Flipboard (iTunes link), Zite (iTunes link) and Pulse (iTunes link) – to read news and find ideas to write about.
To save the information, I could quickly email it to myself or send it to Instapaper/Read It Later using the share feature on these apps
Notes
Simplenote (iTunes link), PlainText (iTunes link) and Evernote (iTunes link). Simplenote is perfect for jotting down quick notes while PlainText can accommodate a hierarchy of text files inside folders. But if you love to collect snippets of text and images, use Evernote.
If you prefer to literally write down your notes, you should try Bamboo Paper (iTunes link).
We would like students to have an electronic portfolio to document their learning and to take with them after they finish high school.
Ideal Parameters:
Works well on an iPad, either via the web or an app
We would like to have some control over the content that is added.
The less passwords the better.
Options for creativity by the students.
Here are some possible ideas to create content:
Any Unit of Study
Book Report Anthology
Poem Anthology
Visual Quotes Collection
Create your own Textbook
Essay Collection about a Specific Topic
Drawing/Painting Collection
Portfolio
So, how do you create a collaborative CLASSROOM eBook? If you only have one iPad available, it is not such a big problem. Each student waits for a turn to add their page(s) (or double page) to the book as the iPad gets passed around. What if you have a class set of iPads and you want all your students working on their pages at the same time?
Here is our Step-by-Step procedure (we are using the BookCreator app).
Apple is famous for its hard to know about shortcuts which help make work easier once you know them. The iPad is no exception. This video from Cult of Mac gives you a few great pointers to help you type more efficiently on your keyboard.
PicView’s iPad app lets you add voice tags and annotations to pictures to tell your story
PicView is a new, free iOS app that enables users to add voice tags and annotations to images, videos and business applications. We’re giving it an early review, as the app is only available for iPad and supports only photos for the time being.
The app lets you take or upload an iPad picture and subsequently add voice annotations to them using a simple recorder, with the added ability of being able to pinpoint specific parts of an image with a short animation (called ‘Trackers’).
So it’s exciting to see Skitch, the service that allows you to quickly annotate, edit and share screenshots and images, release their Skitch for iPad app today.
Similar to the Mac version, Skitch for iPad includes an arrow tool, text tool, drawing tool, shapes tool, crop tool and a cursor tool.
Ability to import an image, take a photo, create your own drawing, browser a web page and take a screenshot and annotate a map using the inbuilt Google Maps interface.
Extensive share options including share by mail, Twitter, save to camera role and full integration with Evernote.
It’s free to download. Read more about Skitch for iPad here.
Animoto has released a new free app for creating videos on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. The app will allow you to do all of the things that you can do on the Animoto website to create a video. Plus you can take pictures and videos on your iOS device and import them directly to your Animoto project.
Knowmia Teach allows teachers to create short video lessons in several small steps, similar to how they might develop a slide presentation. The lessons can then be posted online. The apps records fingerstrokes and audio for later playback. Free for iPad.
Easy Bib is an app for IOS devices which will scan the barcode and generate a citation
Description
Create accurate MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations in seconds by scanning a book bar code or by typing the name of a book. Build and manage your works cited. Once done, email your citations and then export your citations to EasyBib.com's popular bibliography management service.