There’s more to the iPad than just the three R’s. Discover some amazing apps to foster creativity and the fine arts.

1. Encouraging Creativity
and the Arts with an
iPad

2. Director of Professional Development
972-275-9251
dbenner@tcea.org
@diben
Diana Benner
#iTCEA
@diben
@tcea
TWEET It!

3. • To discover some amazing apps to
foster creativity and the fine arts
Objectives

4. Resources
http://goo.gl/ohKg1u

5. Today’s Meet
https://todaysmeet.com/itceaart
Introduce Yourself
• Name, Position, Grade Level
Today’s Meet

6. • Choose a simple app
• Focus on the content . . . not the app
• Follow up with reflections and
applications of knowledge
• Focus on the content . . . Not the app
Tips & Tricks

7. Art

8. • Free
• Companion to Photoshop.com
• Create a free Photoshop.com account to upload and store 2GB of photos
and videos online
• Variety of one-touch effects
• Basics: Crop, Straighten, Rotate, and Flip
• Color: Exposure, Saturation, Tint, Black and White,
and Contrast
• Filters: Sketch, Soft Focus, and Sharpen
• Effects: Vibrant, Pop, Border, Vignette Blur, Warm
Vintage, Rainbow, White Glow, Soft Black & White
• Borders: Rectangle, Rounded, Oval, Soft Edge,
Vignette, Rough Edge, Halftone, Film Emulsion
(additional frames for purchase)
Adobe Photoshop
Express

9. • Free for iPad/iPhone is .99 for
Kids Paint
• Random brush sizes and colors
• Tap 3 fingers to clear the
drawing
• Shake the iPad to clear the
screen
• Load you own pictures from
photo albums as background
• Save drawings or email to your
friend!
Kids Paint HD

10. • 99¢
• Organized in notebooks
• Designed for writing, drawing, and
sketching (not typing)
• Integrated with Evernote and Dropbox
• Email pages as png files
• Email notebooks as PDFs or
Penultimate files
• Import images
• 3 types of paper: graph, lined, and
blank
• 10 colors and 3 line widths
Penultimate

11. • Free
• Create glowing shapes in
3D
• Animate strokes
• 8 different brushes
• Symmetries up to 32 ways
Forge of Neon 3D

12. • $4.99
• 2D vector drawing and design
• Group/ungroup shapes
• Multi-layer format (with preview, raise, lower, hide)
• Shape tool (square, rectangle, circle, ellipse, line, polyline, polygons)
• Edit points, convert shapes to path, close shapes
• Text insertion with fonts, styles, sizes, paragraph alignments
• Snap to grid, snap to object and points
• Set background image from photo
library
• Export designs to photo library, and
JPEG, PNG, PDF formats
iDesign

13. • Free iPhone or deluxe version $1.99
• Draw like you never have drawn before
• Draw lots of patterns really fast
• Optical illusions
Tripping Fest 2: Drawing &
Sketching Lite

14. • $7.99
• Professional vector illustration app
• Create text objects
• Create compound paths, masks and groups
• Gradient fills with interactive editing on canvas
• Unlimited layers per drawing
• Rename, rearrange, delete, hide
and lock layers
• Email drawings as SVG, PDF, PNG
and JPEG
• Send SVG, PDF, PNG, and JPEG
directly to your Dropbox
Inkpad

15. • $4.99
• Professional-grade paint and drawing application
• Canvas size: 1024 x 768 (6, 12, and 18 layers)
• Canvas size 2048 x 1536 (4 and 6 layers)
• 60+ preset brushes
• Each brush is customizable
• Import from Photo Library or iPad 2
camera
• Duplicate/merge/reorder layers
• Integrates Dropbox
• Eye-dropper color section
• Customizable color swatches
SketchBook Pro

16. • $6.99
• Digital sculpting app
• Push, Pull, Smooth, Move, Pinch, Spread, Flatten brushes
• Added material editor (color and specular light)
• Symmetrical editing that can be enabled/disabled at anytime
• Variable size/strength brushes
• Camera zoom/orientation control
• Gallery organizer
• Easy creation of multiple version
of a sculpture
• 30-level undo
iDough

17. • .99 iPhone app
• Use your imagination to create aliens, Martians and
monsters with a variety of creepy and crawly body parts
• Story Starter
• Describe your Martian
• Health class identify body part
Make a Martian

18. • $59.95
• Simple animation program
• Designed by Peter H. Reynolds, author and illustrator of the Judy
Moody series, The Dot, and Ish
• Philosophy: “it doesn’t have to be perfect…just perfect-ish”
• 3 levels of animations (Wiggledoodle-ish, FlipBook-ish, and
Advanced-ish)
• Curriculum-based activities aligned
to national standards
• Online animation lessons from
Peter and other animators
• Export animations as swf, mov,
avi, and more
Animation-ish

19. • Free
• A collection of 5 projects for starters
• Illustrates step by step instructions
• Subjects range from ultra-easy
fish and penguins to more
involved projects
Easy Origami LITE

20. • Free
• Digital Sketchbook
• Simple vector-based drawing tools, variable-size
brushes, vector eraser, 50 level undo/redo and
zooming/panning
• VGA Out-project ideas on a
screen with the VGA adaptor
• Layers is available for purchase
Adobe Ideas

21. • Free
• Paint with multiple fingers
• Funny sounds paired with stamps
• Doodle and stamp over your own pictures
• Cool Drawing Tools: paintbrush,
glitter, chalk, text, stencils, smudge
and more
• 44,000 colors
• Share your doodles with your friends
via email
• Shake to clear the doodling surface
Doodle Buddy

22. Doodle Buddy Activity
• Download the Doodle Buddy App
• Grab the chalk and wait for the prompt

23. Doodle Buddy Activity
• It had been raining all day, off in the
distance I could see . . . . .
(draw your item)
• Back to school shopping is a tough task
to accomplish. The first thing to land in
my basket is . . . . .
(draw your item)

24. Today’s Meet
https://todaysmeet.com/itceaart

25. Music

26. • Free
• 3D drum experience
• Created by musicians
• Animated drums and cymbols
• Play along with several jam tracks
Barrel Tones

27. • Free
• 3D drum experience
• Created by musicians
• Animated drums and cymbols
• Play along with several jam tracks
Finger Drums

28. • Free
• Mixer to adjust keyboard, rhythm, guitar, and drum
• Adjust beat and pattern of guitar strumming
• Adjust chords
• Slidable keyboard with
7 octaves
• Guitar fretboard with
scale assistant
• Drum beat maker
• Adjust tempo of the
rhythm guitar and
drum beat
JamPad Plus

29. • Free iphone app
• Tambourine experience
• Accelerometer based app
• Shake or tap device
Tambourine!

30. • Free
• Educational game
format
• Introduction to pitch
• Ear training
• Each member of the
blob choir sings a note. Then, King Blob sings his.
• The student identifies which choir member sang
the same pitch.
• Choir can increase members to add difficulty
Blob Chorus Ear
Training

31. • Free iphone app
• Practice clarinet resource
• Practice scales
• Check fingerings
Play along songs
• Maintenance of clarinet
Pocket Clarinet

32. • Free
• Learn to play the piano anytime, anywhere
• 6 octaves of sampled concert grand piano
• Robust bass, warm middles and crisp highs
• Play along with your music
library
• Key labels (with colors)
• Play chords with up to
5 fingers
• Slide your fingers to roll
the keys
Virtuoso Piano
Free 2 HD

33. • Free iphone or iPad app
• Free 88 key paino with multitouch, adjustable reverb,
metronome, dual row, resizable keys
• Sheet music or drop the notes in
• Happy Birthday, Jingle Bells,
When the Saints Go Marching In
• Cann upgrade for 500 songs for
$9.99
Piano Free with Songs

34. • Free
• Learn the instruments of the orchestra as well as specific
musicians of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
• Learn about instrument families
• Hear specific instruments
• MSO Learn makes
recommendations for specific
pieces that highlight the
specific instrument being studied
• Featured musicians share about their practicing,
performances, favorite sports teams, and where they like
to go eat after a concert…as well as their favorite tunes
MSO Learn

35. • $3.99
• Helps students learn how to name the notes on the staff,
treble or bass cleff
• Puts a note on the screen and the student has to identify
it out of three options.
• You set the range of notes and
exercise duration
• Can be used in lessons when a
student is having a hard time
naming notes
iNote Trainer

36. • Free
• Graphical pitch analyzer
• Teach pitch identities
• Helps develop perfect pitch
• Study chord relationships
Harmonizer

37. • $.99 iPhone app
• Ancient flute
• No musical training required
• Featured by David Pogue
• Blow air into your mic to create
music
• Listen in on ocarina players all
over the world by tapping the
world
• Great website with free
easy-to-read scores for popular
songs
Ocarina

38. • Free
• Educational game design
• Designed to improve rhythm reading skills
• Developed by professional music educators
• Tracks both attack and
release of notes
• No arrows or visual cues…
students are encouraged
to read the notes
• No audio playback…
eliminates mimicking or
note learning
Rhythm Quiz

39. • 99¢ for iPhone; $2.99 for iPad
• Record sounds from your surroundings
• Create mixes and loops
MadPad – Remix
Your Life

40. • $4.99
• Take your scores with you
• Download virtually any pdf from web
• Great music reader
• Extensive library of sheet music
• Visual metronome
• Auto-turn and half-turn options
• Landscape or portrait layouts
• Tag your files with up to 6 types of
metadata
• Add text to your page
• Add common musical notation
symbols
• Share via email, bluetooth, and AirPrint
forScore

41. • $1.99
• Interactive visual and audio references
• View major and minor modes on the
musical staff
• See fingerings for guitar
and piano
• Listen to scales in any
key
• Includes all modes of
major, natural minor,
and harmonic minor
scales
Scales & Modes
for iPad

42. Activity
• Choose an app to investigate
• Download and explore the app
• Brainstorm classroom lessons and
ideas
• Post the app and one idea to Today’s
Meet http://todaysmeet.com/itceaart
Another Great Resource:
iPad Art Room - http://goo.gl/wNvxVF

43. Today’s Meet
https://todaysmeet.com/itceaart

44. Creativity

45. Creativity on a Budget
http://goo.gl/XYxhRE

46. Accessories

47. Sensu Brush - http://www.sensubrush.com/
The Flow - http://goo.gl/OY5JY
Hex3 JaJa Stylus - http://www.jajastylus.com/
Devices to Extend Your
iPad Experience

48. AirTurn BT-105 (bluetooth page turner) - http://airturn.com/
Midi Mobilizer - http://line6.com/midimobilizer/
iDJ Pro - http://www.numark.com/product/idjpro
Devices to Extend Your
iPad Experience

49. Let's Create! Pottery HD Lite
http://goo.gl/tt12B
Glow Paint
http://goo.gl/etQWL
How to Make Origami
http://goo.gl/vAbvr
MirrorPaint Lite
http://goo.gl/vfebl
Photosynth
http://goo.gl/YF6ir
WI Orchestra
http://goo.gl/drwLu
Other Suggestions…
Kid Synth
http://goo.gl/bjU0a
Touch DJ Evo
http://goo.gl/WIqjS
Songify
http://goo.gl/qxjk1
Singing Fingers
http://goo.gl/dHs8P
Classical Guitar for iPad
http://goo.gl/Q9zlG

51. The Learning Goes On

52. Social Community
How to Join the Group
1. Go to tcea.org and click on
the Login button. Enter your
info and log in.
2. Click on the Social
Community link in the left
menu bar.
3. Click on the Groups menu
link and search for iPad.
4. Click the Join Group link.
Join the iPad Group

53. List of iPad Apps
http://www.tcea.org/ipad

54. Reflection
• Get with another person
• Pick one of the apps that you’ve learned about today
and discuss how you might use it with your students
or staff.
• Include how you would introduce the app.
• Discuss if this would be done individually, in small
groups, or whole group.
• What might be difficult for your students or staff?

55. Thank You!