This is a presentation on iPad apps we use @ RSC

1. iLearn, iCreate, iShare....iPad ...apps
Elyse Gill, Kimberley Hall and Clare Rafferty
E Learning Team @ Ringwood Secondary College

2. • Puppet pals and Sock Puppets – are puppet/movie creation
apps. Students can choose characters and settings and record
their voices while moving the characters around to create a
puppet movie. This could be used to create a story, explain a
concept, re-tell an event or an experiment or for primary student
to show their research findings. You can save your puppet shows
as a movie file and then email them. You could also have
students pair and share or work in groups to share and evaluate
each others' movies – perhaps with a "3,2,1" (3 things I liked, 2
things that could be improved on and 1 thing to add or change).

3. • Photocard - this is an app where students can create postcards
to email to you or anyone! Students can use their own photos,
images from other aps or those already in the program. They
could use this app to tell you about their expectations for your
subject, their thoughts about a topic, their strengths and
weakness etc .. They could also use this to app to explain their
understanding of a concept or as revision material to explain to a
grandparent or friend what they have been doing and what
connections to their learning they have made.

4. • Corkulous – a virtual cork board
where students can organise and
brainstorm thoughts using tools
such as; text, images, web links
and labels. Then they can share
via email or export as an image or
PDF document. Individual boards
can be as long and as wide as the
student desires. Students can
have as many boards as they
want.

5. • 2 Screens - This app allows you to
view the iPad screen through a
projector. You can display the
internet, a whiteboard and also any
documents you have been emailed.

6. • StoryKit and Book Creator - Provides the tools to create a story
book. Students can narrate as well as type text in to create a book
using photos stored on your Photos app. You will need to have
the pictures available on the Photos app to use in the story.
StoryKit also provides a simple drawing tool that can be used to
draw a picture while creating the story.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RSWQkUS4kXk&feature=player_embedded#at=307

8. • Smartnote - electronic notebooks, but more than a
note taking app. Sketch out your idea using drawing
tools, take notes using text or voice record your
thoughts. It also contains a built-in calculator, venn
diagrams, music notes and more. Export as: pdf, html,
email page or save and upload to Dropbox.
• A great basic functionality is that it allows you to open
and edit (highlight, circle, draw over, type in) any PDF
documents.

11. MindMash - a brainstorming and note-taking application. It
allows you to create a page of information that includes:
combining and manipulating text, images and drawings.

12. • Toontastic - Create an
animated story with structure -
use the Story Arc to select a
scene, conflict, challenge,
climax and resoultion.
• Draw your own scenes,
characters or use the collection
included.
• Create your animation by
moving characters around
onscreen and telling your story
through play.

13. Strip designer – this is a comic creation app. With this
app, students can create and then email a comic strip or
strips to anyone. They could use this app to create a
story about a concept or skill, teach someone else how
to do something, create a how to, explain a concept,
show their research, apply their knowledge, design a
solution to problem or pose a question and answer it.

14. SketchBook Express -
An awesome drawing app - you can sketch, add in an image or
text - create a diagram to explain something and add
annotations! you can then save to your photos and use in
another app for a project, story, presentation, revision
materials, etc.

15. Bamboo Paper - provides you with the ability to create
virtual notebooks for your iPad, letting you share your
ideas visually with handwritten notes, sketches or
doodles.
You could:
– map out math and science equations,
-compose music,
-create arts and crafts projects,
-create concept maps,
-plan out ideas for any project,
-make notes from class or while on the go
-create revision materials
-Communicate with charts and graphs, collaborate during
brainstorming sessions, sketch a design while on the go
Share your ideas – send an individual page or an entire
book by e-mail.
Present your thoughts to a group – connect your iPad to a
projector to show off your sketches and ideas to others
during class

16. Turn your iPad into your personal interactive
whiteboard!
- ShowMe 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.
- Voice-record
- Multiple brush colors
- Pause and erase
- Import images
- Unlimited lesson length
- Free to upload to ShowMeApp.com to share
your recordings with your class- Easy
embedding for sharing anywhere.
- Screenchomp and Explain Everything -
very similar functionality, slightly more user-
friendly.

17. Caster free / Quickvoice: allow
you to record your voice and
create a podcast for yourself,
your class or teacher to listen to.
It can be emailed and therefore
shared with the class or teacher.
Use for revision material,
thoughts on an issue, pretending
to create an interview with
someone or the inventor/writer
of something or screen play
about a topic of choice. You
could also just compile
instruction on how to do
something.

18. Create Front Page
News - Create the front page
of a news for any subject.
Add headlines, images and
write articles, then email a
pdf version to anyone.

19. Photo apps
• The students or teacher could choose a photo and think about the
time it was taken, its place in history, get them to think about what
happened in the lead up to the photo being taken?
• What happened after the image was taken?
• Have the students use their senses what do they see, hear, smell,
taste and feel etc
• Students could then break into groups and discuss their image or
create a piece of writing or a recording audio or video of their
ideas.
• You can use this app for creative writing, reflective writing,
historical writing, issues based work, story telling, research etc

20. • The Guardian eyewitness app gives you a
rich photo each day – it showcases the
world’s most distinctive and provocative
photographs, providing a daily, visual
reflection of global events.

21. • Fotopedia Heritage - celebrates the beauty of our world. To get
started click "here", you then will get an image. You can also click
on the globe and get a map which shows you where the images
are from. You can click on the dots to view the images from that
country and if you click on the "i" you can get information about
the image.

22. • Rough Guides World Lens -
This is another rich photography
app. It does take a little while to
download all the photos when
you first download it, but it is
well worthwhile. Click on the line
of squares to see all the images
• Click on this icon to get a world
map identifying where the
images were taken.

23. Rory's Story Cubes - gives students new story starters
at the roll of electronic dice.

24. Sonic Pics Lite - Add titles,
images then voice record a
story or explanation etc,
save and then create and
export your presentation as
a video.
Note: The Lite version which
is free allows you to add 3
images and add 10 minutes
of recording.

25. Mental Case Classroom Edition -
Flashcards PUMPED UP! You can use voice and pictures,not just
words and definitions. Test student knowledge in different ways

26. StoryBoards - Storyboards let's you create your movie's storyboard yourself, without the
need for any drawing ability.
Thanks to the hundreds of characters and props included in the app, you'll be able to
quickly compose the shots of your next movie, through an intuitive and feature-rich touch
interface. The characters and props are located inside the Library. Tap anywhere in a
drawing to open it, or tap the Library button on the right of the toolbar. The free version
lets you create up to 2 storyboards of 10 drawings.

27. gFlash+ - create flashcards and share them with anyone, download
card sets from the gWhiz Catalog, have flashcards with images, foreign
language characters, and customize text. Then you can study a card
set or take a quiz to test your knowledge. Great for revision, reflection,
homework, etc.