Fantastic video from Luis Perez about adding alt tag descriptions to images in Book Creator. Between that, audio narration, text, and video, Book Creator may be the ultimate app for reaching all learners.
Create comic books and illustrations that include monsters and superheroes. The images and drawing tools can be used for a variety of literacy & numeracy activities as well as storytelling.
This is an incredible app for students with special needs. It connects to the Bookshare.org database and does require a membership ID. However, students and organizations who qualify have access to a tremendous resource.
"From within Read2Go, you can browse, search, download, and read books directly from Bookshare using your Bookshare membership, as well as read DAISY books from other sources. The app gives you full control over visual choices for font size and color, background and highlighting color, and text-to-speech preferences. Read2Go features word-by-word highlighting for multi-modal reading."
This blog post lists several apps to use for mobile grading and keeping a grade book on an iPad. It is important to note that some Student Information Systems - such as Pearson's PowerSchool - have developed apps that integrate directly with the computer-based grade books.