f you’re a student, teacher, or administrator at a high school looking into adopting iPads for educational purposes, it’s important to know that the iPad is more than just an easy way to browse the web or visit the app store.
The following apps are my top educational programs for kindergarten aged students.
The Doodlecast For Kids App comes with more than 20 drawing prompts – simple questions designed to give kids a starting point. Kids can choose from one of the prompts or start a drawing from scratch. The app records the entire drawing process along with audio from the microphone to create videos up to three minutes long. The videos are as fun to watch as they are to create and Doodlecast makes it easy to share them with friends and families.
nap a photo with your device's camera or grab one you've already taken. Lights, Camera, Color! drains the color from your picture and turns it into a coloring book page. Decorate your page with stickers and color it with Crayola crayons, colored pencils and markers. Save your pages and share them through email or Facebook. Or, you can print and color them using your own Crayola crayons, markers and pencils.
Text, images, audio recording, tables, real-time WiFi collaboration, wireless sync with the cloud, and much more!
One teacher's thoughts on using iPods & iPads in the classroom.
Tales 2 Go is a fantastic app that brings stories to life and sparks kids imaginations by introducing them to audio stories from leading narrators and storytellers. Tales2Go makes anytime story time! Students have on-demand and unlimited access to over 1,300 books and stories from leading authors and storytellers. The stories are geared for kids 3 years old to 12 years old with book and story selections ranging from fairytales to classics like Curious George Rides a Bike to popular series and characters such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid and How to Train Your Dragon.
Story Wheel” is an educational game that improves your child’s cognitive abilities. Players record a story by spinning the wheel to get a picture, and then narrate a portion of the story. When done, you can listen to your story with beautifully animated pictures.