Listly by Shannon Long
Apps that are great to use for student presentations.
ReadWriteThink’s Trading Cards app allows kids and teens a unique way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters.Create trading cards for any number of categories, including: • Fictional person • Real person • Fictional place • Real place • Object • Event • Vocabulary wordEach category has specific guiding questions for creating a dynamic, information-rich trading card. Summarizing skills are critical as they drill down to the most important information to fit on the card. In addition, they become aware of writing for an audience because they can share their cards with others.Part of the appeal of trading cards is being able to sort them into collections. Have kids and teens build a collection of cards for characters from their favorite book, landmarks in their favorite city, events from a period in history they find interesting, or vocabulary words by school subject. FEATURES: • Multi-user card storage • Management of users by deleting and restoring within 2 weeks • 7 card categories, each with a targeted set of guiding questions that cover key information • Ability to add and edit an image from your device’s camera or photo library • 12 card designs for styling cards • Helpful how-to information on each screen • Ability to create collections of completed cards • Auto-saving of cards as they are created • Viewing of finished card for proofreading • Ability to save card to photos • Ability to print card on a wireless printer • Ability to send card by e-mailTrading Cards is an educational app for all ages that adds creativity and fun to the learning process. If you have ideas for educational uses for this app in school or at home, please Contact Us.Privacy: Your trading cards are private unless you decide to share them by e-mail. ReadWriteThink.org does not store any personal information from this app.
Use Morfo to quickly turn a photo of your friend's face into a talking, dancing, crazy 3D character!Once captured, you can make your friend say anything you want in a silly voice, rock out, wear makeup, sport a pair of huge green cat eyes, suddenly gain 300lbs, and more. Want to show off your awesome 3D creations to the world? Easy! Record a message and post a video of your talking, dancing character right to Facebook! Use Morfo to create the coolest Party Invite or Happy Birthday message ever. Morfo is simple, fun and flexible. FREE features include: * Turn friends, pets, drawings or objects into life-like 3D characters. * Record, then post videos of your characters directly to Facebook.
Videolicious 2 is completely rebuilt to make video creation even easier and faster! Instantly combine your videos, photos, music and stories into a stunning movie masterpiece. Just talk and tap to create the perfect video. Super fast and easy movie making -- now with incredible cinematic filters!Impressive -- TechCrunchFun to Use -- PC MagazineBrand New Features:☆Instantly filter multiple videos + photos at once☆Talk and tap to magically line up your narration☆Record or import a story, or just add music☆Instantly preview your movie combination☆Post HD videos on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube☆Email gorgeous HD video postcards
Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app that puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in the Marquee view. Create Hollywood-style trailers or sophisticated home movies in minutes.* And share your finished projects with the world – right from iMovie. Made for Multi-Touch• Tap to add video, photos, music, and sound effects• Drag to trim the length of any clip• Pinch to zoom the timeline• Swipe down on the playhead to split a clip; swipe up to freeze a frame• On iPad, pinch vertically to open the Precision EditorBuild Hollywood-style movie trailers• Choose from 12 trailers with stunning graphics and original scores by some of the world's top film composers• Customize movie studio logos, cast names, and credits in Outline view• Add and adjust videos and photos in Storyboard view• Add existing content from your library, or record new footage right into your trailerCreate beautiful HD movies• Choose from a selection of 8 unique themes, each with its own set of titles, transitions, and music• Add videos and photos from your library, or shoot directly into your timeline• Let the Ken Burns effect automatically animate your photos, or pinch and drag to create custom pan-and-zoom effects• Craft a soundtrack using included music and sound effects, songs from your own music library, and audio that you record right into your project• On iPad, view color coded audio waveforms for every clip in your projectShare your HD movie on the web and at home• Publish directly from iMovie to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and CNN iReport• Send to the Camera Roll and share in an email or via iMessage• Use AirPlay to stream video to your HDTV over Wi-Fi with Apple TV• Transfer your project to iMovie on your Mac and compatible iOS devices Trailers are available on iPhone 4 and later, iPad 2 and later, and 5th generation iPod touch.AirPlay is compatible with the second-generation Apple TV or later.CNN iReport TM and © 2012 Cable News Network. A Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.
Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice.Friends can work together with multiple puppets and create hilarious conversations. While recording, simply tap a puppet and that puppet will lip-synch, tap a different puppet and switch auto lip-synching to it. Switch backgrounds to take your puppets to different places, move the puppets, props and scenery to animate them while recording. Cartoon and photo realistic puppets are included.
★★★ 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! With over 2 million cartoons created in over 150 countries, parents and teachers rave about the app... and kids can't stop creating!Making cartoons with Toontastic is as easy as putting on a puppet show - simply press the record button, move your characters onscreen, and tell your story. Toontastic records your animation and voice as a cartoon video to share with friends and family on ToonTube, the app's global storytelling network for kids. “Kids and parents will agree: Toontastic is fantastic. The app offers a creative and engaging educational experience that builds a critical new bridge between informal and formal learning.” -Michael Levine, Executive Director: Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop