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Haiku Deck for creating presentations. Very user friendly.

Wonderopolis~non fiction, digital text, read aloud option, student choice

Biblionasaium~kid friendly "Goodreads" where students can keep track of their reading and recommend titles to friends. Teachers can add challenges and recommendations as well.

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Idoceo is my choice - not difficult to tie in with whole school data systems.

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I also really like iMovie for its simplicity and the ability to chronicle my classroom through my eyes and my students.

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iMovie for iOS and iMovie for macOS make it easy to turn your photos and video clips into stunning movies or trailers and share them with the world.

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I like NearPod to create an interactive learning environment in an an iPad based one-one classroom. The ability to create guided classroom presentations as well as self-paced curriculum through the iPad is marvelous. Built in assessment, drawing tool, surveys, to create a interactive lesson.

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Edmodo

Educreations- love having students explain their mathematical thinking and then share with the class

Prezi- hands down my favorite tool for students to create presentations- multiple students can edit the Prezi at a time, cutting down on students "checking out" while other group members are working

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IMovie is great for getting students to make high quality movie trailers based on the lesson topic. I create topic folders on Frogdrive to cut down on the time searching for images. I have also used it myself to make trailers for Options evenings.

Classdojo is not technically an app but I have found it a useful behavior management tool with some classes. Students enjoy changing their avatar and really get into earning points.

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I often use Socrative as a starting quiz which students can do at home (flip) or at the start of the class. I'll use Mentimeter to collect the different ideas

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I didn't see NearPod on the list. Great app for leading lecture, collaboration, and assessment.

Lots of nods for Explain Everything, but I also enjoy Educreations since it is free.

Edmodo is also awesome so I can access my digital classroom.

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Quite a few of my favourites have already been mentioned.

Explain Everything, Book Creator, Skitch etc

However here are some other apps that I find useful for a range of purposes...

Numbers is great for organising formative assessment checklists and observations. Use the forms feature for easy data insertion for a student.

Laminar Pro enables editing and formatting of photos and drawings. It's the only means I know of to easily mask an image and remove background with magic wand. Images can be converted and saved as png format.

Adobe Reader is my preferred choice for organising, marking PDF files.

Pulse, Diigo, and many more make my work more productive and creative. Quite often the really exciting results are due to the way different apps are used in combination.

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@educreations - to share information, ideas, LESSONS. Easy to use, the lesson link can be copied directly from the application (you don't have to send the file to dropbox in order to copy the link), that saves you time. I'll give it 4 stars.

@edmodo - helps teachers and students get connected. It can be used as a virtual learning environment. You can do more than you do in classroom. I'll give it 4 stars.

@explainevrythng Explain Everything - is a design tool. You can make animated presentations adding text, pictures, videos. I'll give it 3 stars as it takes to long to export the projects. The complex the project, the longer the export.

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@explainevrythng 4 screen casting ideas! - Easy to use and a great way for students to explain their understanding about a topic or problem

@skitch 4 drawing & writing on photos - Great way to to easily take a photo and make notes over the top of the image - Great for labeling and mapping

@PicCollage 4 compiling images & presenting - A beautiful app for presenting images and so easy to use.

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We use popplet a lot for planning purposes as you can move the boxes easily, link them in any order and input pictures.

I would also say infuse learning for AfL, sharing writing, annotating pictures, quick responses to share or save

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Puppet pals- make short films for students containing important a info they have to extract, give instructions, or get them to write scripts which are then recorded.i use my iphone and drop box to pc.if we had iPads they could record and create their own.

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Ebook creation the workflow for me has to be Book Creator (WOW) Skitch, iDraw for iPad and Morfo produced some great eBooks - not published yet but soon coming.

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Keynote is the biggie for sure I absolutely love it and would be a less effective teacher without it.

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We use and love Creative book builder for our digital portfolios. Can be used in conjunction with many apps already mentioned and the students can add as they learn. Best of all we can then showcase them as Epubs on iBooks.

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Not very glamourous, but for me Google Drive is a life saver and so very adaptable. Enables students to write effectively, share docs and in a Google Apps school really helps with document management.

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All the apps mentioned here are great and I really like the apps that support peer collaboration and creativity: Explain Everything, iMovie, Keynote, Pages and Bookcreator. But it's the apps that allow you to make sense of the possibilities these other apps have that are vital in an education setting.

For example, iTunes U. iTunes U is so simple to use; it allows you to share your lessons and SOWs not just with your students, but with all the stakeholders in your learning community - namely, parents! In secondary school parents often feel excluded from their child's learning. But by opening up the classroom and flipping the learning, the ownership of the learning process is right where it should be, with students and their families. It also makes the learning 3D: it's not just a worksheet, it's a self assessment quiz in an iBook or a link to an app that you can do something in; it's not just a teacher talking, it's  an annotated webinar that is specific to your course; it's not just a video, it's a resource you're  taking in and making relevant to you because the notes you take are linked with that video, and you can watch it again and again when and where the time is right for you.

Edmodo too increases the learning dialogue I have with students and that they have with each other. I'm an English teacher, so I often ask students to write their responses straight onto their classes wall. Then, they peer assess a selection of work and I mediate where necessary. It's the type of learning and collaboration that wouldn't have been possible before iPads.

Apps like iTunes U and Edmodo support my belief that learning is a socially constructed process. Often the biggest criticism of iPads in the classroom is that students enter their own little computer world. That simply isn't true. We're talking about learning more than ever before!

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Puppet Pals Directors Pass is an awesome animation app allowing students to create digital stories use backgrounds and characters in the app or bring in their own images to use as backgrounds and cut and create their own characters. they can create and record their animation using up to three backgrounds, record both voice and movement of the characters. creating animations is easy and the movie can be saved to the camera roll for easy of sharing. Students can interview anyone, report on something explain anything, perform, create a digital story ...possibilities are endless.Great app with free content and then pay for extra characters. Worth the

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My Script Calculator (Free) is brilliant for basic calculations right up to some quite complex trigonometry.

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Pocket phonics is great

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My Favorite iPad App has to be iMovie. For $6 you get such a fantastic editing tool that allows you to bring together all of the video creations that can be made in other apps and saved to camera roll together.

...and purchase it for your iPad and you can add it to your iPhone or iPod Touch and do the same theings.

Must Have!

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Strip Designer - very flexible for building stories, the sticker function lets you paste in photos and cut them out so students are able to put themselves into entirely fictional situations. You can add text and speech bubbles etc + comic layouts. Costs, but not much. All sorts of uses in the curriculum.

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Upad a paid app but great for note taking. You can zoom in so that your handwriting is still pretty legible. You can also import PDFs and photos to annotate and then export I to Evernote, dropbox, email etc etc.

Use it in conjunction with a Luntatik pen and life is sweet!

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I really love using my lunatik pen! I know it's not an app but when I use it in conjunction with Upad I can physically get rid of my pen and paper. For someone who is more addicted to stationery than she is her gadgets, this really is saying something

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Explain Everything has replace my IWB software. So versatile and easy to use with the added bonus of being able to record your presentations.

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Doceri is my current favourite for embedding formative assessment and creating revision resources, Aurasma has the potential to be great as well.

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TweetCaster is my favorite app for use with Adult ESL students. It allows me to have various accounts open at the same time to inform my students about their classes. I post reminders, homework assignments, classroom review notes, etc.

I also like using Google Drive. Students can collaborate on a document, spreadsheet or presentation from their iphone, ipad or android phone

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I love using Evernote and Skitch, an Evernote product.  Evernote is efficient for taking and recording notes in meetings and allows editing of text and emailing.  Skitch allows you to import and mark up images, documents, or just draw from scratch.  A wonderful and versatile language learning tool for language production and collaboration.

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Maybe it's the googly-eyes, but my 6-yr-old loves Stack the States and is learning factoids, state capitals, and the shapes and sizes of U.S. states. For iPhone and iPad.

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I love Tag Cloud - a Wordle for iPad. Easy to use, and produces decent results too.

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I do agree with MARK about Keynote but as he has said that

that I will go for TWO.

First - Board Cam as it turns your iPad into a visualizer for

approx £1.69

Second - Reflector software. Not an app for iPad but with

Board Cam you get mobile visualizer for showing and using

student work in lessons!

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Lots of my favorites here but would like to include InfuseLearning.

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For Music teachers my favourite is irealB.

Students create chord sequences which they then improvise over.

One of a number of must have music apps.

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Lots of my favourites added already.

Haven't spotted Socrative though. Love it.

Students use their own phones or iPads

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I love TooNoisy. I use it all the time when doing group work to remind the children about their noise levels.

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Comic

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My primary aged children love using the Planets app in science as they can easily learn various facts about our solar system.

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I love PuppetPals! My students use it to create their own presentations on everything. I also really like Aurasma. We have an augmented reality board in the hallway that parents can scan to see pics/videos of what we are working on in class.

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Readability - turns any Web page into a clean view for reading now or later on your computer, iOS or Android device

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I really like Evernote due to the way I do not lose notes any more while assessing the children. The children adore iMovie as it allows them to make films quickly and simply.

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Note Anytime gets my vote for note taking etc, brilliant feature packed and free. Have been using it in class lots to write on snaps of past exam papers

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Favourite of the moment is Clicker Sentences. Doesn't let literacy difficulties stop a child from writing!

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National Geographic World Atlas

works great in classroom.

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got to be Google drive to mix it up. Because sometimes collaboration needs to be multiplatform and do it in a more traditional way.

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iMotionHD for stop frame, any QR reader, Aurasma for wow, Dropbox for sharing-looking into Skitch

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Scribblenauts , fun, creative ways to enhance vocabulary capacity.

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My favourite is BookCreator - not just for telling stories, but for documenting

learning journeys, keeping notes and much more! love that you can now add

URLs and merge books too which make collaborative books easier!

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For analysis/discussion of a text and versatile collaborations among teacher and students, I vote for Google Drive App. The power of this app, of course, is realized to the full when used with AirPlay.

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I love iMovie and Book creator. They allow students to be creative and show their learning! Link to similar wall I made here.

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I've had a lot of fun with my classes using Half Tone. Then exporting the images into video.

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I'd also go for Explain Everything but  will vote for Notability for superb annotating possibilities. Secondary vote for TED though - inspirational.

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I'd probably go for Explain Everything - but since

it has already been taken I'll plump for iTunes U.

When combined with iTunes U Course Manager

(to make your own courses) it is seriously powerful!

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I'd have to go for Explain Everything. A versatile interactive whiteboard with verbal annotation alongside resource creation. Love it

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Paperport Notes - speech-to-text synthesizer is fab for students who struggle with writing; allows handwriting, text, images; exports to mult places.

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Safari! (Almost) all the world's knowledge
on a 10" screen. Who could ask for more?
Also like the reader and sharing built in,
and icloud sync is nice too.

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Mark put me on to Grafio, again a paid app but really useful for making resources, looks really impressive

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I really like penultimate - part of evernote which is also a favourite across platform note app - but evernote smooths out the edges of your notes and save to the cloud, incorporates richer media. And recently has become a free app!

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My favourite for pure ease of use is Edmodo, great for linking to all my groups and getting communication going, also a central hub to gather work and resources.

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Draw, paint, sketch is a great paid app that transforms the iPad into a drawing pallet. Very nice! http://bit.ly/XdV4qD

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My favourite is Doceri because it enables me

to record in class while explaining a maths problem.

Afterwards the students are able to review the lesson at home.

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For editing audio, I'd recommend Hokusai Audio Editor if you're looking for a free app or Recorder Plus + HD for lovely smooth editing and export options too.

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I like Voice Record Pro for creating mp3 files for free, being able to trim them and for the variety of quality setting and export options.

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I just needed to be able to record language words to try to improve, but I wanted to be able to trim and equalize them so they would sound okay. This app allows that! Lots of editing capability. And they say it has iTunes sharing! My main reasons for buying this app were: the iTunes File Sharing, the ability to buy (rather than subscribe), and the quality. I bought it, and so far, so good! Seems perfect!

Oh, and I just found out that in the lovely list of activities that you can perform, you can rearrange them so that the things you need are at the top, in the order you want. Just slide 'em up or down - very cool! So nice to find an app that is so fully featured, and doesn't make you guess what it can do! It's wonderful and fast to have the list (with actual words). No guesswork, you don't have to be psychic - just go to work, and do it well. Rare to be able to do so much, so well, in an iOS app!!!

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Book creator for iPad, amazing how inspiring student creating their own books

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I also use wallwisher a lot- frustrating

that it doesn't work in opera though.

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Love using Awesome Note for organising kids work files.

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And, just for fun, my Y8s loved the fairies in my classroom when studying A Midsummer Night's Dream, using Aurasma.

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At the moment, for sheer coolness, I’d go for Aurasma. I have been filming kids talking about their sketchbooks and linking it to their final paintings. They look absolutely dumbfounded when they see their artwork come to life!

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String app is really cool for creative writing prompts.

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Not very flashy, but Dictionary/Thesaurus app is brilliant for stretching vocabulary.

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Comic Life - pupils use to show understanding of narrative in English. Or present visual understanding of character with quotations to support.

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explain everything has been a big hit across curriculum.

Pow Socrative Skitch idea sketch

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My favourite app has to be Keynote - I say this because it's the app I find myself using the most. I know it's paid for, but it is so handy to me as an Educator. What's yours?

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