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While this may seem like just another drawing app, the students in my library have really enjoyed this one. It is easy to maneuver and gives you lots of options. You can change the type of line you want to draw, how thick the line is, and the color. It also offers many different backgrounds, stamps in two sizes, four fonts, and stencils. I have had young students draw response pictures to stories that we have read in the library and they turned out great. You can email the picture or take a screen shot. You can also turn the sound off and on which is always nice if you don't have headphones.

This app can also be used to create text or drawings that can be imported into other apps. Anything in the camera roll can be chosen as the background for a doodle. When a student completes a doodle, they can save it into their camera roll. My students used this in their Voice Thread presentations. They essentially created their text slides in Doodle Buddy, saved them to the camera roll and then in Voice Thread chose them from the camera role.

Disney offers this book app for free and it is a great example of the many features that can be found in an ebook. You can select young reader mode, read to me mode, or record your voice to listen to (great for fluency practice). The best feature of having it read it to you is that it plays your voice over the music which makes it sound very official. There are a few coloring pages and games that students can also look at. Very fun and a big hit with my youngest iPad users (preschool and kindergarten).

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.

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Brain Pop Movie of the Day / Brain Pop Movie of the Day Espanol Students will enjoy these quick movies of the day clips. The movies that are currently shown as free are usually timely with current events or calendar events (example: Movie about Voting on Election Day). This app provides a great quick activity for students to use and if you get in the habit of checking it, you will find things that relate to your lessons. Brain Pop also offers this site in Spanish. Brian Pop itself is a company that offers subscriptions to their website full of educational activities. I am hopeful that they will get an app similar to Brain Pop, Jr. as I am huge fan of that site. As of now, you would need flash to access their site.

This is another flip book creator that is simple and straightforward. It enables students to create animation using simple line drawings. Can be uploaded to YouTube.

This is app designed to draw and animate cartoons on the iPad. It has a huge color palette and is easy for students to use when drawing with fingers. You have the option of showing your previous slide and the next slide to enable your students to create their animation. You can also save your creations to your Photo Gallery. Fun, with many applications for the library and classroom.

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.

This app enables students to brainstorm on the iPad. Students can write, draw, color and use stickies to brainstorm anyway that you might need them to for projects. Students can share work and work on multiple iPads at the same time using a wifi connection. Super cool collaboration tool for your students!

This app enables your students to create stories using photos that can be imported from your photo library. Students can also draw pictures directly on the screen, illustrate and include text for their stories. Students can publish and share their stories. Flip through the pages just like a real book. This app is great for creative responses to literature.

This app generate APA 6th Edition style citations for a wide range of traditional and new sources (including EVERYTHING I can think of!). You can copy the citation and paste it into other applications. You can save the citation (and create separate lists of citations), and/or e-mail citations. One disadvantage is that the app was designed for the iPhone and you can't turn the iPad to work with a wider screen, rendering the typing a little slow. Here is an example of a citation I generated: Matt Taibbi. Michelle Bachmann's Holy War. RollingStone. (1134/1135), Retrieved November 3, 2011 from RollingStone. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622

Wow! All you have to do is scan the ISBN barcode and the citation appears in a heartbeat. It defaults to MLA but a touch of a button converts them to APA or Chicago. You can NOT copy and paste the citations, but you can e-mail them.

You can also take a screen shot of the citations.

This application is amazing! It provides an amazing range of options for creating slideshows. I predict that our students will quickly adapt to the touch screen features and find it easier than traditional tabs and pull-down windows. It interacts seamlessly with PowerPoint. You can export Keynote presentations to iTunes in Keynote format, PowerPoint format, or PDF format. You can likewise import Keynote and PowerPoint documents into your iPad using iTunes. The ability to export Keynote documents using iTunes provides us with an option to get the content of student slideshows into social networking tools such as Voicethread and Animoto.

This app has a lot of basic functionality to create shareable documents.

A good free app to access an international collection of children's books