This document provides a summary of various free iPad apps that can be used for educational purposes, including Doodle Buddy for drawing, writing and practicing math facts; Educreations for creating video tutorials; Chirp for sharing information between iPads; Pic Collage for creating collages and visual journals; and Tellagami for creating animated videos. It also discusses apps like Story Creator for creating digital storybooks, Sock Puppets for creating puppet shows, Haiku Deck for creating presentations, and i-nigma for using QR codes. The document emphasizes choosing apps that focus on content over the app itself and following up with student reflections.

1. Texas Association of
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Diana Benner
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3. To learn about and share various
apps, their cost, and instructional
use
Objectives

4. Resources
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5. iPad Apps

6. Doodle Buddy
A must-have app for any grade, Doodle Buddy is a simple drawing
app that you can use in so many different ways.
• Draw, write, virtually finger paint, and even stamp pictures onto
fun backgrounds
•Practice math facts
•Create digital art
•Write sight words
•And more
Cost: Free
Site: http://goo.gl/GDeh6G

7. Educreations
Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard.
•Create a great video tutorial by simply touching, tapping and
talking.
•Explain a math formula
•Create an animated lesson
•Add commentary to your photos
•Diagram a sports play
Cost: Free
Site: http://goo.gl/PuZIU

8. Chirp
This app chirps text, pictures and websites that other iPads
in listening distance can receive. It makes sharing
information easy.
•Use Chirp to share links, notes or photos with students
and/or teachers
•Use Chirp to share pictures of new
vocabulary words
Cost: Free
Site: http://goo.gl/4tB7h7

9. Pic Collage
PicCollage lets you instantly arrange your photos into frames or
get creative with freefrom collages,cutouts, filters, borders,
stickers, and text.
•Use for writing prompts
•Develop pictorial journals
•Assess knowledge of events
•Can be applied to any learning experience
Cost: Free
Site: http://goo.gl/OcVZf

10. Tellagami
A mobile app that lets you create and share a quick animated video
called a Gami
•Upload pictures of your library and use them as backgrounds to
animate a virtual tour that you can add to your web site
•Animate book reviews that you can share in your library
Cost: Free
Site: http://goo.gl/flzSS

11. Tellagami Book Review
http://youtu.be/TtNXckafdFg

12. The Readbox & Tellagami
http://youtu.be/QSMiEUkSVBs

13. Story Creator
With Story Creator, students can easily create beautiful story books
containing photos, videos, text, and audio all in one collection.
•Students can create short stories about real events that they’ve
observed and/or photographed with their iPads
•Story telling stimulates a deep thinking, creativity and basic
literacies.
• It also enhances and enriches the learning
experience for student voices
Cost: Free
Site: http://goo.gl/agga2D

14. Sock Puppets
Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos.
Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start
creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically
lip-synch to your voice.
•Puppet shows that review vocabulary, model behavior, relate
history or science facts, express their feelings, or simply
retells a story can be created
•Helps children develop language skills,
imagination, and problem solving
Cost: Free
Site: http://goo.gl/epnp6X

15. Haiku Deck
Haiku Deck is the simple and fun way to create stunning
presentations – whether you’re pitching an idea, teaching a lesson,
telling a story, or igniting a movement.
•Present facts
•Share ideas
•Explore connections between words and images
•Tell visual stories
•Illustrate processes
Cost: Free
Site: http://goo.gl/Ed20PX

16. i-nigma
An exceptionally quick and robust barcode reader
•Use QR codes to create book trailers . . . create scavenger hunts .
. . embed author information and website . . . Share your library
website . . . Guide students to curated materials
Cost: Free
Site: http://goo.gl/iVuXJq

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

19. • 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
Remember

20. Resources
http://goo.gl/PBhICS

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