Listly by Clare Rafferty
This list of apps for STAVCON 2012 presentation - feel free to add to it :)
Our presentation can be found on slideshare.net it will not have any video footage in below are the apps we have referred to in our presentation
Easily and quickly identify and locate stars, planets, constellations and more with the touch or by pointing to the sky.
Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Corkulous Pro on the App Store. Download Corkulous Pro and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Aurasma allows your smart phone or tablet to recognise images and objects. It then augments your view of the real-world with videos, music and 3D animations called “Auras”. With Aurasma, there’s no limit except your imagination. Features:•Bring images, objects, products and places to virtual life, simply by pointing your device at them•Double tap the screen to enter full screen mode, single tap the screen to find out more•Make your own Auras and attach images, objects and even buildings
Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Educreations Interactive Whiteboard on the App Store. Download Educreations Interactive Whiteboard and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
It's the best way to create pretty collages of your friends and favorite things using stickers, text, web images and freeform cut-outs!
Great for work. Great for school. Popplet is a platform for your ideas. Popplet's super simple interface allows you to move at the speed of your thoughts.
This Life Cycles App is created by a team of high school students, educators, and parents in Texas. It is easy to use, intuitive and most importantly, provides educational content with great illustrations and narrations for students, schools and montessori's.
Appropriate for children ages 2-10+.
Following life cycles are covered in this app at this moment:
- Frog Life Cycle
- Water Life Cycle
- Butterfly Cycle
- Plant Cycle
- Pollination
- Photosynthesis
- Moon Phases
- Nitrogen Cycle
- Oxygen Cycle
- Rock Cycle
This is by far the best postcard app, and now it is FREE! With it, you can create dazzling custom-designed postcards showcasing your own photos or Bill Atkinson's nature photos.
Express yourself with fewer words, emails and meetings…with Skitch!Use shapes, arrows, sketches and text annotation to get your point across fast. Mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and webpages then share them with anyone you like.Skitch lets you:- Annotate: Add arrows, shapes and text to existing images- Create: Draw something new
Create animations with simplicity of puppeteering and voicing characters while creating movies to share.
ACTION MOVIE FX lets you add Hollywood FX to iPhone AND iPad movies that YOU shoot!*All the action is better! Your previous FX have been updated to HD for free.
Nearpod: “Best Collaboration Solution - EdTech Digest Awards 2012”, “Audience Favorite - LAUNCH Edu & Kids 2012”.Experience for yourself this magical educational app that has been downloaded more than 126,000 times in less than 4 months.Nearpod is a must have application for teachers and schools that have access to a set of iOS devices for their classes.
Share a great idea... Explain a tricky concept... Help kids with their homework...ScreenChomp for iPad helps you do it all.A simple doodling board, markers, and one-click sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know-how easy and fun! Just - Record It. Sketch It. Share It. - to create a sharable, replay-able video that tells your story clearly.
Pocket (Formerly Read It Later) enables you to store anything you want to read, take it with you offline and read it whenever you have time. You can also share what you're reading with your colleagues.
Touch Instruments and a recording studio — play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses.
Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard!ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s a radically intuitive app that anyone will find extremely easy to use, regardless of age or background.
Snapguide is a simple, beautiful way to share and view step-by-step how to guides.
Creative Book Builder enables everyone to create, edit and publish ebooks in a few minutes on the go. All published ebooks can be read by any ePub reader including iBooks. Everyone is professional writer now!
Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Dropbox on the App Store. Download Dropbox and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Suggestion: Have students create their own content-based games.
See: http://list.ly/list/1CJ-student-created-apps-4-students?feature=mylist
Impress your friends with your own personal comic strips, created on your iPad, iPhone or iPod using just the photos from your photo album or iPhone camera.Select one of the many included page templates. Insert photos into the cells. Add a couple of balloons with fun words. Add additional effect symbols (stickers) like "Boom", "Splash", or "Bang" to spice up the story. When you are happy with your new graphic novel, share it with friends and family.Photos can be added from the camera, your photo-album, or downloaded directly from your Facebook account. You can apply filters to photos, and change the layout of the page to fit your needs. You can even paint on the photos, or draw your own sketches from scratch.
★★★ iTunes - App Store Hall of Fame ★★★ ★★★ NY Times - Top 10 iPad Apps of 2011 ★★★ Lights, Camera, Play! Toontastic is a storytelling and creative learning tool that enables kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with friends and family around the world through simple and fun imaginative play!
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 for iPad provides easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from around the globe and a news feed featuring breaking news from NSF-funded institutions. C