iPad in Education

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.

List of apps for students k-2 from one of NSBAs 20 to watch.

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.

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!

Cool maker apps for virtual making.

Erin describes her use of aurasma, an augmented reality app.

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!

great tutorial. explains how students can share explain everything video through google drive. teacher can add to the video (e.g. with a grade), then reshare with student. much more info included.