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. 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. 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! ExplainEverythng: $2.99 AUExplain Everything is an easy-to-use tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. Educreations: FREEEducreations turns your iPad into a recordable 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. 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. My point is simple. In that spirit, I've started a list of educational iPad game apps for parents. The link to my initial choices is below. Parent's Guide to Educational iPad Games

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. Everyday new apps go viral and to keep up with the updates in this field is really a daunting challenge. Thankfully, there are many trusted educational resources ( this blog is one of them ) where educators and teachers can get to discover and learn about new useful apps to use in education. Another trusted resource is Langwitches whose images I am sharing with you below. 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

10 Great Apps for a Teacher’s New iPad Did you receive a gift of a new iPad this year? 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. Evernote is the Swiss Army knife of iPad apps. I subscribe to the RSS feeds of a few hundred blogs and websites. If you want to make your own short instructional videos for students, Knowmia Teach is an app you have to try. Box is another service that I use for file storage and sharing. It took me a while to come around to Pinterest, but now that I have I really like it. Haiku Deck is an iPad app that all students and teachers should have installed on their iPads. Skitch for iPad is an app that I use when I want to quickly edit, create, and or draw on an image. A couple of years ago a friend of mine set a New Year’s resolution to watch one TED Talk a day. You may have noticed that this list is comprised entirely of free apps. Chrome is the browser that I use 90% of the time that I’m on the web.

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. 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) Create Voicethreads on your iPad!

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 -- Allow for enhancing photos with pre-made effects -- Choose Film, Light, or Borders and scroll through options -- Select your choice in one and move on to another (can choose one in each section) -- Share edited photo back to library, iTunes, Facebook, Flickr, Imm.io, Dropbox, or email Video Filming and Planning Resources -- Allows you to create movies or movie trailers using photos and videos from your camera roll and music in iTunes on our iPad or by recording straight into the app -- iMovie allows you to share your videos back to your Camera Roll, YouTube, Facebook, vimeo, iTunes, and CNN iReport Trailers -- Allows the creation of movie trailers around a theme; scary, superhero, romance, etc. arrow. 1. 2. 3.

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