iPad Apps for School

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Book Creator 2.4 for iPad Allows You To Combine Books

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book_creator Earlier this month I wrote a glowing review of the Book Creator iPad app. Book Creator allows you to create narrated books on your iPad. Today, Book Creator 2.4 was released with some nice new tools.

The latest version of Book Creator allows you to combine books that you have created using the app. In fact, you can even combine books from multiple iPads. What this means is that you could have students work on the creation of a book together from separate iPads. Have each student work on a chapter then combine all of the chapters into one book. Click here for complete directions on combining books.

With the latest update to Book Creator you can now include hyperlinks in your books, style individual words in your books, and import books. But to me the most exciting option is the option to combine books. To use the latest updates you will need to be using iOS 6.

If you haven’t seen Book Creator before, watch the short video below for an introduction to it.

Doodlecast for Kids Offers an Easy Way to Create Video Stories

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Screen Shot 2013-01-08 at 3.17.47 PMDoodlecast for Kids is an iPad app that allows students to create short whiteboard videos. Students can create short videos by drawing on a blank whiteboard. Students can record their voices as they draw on the whiteboard. Students who are struggling to start their stories can use one of the twenty-three story prompts offered by Doodlecast for Kids. A student’s video can be up to three minutes long. Videos can be saved to a student’s iPad’s camera roll and or uploaded to YouTube.

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To create a video on Doodlecast for Kids start by selecting either the blank whiteboard or one of the twenty-three story prompts. After choosing a prompt or blank template tap the “record” button in the bottom-left corner of the screen. The button will turn red when recording is activated. Recording can be paused and resumed at any time. The drawing tools allow students to change ink colors, pen stroke size, and erase anything that they want to remove from their drawings.

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Doodlecast for Kids costs $2.99 USD. Watch a video demonstration of the app below.

Thanks to Jen Deyenberg for the app recommendation.

Create Picture Stories With PicView

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PicView is a free iPad app that makes it easy to create simple photo stories. PicView allows you to create an audio recording about a picture. You can add narration to pictures that you take with your iPad or pictures that you already have in your iPad’s camera roll. Your images can be enhanced with some simple color filters, border designs, a title, and markers. Your completed PicView story can be shared via email, posted on the PicView site, shared on Facebook, or shared on Twitter.