This document provides summaries of various apps that can be used for literacy projects on an iPad, including Animoto, Haiku Deck, 30 Hands, Pic Collage, Skitch, Audioboo, Chatterpix, Aurasma, Tellagami, and Book Press. It also mentions drawing apps like Hello Crayons, coding apps like Tynker, and provides some example project ideas from Pinterest like creating an alphabet with letter photos. The apps can be used for projects involving photos, videos, drawings, and narration on topics like insects, students, books, and vocabulary words.

1. APPS FOR LITERACY
PROJECTS
Summer 2014

2. ANIMOTO(FREE)
• Slideshow set to music
• Uses images, video clips or a combination of the two
• Creates a movie with music and cool effects
• Movies can be saved to camera roll or uploaded to animoto site
• Example:
http://animoto.com/play/HmVmEdvU01OxU8QmCK4IWA
• Ideas for classroom use- take pics of kids holding up posters
of work or notecards; have kids add text to photos in
photo2text app for research project

3. HAIKU DECK (FREE)
• Presentation maker
• Has a library of pics in the app
• Can import from library or create drawings in the app
• Export finished presentations as PowerPoints, keynotes or into
other apps
• Use for research projects, to publish student writing or poetry
• Example: https://www.haikudeck.com/jerboas-education-
presentation-dkyrrAApTI#slide-8

4. 30 HANDS (FREE)
• Digital story telling app
• Take pics or import from camera roll
• Students narrate on each slide
• Ideas for use: have students draw pictures on paper of what they learned and take
photo of each drawing, import into app and have each student tell about their work
to make a class presention
• Take photo of students and have them narrate on their slide- telling about their
favorite part of the assignment, etc.
• Students can illustrate and narrate original writing or poetry

5. PIC COLLAGE
• Create a photo collage with your pictures or student drawings
• Create digital posters
• Add text, backgrounds, videos, photos from camera roll or web
• Save to ipad or print by emailing to yourself
• Can be imported in Animoto, Haiku Deck, or 30 Hands to make a presentation
of the class’s posters (one made by each student)
• Ideas: reports, vocabulary (each student makes a poster for a word, then
compile for class book or presentation), students can illustrate poems

6. PIC COLLAGE EXAMPLES

7. SKITCH (FREE)
• Picture note-taking/labeling app
• Example project idea (from Pinterest):
• Take 3 or more pictures of insects
• Insert pictures into Skitch
• Label at least 2 parts of the insect
• Load pics into 30 Hands.
• Type at least one sentence for each picture.
• Record audio of the sentences you typed.

8. AUDIOBOO (FREE)
• Easy way to publish audio files to the web.
• Access online from computer and within app
• Create QR codes online to link audio files to student work. The students can scan
the QR with the Scan app and listen to each other on headphones.
• Directions for adding QR Codes
https://sites.google.com/site/ipadmultimediatools/creating-a-qr-code-listening-gallery

9. CHATTERPIX (FREE)
• Create talking pictures by drawing a mouth on a photo and recording audio.
• Ideas for use:
• Bring student artwork to life
• Talking biographies
• Main character retell book reports
• Example
• http://mspanasays.com/aurasma-and-chatterpix-a-fun-way-to-bring-photos-to-life/

10. AURASMA
• Augmented reality app
• Link videos to photos so the photo comes alive when scanned using the app.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBKy-hSedg8
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHIxYpBW7sc
• Ideas for use: Student reflections, Biography reports, homework help, “digital
hallway” display

11. TELLAGAMI (FREE; MORE OPTIONS IN EDU PACK)
• Create a character, load a background, and record audio for the character to say.
• Text to speech option in EDU version
• Use for assessments (tell what you know about ______), book reports, presentations,
poetry, original writing
• See education example on this link https://tellagami.com/examples/
• Teachers Pay Teachers Tellagami project (free)
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Story-Elements-Tellagami-iPad-
Project-PowerPoint-Presentation-1294258

12. BOOK PRESS
• Awesome FREE book creator.
• Created books will be stored in bookshelf for future reading.
• 20 pages of text
• Add pictures, text, and backgrounds
• Online version = bookemon.com some example books http://www.bookemon.com/

13. DRAWING APPS
• Hello crayons
• Wow paint
• Doodle buddy
• You doodle

14. COMPUTER PROGRAMING APPS
• Coding or computer programing is an important 21st century skill. It is also a STEM
skill.
• Tynker- a lot of features – including the ability to add classes and projects. It
includes a basic curriculum for elementary that already has lesson plans with
projects.
• Daisy the Dinosaur

15. SOME PINTEREST IDEAS
• Create a Tic Tac Toe board for students to choose apps while using iPad cart
• Use Wordfoto app to create an “All About Me” poster in the beginning of the year
using students’ top ten favorites. Or use for a book character in a book report or a
bibliography.

16. MORE FROM PINTEREST
• Letter photography to make alphabet, teacher’s name, student’s name. Each
student is assigned a letter to photograph using the iPad.
• Create your own app

17. MORE…
All about my friend “Getting to Know You” activity. Use one of the
other presentation apps instead of Keynote