the cloud.’
Clarisketch Android to create flipped classroom videos, explain a complex process or illustrate a given topic using both annotated commentary and recorded audio. You will be able to walk the students through your explanations using features such as highlights, drawings and audio prompts.
Knowt - Notes, AI-Generated Quizzes, and Awesome Way to Retain Information Knowt is a free note-taking tool, which uses the power of AI to help students review notes in a quiz format!. First, it syncs across multiple accounts and devices. Whether you are using a Macbook, Chromebook, iPad, or Android device, you can use this tool! Secondly, it connects to your Google account, making it easy to import notes from Google Docs. Plus, its simple interface makes it easy to use and access for students of all grade levels and abilities. Finally, there is nothing that you have to do to generate the quiz. Simply choose the Quiz button in the top and Knowt automatically generates multiple-choice or fill in the blank questions. Don't like a question? You can give Knowt feedback so that it can generate better quality questions.
Muse app for iOS provides a spatial canvas for research notes, reading material, sketches, screenshots, bookmarks, and more. Users can pull in relevant notes and photos from the web, email, Twitter, Slack, their files, and their phone, and then arrange the information as they wish. Muse lets them sift and sort through it all, helping them find new patterns and insights. Users can also sketch on the Muse canvas.
Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders. Evernote video tutorials
How To Use Evernote, The Missing Manual is a free 34 page guide to using Evernote. The guide will help you use Evernote in your web browser, on your iPad, on your Android tablet, on your phone, and on your desktop. The guide is available to download as a PDF or EPub.
***** See article Take Note: How to Curate Learning Digitally
- Penultimate provides a place for you to hand-write notes on your iPad. Each page in your notebook can include pictures that you have stored on your iPad or pictures that you take through the Penultimate app. All of your notes in Penultimate automatically synchronize with your Evernote account. I often see people holding up their iPads to take pictures of slides during talks. With Penultimate you can take notes about each of those slides and save them to your Evernote account. The app could be used this way by students to take notes during lectures. Video overview
LiquidText for reading and taking notes on documents, whether they're Word docs, PDFs or PowerPoint presentations. You can pull out sections of documents for reference and take notes on them, eliminating the need to print out your documents for editing and studying.
Clarisketch Android to create flipped classroom videos, explain a complex process or illustrate a given topic using both annotated commentary and recorded audio. You will be able to walk the students through your explanations using features such as highlights, drawings and audio prompts.
Mic Note is a free Chrome and Android app that allows you to create voice recordings, text notes, and image-based notes on one concise notebook page. The notes that you record with your voice can be time-stamped by clicking on your Mic Note note page while you're recording. You can also take notes without recording any audio. All notes support inclusion of images and links. The best part of Mic Note is that you can sync all of your notes to your Google Drive or Dropbox account. Watch the video
MolaSync - Collaborative cloud notes! Sound recording, Sharp Drawing, Typing, Chatting and collaboration
You can draw to record your inspiration at anytime, anywhere, insert pictures and words and even record to write notes and annotate to modify the PDF document. With the collaboration function you can exchange views and work together with your friends. Together complete a painting, a document, a design, a trip plan, and share your achievements or show them via social network.
VideoNotebooks This app allows you to take notes while watching a video. Notes are organized in notebooks, and each notebook corresponds to one video.The app also allows tagging individual notes to be able to retrieve a specific subset of notes across all notebooks later. Notebooks can be also tagged for better organization.
Margin Note Reader allows you to annotate and take notes on on the margins of your PDFs, ePub and saved documents. You have the choice to use three different note taking styles: handwriting, typing, and highlighting. The power of Margin Note reader for student researchers like myself is that it lets you pull out citation, summary and mind map altogether so that you can easily quote articles while doing your research writing.
Some of the features that include: seamless syncing with your accounts on Dropbox and Evernote. You can also arrange your notes by outline and mind map integration and export them in print ready format or save them on your iPad or in the Cloud. Additionally, Margin Note Reader also provides a wide variety of useful tips to help students perform better when taking notes in classroom. Notability Integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording and organizing your note taking. Allows media insertion and organizing, protecting and sharing of information. Cost - $0.99
Fetchnotes is a simple service for creating and organizing notes for yourself. The Fetchnotes iOS app was updated today to make it easy to add reminders to your notes.
davinci note - Publish image-rich stories, notes, and blog posts with this free iPad app.
Sticky for keeping your notes, dreams, ideas, and memories. It's a new yet simple way to think, organize, and express yourself privately. Sticky lets you create as many notebooks as you'd like and stay organized in a colorful, fun, and tactile manner.
Outline has gone free. It used to cost $15 and now is completely free to download and use. Outline is a robust app for note taking and drawing. Everything you create into it is saved in a notebook format with sections, groups and pages exactly like the old paper notebook.
Paper can be used to sketch notes, draw pictures, or write outlines in notebooks in the app. Sketching notes allows you to create outlines in any format that you like, quickly connect ideas through arrows and lines, and illustrate ideas when words aren’t enough. Sketchnoting on an iPad enables me to edit and share sketched notes more quickly and easily than ever before.
Synopsis lets users open up and read any PDF document and create notes by highlighting different sections of the text. Kids can then modify the notes they have created by adding their own text. This free app helps users summarize any text so they won’t need to go back to a PDF document to study material. Each individual note can be converted to its own flashcard there is no need to buy flashcards or type and create your own.
SquirrelThat is a free iPad app that is excellent for note taking. This is a great tool that students can use when researching a project or taking notes during a lecture. Best of all, it's simple to use and lets students share their notes w/ others. Also, the abundance of features for makes SquirrelThat a nice learning tool as students can annotate on their notes, draw, add media, and more.
NoteLedge handy for both teachers and students. It lets users take notes on their iPad that includes video and audio recordings. You can even record audio of a lecture as you are typing notes on your screen. It has a varitey of options for notetaking including drawing pictures and highlighting text. Students can customize their notes by choosing from a selection of templates and stickers to help them stay organized.
Audio Note app for recording and annotating notes. Can also use text and share notes with others
Super Note helps you create notes very rapidly and make voice recordings during. The notes are color coded so you can find them instantly, and you can
swipe through them to go from one to the other. You can also set alert reminders on your notes or change the note color / category on the fly.
ScratchWork Take notes side by side with a web page and save as pdf
Audio Recorder - Voice Notes Audio Recorder lives in your menubar and makes it easy to start recording audio at a click of a button. Use it to record voice notes, lectures, meetings, interviews and much more. Supports high quality audio recording.’
Voice Notes Record directly to MP3 for you & share the recording with your friends at the touch of a button. Add notes, to-dos, tags, markers and photos to your audio recording in second with this useful app.’
Memo - Sticky Notes Memos are like sticky notes on your computer screen (minus the residue). Pop open a new memo in less than a second and use it to jot down phone numbers, messages, meeting notes, or write down ideas before you forget them. You can assign different colors to your memos to visually set them apart. Choose from yellow, red, green, blue, or purple. The Memo app supports rich text in dozens of font families.’
Microsoft OneNote Capture your thoughts, discoveries, and ideas and simplify overwhelming planning moments in your life with your very own digital notebook. With OneNote, you can plan that big event, seize that moment of inspiration to create something new, and track that list of errands that are too important to forget. Whether you're at home, in the office, or on the go, your notes are available to you across all of your devices.’
Simplenote The Simplenote experience is all about speed and efficiency. Open it, write some thoughts, and you're done. As your collection of notes grows, you can search them instantly and keep them organized with tags and pins. You can also share notes and publish them for other people.’
Notebook Take notes, create checklists, record audio, capture moments with Notebook. All your notes are instantly synced across your devices and to the cloud.’
Presentation Tools
i-Prompt Pro app for aiding students in the intimidating oral presentation process! It allows students to write content and enable it to scroll across their iPad screen at a selected pace. As students are speaking, they may tap the iPad screen to stop the scrolling content and elaborate. The app provides excellent assistance in learning the important skills of speaking from notes, pacing, and managing eye contact with an audience.Other teleprompter apps Ranging from 1.99 - 16.00
On Air (free) Teleprompter
Nearpod is a free iOS app that teachers can use to create quizzes, polls, and multimedia presentations. These materials can be shared directly to students who have the Nearpod student app installed to engage participants and allow them to interact with the presentation through polls, quizzes, videos, drawing interactivity, website-sharing, self-guided quizzes and more. Teachers can view students' responses individually or as a whole class. It also lets you be a fully engaged participant and interact with the presentation through polls, quizzes, videos, drawing interactivity, website-sharing, self-guided quizzes and more. video | video 2
Buncee for creating digital stories, multi-slide presentations,
Keynote Apples answer to powerpoint
Quik for iOS With this free app you can create a professional looking video with music and titles in almost no time at all. tutorial
GoClass create short lessons and deliver them to your students. The lessons can include annotated images, free hand sketches, text, and video. GoClass gives teachers tools for creating class rosters that they can use to keep track of which students are using the lessons when. Teachers also have the option to ask questions and poll their students. After the students' response have been gathered teachers can project those responses without showing individual student's names.
Shadow Puppet EDU videos creations can now be up to 30 minutes long and include 100 slides of pictures. Users have the ability to add images from NASA, Flickr Creative Commons, and the Library of Congress’ archive without leaving the app. Shadow Puppet EDU has numerous of educational features that you’ll want to check out. The Map Search option lets kids search for and clip images from maps and satellite images to use in their videos. Users can also add images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The British Library, Wikimedia Commons, and OpenClipart without leaving the app. This easy image search makes video creation simple for students of all ages – there is even automatic image citation that happens at the end of each video.
Adobe Spark a video storytelling application for the iPad and iPhone developed by Adobe Systems. It combines motion graphics, audio recording, music, text, and photos and is used to produce short animated, narrated explainer videos.
Game Show Soundboard Create quiz games with sound effects
Touchcast is a real-time compositing engine that allows creators to embed interactive elements, web pages, docs, videos, pictures int the video image content itself. The viewer player allows the viewer to interact with the elements. Virtual Studio theme allows you to broadcast from your own professional looking newsroom using an iPad and a green screen (a green plastic table cloth will do) Click here to learn more.
TeleStory is a video-creation tool that starts students with a scene, face-detecting costumes, cue cards, and special effects, and lets them create their own themed TV shows. Video
WonderBox - for students learning a number of different subjects (i.e Math, Geography, Science, etc) through use of videos, maps, images, and more.
Glogster allows you to create interactive glogs. A blog can combine images, graphics, audio, video and text. Goglster has a very easy and simple to use canvas.You can start with a predesigned template from the gallery and choose from the 10.000 unique educational graphics to add to it and when you are done you can share with others using different sharing options.
Canva this is a web tool that allows you to create beautiful visuals, posters, and flyers. The simplicity of Canva is what makes it a viable tool for using in class with students. You do not need to be a graphic designer to use Canva. All you need is a computer or iPad and internet connection. Canva provides you with a variety of pre-made templates and layouts that you can choose from to create your poster. It also provides numerous images and illustrations to use on your layout.
iVisual Info Touch is an app that you can use to create relatively simple infographics. The app makes it easy to create your infographics. It is not necessary to create an account in order to use iVisual Info Touch. To get started just open the app and select a background for your infographic. iVisual Info Touch is available in a free version and in a paid version ($2.99). The paid version includes more clip art, more backgrounds, and allows you to import and insert your own images.
Powerpoint for iPad File management awkward by otherwise OK
123D Catch Use your camera to capture the people, places and things around you as amazingly realistic 3D experiences. Capture friends, sculptures, buildings or anything else you can photograph. Automatically transform them into interactive 3D models that can be shared with friends, family, and an ever growing community of 3D photographers.
123 Design Create amazing 3D printable designs, right on your iPad!
123D Sculpt Choose a shape from the library of creatures, humans, vehicles, and more. Then push, pull and paint to make the sculpture your own. When you are done, take snapshots in the camera room or create animated QuickTime turntable movies to upload to YouTube or email to friends.
123 D Creature Create 3D characters with 123D Creature. Design your creature, then sculpt detailed features and paint on skin, fur, feathers, or whatever you imagine. Export your finished creature as an image or 3D model, or have it 3D printed into a real sculpture! Adobe Voice add pictures, narration, and music and save as a video 9 Slides take your slideshow presentations to the next level. This site which is iPad compatible is wonderful for uploading presentations and then syncing them to video. 9Slides recently got much better w/ the addition of a free iPad app. This app allows users to easily add narration to presentation slides by using the iPad's built in camera. This is great for engaging audiences, creating tutorials, and more.This is ideal for teaching a new unit and especially for those giving staff trainings or professional development. Also, a user can track usage statistics for instant feedback.
Google Slides is a free downloadable app that integrates seamlessly with your personal Google account or your Google Apps for Education suite. To create your new presentation, simply click the PLUS sign on the bottom right of your iPad screen and name your new presentation.The controls are very similar to what you would see on the desktop version. All of your text and graphic controls are available to create beautiful slides. From the app, slides can be presented, edited and also shared with others. One of the added features that is very nice in this app is the ability to create Speaker notes that are shown on the bottom of your iPad screen. Once in presentation mode, it was very easy to connect to a large screen using either an Apple TV, or the Reflector app.
Presefy is a new service that you can use to share your presentations to your students' mobile devices. Through Presefy you can control your slides from your computer or from the browser in your iPad. When you advance the slides in your presentation the slides also advance on your students' mobile devices. Your students can take notes as they follow along with your slides. To share your presentations just create a Presefy account and upload a PPTX or PDF file. Your account is given a channel name and URL. Share that URL with your students, and they can follow along as you advance your slides. Learn more about Presefy in the video.
EverySlide is a free (for educators and students) service that allows you to share your slides directly to the iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, and Android devices used by members of your audience. As you move through your shared slides you can pop-up a poll to gather feedback from your audience. EverySlide supports PowerPoint and Keynote slides. To get started just upload your slides to EverySlide (you can re-use uploaded slides for multiple groups). When you're ready to present give your audience the access code for your slides. At the end of your presentation you can grab a spreadsheet of the responses to your poll questions. Watch the video Adobe Voice easy to create beautiful picture stories. Like other picture story apps, Adobe Voice allows you to record your voice, import pictures, and write text to create a short video. What makes Adobe Voice better than a lot of apps similar to it is the huge gallery of more than 25,000 images, icons, and music tracks that you can use if you don’t have media of your own to use in your story.
Storehouse It is an app for telling stories through collages of your pictures and video clips. The basic idea behind Storehouse is to create stories by combining images, text, and video clips on a blank canvas. You can now allow commenting on your stories. The commenting feature could be useful for giving students feedback about their stories.
Movenote is a video presentation tool that works both on the web and online and on portable devices. Recording your presentations is easy and quick and everything is sharable online by email or social media with a simple link. Since everything is on a cloud server, you can access your videos practically anywhere and with the statistics tool you will be able to see who watched your video and when. Movenote videos can be watched on any device that supports video, no matter if they have movenote on them or not. You can use movenote directly from your Gmail and your Google Drive and on any desktop computer, laptop, iOS or An2droid device. Tutorials
CloudOn Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Powerpoint) on your iPad. Create, edit, manage and review documents. View virtually any type of file.
CloudOn Guide
30 Hands very easy to create a narrated slideshow. To create a basic narrated slideshow on 30hands all you need to do is import images from your iPad’s camera roll then press the record button below each image to record your narration. If you don’t have any pictures on your iPad you can take pictures using the 30hands app. 30hands also allows you to draw images instead of importing pictures. You can combine imported pictures with drawn images in your presentations. And you can draw on top of imported images. When your project is complete you can save it on your iPad or share it with the 30hands community. see SonicPics below
SlideIdea create engaging presentations/slideshows. You can either create a presentation from scratch or use one of the many downloadable templates. Once a presentation is done a you can share them through the use of unique ID code. Also, an you can use SlideIdea to poll, ask questions, or assess their students, and is great for Differentiated Instruction.
Slide Speech Create and narrate presentations
Electric Slide allows users to present all styles of presentations (PPT, Keynote, etc) wirelessly.
Flowvella create stunning presentations. This is done through a very easy to use touch drag-n-drop interface for adding images, text, video, and more. There is even a nice selection of templates for users to create stunning interactive presentations. Users can share their presentations via a unique URL or embed them into a site/blog.
Scrollshow The idea behind Scrollshow is to present your slides as a continuous stream on top of a panoramic background. Unlike a typical slide presentation tool in which each slide is a separate entity, in Scrollshow the slides are integrated into the flow of a panoramic background.
Doodlecast Pro is the easiest way to create presentations on your iPad. The app records your voice as you draw to create quick presentations. Doodlecast Pro saves videos to the camera roll
Haiku Deck Haiku Deck enables anyone to create beautiful slide presentations.video tutorial
Prezi Popular 3D presentation tool. Prezi Viewer for iPad features light editing functions only. You can modify text, and move, rotate, scale or delete any item. If more than a retouch is required you can create a prezi from scratch or edit your existing prezi at Prezi.com then download it to your iPad. Flash videos in Prezi will not work on the iPad.
VoiceThread Create and share dynamic conversations around documents, snapshots, diagrams and videos -- basically anything there is to talk about. You can talk, type, and draw right on the screen. VoiceThread takes your conversations to the next level, capturing your presence, not just your comments
Snapguide create your own guides and use others at the site. For example. create a guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Presentation.io is a service that helps your audience follow along with your presentations. Presentation.io does this by allowing the members of your audience to see your slides on their laptops, iPads, and Android tablets and watch them change when you advance your slides. This ensures that everyone is on the same slide at the same time. This week Presentation.io added a new option that allows you to use your cell phone as a remote to control your slides.
SlideShark to use in your own instructional presentations in class. SlideShark enables you to present and share your powerPoint presentations and PDFs from your iOS devices
Flixtime - A site for mixing photos, videos, and music to create a stunning presentation.
Skqueak Add voice, sketches and live zooming to your pictures to explain their backstory. Tap record, zoom in, and start drawing while you speak.
Speech Journal ideal for either digital storytelling or Special Ed. Allows users to add photos into a nice looking slideshow as well as record their voice to add to each image. It's a very a simple tool and can be used by any age group.
UStream Live video broadcasting and allows feedback from viewers
WeVideo browser-based video editing
Tell About This is an easy platform to inspire and capture children's thoughts and stories! They will love to explore and respond to any of the 100 interesting photo prompts using their voice. Craft custom prompts and add profiles to personalize the experience! Simple save/share options. video
On Air (free) Teleprompter
Nearpod is a free iOS app that teachers can use to create quizzes, polls, and multimedia presentations. These materials can be shared directly to students who have the Nearpod student app installed to engage participants and allow them to interact with the presentation through polls, quizzes, videos, drawing interactivity, website-sharing, self-guided quizzes and more. Teachers can view students' responses individually or as a whole class. It also lets you be a fully engaged participant and interact with the presentation through polls, quizzes, videos, drawing interactivity, website-sharing, self-guided quizzes and more. video | video 2
Buncee for creating digital stories, multi-slide presentations,
Keynote Apples answer to powerpoint
Quik for iOS With this free app you can create a professional looking video with music and titles in almost no time at all. tutorial
GoClass create short lessons and deliver them to your students. The lessons can include annotated images, free hand sketches, text, and video. GoClass gives teachers tools for creating class rosters that they can use to keep track of which students are using the lessons when. Teachers also have the option to ask questions and poll their students. After the students' response have been gathered teachers can project those responses without showing individual student's names.
Shadow Puppet EDU videos creations can now be up to 30 minutes long and include 100 slides of pictures. Users have the ability to add images from NASA, Flickr Creative Commons, and the Library of Congress’ archive without leaving the app. Shadow Puppet EDU has numerous of educational features that you’ll want to check out. The Map Search option lets kids search for and clip images from maps and satellite images to use in their videos. Users can also add images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The British Library, Wikimedia Commons, and OpenClipart without leaving the app. This easy image search makes video creation simple for students of all ages – there is even automatic image citation that happens at the end of each video.
Adobe Spark a video storytelling application for the iPad and iPhone developed by Adobe Systems. It combines motion graphics, audio recording, music, text, and photos and is used to produce short animated, narrated explainer videos.
Game Show Soundboard Create quiz games with sound effects
Touchcast is a real-time compositing engine that allows creators to embed interactive elements, web pages, docs, videos, pictures int the video image content itself. The viewer player allows the viewer to interact with the elements. Virtual Studio theme allows you to broadcast from your own professional looking newsroom using an iPad and a green screen (a green plastic table cloth will do) Click here to learn more.
TeleStory is a video-creation tool that starts students with a scene, face-detecting costumes, cue cards, and special effects, and lets them create their own themed TV shows. Video
WonderBox - for students learning a number of different subjects (i.e Math, Geography, Science, etc) through use of videos, maps, images, and more.
Glogster allows you to create interactive glogs. A blog can combine images, graphics, audio, video and text. Goglster has a very easy and simple to use canvas.You can start with a predesigned template from the gallery and choose from the 10.000 unique educational graphics to add to it and when you are done you can share with others using different sharing options.
Canva this is a web tool that allows you to create beautiful visuals, posters, and flyers. The simplicity of Canva is what makes it a viable tool for using in class with students. You do not need to be a graphic designer to use Canva. All you need is a computer or iPad and internet connection. Canva provides you with a variety of pre-made templates and layouts that you can choose from to create your poster. It also provides numerous images and illustrations to use on your layout.
iVisual Info Touch is an app that you can use to create relatively simple infographics. The app makes it easy to create your infographics. It is not necessary to create an account in order to use iVisual Info Touch. To get started just open the app and select a background for your infographic. iVisual Info Touch is available in a free version and in a paid version ($2.99). The paid version includes more clip art, more backgrounds, and allows you to import and insert your own images.
Powerpoint for iPad File management awkward by otherwise OK
123D Catch Use your camera to capture the people, places and things around you as amazingly realistic 3D experiences. Capture friends, sculptures, buildings or anything else you can photograph. Automatically transform them into interactive 3D models that can be shared with friends, family, and an ever growing community of 3D photographers.
123 Design Create amazing 3D printable designs, right on your iPad!
123D Sculpt Choose a shape from the library of creatures, humans, vehicles, and more. Then push, pull and paint to make the sculpture your own. When you are done, take snapshots in the camera room or create animated QuickTime turntable movies to upload to YouTube or email to friends.
123 D Creature Create 3D characters with 123D Creature. Design your creature, then sculpt detailed features and paint on skin, fur, feathers, or whatever you imagine. Export your finished creature as an image or 3D model, or have it 3D printed into a real sculpture! Adobe Voice add pictures, narration, and music and save as a video 9 Slides take your slideshow presentations to the next level. This site which is iPad compatible is wonderful for uploading presentations and then syncing them to video. 9Slides recently got much better w/ the addition of a free iPad app. This app allows users to easily add narration to presentation slides by using the iPad's built in camera. This is great for engaging audiences, creating tutorials, and more.This is ideal for teaching a new unit and especially for those giving staff trainings or professional development. Also, a user can track usage statistics for instant feedback.
Google Slides is a free downloadable app that integrates seamlessly with your personal Google account or your Google Apps for Education suite. To create your new presentation, simply click the PLUS sign on the bottom right of your iPad screen and name your new presentation.The controls are very similar to what you would see on the desktop version. All of your text and graphic controls are available to create beautiful slides. From the app, slides can be presented, edited and also shared with others. One of the added features that is very nice in this app is the ability to create Speaker notes that are shown on the bottom of your iPad screen. Once in presentation mode, it was very easy to connect to a large screen using either an Apple TV, or the Reflector app.
Presefy is a new service that you can use to share your presentations to your students' mobile devices. Through Presefy you can control your slides from your computer or from the browser in your iPad. When you advance the slides in your presentation the slides also advance on your students' mobile devices. Your students can take notes as they follow along with your slides. To share your presentations just create a Presefy account and upload a PPTX or PDF file. Your account is given a channel name and URL. Share that URL with your students, and they can follow along as you advance your slides. Learn more about Presefy in the video.
EverySlide is a free (for educators and students) service that allows you to share your slides directly to the iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, and Android devices used by members of your audience. As you move through your shared slides you can pop-up a poll to gather feedback from your audience. EverySlide supports PowerPoint and Keynote slides. To get started just upload your slides to EverySlide (you can re-use uploaded slides for multiple groups). When you're ready to present give your audience the access code for your slides. At the end of your presentation you can grab a spreadsheet of the responses to your poll questions. Watch the video Adobe Voice easy to create beautiful picture stories. Like other picture story apps, Adobe Voice allows you to record your voice, import pictures, and write text to create a short video. What makes Adobe Voice better than a lot of apps similar to it is the huge gallery of more than 25,000 images, icons, and music tracks that you can use if you don’t have media of your own to use in your story.
Storehouse It is an app for telling stories through collages of your pictures and video clips. The basic idea behind Storehouse is to create stories by combining images, text, and video clips on a blank canvas. You can now allow commenting on your stories. The commenting feature could be useful for giving students feedback about their stories.
Movenote is a video presentation tool that works both on the web and online and on portable devices. Recording your presentations is easy and quick and everything is sharable online by email or social media with a simple link. Since everything is on a cloud server, you can access your videos practically anywhere and with the statistics tool you will be able to see who watched your video and when. Movenote videos can be watched on any device that supports video, no matter if they have movenote on them or not. You can use movenote directly from your Gmail and your Google Drive and on any desktop computer, laptop, iOS or An2droid device. Tutorials
CloudOn Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Powerpoint) on your iPad. Create, edit, manage and review documents. View virtually any type of file.
CloudOn Guide
30 Hands very easy to create a narrated slideshow. To create a basic narrated slideshow on 30hands all you need to do is import images from your iPad’s camera roll then press the record button below each image to record your narration. If you don’t have any pictures on your iPad you can take pictures using the 30hands app. 30hands also allows you to draw images instead of importing pictures. You can combine imported pictures with drawn images in your presentations. And you can draw on top of imported images. When your project is complete you can save it on your iPad or share it with the 30hands community. see SonicPics below
SlideIdea create engaging presentations/slideshows. You can either create a presentation from scratch or use one of the many downloadable templates. Once a presentation is done a you can share them through the use of unique ID code. Also, an you can use SlideIdea to poll, ask questions, or assess their students, and is great for Differentiated Instruction.
Slide Speech Create and narrate presentations
Electric Slide allows users to present all styles of presentations (PPT, Keynote, etc) wirelessly.
Flowvella create stunning presentations. This is done through a very easy to use touch drag-n-drop interface for adding images, text, video, and more. There is even a nice selection of templates for users to create stunning interactive presentations. Users can share their presentations via a unique URL or embed them into a site/blog.
Scrollshow The idea behind Scrollshow is to present your slides as a continuous stream on top of a panoramic background. Unlike a typical slide presentation tool in which each slide is a separate entity, in Scrollshow the slides are integrated into the flow of a panoramic background.
Doodlecast Pro is the easiest way to create presentations on your iPad. The app records your voice as you draw to create quick presentations. Doodlecast Pro saves videos to the camera roll
Haiku Deck Haiku Deck enables anyone to create beautiful slide presentations.video tutorial
Prezi Popular 3D presentation tool. Prezi Viewer for iPad features light editing functions only. You can modify text, and move, rotate, scale or delete any item. If more than a retouch is required you can create a prezi from scratch or edit your existing prezi at Prezi.com then download it to your iPad. Flash videos in Prezi will not work on the iPad.
VoiceThread Create and share dynamic conversations around documents, snapshots, diagrams and videos -- basically anything there is to talk about. You can talk, type, and draw right on the screen. VoiceThread takes your conversations to the next level, capturing your presence, not just your comments
Snapguide create your own guides and use others at the site. For example. create a guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Presentation.io is a service that helps your audience follow along with your presentations. Presentation.io does this by allowing the members of your audience to see your slides on their laptops, iPads, and Android tablets and watch them change when you advance your slides. This ensures that everyone is on the same slide at the same time. This week Presentation.io added a new option that allows you to use your cell phone as a remote to control your slides.
SlideShark to use in your own instructional presentations in class. SlideShark enables you to present and share your powerPoint presentations and PDFs from your iOS devices
Flixtime - A site for mixing photos, videos, and music to create a stunning presentation.
Skqueak Add voice, sketches and live zooming to your pictures to explain their backstory. Tap record, zoom in, and start drawing while you speak.
Speech Journal ideal for either digital storytelling or Special Ed. Allows users to add photos into a nice looking slideshow as well as record their voice to add to each image. It's a very a simple tool and can be used by any age group.
UStream Live video broadcasting and allows feedback from viewers
WeVideo browser-based video editing
Tell About This is an easy platform to inspire and capture children's thoughts and stories! They will love to explore and respond to any of the 100 interesting photo prompts using their voice. Craft custom prompts and add profiles to personalize the experience! Simple save/share options. video
Audio Recorders and Podcasting
iPad Microphones
Looking for something on place on a desk the Blue Microphones Snowball is a good choice. If you are looking for something more portable, try these iRig HD Apogee Electronics MiC 96k USB Microphone for Mac & iOS Devices with Lightning Cable (can be used with laptop or iPad)
Pocket Wavepad HD audio recorder and editor. Good editing capabilities, though not as powerful as desktop applications like Garageband and Audacity.
8 Recording Apps Reviewed
Recordium At first glance the app reminded me Sound Cloud. Like Sound Cloud. Recordium can be used to trim the end or beginning of a recording. You can also snip out a middle portion of a recording and save it as a separate recording or trash it. Where Recordium gets interesting is in the annotation features. The app allows you to highlight and tag portions of your recordings. Your tags can even include pictures. Completed recordings can be shared to a number of services including Google Drive and Evernote.
The Recordium highlighting and tagging tools could be useful in adding context and meaning to a recording. For example, if a student was recording a part of a lecture he or she could go back and add a diagram. Or if you’re using the service to record reminders for yourself, you can use the note feature to write down when you’ve accomplished the things in your audio reminder. Learn more about Recordium in this video
Anchor is a free audio publishing service to podcast from your smart phone from either platform
Audioboom create audio up to 3 minutes in length and post that to your own account on the web. You can add titles, tags, geolocation info and a photo to the recording before you upload it and we'll save all that with the file.
Garageband Now free for crating music and audio files
Ferrite ease-of-use audio recorder, with a versatile multi-track editing studio — and powerful additional tools like effects & automation available when you need them.”
5 Android Recording Apps
1. Smart Voice Recorder designed for high quality long-time sound recording with skipping relative silence on-the-fly. Some of its features include: automatic and manual sensitivity control for Skip silence mode; live audio spectrum analyzer; recording in background ; send/share a recording via email, whatsapp, dropbox, etc.’
2- Voice Recorder Vox is free, full-featured, beautifully designed and easy to use audio recording app for android. You can use it as a regular dictaphone for record voice notes and memos, business meetings, interviews, lectures, speeches, concerts, sleep talking :) or anything else.’
3- Voice Recorder application is totally free. It is simple and easy to use. You can reliably record your meetings, personal notes, speeches, lectures, songs. There is no time limits. This application can record most of your sound and voice. You can record a business meeting, a lecture, an interview.’
4- Super Voice Recorder This is another food audio recording apps with the following features: ‘Clear sound recording, support for 7 recording quality rates so you can switch at any time according to your needs; perfect background recording mode; uses the widely supported MP3 format to save audio files; audio recording files are stored into “AllVoiceRecords” in your SD card root folder…’
5- Voice Recorder by Green Apple Studio a high quality voice recording application, store your recordings as voice memos and share them with your friends, this application uses the high quality (8-41.1KHz sample rate) to give you the best recording experience. This app is simple UI, instant start and easy to use.’
StoryCorps has a free app called StoryCorps.me ( http://storycorps.me ) that is available for
iPhone (it will also work on iPads, it's just a little grainy looking) and Android devices.
StoryCorps.me will try to force you to create a StoryCorps account, but you can use it without creating an account. Creating an account will allow you to publish your recordings on the StoryCorps website. StoryCorps.me is designed to help people conduct and record great
nterviews. The app includes a set of questions that you can use in your interview. The question sets are varied depending upon the relationship that you do or don't have with your interviewee. While recording your interview you can swipe through the questions to help you keep the interview on track. Completed recordings can saved on your device and or shared with the StoryCorps community.
Recorder Plus It provides a wide variety of features including:one touch recording, a user friendly interface, high quality audio recording, record and playback in the background and many more.
Clyp.it available to use as a free iOS app ( http://apple.co/1D2y19j ) or as a free Android app ( http://bitly.com/1CRZybU ). A video demonstration of Clyp.it is available at http://bitly.com/1NxxajZ
Smart Record is a professional recording tool that enables you to assign notes and photos to your recordings, helping you to capture the moment and context, transforming the recording into transparent and organized piece of information.’
8 Recording Apps Reviewed
Recordium At first glance the app reminded me Sound Cloud. Like Sound Cloud. Recordium can be used to trim the end or beginning of a recording. You can also snip out a middle portion of a recording and save it as a separate recording or trash it. Where Recordium gets interesting is in the annotation features. The app allows you to highlight and tag portions of your recordings. Your tags can even include pictures. Completed recordings can be shared to a number of services including Google Drive and Evernote.
The Recordium highlighting and tagging tools could be useful in adding context and meaning to a recording. For example, if a student was recording a part of a lecture he or she could go back and add a diagram. Or if you’re using the service to record reminders for yourself, you can use the note feature to write down when you’ve accomplished the things in your audio reminder. Learn more about Recordium in this video
Anchor is a free audio publishing service to podcast from your smart phone from either platform
Audioboom create audio up to 3 minutes in length and post that to your own account on the web. You can add titles, tags, geolocation info and a photo to the recording before you upload it and we'll save all that with the file.
Garageband Now free for crating music and audio files
Ferrite ease-of-use audio recorder, with a versatile multi-track editing studio — and powerful additional tools like effects & automation available when you need them.”
5 Android Recording Apps
1. Smart Voice Recorder designed for high quality long-time sound recording with skipping relative silence on-the-fly. Some of its features include: automatic and manual sensitivity control for Skip silence mode; live audio spectrum analyzer; recording in background ; send/share a recording via email, whatsapp, dropbox, etc.’
2- Voice Recorder Vox is free, full-featured, beautifully designed and easy to use audio recording app for android. You can use it as a regular dictaphone for record voice notes and memos, business meetings, interviews, lectures, speeches, concerts, sleep talking :) or anything else.’
3- Voice Recorder application is totally free. It is simple and easy to use. You can reliably record your meetings, personal notes, speeches, lectures, songs. There is no time limits. This application can record most of your sound and voice. You can record a business meeting, a lecture, an interview.’
4- Super Voice Recorder This is another food audio recording apps with the following features: ‘Clear sound recording, support for 7 recording quality rates so you can switch at any time according to your needs; perfect background recording mode; uses the widely supported MP3 format to save audio files; audio recording files are stored into “AllVoiceRecords” in your SD card root folder…’
5- Voice Recorder by Green Apple Studio a high quality voice recording application, store your recordings as voice memos and share them with your friends, this application uses the high quality (8-41.1KHz sample rate) to give you the best recording experience. This app is simple UI, instant start and easy to use.’
StoryCorps has a free app called StoryCorps.me ( http://storycorps.me ) that is available for
iPhone (it will also work on iPads, it's just a little grainy looking) and Android devices.
StoryCorps.me will try to force you to create a StoryCorps account, but you can use it without creating an account. Creating an account will allow you to publish your recordings on the StoryCorps website. StoryCorps.me is designed to help people conduct and record great
nterviews. The app includes a set of questions that you can use in your interview. The question sets are varied depending upon the relationship that you do or don't have with your interviewee. While recording your interview you can swipe through the questions to help you keep the interview on track. Completed recordings can saved on your device and or shared with the StoryCorps community.
Recorder Plus It provides a wide variety of features including:one touch recording, a user friendly interface, high quality audio recording, record and playback in the background and many more.
Clyp.it available to use as a free iOS app ( http://apple.co/1D2y19j ) or as a free Android app ( http://bitly.com/1CRZybU ). A video demonstration of Clyp.it is available at http://bitly.com/1NxxajZ
Smart Record is a professional recording tool that enables you to assign notes and photos to your recordings, helping you to capture the moment and context, transforming the recording into transparent and organized piece of information.’