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iMovie and the iPad - The GWAEA iPad PD Site. -- Allows for editing and enhancing of photos on your iPad. -- Select any photo from Camera Roll -- Features include: Cropping, Color, Exposure, Sketch, Focus, Borders and Effects -- Share edited photo through email, Facebook, Twitter, tumblr., Flickr, and through -- Photoshop Express.

iMovie and the iPad - The GWAEA iPad PD Site

Digital Storytelling Apps - The GWAEA iPad PD Site. One of the best advantages of the ipad is the flexibility that gives your students when completing assignments and communicating ideas.

Digital Storytelling Apps - The GWAEA iPad PD Site

Today we will learn some of the many ways students can communicate their learning by looking at some of the many choices for Digital Storytelling. Allows students to create and record simple puppet shows. Watch your characters take to the stage and deliver their lines just as you wrote them. The Fairy Tale package comes free, other packages are available for purchase. Toontastic -- (Free with in-app purchases or $9.99) Same basic concept as Puppet Pals but provides some information about different parts of the story (Set-up, Conflict, Challenge, Climax and Resolution) and how they work together to make a story. Allows students to record a story with sock puppets. This one is a little more advanced than some of the others. Similar to Story Patch. Storywheel -- (Free or $2.99 with in-app purchases) 10 Great Apps for a Teacher’s New iPad. Did you receive a gift of a new iPad this year?

10 Great Apps for a Teacher’s New iPad

If so, you’re probably spending this holiday vacation week trying out all kinds of new apps. Here are ten that I recommend getting started with. 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.

The Top 17 Free Digital Storytelling Apps for The iPad

Kids can talk to them and they will repeat what you say in turs. 10 Apps for Documenting Learning. One of the things that really excites me about the iPad is the ability of the students to show their learning.

10 Apps for Documenting Learning

I am not talking about the end product here, I am talking about the act of learning that can be shown by students recording their processes. It is often about the student putting the information they have learnt into a context. It is this contextualisation that helps the students create meaning. Here is a perfect example from a young 1st grade student who talks us through his investigation into transport. This example was shown on a recent school visit as one way a student could document their own learning. This is where we really see the mechanics of a student's learning and how this can be individual for each student and in the case of a tool like the iPad, individualised for each student. Here are a couple of apps that give students the opportunity to showcase, share and then reflect on their learning. ShowMe: FREETurn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard! A Parent's Guide to Educational iPad Games. Partially excerpted from the new book, "iPads in Education for Dummies" by Sam Gliksman In between repeatedly imploring my youngest son to turn off the XBox, iPad, his mother's iPhone and every other device we have around the house, I get the occasional flashback to when I was his age.

A Parent's Guide to Educational iPad Games

In my flashback, it's a weekday and the time is somewhere around 5pm. I've just come home from school and I'm glued to the 17th repeat of an episode of Get Smart or Gilligan's Island. Even though I've already seen it 16 times, I still get frustrated that the castaways can't manage to get off that ridiculous island. OS X Server. The Top Educational iPad Apps Every Teacher and Student should Know about ( 100+) iPad Apps. How do I get Apps to this device?

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Or If you are new to the mobile world, what is an App? App or an application is a program that can be installed on to the device. The app will have an icon associated with it. An app can be purchased through iTunes App Store on your computer or through the App Store app on the iPad (If you need to download iTunes, click here). An iTunes account/Apple ID will be needed to download apps. Mobilelearning4specialneeds - App Lists. The Top Educational iPad Apps Every Teacher and Student should Know about ( 100+) When it comes to searching for educational apps to install on your iPad it feels like you get drowned in an avalanche of apps and resources from which you emerge empty-handed.

The Top Educational iPad Apps Every Teacher and Student should Know about ( 100+)

Blooms Taxonomy with Apps. iPad Apps. The iPad as a research tool. I’ve spent a lot of time on this blog lately reflecting on Big Education ideas.

The iPad as a research tool

During that time, my little buddy the iPad has felt a little neglected and unloved. So I thought I’d get back to talking about everybody’s “favourite little tablet that could”. Today, I want to explore the possibilities the iPad has as a tool for researching information. Apps User Group. iPad - ScholasTECH Integrated Instruction. I Education Apps Review - I Education Apps Review. iPad/iPod Resources. Curated App Lists. iPads and Text Types – a match made in heaven! 12 Keys to Finding Quality Education Apps. Millions of apps vie for educators' attention.

12 Keys to Finding Quality Education Apps

And with limited time and budgets, it's not always easy to find the ones that will keep students' attention and teach them at the same time. As school districts search for the few quality apps that will fit into their curriculum, instructional technology staff at three elementary school districts shared how they measure and find quality apps. What is a quality app? Not all apps are created equal. Sometimes, Carol Kliesen, an elementary instructional technology coordinator at Ladue School District in Missouri, thinks an app will work great. "It has to be engaging, but it has to be more than just fun, and it has to be content-related," Kliesen said. Instructional Technology Coordinator Nadine Norris from Community Consolidated School District 15 — the third largest elementary school district in Illinois — defines quality apps as: When the apps integrate text and images, students communicate in a way that's engaging for them, Norris said.

New & Noteworthy Educational Apps, May 2012. I’ve been weighing whether or not to re-institute a new monthly feature here, something that I used to write for MindShift: a post highlighting some of the new and updated educational apps that have been released over the past 30 days or so. I say “or so” here as this is the first time doing this in about six months, and I’m including below a few apps that were updated in late April rather than in May. Clearly this isn’t an exhaustive list of new apps – it’s “some” of them. I’ve picked 7. Move the Turtle iOS, $2.99 (iTunes link) Mozilla Thimble App Thimble is browser-based Web-builder from Mozilla: “Write and edit HTML and CSS right in your browser. Web, free (link)

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Twitter App (free) Twitter is one of the most active and beneficial social networks on the web. All educators would be wise to join the conversation. If you haven’t used Twitter yet, I would recommend that you read these excellent blog posts: Best Educational Apps For Students And Teachers - Education News. Derek Walter for RedOrbit.com As the newest iPad launches today, odds are that it will become an even more popular tool for use in the classroom. A wide range of powerful apps are distinguishing themselves in enhancing classroom instruction, managing student behavior, and organizing the unique chaos of planning for each school day.

Educreations (Free): This whiteboard app is one of the best for putting a whiteboard in your hand. The interface is much like interactive whiteboard software found on a Smartboard or Promethean Board.