24 Educational iPad Apps for Kids in Reading & Writing. Student Interactives. Folder Full of Storytelling Apps. I feel storytelling apps are one of the most powerful aspects of using the iPad.
It allows for collaboration and creativity that I couldn’t really achieve before using the iPad. Here are my 22 favorite Storytelling Apps. The list is constantly changing but the majority of them stay the same. Toontastic (post with example HERE) Feltboard (post with example HERE and HERE) Skitch …for labeling (post with examples HERE) Sock Puppets (post with examples HERE) Puppet Pals StoryBuddy 2 (post with examples HERE) My Story Educreations (post with examples HERE) ShowMe Explain Everything Little Bird Tales (post with examples HERE, examples from web tool but app is similar) Draw and Tell Haiku Deck Strip Designer SonicPics Book Creator Draw-n-Show StoryPatch Story Dice Superhero HD StoryBot What apps am I missing? Like this: Like Loading... Digital Storytelling/Content Creation iPad Apps. 8 Awesome Handwriting Apps for iPad.
15 More Apps To Create Books On The iPad. Creating books on the iPad doesn’t seem like the first thing you might do with one of the popular little tablets, but it’s really quite capable of doing so provided you’re not trying to write the next great novel.
We’ve written about 3 apps to reate books on the iPad in the past, but the following listly by Meg Wilson goes further, including 15 apps to do so. The artful collision of technology, learning, and literacy is an idea promoted in the Common Core Standards, which is likely your rule book if you teach K-12 in an American public school. This is a new age of literacy where students can read, research, write, publish, and socialize on the same device sitting right in their lap with a pinch-and-zoom elegance that somehow makes the whole process seem easier than it really is.
And for those of you that rail against both Common Core and the iPad (but obviously not literacy), keep fighting the good fight. 15 Literacy Apps To Create Books On The iPad. Redefining the Writing Process with iPads. Take a moment to think about how you learned to write.
What steps did you go through? What was your process? Most of us learned the same core set of skills on paper: organize, draft, edit, revise, turn in. Our teachers then marked up what we had handwritten or typed, and returned our writing. From there, maybe it ended up tacked to a bulletin board, stuck on the refrigerator door, stuffed into a notebook, or tossed in the nearest trash can. When computers entered into the equation, we digitized the process.
In the progression from Writing 1.0 to 2.0, we digitally enhanced an existing process. With what we'll call Writing 3.0, students and teachers can: Organize and draft through handwriting, drawing, text and voiceCollaborate and incorporate multimodal feedbackCreate a final product that demonstrates mastery and communicates understanding beyond the literal confines of paper Organizing & Drafting Imagine a student who benefits from the tactile nature of handwriting. 10 Great Writing iPad Apps for Teachers and Students. Coming to you from the Canadian Maritimes ( Halifax), Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is an educational blog dedicated to curating, reviewing and sharing EdTech tools and mobile apps.
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