A Classroom with Student iPads
Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad and Mac. Start with one of the Apple-designed templates that feature a wide variety of page layouts. Add your own text and images with drag-and-drop ease. Use Multi-Touch widgets to include interactive photo galleries, movies, Keynote presentations, 3D objects, and more. Preview your book on your iPad or Mac at any time. Then submit your finished work to the iBooks Store in a few simple steps. And before you know it, you’re a published author.
Cost: $0 (Mac software) Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks-author/id490152466?mt=12
Cost: $0 (Mac software) Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks-author/id490152466?mt=12
Create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBooks Store. Try it free to create your first book (with in-app purchase for unlimited books). FEATURES: choose from portrait, landscape or square book sizes; quickly add pictures from the Photos app, or grab them from the web; edit text; import video and music and record speech within the app; draw and write in your books with the freehand pen tools; layout your book exactly as you want it with guidelines and snap positioning.
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator-free/id661166101?mt=8
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator-free/id661166101?mt=8
The Nearpod platform enables teachers to use their iPads to manage content on students' iPads, iPhones or iPods. It combines presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution. Nearpod is a synchronous solution for the use of iPads, iPods and iPhones in the classroom. To try Nearpod, you will need one iPad and at least one other device (iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch), both running Nearpod. All devices should be connected to the Internet. Nearpod allows teachers to: create content, engage, and assess.
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nearpod/id523540409?mt=8
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nearpod/id523540409?mt=8
Socrative brings smart clickers, student response and ease of use to a whole new level. Engage the entire classroom with educational exercises and games while capturing student results in real-time. Interact with the data to further student understanding in the moment, and review the reports to prepare for future classes. Socrative will even aggregate and grade your pre-made activities! Saving you time, so you can engage more with your students on an individual level. Not a 1:1 school? That’s okay! Have students bring their own devices and join in the learning!
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teacher-clicker-socrative/id477620120?mt=8
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teacher-clicker-socrative/id477620120?mt=8
iMovie puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips, with a beautifully streamlined interface and Multi-Touch gestures that let you enjoy your videos like never before. Browse your video library, quickly share favorite moments, and create beautiful HD movies and Hollywood-style trailers. And with iCloud, you can enjoy them in iMovie Theater on all your devices. Make Hollywood-style trailers from 14 trailer templates.
Create beautiful HD movies: choose from eight unique themes; add videos and photos; enhance your movie with slow motion, fast forward, picture-in-picture, and split-screen effects; create a soundtrack using built-in music and sound effects; and fine-tune your soundtrack with powerful audio controls including trim, split, duplicate, and fade.
Cost: $0 with new device or $4.99 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imovie/id377298193?mt=8
Create beautiful HD movies: choose from eight unique themes; add videos and photos; enhance your movie with slow motion, fast forward, picture-in-picture, and split-screen effects; create a soundtrack using built-in music and sound effects; and fine-tune your soundtrack with powerful audio controls including trim, split, duplicate, and fade.
Cost: $0 with new device or $4.99 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imovie/id377298193?mt=8
Video and the web are coming together. Experience both like never before with TouchCast: a new medium that looks like video, but feels more like the web.A TouchCast is a video that is fully browsable, responsive, and alive. Webpages, images, and an assembly of video Apps (vApps) can be tapped for a two-way video experience.It's a TV studio in your hands. Create broadcast-quality videos with a built-in teleprompter, green screen, visual filters, sound effects, and titles. Watch TouchCasts from the app or online at TouchCast.com.
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchcast/id603258418?mt=8
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchcast/id603258418?mt=8
Create amazing green screen and blue screen shots on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Use our Real-time keyed to preview your shots. Place any image on the background from your Photo Library. Lock the white balance, exposure, and focus with our camera controls. Record your green screen shot at a higher bit rate than the default camera app. Select a picture from your Photo Library. Set the color of your background with the hue slider. Press the "Magic" button and Veescope Live will give you the perfect key.
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/veescope-live/id568390801?mt=8
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/veescope-live/id568390801?mt=8
Aurasma is an augmented reality app that’s changing the way millions of people see and interact with the world. Bring tagged images, objects and even physical locations to life with interactive digital content, such as video, animations and 3D scenes, we call Auras. Use the simple tools within the app to create your own Auras and share them with friends and other Aurasma users. Create Auras by choosing from thousands of digital animations already on the platform or alternatively use your own photos and videos. You can augment text books and work on projects in education.
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aurasma/id432526396?mt=8
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aurasma/id432526396?mt=8
Animation Creator HD Lite allows your creativity to come to life on your iPad! You are the director! With simple, yet powerful drawing tools, shake to undo, color palettes, color sliders, and easy to use frame management. The app has a lot of feature: gallery of other creations, audio, easy-to-use interface, smooth drawing, full screen editing, layers, drawing and shape tools, frame tools.
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/app/animation-creator-hd-lite/id380381736?mt=8
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/app/animation-creator-hd-lite/id380381736?mt=8
Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time! Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later. FEATURES: create an actor from a photo, use a photo as a backdrop for your storytelling, zoom and rotate your characters using two fingers, flip them around with a double tap, use a wide variety of creative characters to download.
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puppet-pals-hd/id342076546?mt=8
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puppet-pals-hd/id342076546?mt=8
Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice. Friends can work together with multiple puppets and create hilarious conversations. While recording, simply tap a puppet and that puppet will lip-synch, tap a different puppet and switch auto lip-synching to it. Switch backgrounds to take your puppets to different places, move the puppets, props and scenery to animate them while recording. Cartoon and photo realistic puppets are included.
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sock-puppets/id394504903?mt=8
Cost: $0 Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sock-puppets/id394504903?mt=8