iPad Apps for Language Learning & Teaching

Create and play treasure hunts. Create clues using text and by photographing objects and using the GPS in your device. Players solve the clue by being in the right location and photographing the same object.

Create digital stories on your device using photos and videos. Record narration while drawing and zooming.

Turn photos into free educational games and books for kids. Record your voice to add questions to photos. Players answer the question by tapping the correct part of the photo.

Students submit written assignments via a dedicated email address, and the instructor uses this app to annotate the submission, including text notes and drawing. The app exports the annotated submission as a PDF and sends it back to the student.

Scan multiple-choice response sheet for automatic grading.

Student response and assessment system. The instructor creates assessments online, and the student can respond using an iPad app or web browser. Limitations: Free version limited to 8 groups & 200 students.

Course management system for iPads. Includes a teacher app, which you use to create and edit classes, and a student app. Polling, web browser, course webpage, blog, and assessments. Take notes on readings using split-screen function.

Application for instructors to create lessons that students access on iPads or computers. Collects data in polls. Teacher and students can draw on images or a shared whiteboard.

Create flipped classroom lessons in your browser by linking to YouTube videos. Students respond to your assignment using mobile app or browser before they can see other students' responses.

Educational social platform for educators and students.  With eduClipper you can: + Explore top quality education resources for K-12 + Create clips from the web, Drive, Dropbox + Use your camera to capture awesome work that you create + Create differentiated groups and share content with them + Create Personal Learning Portfolios + Create Class Portfolios as a teacher and share Assignments with students + Provide quality feedback through video, audio, text, badges, or grades + Collaborate with other users on eduClipboards for class projects or personal interests

Reads articles out loud in English.

Learn a language while helping to translate the web. 

Teaches 100 English phrasal verbs using animations. Translations in Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, and French.

Interactive exercises that help native speakers of Spanish with their most common English errors.

Record and share audio.

Add video and text to images.

Storytelling app that allows students, teachers and anyone with creativity to create narrated stories or presentations based on photos, images, drawings. Like pages in a book, photos or images are dragged around the desktop into the order of the story. Next, the teacher or student records audio over each image. The story or presentation can be published to the device's photo area or uploaded to a 30hands Cloud collaborative learning site.

Lesson planning and recording tool for teachers and their students. Create short video lessons on any subject and publish them on Knowmia.com. Bring in visual aids from multiple sources, organize them in steps (like slides in a presentation) and use your own voice and fingers to bring your lesson to life. You can design each step in the lesson, record illustrations as you draw them, and create sophisticated animation sequences with a simple stroke of a finger. We also give you the ability to describe your lesson in a way that makes it simple for anyone who is interested in the subject to find your video. Limitations: You cannot export video lessons to other platforms or websites.

Animation Desk for iPad allows users to create hand-drawn animations on iPad. The drawing interface provided by the app resembles the real working environment of a professional animator who completes each frame of an animation on a specially-designed desk, the animation desk. Animation Desk for iPad provides an easy, friendly, and intuitive drawing environment so that everyone can enjoy creating their own animated works.  + Share your works with friends on Facebook + Upload animations to YouTube + Add audio effects to spice up your animations +Transfer animations between different iDevices and enjoy animating anytime, anywhere. Limitations: Can only use each tool 3 times in free version.

Turn your camera roll into beautiful, pro-quality videos. Choose your music, photos, and clips and share amazing videos with your family and friends. Limitations: Videos can be up to 30 seconds long in the free version.