Kim's Latest Favourite Apps

In no particular order:

Keynote

iMovie

Puppetpals

Book Creator

Explain Everything

Popplet

Skitch

PicCollage

GoogleDrive

Edmodo

KidBlog

Blogger

SketchNation

I Can Animate

iFunFace

Tellagami

Aurasma

QR Code Creator

QR Code Reader

TinyTap

iTunesU

SonicPics

StripDesigner

Today's Free App

With Earth 101, the entire globe is at your fingertips. Easily navigate the virtual globe with intuitive touch controls. Discover cities and their famous architectural buildings in 3D models. Earth 101 also includes 250 wonders of the Earth, geographical and political maps, and more than 1000 geographic objects.

Earth 101 for iPad

Skitch

Skitch is a free app that I have blogged about before. It has many uses in the classroom but the two uses I believe to be the best are labelling of photos and blurring photos. Labelling photos is fairly self explanatory and can be used in all learning areas. Blurring photos is useful if you have a great photo that contains a student or object that shouldn't be in the photo for its intended use. Eg. If you have a photo that you want to publish online but you don't want to show student faces, blurring can be very useful.

Students fully engaged during a Stop Motion lesson

Digital Story Telling

I just downloaded this Digital Storytelling Resource Kit, and thought you might find this resource useful, too. You can download your copy at: 

http://web.tech4learning.com/digital-storytelling-resource-kit/

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom Kit

Today's Free App

Movie360 is a really cool movie making app. You can take video footage with amazing effects and the movie can be sent to the camera roll.

Movie360

HelloCamera is a really cool photo app with amazing effects made by the same developer. Photos automatically go to the camera roll.

HelloCamera

The New iOS

For those who are reluctant to update to the new iOS - just remember a change is as good as a holiday. If that didn't convince you here is a link that will give you some tips.

US today

Sun by Kids Discover

An educational app that teaches students all about the sun and stars.

Sun by Kids Discover

Stop Motion and Claymation

I have been having a play with stop motion and claymation lately and it so much fun! For stop motion  I have tried several different things including Lego, paper cut outs and writing on a whiteboard. So many everyday objects work well. For claymation I have used play dough. I even let some students have a turn last week! With very little instruction they came up with sone quite good results. Actually my plan is to do claymation with the junior classes next term. I will have them plan and then storyboard thier idea before they start taking photos. There are a lot of resources online that show ways to use both stop motion and claymation in the classroom.

Here is a link to one of the sites I found but there are so many more:

Claymation and Stop Motion in the Classroom

The apps I have used are Stop Motion and iCanAnimate. Both of these apps can be exported to the camera roll to add more effects in iMovie.