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"It's a simple way to get students to creating in your classroom and #appsmashing.  I wanted to create a set of my own geared towards using the iPad to create, so I  created two types of die for my set (and other sets I created and gave out to our teachers). One die has six "creation" apps, while the second die has six "showcase" apps. "

With TinyTap all it takes is a few taps to create fun educational games that will keep your children engaged for hours. TinyTap offers a learning experience unlike any other. Games are simple to create and can even be shared with friends. All games can be personalized to suit the needs and interests of each individual child. In a matter of seconds you have an educational game that's not only fun but will develop your child's creativity in unimaginable ways.

LEGO Movie Maker is a free iPad app for creating stop-motion movies featuring LEGO models. You have to provide your own LEGOs in order to create a LEGO movie. To create your movie with LEGO Movie Maker you build your LEGO scenes then use the free iPad app to take pictures of each scene. After taking your pictures you can apply Instagram-like effects to them. When you're happy with the pictures you can adjust the speed at which they are played back in your movie. LEGO Movie Maker includes a gallery of free music to play with your pictures. You can also upload your own music or spoken audio track. Completed movies can be saved to your iPad or exported directly to YouTube.

Create a book and publish it. Share it with others. Designed for kids 3 and up.

Here's how WhatsDue works. First, the teacher registers for a free account on the WhatsDue website and creates a class or classes. Each class is assigned its own unique join code. Teachers then invite students and parents to join the class through the join code. Once students have joined the class they will begin receiving due date reminders on their mobile devices. Teachers can create multiple classes and schedule multiple reminders for each class from one dashboard on the WhatsDue website. Students opening WhatsDue on their iPhones or Android phones will see reminders of approaching due dates and past due dates.

Foldify and Foldify Zoo gives pupils a fun way to create 3D figures on their iPad. They can then print the figure, cut and fold it. There are different templates for different type of figures and children can use their imagination to decorate them or use Foldify's large selection of ready to use elements.

Sharalike is an easy to use and stunning photo slideshow creator with beautiful graphics, a robust music library and lots of sharing options. Easily create slideshows and share (via email, Facebook, Messenger, Twitter, Viber, WeChat, Pinterest, WhatsApp) all from your existing cell phone pictures, digital photos and videos!

"Talkboard is a free iPad app from Citrix. Talkboard enables you to sketch on whiteboard while talking to collaborators at the same time. You can invite people to your talk board by sending them an email from the app, by Airdrop, or by posting a link for them them to click on their iPads. Within Talkboard you can create projects. Each project can have multiple whiteboards. This makes it a nice tool for students who are working together on a large project. By creating multiple boards within a project students are essentially storyboarding or outlining each phase of their project."

Free app to use to make narrated story books!

"When you begin a new iMovie project, you have a choice of creating a movie or a trailer. A trailer follows a template to create a Hollywood-style movie advertisement. iMovie for iOS has 14 trailer templates, and each has its own musical score and graphics. To make your own trailer, choose a template, insert your text, and fill each shot with a video or photo."

Here are 10 types of "makers" your students can become in the classroom along with the resources that will help students construct their learning- 21st century style!

A grade book, planner, diary, schedule and resource manager all in one app. Its spreadsheet engine will calculate averages as you input your assessment data. You can insert and edit any kind of information for a class, student and semester visually, no more boring spreadsheets. Scroll, expand, filter, export, import and view your information at any time. No internet connection is required. iDoceo will work with any kind of grading system, you can even create your own. You will not miss you old paper grade book again.

A learning app is only as valuable as it's ability to engage students. So we are proud to announce that TinyTap's newest version allows authors to reel players in with a feature more dynamic than ever: video. Now app creators can use content from YouTube to teach their lesson and then reinforce the material with intermittent activities, like questions and puzzles. Easier for educators, more stimulating for students … What are you waiting for? Create a learning app with video today!

a 21st century assessing system. create rubric (can choose CCCR standards), import student roster. click on rubric to record grade of individual student (works on an ipad, too). get class diagnostics. can share with parents. farewell, rubistar!