Now that ScribblePress isn't free, this is a great alternative for elementary digital storytelling. Little Story Maker lets students incorporate images from the photo roll as well as record their own audio with their stories - all for FREE.
Great example of combining the physical and the digital. Students took pictures of paper projects and then used Explain Everything to explain their dioramas.
Created by the people who made Vimeo, DIY is an open tool for kids to make their own digital portfolios and for parents to have a login to the account. Using the app and the web, kids can save all that they create. This is definitely worth exploring when thinking about extended learning environments.
The Virginia Department of Education helped to create this list of apps for students. You can download them from the Apple App Store. Some of them include digital texts from Pearson publishers.
Free "for a limited time", this app quickly lets you add speech bubbles and other shapes to photos. This could be a great tool for quickly creating help files, digital stories, or simple comics.
This digital note taking tool leverages annotation features, audio recording, the ability to combine multiple document types and easy sharing via Dropbox or Box.
"The debate over digital learning will soon enter a new phase. No longer will educators debate whether or not digital learning has the capacity to transform the American education system. Just about gone are the anti-technology Luddites who insist that every classroom be self-contained, with students and teachers left to their own devices, save for the help of pencils, chalk, blackboards and weighty textbooks stuffed into 10 kilo backpacks." - from ISTE about the need for the new Mobile Learning Group.
Though this version of the app doesn't have as many features, it's free! With an iPhone or iPad, students can create time lapse recordings so as to improve observational skills, document a laboratory, or create a digital story.