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- Organizing, collaborating, work-sharing
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- Written communication
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- Working with pictures
- Working with film
- Working with music
- Blogging
- Drawing
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Dropbox | Store files, folders, photos and videos online and share them with collaborators on the Internet. Download for offline viewing, capture and synchronize. (Uses cloud storage.) |
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Evernote | Take notes and archive them using Evernote. Save and synchronize formatted text, handwritten ink, photos, audio notes, and WebPages to your personal computer. (Store on Evernote server.) |
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iBook | Store electronic books on your iPad using iBook. | ||
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Idea Sketch | Create flow charts, mind maps, concept maps, or flow charts that can be converted to a text outline. Excellent for brainstorming, illustrating concepts, making outlines, planning presentations and more. Share by email or to Box.com. Can also be copied directly into other apps. | ||
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Lino | Post stickies, pictures and URLs using online canvases. Attach files to your stickies and invite friends to post on your canvases. Can be stored on your iPad or online. |
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Educreations | Another noteworthy interactive whiteboard app that also records voice. Offers ten colours and multiple pages to enhance your presentations. Take a picture to use as a background or insert one from your Photos or from Dropbox. Upload productions to Educreations.com for personal or public use. Educreations generates a Web link that can be embedded or shared by email, and to Facebook and Twitter.(Online community) |
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Explain Everything | Explain Everything is a screencasting app that lets you create slides and add new or existing PDF, PPT, DOC, XLS files, photos and videos from many sources including Dropbox, Evernote and GoogleDrive. You can draw, insert shapes, add text and use a laser pointer. An account is not necessary to use this app and to share creations. It has many sharing options. |
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Keynote | Prepare presentations with animated charts and transitions. Opens Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files. Save on your iPad, to iTunes, iCloud and WebDAV server. Share by email or to iWorks.com. |
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Screen Chomp | Like Educreations, this interactive whiteboard app allows voice recording and the creation of multiple pages. Offers 12 colours with the added feature of 3 pen widths. Send all productions to ScreenChomp.com and generate a Web link that can be embedded or shared via e-mail and on Facebook or Twitter. |
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Show Me Interactive Whiteboard | Produce mini lessons or helpful tutorials with an interactive whiteboard that enables voice recording. This app comes with seven colours to enhance your presentations. Take a picture to use as background or insert one from your Photos. Upload productions to Showme.com for personal or public use. Share via e-mail or on Facebook. |
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Pages | A word processor app that includes templates to create letters, reports, flyers, invitations and more. Save on your iPad, to iTunes. Store on, iCloud or a WebDAV server. Share via e-mail or on iWork.com. | ||
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Bill Atkinson’s PhotoCard | Create postcards using provided photos or your own. Type a message on the back of your card and add an audio one. Stickers are also available. Share via e-mail or snail mail. |
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Book Creator | Create your own beautiful books that you can then publish on the iBookstore. (ePub standards) Adjust everything with your fingers and add speech and music. Share via e-mail or on Dropbox, iTunes or a WebDrav server. |
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Bookabi | Create storybooks in 2D and 3D with pre-loaded characters that you can resize, rotate and move, or use your own photos to devise new ones. Select backgrounds, add bubbles, text, objects, stickers and record audio on each page. Share by e-mail, to iTunes and print in PDF. |
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Comic Life | Create customized photocomics. Choose a template, select the desired layout, insert photos and slide in word bubbles. Select a title style and write your text. Share via e-mail, on Facebook or on Twitter. (Integrated e-reader) |
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Private Journal | Write in your journal every day and add notes, capture images, load music and add stickers to your entries. Gives the date automatically. Take screenshots to share or keep private using the lock. (Careful! If lock code is lost, your journal is lost.) |
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Free French English Dictionary + | Translate words into English or French. Gives an audio pronunciation of all words. Also provides over 1 400 conjugated verbs in English, a comprehensive phrasebook and a vocabulary quiz tool. Share via e-mail. | ||
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Free Translator | Provides an interface to Google Translate. Translate words or sentences and hear the translation spoken. For many languages including English and French. Share via e-mail. | ||
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My Story Book Maker for Kids | Affordable book-making app with simple interface—perfect for younger students. Add pictures to wood panel backgrounds or draw using pen, paint, brush or Wacky tool. Twenty colours to chose from. Easily start and stop voice recording or restart it for every page of the book. Publish storybooks to iBooks and share them via email. |
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StoryBuddy 2 | Write, read and share stories in ePub or PDF formats. Draw pictures or import images from your camera roll, and add music and your own audio narration. Turn digital pages like in a real book. Keep your creations in iBooks and print wirelessly through AirPrint. |
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StoryKit | Read and edit stories or create your own with this free app. Write and illustrate by drawing on- screen or add a photo from your photo album. Record your own voice or sounds to compliment your stories. Share your ebooks to StoryKit servers and get a private URL, which you can share by email. (Account not required) |
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StoryLines for Schools | A game of ‘telephone’ but with pictures app. Begin a StoryLine by writing your own sentence or select one from the ones that are suggested. Pass it on to a friend to illustrate. The initial line being hidden, pass it on to another friend to give the drawing a title. And so on. The StoryLine could then be watched and shared by email. Allows for up to 9 students per StoryLine. |
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Skype | Communicate with Skype’s video calling. Share screen, collaborate on projects and send files. Must have an account. |
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VoiceThread | Record a conversation around a picture, video or document. You can talk, type and draw on the screen. Anyone can join the conversation for free. However, you could make only five VoiceThreads for free. A paid subscription is needed to create additional VoiceThreads. Share via e-mail. |
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Puppets Pals Director’s Pass | Make movies with provided or insert your own photos to create your own protagonists and backgrounds. Share via e-mail. |
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Puppets Pals 2: All Access | Create animated cartoons using built-in characters or switch them up by scrolling through heads and bodies separately and combining them in creative ways. You can also add your own photos to the characters. In addition to more characters and more settings, this version of the app gives the user’s puppets the ability to ride things.Share via e-mail and to Facebook. |
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iTell a Story | Narrate, record and share stories by email. Select sound effects from the i Tell a Story sound library to add to your recordings and music from your iTunes. You can also select an image to go with your story. |
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Sock Puppet | Create short movies with provided puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds. The puppets automatically lip-synch to voice. Share on Facebook and YouTube. Must buy additional features to save to Photos and to have e-mail option. |
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Story Wheel | Create stories cooperatively. Select the number of storytellers and spin the story wheel. The wheel stops on a picture and the story begins. Each player records a portion of the story. Maximum recording time is 30 seconds per page and there are 12 pages per story. Share your story online via e-mail as an iBook attachment or as an URL. |
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Talking TomCat 2 | Practise oral communication. Tom Cat records and repeats everything you say in a funny voice. Record videos of your Tom Cat, message and share via e-mail, on Facebook or on YouTube. |
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iF Poems | Search through 270 classic poems by age group, type, title, author and first line or by any word. Record yourself reading a poem and share it via e-mail. Dictionary definition available for all words. |
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Dragon Dictation | Dictate your message and see it in text. Edit and share your text via e-mail, on Facebook or on Twitter. |
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Audio Memos | Record your voice. Hear your message and share it via e-mail. |
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Quick Voice | Record your voice, pause and resume. Once you are finished, hear your message, give it a title and share via e-mail. Voice recording up to 5MB. |
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Skitch | Annotate and mark up new or existing pictures, screenshots, maps and Web pages or draw something new. A blank canvas is also available. Save to your Photos or to Evernote, and share via e-mail or on Twitter. |
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Photo Collage Creator | Create photo collages from photos in your photo album. Save to your Photos and share via e-mail and on Facebook. |
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Pic Collage | Easily create a photo collage. Choose a layout, select a background, take photos or add some from your photo library or from photo sharing networks and add text. Stickers are also available. Share by e-mail or to Pic Collage, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Path. You can also send a physical postcard. |
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FX Photo Studio HD | Edit your photos: crop, resize, rotate and adjust colours. Over 190 photo effects and filters are available. Save to your photo album, documents or clipboard. Share via e-mail, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram. |
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Text Here | Place text notes and shapes on your own photos or on pictures from photo sharing networks. Choose from four shapes: arrow, circle, thinking balloon and speech balloons. Add text and share via e-mail, to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. |
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iMovie | Film your subject and produce a movie. Edit clips and add effects, transitions and music to your productions. Save to Camera Roll and share on Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo and CNN iReport. |
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ToonCamera | Record video, snap photos or convert existing ones from your album using automatic rotoscoping. Rotoscoping is a technique where live action video or photography is traced over to give your creation a cartoon-like look. Choose from multiple cartoon, pencil, stipple, and ink effects. Share by e-mail or to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Instagram, and YouTube. |
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Toontastic | Create animations selecting provided puppets and backgrounds or draw your own characters and settings. Record your voice and add music. Gives parts of a story and tutorials. Share online on ToonTube. Must have an account. |
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Flip Boom Cartoon | Draw and animate cartoons. Erase drawing and delete frames. Save as snapshots in your Photos. The paid version, FlipBoom Draw HD, gives you the added options of an unlimited number of pages, the ability to duplicate them and to save your project as a video in your Photos. |
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Garage Band | This music app offers many features. It lets you play dozens of musical instruments including ‘Smart’ instrument that make you sound like a pro. Record your voice, apply sound effects and play or record live over wi-fi or Bluetooth with up to three people. Share directly to Facebook, YouTube and SoundCloud via email or on iTunes. |
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Pocket Songwriter | Write and record a song using one of 14 tracks included in the app. A rhyming dictionary with over 96 000 rhymes is also included to assist you in the songwriting process. Send your recording to Sound Cloud and then share it on Facebook, Twitter or via email. Sound Cloud accounts are free. |
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Song Writer HD | Write lyrics and record audio for each section of your song. See your chords above your lyrics and find rhymes and synonyms in the integrated dictionary. You can ‘Passcode Lock’ to protect your work. Link with Dropbox and share via email with options to send PDF’s, Songwriter files, or MySongbook files(minimal music background required). |
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Video Star | A music video-making app that allows you to select a song from your iTunes, adjust start point, end point, speed and pitch of the song. You can choose from over twenty built-in effects to add to your video or purchase over one hundred more bundled in Power Packs. Press record and lip sync your song. Share to iTunes, to YouTube and via email. |
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Kidblog | Create and manage a blog with Kidblog. Create an account and access your blog using any mobile device. Students can post comments and upload pictures. Teachers can monitor blog activity and moderate posts. Students’ blogs are private by default. Only classmates and the teacher can view them. |
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Adobe Ideas | Adobe Ideas is a digital sketchbook that comes with vector-based drawing tools, up to 10 drawing layers and a photo layer for each sketch. It lets you choose colors using HSB and RGB color pickers and has 50 levels of undo and redo. You could upload to a “Creative Cloud” and open on your computer with Illustrator CC or Photoshop to edit. Share by e-mail, to Facebook and Twitter. |
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Draw Free | Create beautiful drawings or add to existing ones from your photo album with easy-to-use tools including pencils, brushes and crayons. Select a background, add a sticker that incorporates sound and share using e-mail, Facebook and Twitter. |
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While the information contained in this list is not meant to be exhaustive and is periodically updated, we do not guarantee that the information provided is correct, complete and/or up-to-date. (Last update: October 2014) Some links on this Web site may lead to other Web sites, including those operated and maintained by third parties. MEESR includes these links solely as suggested resources for the PELIQ-AN project, and the presence of such a link does not imply a responsibility for the linked site or an endorsement of the linked site, its operator or its contents. Before using a tool with students, it is strongly recommended that you read the terms of service and the privacy policy of the service provider in question, as well as your school board’s policy on Internet use. These apps and Web sites have been personally selected by education evaluators and do not necessarily reflect the views of MEESR. Reference to these products and services does not constitute or imply their endorsement or recommendation by MEESR.