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| Learning Objective | Price | Grade Level | Ease of Use | Description of App | Links to where to get the App |
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| Adobe Photoshop Express | |||||
| Create and Edit Images | Free | 5-8, 9-12 | Medium | Consider Photoshop Express to be a streamlined version of the desktop program. Add effects and edit images. There are in-app purchases for additional effects. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331975235?mt=8 |
| Adobe Spark Page | |||||
| Create Digital Stories | Free | K-4, 5-8, 9-12 | Medium | Adobe Spark Video allows students to create scrolling web pages. In 2018, Adobe Spark created an educational environment for students and teachers. While students can use Adobe Spark (students 13+), the free Adobe Spark for Education is better suited for schools and districts and is the recommended deployment forstudent use. Completed stories can be saved to the Camera or published to the Adobe cloud. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-voice-show-your-story/id852555131?mt=8 |
| Adobe Spark Video | |||||
| Create Digital Stories | Free | K-4, 5-8, 9-12 | Medium | Adobe Spark Video allows students to quickly narrate stories with audio, pictures, text, and music. The app includes story-starters to help guide students think through their scripts and features a built-in search engine of images and icons. In 2018, Adobe Spark created an educational environment for students and teachers. While students can use Adobe Spark (students 13+), the free Adobe Spark for Education is better suited for schools and districts and is the recommended deployment forstudent use. Completed stories can be saved to the Camera or published to the Adobe cloud. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-voice-show-your-story/id852555131?mt=8 |
| Adobe Voice | |||||
| Learn a Language | Free | 5-8, 9-12 | Easy | Adobe Voice allows students to quickly narrate stories with audio, pictures, text, and music. The app includes story-starters to help guide students think through their scripts and features a built-in search engine of images and icons. The Adobe Voice terms of service are excellent for educators and encourage class accounts for students under 13. Completed stories can be saved to the Camera or published to the Adobe cloud. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-voice-show-your-story/id852555131?mt=8 |
| AirServer Universal | |||||
| Mirror Device to Screen | $14.99 | K-4, 5-8, 9-12 | Easy | While not an iPad app, AirServer allows an iPad - or multiple iPads - to be mirrored to a Mac or Windows computer. Using AirPlay on iPad, when a computer on the same wireless network is running AirServer, the iPad image can be wirelessly mirrored to the screen and then projected via an LCD projector in a classroom. This solution technically does not allow an iPad to control a computer, but it allows a teacher to be mobile in a classroom and have any iPad projected for the entire class. | http://www.airserver.com/ |
| Amazon Kindle | |||||
| Read and Consume Content | Free | 5-8, 9-12 | Easy | Carry all of your eBooks with the Amazon Kindle app for iPad. Ebooks purchased on Amazon will automatically be downloaded to your app. Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime members can select and download eBooks directly in the app. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-kindle/id302584613 |
| Taking Notes and Improve Organization | Free | 5-8, 9-12 | Easy | Carry all of your eBooks with the Amazon Kindle app for iPad. Ebooks purchased on Amazon will automatically be downloaded to your app. Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime members can select and download eBooks directly in the app. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-kindle/id302584613 |
| Anchor | |||||
| Record and Edit Audio | Free | 9-12 | Medium | Anchor is a audio recording and editing app that extends audio creation beyond the classroom. Anchor is a full fledged podcasting tool that allows teachers, classrooms and students to create, publish and distribute a podcast to Apple Podcasts, Google, Spotify and many more. With a built in podcast episode builder that includes the ability to record, import audio files, add sound effects and transitions, a podcast can be created from start to finish with Anchor. Note that the mobile app for Anchor also syncs with the web version which allows students to begin creation on a mobile device and continue on the web. | https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1056182234?mt=8 |
| Any.do | |||||
| Taking Notes and Improve Organization | Free | 5-8 | Easy | This App allows students and teachers to organize themselves with the creation of to do lists that can include notes, messages, and attachments. With both list and calendar views, integration with Gmail, and the ability to set reminders, Any.DO is a great organizational tool. Students can login with their Google account and have their to-do lists follow them across devices. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/any-do-to-do-list-calendar/id497328576?mt=8 |
| Apple Books | |||||
| Read and Consume Content | Free | K-4, 5-8, 9-12 | Easy | Apple’s native eBook reader has the ability to become an audio book through either Speak Selection or Speak Screen. Once turned on in the Accessibility settings of the device, students can select words, sentences, or full pages to be read aloud. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8 |
| Apple Classroom | |||||
| Connect Classroom Devices | Free | K-4, 5-8, 9-12 | Medium | Classroom equips teachers with the ability to connnect their iPad to student iPads creating a live connected environment in which teachers can guide instruction through a lesson, view student screens as they are working, and lock student devices into a desired app to focus their attention. Classroom assists teachers to work in partnership with students as they are using devices to motivate, engage, and elevate the teaching and learning experience. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/classroom/id1085319084?mt=8 |
| Apple TV | |||||
| Mirror Device to Screen | $99 | K-4, 5-8, 9-12 | Easy | With Apple TV, a computer is not needed to wirelessly mirror and project an iPad or MacBook in a classroom. By connecting Apple TV to an LCD projector with an HDMI cable, and having both the device(s) and Apple TV on the same wireless network, teachers can project through the AppleTV using the AirPlay feature. It is important to note that AirPlay is only available on an iPad2 or higher, and that in a classroom full of iPads, anyone can take over the mirrored image being projected through the Apple TV unless a password has been set. | http://www.apple.com/appletv/ |
| AR Makr | |||||
| Have a Virtual Experience | Free | 5-8, 9-12 | Medium | AR MAKR is a tool for creating in Augmented reality. Create 2D and 3D objects then place them in your environment. You can then record, or share the scenes you create. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ar-makr/id1434081130?mt=8 |
| ArtStudio | |||||
| Create and Edit Images | $4.99 | 9-12 | Medium | Art Studio offers many advanced drawing features. Select from a number of different drawing styles, colors, sizes and opacity. Up to six layers can also be added within one image. This image editing app is likely geared towards the advanced, high school user. Exporting features include email, camera roll, and copy to the clipboard. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/artstudio-draw-paint-filters/id354818333?mt=8 |
| Audible | |||||
| Read and Consume Content | 14.95 month | 5-8, 9-12 | Easy | Download books and easily listen to them on the go. Either purchase one book or get a subscription - great for school libraries. Audible has one of the best selections of audio books. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audiobooks-from-audible/id379693831?mt=8 |
| Audio Books | |||||
| Read and Consume Content | $1.99 | 5-8, 9-12 | Easy | With a $1.99 cent purchase, gain access to over 5,200 classic audio books. It includes the ability to play in the background, so students could read text versions simultaneously in iBooks. This is a real voice, and not a computer generated one, that can be played, paused, and rewound to support comprehension. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-audiobooks-4-728-classics/id352615816?mt=8 |
| AudioBooks | |||||
| Read and Consume Content | Free | 5-8, 9-12 | Easy | Over 5,000 public domain works are available for students to listen to through the app or your Apple watch. Audio books are streamed directly within the app and can be downloaded to an in app library as well. Since, the audio book will play when running in the background, students can take notes in another app while listening. Additional titles are available for purchase. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audiobooks/id311507490?mt=8 |
| Book Creator | |||||
| Learn a Language | 4.99 | 5-8, 9-12 | Easy | While Book Creator is designed to created multimedia digital books on the iPad, the app also allows for books to be exported in video form. Students can now build a video within the app that can include images, audio and video that can be exported to the camera roll for future use. If video is included on any page of the book, it will play back in the final video as "picture in picture" video footage. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator-for-ipad-create/id442378070?mt=8 |
| Create Digital Stories | $4.99 | K-4, 5-8, 9-12 | Easy | One of the best apps to create ePubs on iPad, Book Creator allows students and teachers to create and curate custom books by adding text, recording audio, drawing pictures, and inserting photos as well as videos. Once created, books can be exported as PDFs, videos, or ePubs to DropBox, Evernote, Drive, and iBooks. It is also possible to combine books to build collaborative projects. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator-for-iPad/id442378070?mt=8 |
| Record and Edit Video | 4.99 | K-4, 5-8, 9-12 | Easy | While Book Creator is designed to created multimedia digital books on the iPad, the app also allows for books to be exported in video form. Students can now build a video within the app that can include images, audio and video that can be exported to the camera roll for future use. If video is included on any page of the book, it will play back in the final video as "picture in picture" video footage. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator-for-ipad-create/id442378070?mt=8 |
| Bubbl.us | |||||
| Taking Notes and Improve Organization | Free | 5-8 | Easy | Bubbl.us is a free (3 mindmaps), web-based mindmapping tool that works in the Safari or Chrome browser. Students and teachers can login with their Google account and maps can be shared. Collaborators can not work simultaneously. Allows for the user to add active links to their mindmaps. The final project can be shared or downloaded as an image. More features are available with a paid upgrade (revision history, add files and images and realtime collaboration. | https://bubbl.us/ |
| BuzzMath | |||||
| LearnMath | 5-8 | Medium | This iPad App helps students grades 3-8 practice their math proficiency. Students progress through content areas by completing a series of interactive problems. Each section includes a number of problems as well as resources and tools. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/buzzmath-for-grades-3-8/id593186620?mt=8 | |
| Canva | |||||
| Create and Edit Images | Free | 5-8, 9-12 | Medium | From the Canva app, students can create images based off of a number of templates. The drag & drop interface allows students to place text as well as images, and they can either upload images from the camera or search from within the app. Completed images can be shared via the Canva web site or saved back to Photos. The Canva Design School (https://designschool.canva.com/teaching-materials/) includes tutorials and lesson plans. | canva.com |
| Create Presentations | Free | 5-8, 9-12 | Easy | With the Canva app, students can create presentations based off of a number of templates. The drag & drop interface allows students to place text as well as images, and they can either upload images from Photos or search from within the app. Completed presentations can be shared via the Canva web site or downloaded as individual images to Photos or opened as a PDF in any number of apps. The Canva Design School (https:// | canva.com |
| Canvas | |||||
| Facilitate Classroom Workflow | License fee per student | 5-8, 9-12 | Medium | The Canvas LMS & iPad app allows students and teachers to participate in a blended or online course. Along with standard LMS features including file upload & access, a dedicated assignment tab, quizzes and discussion forums, teachers and students have the ability to use various iPad tools in conjunction with the LMS. Content that is created on iPad can be uploaded to Canvas through the Open In function and added to an assignment or discussion. Teaching modules can be created and released according to a course schedule. Staying on top of due dates within the course is simplified through a notifications button within the app that will alert students of upcoming discussion forums, assignments, and due dates. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/canvas-by-instructure-cloud/id480883488?mt=8 |
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