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Yes, Twitter is a powerful educational tool that can be used with students. My students use Twitter as a promotional tool for their student news program and to share current event announcements. Please keep in mind, it is very important to have an initial lesson and ongoing conversations with your students about Cyber online behavior. Check it out for yourself - https://twitter.com/PhillipsHSBTP

I don't allow gaming during instructional time in my Library Media Center. To curb this, I allow students to use the Scrabble app as a educational gaming tool for use during the student's 'down time'. At first the students groan and complain but eventually they do enjoy the app and the challenge of identifying words that can be used to win the game with a partner.

The Kindle app is great for libraries and classroom use. Often times, Amazon will provide books either free or discounted cost and the app really helps ease the expense educators faced when providing reading materials. Students in the library especially like reading additional books from their favorite authors during the lunch periods.

The Math teacher at my school has influenced a new group of students who love chess. The students have been so excited about playing chess that they requested a app be loaded onto the Library ipads. The Master Soft Chess app is a wonderful addition. It provides hints, history and overall is a good chess app to help support chess matches.

This app has been very helpful with producing several school related videos. Besides shooting and editing video for school events, projects I have used this very powerful app for recruitment and administration encouragement prior to students taking the practice ACT this year. It's a somewhat pricey app but worth the cost.

Sock Puppets is a free app that lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Students can add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating their own sock puppet.

Great tool for visual thinkers. Draw, write, and organize ideas using this free app.

Try this: log onto this app, connect is to a projector and play one of the games with a group of 16 years....talk about fun. I used this app with my beginning Spanish classes at the beginning of the year to reinforce sight words taught in class. The students really enjoy this game, the competition, the stop clock and the whole group fun. Just try this app, you'll be hooked.

Star gazing device that allows you to explore the constellations.

iMovie is an app for $4.99 that allows you to make beautiful HD movies anywhere. The fast and fun moviemaking app that puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Create Hollywood-style trailers or sophisticated home movies in minutes.

Review significant events in the history of Chicago.

Fun, visual timeline. Great for World History

Toontastic is a storytelling and creative learning tool that enables kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with friends and family around the world through simple and fun imaginative play! There is a free version with limited scenes and then there is a paid version for $9.99.

Students can review the elements of the story arc while creating fun cartoons. They can practice writing and speaking skills.

This app features a wealth of psychology terminology along with illustrations. There are other features including the ability to review flashcards and complete quizzes to check for understanding.

Students can narrate pictures and create short videos using this simple app.

This free app lets you add your voice to your pictures and creates a personalized short video you can share on Facebook, YouTube or email!

Use with human geography classes to explore photos from around the world.

Use with physics and math classes. Students practice bridge construction.

CPS OnDemand, streaming video

This is an online, catalogued collection of videos available for viewing on demand by teachers and students.

Use this with Psych students when studying parts of the brain.

Provides three dimensional images of the brain with labels and descriptions.

Use this with all subject area to create visual posters in a comic style. Simplified Chinese is supported for most features.

template for visual delivery of content/presentation