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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 lets your younger students create video using sock puppet characters, add settings and props. Student can then record their voice and the characters will lip-synch to create voices for the characters. Students can work together to create multiple characters, adding another way that teachers can have students create thoughtful responses to literature. Videos can be posted to Facebook and Youtube, if desired.

My students have also loved this app! The videos that are created can be saved onto their iPad which is great if they want to go back and view it later. I love how easy it is to move the characaters and change their size. The students really enjoy how their voice is changed when they listen to it. As I mentioned on another site, it is fun for students to use two headphones and a splitter to create their video together. I had one group of students work on creating one in a group of four using a five way splitter. This can also be used for interview each other or made up interviews of characters from literature.

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!

CPS OnDemand, streaming video

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

Khan Academy is an app that has downloadable videos for k-12 math, science & economics, humanities, test prep, talks and interviews.

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.

Users can create simple screencasts on the iPad using the simple doodle board and audio recording option. These videos can be shared easily via a URL, by posting on Twitter, or by downloading as a video MPEG-4 file. This tool can be used by teachers to model a task or by students to demonstrate mastery of a task.

I have enjoyed using this app as well. An additional feature that I find useful is that students are able to take a screen shot from the Ipad or any picture that is in the camera roll and pull that in to use as the backdrop for their recording.

I wrote about using Screen Chomp on my blog: http://ipadsinthelibrary.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/try-screen-chomp/

Great app to give your students access to up-to-the-minute news stories in a simple format that is easy for them to navigate. Students can browse by category, photos, or video content. Students are able to rate articles using a star system, save favorites and send articles by email, as well as post to Facebook or Twitter.

Back to Apps by Apple iMovie helps you turn the HD video you shoot on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch into a masterpiece worthy of the red carpet (or just the one in your living room). This fun, fast, feature-rich app is designed especially for Multi-Touch. iMovie allows students to combine still images (including screen shots, Keynote slides, photos, etc.), film clips, and audio (music, narration, etc.) on the iPad to create original films. iMovie provides multiple file sharing options, including options to export films into the Camera Role or into iTunes. Films can also be uploaded easily inot YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and CNNiReport.

Voicethread for the iPad just arrived, and it's amazing! It allows students to create narrated slideshows. It also has many many options for hosting open discussions of media where invididuals "comment" in various formats (e.g. written, voice, video). Voicethread can upload a broad range of audio and visual format. The voicethread app is free. Free accounts allow for up to the "voicethreads" per user. I paid $60.00 this year to obtain a one-year classroom account with 50 student accounts which I can manage and supervise very efficiently.

The VoiceThread app has exciting possibilities for students to present their research in a new way. My students used a combination of text slides created in Doodle Buddy and screen shots of images to create slide shows. They did voiceovers on top of the slide show and could even draw on the screen to point out the part of the diagram that they were referring to. One other exciting game-changer is that students can listen to another student's voicethread on their own ipad and then respond to it in text or record their own response. Then the student presenting (and teacher) can read and listen to the feedback. Some of these features are limited on the free version, like only 5 voice threads per account. There is more teacher control on the paid version as well. I'm definitely considering buying the full version.