J2 Training App Smackdown
janet & Joan
What are your favorite apps?
Janet Corder, J2 Training
@corderj
Color Alive by Crayola (free & in-app purchases) - These coloring pages will entertain and enchant youngsters as well as the oldsters! You'll love the selfie feature! You can purchase pages within the app or buy the coloring books from Toys R Us or Amazon.
Google Play Store
Word Clouds (free) - Create and share word clouds with this easy-to-use app!
TeleStory (free) - Write, direct and star in your own television show. Students pick a theme and one of more than 30 animated scenes and then write their script. Next, they choose from more than 50 digital costumes and record a TV show.
Adobe Slate (free) - Turn your next newsletter, report, invitation or travel adventure into a gorgeous story. Your Slate web story gets its own URL and can be shared via text message, email, posted on social media accounts or embedded on blogs or personal websites.
Shadow Puppet EDU (free) - Create videos to tell a story, explain an idea or send a personalized message. The app has a search tool to find pictures from the Library of Congress, NASA, and to find Creative Commons licensed images from Flickr. Students can also import pictures and videos from the camera roll on their iPads.
Joan Gore, J2 Training
@joangore
Quiver (formerly ColAR) website is quivervision.com - The Augmented Reality site has a new coloring page, the Animal Cell. When activated, students can look at the various parts of the cell and take a quiz. Click here to download the coloring page. They recently released coloring pages of the World and a Volcano page.
Google Play Store
Landtech esign (free) - Do you ever need to sign documents or forms when you are out of town or not near a fax machine? Using your iPad or iPhone, signing documents with your finger or stylus is very easy.
Chatterpix (free) - Make your photos, friends, pets or drawings talk. Take a photo, draw a line to make a mouth and record your voice and then share with your friends and family. Very creative way for students to introduce themselves.
Plickers (free) - An easy-to-use student response system that needs only one device. Download and print reponse cards at www.plickers.com/cards. Look under iPhone Apps.
Tellagami (free) - Create and share quick animated videos called Gamis.
Google Play Store
Tellagami EDU ($4.99) - Worth the price!
Google Play Store
Photo Mapo ($2.99) - Transform your photos into mapped images
Example using PhotoApp and other apps to report about ancient civilizations