Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A List of The Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers. 1- ZimmerTwins It is all about creative storytelling. ZimmerTwins is a web2.0 tool that allows students to give vent to their imaginative powers and exercise their storytelling skills from early stages to advances ones. 2- Digital Story Telling in The Classroom This section provides resources and materials for teachers to use with their students in storytelling. It helps students personalize their learning and perform better. Students can use these materials to create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their stories. 3- Story Bird This is an awesome website that allows students and teachers to create short art inspired stories to read, share or print out. 4- Someries Someries is a fantastic storytelling site . 5- PicLits This is another awesome website where students can choose a picture and start drawing or writing a text on it to create a story. 7- Capzles This is where you and your students can create rich multimedia stories with videos, photos, music, blogs and documents.
8 Awesome Apps for Teaching Reading. Teaching kids to read is a big job. Not only does it take a lot of time and patience, it also takes a lot of resources. These 8 awesome educational apps should be added to every reading teacher’s resource collection. From fluency finders to resources to help find the right books for students, they are designed to make teaching reading a little easier. Read Me Stories Read Me Stories is designed to make reading fun for younger readers. Children receive a new book to explore each day. Books feature simple words that are highlighted to help children as they read.
Scholastic Reading Timer Scholastic Reading Timer gives students a way to track the amount of time they spend reading and the number of pages they read. Goodreads Goodreads allows individuals to log the books they have read and receive recommendations for new books to read. PlayTales Bookstore PlayTales Bookstore features interactive books for children. Accelerated Reader Fluency Timer Reader’s Workshop iWPM. Notetaking Apps - a comparison of some popular ones. Notetaking apps are a great way to get organized and keep track of everything electronically. There are a lot of different ones out there, so I thought I would go through some of the more popular ones and list some of the features they have.
Click on the links for more information on each one also. 1. Evernote - this is the note taking app that I use the most. 2. 3. 5. 6. Top 15 iPad Book Apps – The Best Extras for Summer Fun. A year ago, we presented our first ‘best extras’ list, featuring 10 apps with wonderful games that take learning AND playing to a whole new level (compared to the average book app). I am often a stickler for an emphasis on literacy and reading in book apps, but I still appreciate apps that take things ‘beyond reading’. The following book apps contain games, puzzles and other ‘extras’, either within the pages of the book or bundled together with the app. Books like this are essential, especially for times when you need a little more ‘edutainment’ value along with a great read. So, just in time for the summer travel season and so many long days out of school, I’ve put together the following list of 15 book apps that are ‘extra’ special, picked from over 500 iPad book app reviews on our site. 1.
Mo Willems' Pigeon is an instant digital classic ... The ever-popular Mo Willems’ Pigeon is back and he wants to take over your iPad (or iPhone/iPod)! 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Bartleby is back! 8. 9. 10. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: The Top 17 Free Digital Storytelling Apps for The iPad. 1-StoryKit This is an awesome iOS app that allows users to easily create an electronic storybook via illustrations by drawing on the screen, using pictures and text, and recording audio to attach to stories. 2- Talking Tom & Ben News This is fun app to use. Kids can talk to them and they will repeat what you say in turs. They can also create and record funny conversations between them. 3- I Tell a Story This is a free app that allows users to narrate and record their stories with their own voice and language. 4- Scholastic Storia This is an app that is designed to help kids learn and love to read in a fun and interactive way. 5- Talking Tom Cat This is a cool app that lets you interact with Tom, your pet. 6- Toontastic This app allows kids to draw, animate and share their own cartoons through imaginative play. 7- Our Story This app lets young learners take part in fun games that can help them develop their reading skills. 8- Bunsella Bedtimes Story 9- Idea Sketch 10- Sock Puppets 11- Scribble Press.
The 200 Best Special Education Apps. iPad. Great apps for all book lovers to explore! Zip! Zap! Zoom! My library is anything BUT quiet during our recess time. Of course students are visiting and sharing about books they love. Do you have an iPad? The Monster at the End of This Book Callaway Digital Arts, 2011 Lovable, furry Grover gets kids giggling every time the read this book app. Press Here Chronicle Books, 2012 This app is an ingenious extension of Hervé Tullet’s book Press Here, which entranced kids, inviting them to interact pressing the yellow dots and watching what happened. Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Oceanhouse Media, 2010 Oceanhouse Media’s apps are developed with great thought and care of what will help new readers, often mimicking the way a parent or teacher would read with a child.
Bats: Furry Fliers in the Night by Mary Kay Carson developed by Bookerella and StoryWorldwide, 2012 This excellent nonfiction book app layers clear text with interesting diagrams, photographs, and interactive features. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Leonard Ink Robin, Inc., 2012. Notetaking Apps - a comparison of some popular ones.