This document provides an overview of creative iPad apps that can be used across different classes to teach students to think creatively, critically, and playfully. It lists apps for digital storytelling, video, photography, audio, screen casting, comic strips, animation, and e-books. The document encourages combining or "appsmashing" different apps to create new projects. It emphasizes using the iPad as a digital toolbox and planning with learning goals in mind. Resources and sources for further information are also provided.

1. iPad Creative Apps -
Applicable to all Classes!

2. Classrooms of the future
teach how to think
creatively, critically, and
playfully

3. Technology Goal:
To change learning in ways
that were previously
impossible
The iPad is just a technology tool

4. SAMR Model

5. The iPad is a digital toolbox

6. • Digital Storytelling
• Video
• Photography
• Audio
Apps for…

7. • Screen Casting
• Comic Strips
• Animation
• e-Books
Digital Storytelling

8. { {
Explain Everything
$2.99
Educreations free
Screencasting Apps

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Comic Life $4.99
Comic Strips

11. { {Animation Creator HD $2.99 Animation Studio $4.99
Animation
ACHD express
(free for 3 animations)

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e-Book creators
Book Creator for iPad $4.99

13. { {iMovie $4.99 Silent Film $0.99
Video

15. Photography Projects

16. Photography Apps
Pic Collage free
Photogene $2.99

17. Audio apps
GarageBand $4.99
Audioboo free

18. Combinations - or
AppSmashing
Students instinctively do this even in 6th grade.
• Create drawings and photos and import into another app like
comics or book creator.
• Take photos of labs or field work, import to Explain Everything,
annotate, add movement, add research.
• Edit photos with filters appropriate for a historical theme.
Import to iMovie.
• Create collages and explain each in a screencasting app.
• Write poetry, take a pic, embellish the page and record a
reading. Unusual Combination by Karamello

19. { Still my favorite app site
Begin with learning goals
iPad as…

20. { {Diigo: searchable by keyword
https://www.diigo.com/
user/eresnick
Elizabethresnick.com
Twitter: @eliznick
Pinterest: eresnicktech
My Resources

21. http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/
http://appitic.com/index.php/webcasts/karen-
bosch-creative-app-titudes
http://www.mistreamnet.com/vidflv.php?
who=milearn.yourownwords.012913
http://www.mistreamnet.com/vidflv.php?
who=milearn.yourownwords.012913
http://edtechteacher.org/index.php/teaching-
technology/mobile-technology-apps
Sources