iPad Apps for School

The Best iOS Apps for Students and Teachers

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Add Your Signature to Documents With HelloSign for iPad

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2013-07-13_2227 If you have ever received an email with an attachment that you need to put your signature on, you need to check out Hello Sign. Hello Sign is a free service that allow you to digitally sign documents. Hello Sign can be used on your computer, on your iPhone, and on your iPad.

On your iPhone or iPad you can use Hello Sign by selecting a document or by taking a picture of a document. I have demonstrated the app to many people over the last year and everyone has been impressed by how easy it is to use. I just open the app, log into my Hello Sign account, and snap a picture of a document. After the picture was captured I have the option to apply a stored signature or sign the document using my finger on my iPad screen.

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Create and Share Audio Recordings With Audioboo for iOS

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auidbooAudioboo is a free tool for creating audio messages to share on the web. Using Audioboo you can record messages on your mobile device using Audioboo’s free Android or iPhone apps. You can also record messages directly on the Audioboo website. Messages that you create can be shared by embedding your recording into a blog or website. You can also share messages by posting them to Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr.

The Audioboo iOS app isn’t optimized for iPad use, but it works just fine on my iPad 2 when I tap the “2x” button. Students could use Audioboo to craft short audio blog entries. You can use the app to record and post instructions for students to listen to when a substitute teacher is taking care of your students for the day.

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Vjay for iPad Lets Anyone Create Music Loops

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Screen Shot 2013-06-29 at 5.11.59 PM Vjay is an iPad app for creating short music video loops. The app provides a collection of free music video clips that you can blend together to create a new music video loop. You can adjust the tempo and volume of each clip individually as you blend them together into your new creation. Your finished product can be saved on your iPad, sent to YouTube, and shared on Facebook.

Vjay could be a good app for students to use when they need to create bumper music or theme music for a podcast or video project.

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Update: When I wrote this post the app was free. This afternoon it appears to be priced at $9.99. As a free app, it’s great. I don’t think I would pay $9.99 for it though.

Story – A New Photostory App from Disney

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Screen Shot 2013-05-08 at 9.53.35 PMStory is a new, free app from Disney. The app is designed for iPhones, but I tried it on my iPad anyway. It worked well on my iPad. Story allows you to pull in pictures and videos from your device’s camera roll and arrange them into photostory books.

Creating photostory books with Story is a simple process. To get started allow the app to access your camera roll. Then to create a storybook tap the “+” symbol in the upper-right corner of the screen. Then to add pictures and videos to your book tap the “+” symbol at the top of the screen. You can import pictures and videos that are stored on your device or you can take new pictures and videos with the app. After you have arranged all of the elements that you want to use in your storybook you can tap the play button to watch the story. Your completed stories can be shared via email or Facebook.

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Story could be a nice app for students to use to create autobiographies or to highlight some of their favorite observations during a field trip in which they took a bunch of pictures and or video clips.

Learn About the Science of Color On Color Uncovered

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color_uncov Last week I reviewed Exploratorium’s Sound Uncovered app which is a nice app that will help students understand the science of sound. Today, I tried out Exploratorium’s Color Uncovered iPad app. Color Uncovered is essentially a seventeen part ebook with some nice interactive activities and videos built into it to support the articles.

In Color Uncovered students will why we sometimes see colors that aren’t really there, how light influences the colors we see, and why dogs would have trouble with traffic lights if they drove. One of the interactive features on Color Uncovered that I particularly like is the “Colors Add Up” activity. In “Colors Add Up” students use a clear CD case (I’m sure any other clear piece of plastic will work too) to mix colors projected from their iPads. The app also gives students a couple of short lessons on how and why artificial colors are added to foods like salmon, candy, cheese, and fruit.

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Color Uncovered could be a nice app for use in art lessons and science lessons. Or combine the two topics into one lesson in which students learn about the science of light and how colors blend together.