Top 10: iPads

These are my Top 10 iPad apps for students to use to create and share their understanding.

1. Book Creator: Students are able to create digital books that are able to be read on iOS devices and through the Readium extension in Chrome. Students can create stories, how-to books, collaborative stories, nonfiction books, and photo books.

2. Explain Everything/Educreations: Both of these are fantastic screencasting and interactive whiteboard apps that allow the user to annotate, animate, and narrate slides and share content with a wide audience. Great for demonstrating your understanding of math concepts, digital storytelling, digital portfolio, and retelling.

3. Puppet Pals HD Director's Pass: Animation and storytelling app that allows the user to create an animated puppet show. Select characters and backgrounds and narrate the story by recording your voice and animating the characters by moving them with your fingers. Suggested ideas include: social stories, interviews, talk shows/news reports, retelling, sequencing, and digital storytelling.

4. 30Hands: Storytelling app that allows you to easily create stories based on photos or images by recording your voice. Some ideas for using this app are: how to books, sequencing a story, telling information on a topic, narrate a field trip, or a book report.

5. iMovie: Create videos or trailers or anything imaginable! Some ideas are: book trailers, how-to videos, videos on current events, or even create a trailer to summarize a topic or idea.

6. Popplet: A mind-mapping app that allows you to organize information with different colours, images, fonts, videos, and drawings. Easy to use for comparing and contrasting, creating timelines, retelling, and organizing facts.

7. Pic Collage: Photo collage app that allows you to arrange pictures, text, and stickers. Use for creating posters, book covers, character introductions/summaries, and summarizing.

8. Strip Designer: A comic strip creation app. Select a template and insert photos, images, or drawn pictures. You also have the ability to add text and effect symbols. Great for retelling, sequencing, and labeling images.

9. Bill Atkinson Photo Card: Postcard app that students can customize with a photo that matches their postcard content. Great for writing letters and for social studies outcomes.

10. Tellagami: Customize your character and record your voice or type a message for your character to say. Great for voice recordings.