Middle+School+Apps



=Middle Level students have loved using the iPad! This page provides some information and various apps middle level teachers may use in their classrooms to engage students in the learning process. Here you will find suggested apps, links giving more details and lesson ideas for using these apps in your classroom. =

Please let us know what you think about these apps. Also feel free to suggest some for us to check out and add to this wiki.
 //**Splice**// together HD photos and videos in an amazing way with this **free** app!. Add music tracks from your iPod library, sound effects, transitions, borders, effects, trim video and audio, narrate with your own voice and much more.

Notability ($0.99) is optimized for the new iPad! It powerfully integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording, and organizing so you can take notes your way! Discover the freedom to capture ideas, share insights, and present information in one perfect place on the iPad.



//**ShowMe**// allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. Is' a radically intuitive app that anyone will find extremely easy to use, regardless of age or background.

Fotobabble is a new free app for the iPad that allows students to take photos or upload images and record information about it. Students can make their photos come alive with this app. Additionally, photos and images can be edited and neat features can be added.

ScreenChomp is a quick whiteboard app that's free. Students can work through homework and record information. Photos and images can be uploaded quickly and students can easily share their work with classmates. Lesson Ideas using ScreenChomp

StickPick StickPick ($2.99) is a great tool for teachers. This app provides teachers with an easy system for calling on students and making sure not to miss someone. This app also has features providing teachers with question prompts for students based on learning levels. A variety of questions are available. These are based around Bloom's work.

Zite is a **free** personalized magazine for your iPad that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter every time you use it. Zite delivers all the great news, articles, blogs, and videos you want – and helps you discover new stuff that you'll love. This is a great app to use with students when researching current events, pop culture or other relevant topics being discussed and studied in class.

//**SimpleMind Touch**// is a mapping tool that turns your iPad into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device. Students will find [|SimpleMind] to be a way more fun and exciting way to create a brainstorm instead of using traditional paper and pencil. This app does have its limitations. While background colors of word boxes can be changed, font and shape cannot. Look to the app [|inspiration] for more power to manipulate.





//**Animoto**// helps students create extraordinary videos using photos, video clips, words and music. Choose your images, choose your music, share your video it is that easy. This is a great app to use when students have taken pictures or videos with an iPad and can easily import their images since everything they need is right at their fingertips.