Elementary iPad ideas

Creating and Collaborating with iPads

Mini White Board
Use Doodle Buddy, Real Chalk or Screen Chomp as white boards:
Students can draw or write answers in discussions or to math problems or story prompts
Pair up students and one describes an object while the other draws it

Create Mind Maps: Poplet
Poplet-good for younger and older ages
Use text and images in poplets
Use color and links for organizing ideas

Create Mind Maps: Lino You can post, see and peel off stickies on canvases freely. Stickies posted from iPad App can be accessed with PC browsers. You can freely post pictures you take with your iPad Zoom in and out a canvas by pinch gesture. Drag a sticky to move it. You can move stickies around at any time. Organize your memos and ideas by changing colors of stickies or setting an icon on them.
Students can use Lino:
as a graphic organizer before writing
To explain steps in a sequence (how to solve a math problem, the life cycle of a plant, the parts of the story they are reading)
To plan parts for a reader’s theater or a skit

Create Mind Maps: ABC Notes
Use different backgrounds for notes and lists
Use as graphic organizers
Notes can be saved to camera roll

Collaborative Writing with Titan Pad * Use Safari to go to Titan Pad.com *One person starts a Pad and gives the short link to 5 others. *All 6 people collaborate on an idea or topic.

Create and Publish: Story Kit
Create an electronic storybook.. * Write some text. * Illustrate by drawing on the screen, taking a photograph of something you see, or drawing on paper and then photographing the paper, or attaching photos from your album. * Sounds can be recorded for telling your story or as sound effects. * Layout the elements of your story (text boxes, images, and sound clips) freely by dragging them or pinching to resize. * Add, reorder, or delete pages from your book. Your story is always saved in your iPad.
Upload your story to the StoryKit web server
No account is necessary. Stories are private.

Create and Publish: ToonTastic
Students write, animate, and record stories
Story structure is built into the process
Stories can be shared on Toon Tube

Create and Publish: Animoto
Create short collage videos (about 30 seconds)
Download pictures from student iPad share folder to use
Save the videos to the camera roll
Share in a gallery walk or project
Move completed videos to the iPad share folder with Web Dav

Create and Publish: Comic Life
Create comic book pages on any topic..
Tell stories in a graphic novel format
Get photos from student iPad Share folder
Share in a gallery walk or on projector
Share completed comics with Tray feature in the app.
Upload comics to teacher iPad with Tray feature
Save comics as jpg to camera roll then move to iPad Share with Web Dav Nav

Geography- Google Earth
Students locate places they have traveled to and partner share
Students measure the distance from place to place in miles: home to school, country to country
Locate places in Novels or stories they are reading

Geography and Literacy with PhotoCard
Use the photos supplied, or upload their own photos or from the internet
create postcards about:
travels they have taken
travels in books they have read
The life of a famous person

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