Featured Apps shown today:
Educreations: This is a screencasting app that allows students to record their voices, drawings, and still pictures. It is great for recording tutorials and explaining work. Lessons can be emailed, posted to Facebook and Twitter. Or teachers can create an account to save the recordings and send out the link. This is the first app that we introduce students to in Winchester because it is extremely user-friendly. Click here to see examples.
30 Hands: This is a digital storytelling app where students can upload pictures or drawings and record over each slide. We love this app because we find it is very easy for students to use and show their creativity. The final slideshows can be saved to 30 Hands website or directly to the photo roll.
30 Hands Cloud is also an e-classroom website that allows teachers to set up classes. Click here to see examples.
Scribble Press: This is a book creation app. Students are able to type text or choose from a wide variety of crayon/marker options to write text. They can then draw pictures, upload pictures, or choose from stickers from the Scribble Press library to add to their book. We like this app because there is a choice of pre-made stories which gives the option of filling in blanks to write a story. This was a great way of introducing the app to students, and it helped some of our struggling writers get off to a good start. Once students got the hang of it, we found they all were able to create blank books and even preferred being able to show their creativity. The books can be shared to Facebook, Twitter, emailed, or opened in iBooks. Click here to see examples.
Idea Sketch: This app creates concept maps or flow charts. It automatically creates an outline version. These can be emailed, saved to the camera roll, or copied into other apps. Click here to see examples.
Animoto: This is a video app where students can incorporate videos, pictures, text, and music to their projects. Teachers can create a teacher account so that students do not need an email to login. This account allows unlimited videos, and they can be exported to YouTube, embedded into blogs/web pages, emailed, or saved to the teacher account. Click here to see examples.
Scan app: This app scans QR codes, bar codes, and URLs. We use this app for a variety of lessons. We often incorporate classtools.net to print out answer/question QR codes. We have linked the QRs to Dropbox or AudioBoo to host documents, videos or audio. There are a plethora of sites to generate QR codes; one example is qrcode.kaywa.
Comic Maker: This is an app used to create comic strips. Students can design multiple pages if needed. Comics can be printed directly, exported to the camera roll, sent in an email, or posted to Facebook. Click here to see examples.
Get Kahoot: This is a website that allows teachers to easily create multiple-choice questions to use in a game setting. Students can use their iPads or PC to log into Kahoot.it: and then play against each other.
Brainpop: This app allows students to watch videos and complete activities about almost all subject areas. We love Brainpop Educators because the account set-up is free and links to a district subscription. If you have an interactive board, there are interactive lessons, teachers can make their own quizzes, and now can set up a class and keep track of quizzes with MyBrainpop. They have excellent graphic organizers that can be used right on the iPad by opening them in Adobe Reader and either print from the iPad, or if you don't have air print, they can be emailed and printed from a computer.
Educreations: This is a screencasting app that allows students to record their voices, drawings, and still pictures. It is great for recording tutorials and explaining work. Lessons can be emailed, posted to Facebook and Twitter. Or teachers can create an account to save the recordings and send out the link. This is the first app that we introduce students to in Winchester because it is extremely user-friendly. Click here to see examples.
30 Hands: This is a digital storytelling app where students can upload pictures or drawings and record over each slide. We love this app because we find it is very easy for students to use and show their creativity. The final slideshows can be saved to 30 Hands website or directly to the photo roll.
30 Hands Cloud is also an e-classroom website that allows teachers to set up classes. Click here to see examples.
Scribble Press: This is a book creation app. Students are able to type text or choose from a wide variety of crayon/marker options to write text. They can then draw pictures, upload pictures, or choose from stickers from the Scribble Press library to add to their book. We like this app because there is a choice of pre-made stories which gives the option of filling in blanks to write a story. This was a great way of introducing the app to students, and it helped some of our struggling writers get off to a good start. Once students got the hang of it, we found they all were able to create blank books and even preferred being able to show their creativity. The books can be shared to Facebook, Twitter, emailed, or opened in iBooks. Click here to see examples.
Idea Sketch: This app creates concept maps or flow charts. It automatically creates an outline version. These can be emailed, saved to the camera roll, or copied into other apps. Click here to see examples.
Animoto: This is a video app where students can incorporate videos, pictures, text, and music to their projects. Teachers can create a teacher account so that students do not need an email to login. This account allows unlimited videos, and they can be exported to YouTube, embedded into blogs/web pages, emailed, or saved to the teacher account. Click here to see examples.
Scan app: This app scans QR codes, bar codes, and URLs. We use this app for a variety of lessons. We often incorporate classtools.net to print out answer/question QR codes. We have linked the QRs to Dropbox or AudioBoo to host documents, videos or audio. There are a plethora of sites to generate QR codes; one example is qrcode.kaywa.
Comic Maker: This is an app used to create comic strips. Students can design multiple pages if needed. Comics can be printed directly, exported to the camera roll, sent in an email, or posted to Facebook. Click here to see examples.
Get Kahoot: This is a website that allows teachers to easily create multiple-choice questions to use in a game setting. Students can use their iPads or PC to log into Kahoot.it: and then play against each other.
Brainpop: This app allows students to watch videos and complete activities about almost all subject areas. We love Brainpop Educators because the account set-up is free and links to a district subscription. If you have an interactive board, there are interactive lessons, teachers can make their own quizzes, and now can set up a class and keep track of quizzes with MyBrainpop. They have excellent graphic organizers that can be used right on the iPad by opening them in Adobe Reader and either print from the iPad, or if you don't have air print, they can be emailed and printed from a computer.