Apps worth changing your teaching to include iPads!

1. Apple-Tudes
Apple-Tudes are
contagious. Are yours
worth catching?
* Appletude: Our Apple-tude can
determine our success in using iPads in
the classroom. You all heard: There’s an
app for that. In fact, there are hundreds of
thousands of apps on the market designed
for teaching and learning.
Liz Wernig -
lwernig@mursd.org

2. MY MULTIMEDIA FAVORITES
Apps
• iMovie
• Teleprompter
• Stop Motion Video
• Tellagami
• Explain Everything
• ShowMe

3. MULTIMEDIA
iMovie
USING iMOVIE IN YOUR CLASSROOM
•To create documentaries, present science
experiments, historical reenactments, and news
reports on current events. NEWS REPORT SAMPLE
•To create digital stories, poetry, bring journal writing to
life, and produce movie adaptations of literature.
DIGITAL STORY SAMPLE
•To present math concepts, enabling teachers to more
effectively assess their knowledge. Student created
math sample
•How to videos: How-to video sample
•Trailers:
sample 1
sample 2
sample 3

4. iMovie
My Lesson,Templates,Rubric
iMovie has some great features that will have you
producing your own work in a few minutes.
iMovie for iPad - 5 Minute Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTQjmsCZRk

5. TELEPROMPTER
•It’s free

6. STOP MOTION VIDEO
Your students can create a time-lapse or stop-motion film using
this video app. make a movie by combining still photos. They
can set this app to take photographs at timed intervals to show
elapsed time (like a plant growing or a sunset) or for stop-motion
film (using action figures or puppets

7. Tellagami
Some quick ideas you might try
Samples: sample one sample two
https://tellagami.com/gami/2TTK0W/
• Have your character tell a story.
• Pick a person in history and have them introduce themselves
• Use a plant cell as the background and have the avatar name and
discuss the function of each part of the cell.
• Recite a famous poem or speech
• Read a poem they wrote
• Take a trip or go back in time and describe where the location/time
period
• Speak in Spanish, French, Mandarin or any language
• When you are all done, Gamis can be emailed, also generates a link to
share. You can also view your movie online.

8. Explain Everything
ExplainEverything is an app for creating
video like tutorials. Students or teachers can
take photos or images, annotate them,
record voices over them and explain
different concepts that way.
It could be good for giving students
directions or for having students explain
what they’ve learned
What is Explain Everything?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4JOsrEsyo0
Samples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3efp1kxmUQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75IlpvSkC3s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu4WBAttRik&fea
ture=youtu.be

9. Explain Everything

10. • Once it’s uploaded you can
Share your ShowMe via email! You
can also copy the URL to share
anywhere else you’d like!

11. Screen casting App
SHOWME
http://www.showme.com/learn

12. SHOWME
• Math: High School students created and
shared math tutorials.
• Geography: Why civilizations developed along
rivers?
• Social Studies: The Thirteen Colonies.
• Science: Sorting Objects By Solid, Liquid and
Gaseous State
• Spanish: A student sample.
• English: Adverbs

13. FACETALKER
FaceTalker is a free app for the iPad that allows
you to take any image and make it talk. All you have
to do is import a picture, define the speaking area,
then record your narration. This app is great for
encouraging digital storytelling and having students
creatively share something they have learned.
• Sample one
• Sample two (by Kerry)
• Facetalker Tutorial

14. Photo Editing App
BeFunky
• You don’t have to sign in.
• It’s an excellent, free and easy
photo editor app

15. Cloud Storage
DROPBOX
• Using Dropbox

16. Cloud Storage
DROPBOX
• Just right click on a file or folder in
Dropbox and select “Share a Dropbox
Link.” Paste that link into an email and
the person who receives it can either
download it independently or have it
appear magically in their own Dropbox
folder
• It’s simple, easy and quick access
between my students and I.
• when a student deposits a file in one
of my shared folders I get a little pop-up
message to let me know.
• It’s been very reliable making my
classroom projects (and life) so much
more organized!

17. Share folders

18. Favorite Book Creator App
Book Creator for iPad - create ebooks and
pdfs, publish to iBooks
By Red Jumper Limited
•Sample of books made with the Book Creator App
•About Book Creator.
•Open books in dropbox ,google drive or iBooks.
• Quick Tutorial
•Leah's Book!
iBook Creator Create Books
Over 6 million books created
Book Creator for iPad is the no.1 book app in 80 countries,
with over 6 million books created so far.
Book Creator is a fantastic tool for students to use to create
short stories or to create longer research papers that include
multimedia elements.

19. • Example: students in their World History
class used their literary talents to author a
book on an African Trading Empire. Using
the app “Book Creator”, students recorded
their researched data in the form of an
original book describing the kingdom of
their choice.
Burlington, Ma Schools

20. Social Media App
PINTEREST
Pinterest is like a virtual bulletin or cork board that allows
users to find and curate images and videos.
• The Educator's Guide to the Use of Pinterest in the
Classroom: EducatorsTechnology.com published this
useful guide for teachers interesting in using Pinterest
with students. Here, you'll find everything you need to
get started, including tips for building boards, pinning
basics and ideas for using Pinterest in the classroom.
Other Pinterest ideas for teachers:
– "The Teacher’s Guide To Pinterest," via Edudemic
– "37 Ways Teachers Can Use Pinterest in the
Classroom,"
Free Tools for Teachers
iPad Apps
Explain Everything
Creating eBooks

22. Note Taking App
PaperPort!
Some of us brainstorm using text. Others visualize
new ideas by doodling or drawing. Still others
process out loud.
Every great thinker, artist, and inventor has a
sketchbook to capture their inspiration anywhere,
anytime a new idea strikes.
Paperport Notes allows users to import documents
(e.g. PDF, Word Doc, PowerPoint, JPEG and
more) then edit, annotate, draw, insert additional
images and highlight on the document. Users can
also insert images from their camera roll or
capture a snapshot from a webpage.
Advanced features allow users to create audio
recordings that are saved into each page,
bookmark notes for quick return access, and
convert an image of text into an editable textbox.
After users creates a note, it is saved automatically
and can be shared as a PDF or jpeg using email,
Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, Camera Roll, or with
another
student sample

23. Evernote
by Evernote
• Evernote is one of the greatest additions to
any middle school student’s iPad.
• Evernote is a service that syncs your notes
across a wide variety of different platforms.
Whatever kind of computer or device you are
using there is certainly a way to get an
Evernote app onto it.
• You can record audio while typing. You can
also add pictures to your note to create a
really rich document.
• All of your notes have location information.
This is incredibly useful in finding notes from a
certain location.
• Currently the limit is around 100 notebooks.
There is no limit on the number of notes you
create.
• The app supports AirPrint and background
audio recording.

24. Skitch
Skitch
Mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and web
pages then share them with anyone you like
- “It is great for annotating pictures, maps, or
screenshots.
Tutorial

25. Discovery
Education
• We have a United Streaming account so students and
teachers at Nipmuc and Miscoe have access to more
than 170,000 standards-aligned digital
resources: instructional videos, skill builders, games,
audio files, images, writing prompts, and encyclopedia
articles.
• Check out the new Common Core destination provides
curriculum, instruction, and assessment resources for
21st century skills.

26. Smithsonian Channel for
iPad
Smithsonian Channel App, students can explore the history of
our planet, life and culture, national heroes, and scientific
advances.
The app includes a rotating selection of full episodes, which
means there is always new free content. The video library also
features more than 1,000 short videos. Students can also test
their knowledge with artiFACT quizzes. The app offers new
quizzes each week.

27. KAHOOT!
• Using a drag and drop tool, educators
create and manage “Kahoots” in the form
of quizzes, surveys or polls related to the
topics they’re teaching; either asking
quick questions to get feedback or
opinion, or more in depth questions for
formative assessment.
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28. KAHOOT!
• 5 MINUTE TUTORIAL
Test PIN 1124
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29. • WeVideo is a video creation tool and again
something that up’s the engagement ante in
classrooms. There is nothing better than
videos to get students involved in classroom
learning and this is where WeVideo scores
over many other tools available on the
market. It enables Project-Based Learning
(PBL) enabling students to collaborate on a
video project and create topical presentations
that showcase their understanding of a
particular subject.
• Creation of videos fosters deep knowledge
about a particular subject, and is one of the
more interactive learning methodologies that
can be used to explore topics in depth.

30. iTunes U
• iTunes U is Apple’s education center.
Featuring a large library of video and
audio podcasts as well as books and
documents created by teachers and
professors across the globe, you are sure
to find something that will help you review
or learn something new. iTunes U also
features a note taking ability to take an
extra step out of your studies and bring
everything into one place.

31. Honorable Mention
• Padlet – online bulletin board/blog –
http://padlet.com/lwernig/miscoepsablog linking images, links
videos. Students can contribute to the wall.
• TouchCast – green screen technology in a free App! –
http://bhshelpdesk.com/2014/05/14/touchcast-the-future-of-the-web/
• Flowboard – Interactive presentation app.
https://flowboard.com/s/118l/10-Quick-Wins-for-STEM-Integration
• TedTalk App -The TED Talk iPad app allows you to search for new
talks, organize playlists and watch your favorite talks on your iPad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11u3vtcpaY
• Haiku Deck is an iPad app that all students and teachers should
have installed on their iPads. Haiku Deck enables anyone to create
beautiful slide presentations. http://blog.haikudeck.com/haiku-deck-tutorial/
• Aurasma - Augmented reality app
http://www.pinterest.com/psdmobileminds/all-about-aurasma/