Apps+for+All



Educreations Educreations, a **free** app, turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your photos... Diagram a sports play... Not only can you utilize the white board as such but you can import multiple images into Educreations. You can toggle through them and write on them as you record and pause.

iMovie iMovie is an app ($5.99) everyone should have on their iPad or iPod Touch! This simple, yet powerful, app puts movie making at every students' fingertips. Students can create digital stories, book/movie trailers, PSAs, Newscasts, Weather casts, and much, much more. You are only limited by your imagination.

 Show Me: Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard! ShowMe, a **free** app, allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s a radically intuitive app that anyone will find extremely easy to use, regardless of age or background.

Decibel 10: Decibel 10 turns your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch into a professional sound meter, precisely measures the sound pressure level all around you. This extremely useful and beautiful tool will not only be a great tool for many uses but also bring you a lot of fun.

Pinterest Pinterest is a Virtual Pinboard. It lets you organize and share anything and everything! People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, organize their favorite recipes, and get great ideas for the classroom! You can get great ideas to use in all subject areas, project ideas, and best of all ipad apps and thier uses in the classroom. This is **free**.

Planets Planets is a **free** app that is a 3D guide to the solar system. It shows sun, moon, constellations, planets, etc. Great to use for studying the solar system, especially for visual learners! Accurate view of the planets and the moon!

 Madlibs Madlibs is a great app for kids to practice grammar and vocabulary.

[|Keeper] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Keeper is a safe and secure way to save all your passwords and username, you can back up your information to your computer. This app is **free**!

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Book Retriever- Classroom Library Management App ($0.99) __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This app allows you to scan, level and inventory your entire classroom library as well as giving you leveling data such as Guided Reading Levels, Lexile, Accelerated Reader, Reading Counts, DRA and Reading Recovery. This App can be used to organize all of the books in your library, as well as input your students and allow them to check out and return the books that they are reading. You will never have to worry about a missing book when you know what each student has! You can also wirelessly print labels.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Poetry Creator] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Poetry Creator is a fun app than can be used to inspire creativity in grown ups and kids alike. This is the digital version of poetry magnets! I can imagine using this in the classroom as a pre-writing activity to get students' engaged in writing poetry. Using an Apple TV to project the I-pad to a whiteboard, you could model how to write a poem using found words and then have students create their own. I would also use this app with reluctant writers.

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">FlashToPass __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">A great **free** app for timed math tests.

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Book Creator ($4.99) __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This is a great program for students to create their own books, while uploading their own pictures into their book.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Inspiration Maps Lite <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Inspiration Maps Lite is the free version of Inspiration for Ipad. You can create five maps with this free app. After having used this, I am planning to purchase the paid version of this app. Students can use this to create graphic organizers for projects and writing pieces they are creating. Additionally, teachers can use this to create graphic organizers for their students, and save them to pdf for use in the classroom with groups of students. The paid version of this app provides more templates to use and allows for you to send your created maps to a [|Drop Box] account. The free app doesn't allow this, but will allow you to email yourself a pdf file.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Native American Encyclopedia <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This is a great site to search a variety of Native American tribes. It has photos, famous actors & actresses, in the military, Jim Thorpe, athletes, communities and food.