On the 3rd Day of Apps...

My True Love Gave to Me....Story Creator....

Another great app...Teachers and students love this app. It is so easy and fun to use. To top it all off it's FREE.... Get the PRO version for $1.99.

Story Creator allows you to easily create beautiful picture books containing photos, videos, text, and audio all in one location. Story Creator brings your best stories to life and easily allows you to retell and share your memories.

Story Creator offers a creative way to enjoy your personal pictures, videos, and experiences with family and friends.


Kids will love this app because it is so easy to use. Teachers love it for the same reason and for many more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgDP4XkuGDM

2nd Day of Apps

Explain Everything.... A great way to increase student engagement....

I love this app as it gives students the ability to creatively communicate their thinking.  Students love using this app, and working collaboratively to create amazing projects for their teachers.  

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.

Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage.

Add new or existing photos and videos. Import PDF, PPT, DOC, XLS, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and RTF files from Evernote, Dropbox, Box, GDrive, WebDAV, Email, iTunes, and any app that allows you to open these files types using "Open In…". Export MP4 movies, PDF documents, PNG images, or XPL project files directly from your iPad.

(The above description from the iTunes app store.)

Cost $2.99

There is a android version available as well on Google Play. 

Here is a great link, that has a great video on Explain Everything.

http://www.explaineverything.com/

1st Day of Apps

Here is my 1st app for the 12 Days of Apps...

I love the Teach Me Apps, for our young friends.  I used these app with my lifeskills students and what a difference it made in their engagement, and achievement.

There are 5 different grade levels ranging from Preschool, Kindergarten, Grade 1, 2, and 3.

The Teach Me apps teach six different age appropriate subjects.  These apps focus on: sight words, shapes, colours, addition, subtraction, spelling and now writing letters and numbers. Parents/Teachers can select which subjects they want, set different difficulty levels, and even choose specific questions. Parents/Teachers can review performance history for each subject to check how the child/student is doing. 

TeachMe:  keeps children engaged with a rather unique reward system where children earn a coin for every three correct answers. Coins can then be used to purchase stickers to place in fun sticker scenes or to purchase items for the new virtual aquarium. Sticker scenes can be exported as wallpaper or emailed to family and friends. 

The simple and intuitive user interface is designed to be child friendly, which allows children to play without help from an adult. An animated teacher (Mimi Mouse) gives verbal instructions and feedback to the child which makes learning fun. 

Starting Dec. 4, the 12 days of Apps....

Holiday Spirit....

Only 13 more school days left until the holidays, not that I am counting :-)......

I was thinking it might be fun do a count down of my top 12 favourite apps... So starting on Dec. 4 I will post a new app everyday until our last day of school on the 19th.  

Enjoy and if you would like to add your favourite apps please do so...it is always nice to have lots of great apps to try.... Have a great Monday everyone.....

Mindmapping & Graphic Organizers

Popplet...

Popplet is great for school as it is a platform for students to communicate their thinking to their teachers.  

• It can be used for brainstorming, mindmapping, and as a graphic organizer.
• It can also be used for creating timelines. 
• It can also be used for collecting inspiration i.e. A scrapbook. 
• Create for collaboration between students and teachers.
• It can also be used to make connections between items and matching for our life skills students.

Popplet lite is the free version of Popplet. When using this version you are limited to just one popplet ( 1 page). 
With the purchase of Popplet ($4.99) it lets you create an unlimited number of local popplets, which are stored on your iPad. You can also use the full version to create online popplets, which can be shared with and edited by other Popplet users, both on the web at popplet.com and on their iPads. 

This is a great app for students to use to organize and plan their thinking. The possibilities are endless for this great app. A must purchase for school ipads.