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Alan Peat’s sentence types are already used in 22 countries. Now, for the first time, they are available as an app with genre-links and in-built interactivity.
The Alan Peat Pocket App of Exciting Sentences provides teachers and parents with 25 ‘consistent-language’ sentence types, clearly explained and right there on either iPad or iPhone instantly at hand.
The app includes an Introduction to the sentence types with THREE sets of examples for each sentence: generic examples; genre-specific examples (both fiction and non-fiction) and Mathew Sullivan’s Introductory language/ Intermediate language/ Higher order examples.
Additionally the App includes a ‘Developmental Continuum’ designed to help schools and parents to understand when (and how!) to best introduce the sentence types – ideal for ‘whole school’ approaches to grammar.
For ease-of-use the app also features a ‘Sentence Grammar Glossary’ using plain English to explain complex grammatical features of sentences, with the useful addition of embedded teaching tips.
Finally the app also allows users to make and save their own personal notes/ lesson plans directly in-app. You can also back them up to Dropbox and email them directly from the app: two handy tools for networks of schools seeking to share ideas and planning!
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Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage.
Add new or existing photos and videos. Import PDF, PPT, DOC, XLS, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and RTF files from Evernote, Dropbox, Box, GDrive, WebDAV, Email, iTunes, and any app that allows you to open these files types using "Open In…". Export MP4 movies, PDF documents, PNG images, or XPL project files directly from your iPad.
No account is necessary to use Explain Everything and share creations.
Please rate and review the app if you like it and please direct all technical issues to support@morriscooke.com
Explain Everything has been a top paid education app since its release in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany and Turkey.
*** 50% discount for educational institutions ***
Check for details - http://www.apple.com/itunes/education/
The App Store Volume Purchase Program allows educational institutions to purchase iOS apps in volume - Explain Everything is available under this program - please search for "morriscooke" in the VPP App Store.
Download our free Explain Everything iBook manual from the Apple iBooks bookstore: https://itunes.apple.com/book/explain-everything/id591601596?mt=11
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[…] it not only has this local export feature included, but a raft of others that make it feel like a 2.0 or 3.0 release in comparison to the others I've tried in this genre - like import of PDFs, powerpoint or keynote files, and full Dropbox and Evernote integration. For those like me who use Evernote to 'remember everything', being able to pull in any note I have stored there and annotate over the top, or even record a narration, then export this enhanced note straight back is brilliant. For students, they can import an existing PowerPoint presentation and just draw and highlight over the top of slides, all the while verbally explaining, and export to a movie that encapsulates their understanding much better than the mere slides would.
For educators, it means the option to create video podcasts is now available whenever and wherever we require it.
http://langwitches.org/
The different pieces you draw, type or import become objects that can individually be manipulated (resized, deleted and are treated to be a on a layer that can be send to back, front, etc)
[…] Export features: I am not forced to upload the video file to the company’s site. I have CHOICES! I can export a screenshot of the slide I created to my Photo Roll (this feature is huge for me, since I can now import the movie file directly from here into iMovie on the iPad and make the screencast part of a larger movie), via e-mail, to Dropbox or Evernote.
Grids can be classes, sections, groups of students, research groups, faculty groups, or any collection of users interested in a common strand of questions. Each grid can hold an unlimited number of text or video questions. Questions are short videos or text-based prompts (think Twitter™) that can include basic formatting (e.g., bold, italic) and links to websites or documents.
ClassDojo helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators.
Teachers can use this app to give their students positive behavior feedback and manage their classes, while parents can check on their child's progress at school. Beautiful reports and easy classroom management are all built in - and everything syncs across all of your devices!
Better learning behaviors, smoother lessons, and hassle-free data - and it's free for teachers!
Welcome to the Future of Images.
Make your images come alive with private video, notes, or even music from YouTube.
Holiday, family, interiors, sports, and personal images can be shared privately or with your network on Facebook and Twitter.
PLEASE NOTE! ThingLink is completely free to use.
◆◆◆◆◆ “Whoa, my images become alive! ”
◆◆◆◆◆ “Family photos, music, reporting, traveling... the possibilities are endless”
Use ThingLink to instantly add video and text to images. Create unforgettable greetings, interactive travel photos, and capture best moments. Share images to your friends on Twitter or Facebook — and communicate in new ways.
ThingLink introduces a new, richer way to share the world through photos. Touch the Future of Images. Download the app now and start tagging.
= FEATURES =
√ FREE TO USE
√ Choose or take a picture with your phone’s camera
√ Add interactive tags on your image
- YouTube videos
- Videos from your phone’s camera
- Twitter handles
- Text
√ Share with friends on Facebook, Twitter and Email
√ Browse your own interactive image gallery
√ Join the ThingLink community at ThingLink.com
√ Take advantage of your own channel at ThingLink.com
Note: a network connection is required to use this application.
If you like ThingLink please take the time to rate the app!
It's pretty painless and keeps our boss from making us add those annoying "please, rate us" popups.
Connect with your friends - and other fascinating people. Get in-the-moment updates on the things that interest you. And watch events unfold, in real time, from every angle.
The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad.
Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBooks Store.
Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on.
Perfect for the home
Use Book Creator to create a personalised story for your child, or arrange family pictures and art into a beautiful eBook. Then pass your iPad to your child and watch their imagination run free!
Perfect for the classroom
"My students loved this app. They felt it was so easy to use, that they could open it for the first time and know intuitively what to do. Having it then go to iBooks and create an individual bookshelf was fantastic."
- Rosey McQuillan, Pre-K-12 Assistive Technology Specialist, Massachusetts
Book Creator is available with a 50% discount under Apple's volume purchase program.
Perfect for designers
"What a great tool! It’s sleek, intuitive, and easy. Being able to design a fixed layout picture book right on the iPad makes total sense. Highly recommended."
- Liz Castro, Author of ‘EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating ebooks for the Apple iPad and other ereaders’
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TESTIMONIALS
"It’s easy to learn and intuitive to use. This app rates an A+"
– Dallion, Children's illustrator
"The app is super intuitive! I was working on a book for my 7 year old niece (who lives in Brazil) in no time. It took me about 30 minutes to put together a book for her, publish in iBooks and email the ePub file to my brother…to open it up on his iPad…. for my niece to read it."
- Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, langwitches.org
"In my opinion the essential education app for the iPad!"
- Andrew Rhodes, Apple Distinguished Educator and Director of Technology, International School of Stavanger
"Book Creator is a marvellous idea"
- The Guardian
"I’m genuinely excited about this app"
- appplayground.com
"We are very excited about Book Creator... off to layout a kids picture book, then maybe mom’s recipes."
- igoipad.com
"We used Book Creator to layout our new iBook, 'Are You My Friend?' We love how easy it is to use this WYSIWYG tool then immediately view and test it in our iBooks library. This tool has become an essential part of our iBooks production workflow."
– David Fox, Electric Eggplant
Bring your life's work together in one digital workspace. Evernote is the place to collect inspirational ideas, write meaningful words, and move your important projects forward.
Part educational story and part game, the Elements 4D app offers a new, fun way to experience augmented reality and learn about real-life chemistry.
Paired with either paper or wood blocks that are inscribed with the symbols of 36 elements from the periodic table, this app will instantly transform a simple, inanimate object into dynamic, dimensional, 4D representations of each element.
Designed by DAQRI, the Elements 4D app enables you to:
• Interact with 36 amazing, naturally-occurring elements and learn their names, what they look like, and their atomic weights
• Learn unique, fun facts about each element
• Combine two elements together and see how they react, including the catalyst, resulting compound and chemical equation
• Get inspired about chemistry!
About Elements 4D
Elements 4D was successfully funded on Kickstarter in July 2013. The DAQRI-designed interactive wooden blocks are now available for purchase at http://daqri.com/elements4D.
You can also use the app with papercraft blocks that you can print out for free and make at home. Just download the following images and follow the folding instructions to create your own papercraft blocks:
http://daqri.com/elements4D-paper-blocks
To get started, aim the app viewfinder at either a paper or wood Elements 4D interactive block and watch it come to life. Next, introduce a second block into view, put them together, and see how they react!
Remind (formerly Remind101) offers teachers a free, safe and simple way to instantly text students and parents. Teachers can send or schedule reminders, assignments, homework, assessments, or motivational messages directly to students' and parents' phones. Interactions are safe because phone numbers are kept private, and messages are sent with no open replies. Teachers, students and parents see mobile messages from all their classes in one place.
For students and parents, Remind provides an easier way to stay informed outside of the classroom. They can now download the app and opt-in to receive messages faster with push notifications!
Use Remind to send free text messages to save time, engage students and involve parents with your class. Try it today! And if you love it, share it with your colleagues or write a review!
BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK: “Jessica D, a teacher in Louisiana, uses Remind daily to brief parents on whether their children did well in class and what their homework is for the night. She says the app has led more students to complete their homework and even credits it with improving scores on standardized tests. “The word I use is ‘transform,’ ” she says. “It transformed my classroom. And I think it made me a better teacher.”
PARENTING: According to a study conducted by Harvard University, on average, teacher-family communication increased the odds a student completed their homework by 42% and decreased instances in which teachers had to redirect students' attention to the task at hand by 25%. Parent-teacher communication is clearly key to a student's success, and Remind can help.
BUZZFEED: “...SMS allows the app to be used by parents without smartphones. Brett Kopf said that Remind’s features have proved especially popular in low-income districts, where parent engagement is a key issue for teachers, and parents’ sometimes erratic work schedules can make it difficult to get in touch by phone.”
Note: Remind is only available in English. Stay tuned for more languages!
Dropbox syncs files your smartphone and tablet with your laptop or desktop. Never lose a photo again. Access your files on the go
Quickly assess your students' reading fluency and comprehension with FluencyFinder, the must-have app for teachers that includes 48 original passages, built in timer, instant words-per-minute calculation, data storage and sharing, and more. Even add your own passages for compliance with any curriculum!
Featured by Apple in 50+ countries
Voxer gives you instant voice on smartphones that’s live like two-way radios, but is saved so you never miss information. You can also send text, photos, and share your location alongside audio messages.
You can easily and instantly communicate with friends, family or co-workers. Forget about separate phone calls, voicemails, text messages and emails. Voxer is faster, cheaper, and saves you time. Voxer works over any 3G, 4G, or WiFi network in the world.
Voxer also brings messaging to a new level with receipts that tell you when your messages were delivered and heard/seen by everyone! Plus, you can share any of your messages to social networks, email or SMS using the Share feature.
Join the tens of millions of people worldwide who are using Voxer to:
* Enjoy a free, live Walkie Talkie - PTT (Push To Talk)
* Send voice, text, photos and location messages
* Play messages anytime - they're all recorded
* Chat with one friend or with a group
* Create messages even when offline
* Get notifications for new messages
* Avoid annoying advertisements
* Works on any cellular data network and WiFi – good for international use
* Play voice messages faster at 2x or 3x speed
++++ UPGRADE TO VOXER PRO +++++
You can upgrade to Voxer Pro from within the app for $2.99/monthly or $29.99/yearly. Just go to the Settings page or your profile page.
Voxer Pro upgrades the app with premium features, including:
* Larger Group Chats - create chats with to up to 500 people at a time
* Walkie Talkie Mode - pick chats to hear and talk back to without being in the app
* Extreme Notifications - get louder, more frequent notifications for messages
* Custom Username - let people to find you by looking up your preferred username
* Store More Data - Voxer Pro customers can store their audio, text or picture messages for more than 90 days.
When you subscribe to Voxer Pro, a payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Manage your subscription in the Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when a subscription to Voxer Pro is purchased. For more information on privacy and terms of service, please see our policy below.
++++ VOXER BUSINESS CUSTOMERS+++++
If you are a Voxer Business customer, with iOS 7.0 or installed on your device, you can log into your account using this app and your Voxer Business login credentials. You should have recieved an email with instructions, or your administrator may create a username and password for you. If you have questions or cannot access your account, please email support@voxer.com.
Any questions?
- Like us on Facebook @ fb.com/voxer
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- Check out support.voxer.com
- Send us your feedback directly from Voxer. Tap Settings -> Support -> Contact us
Write About This is a visual writing prompt & creation platform perfect for classrooms and families! With endless ways to respond and the ability to craft custom photo prompts, it will kick-start any writing activity. 125 categorized images & 375 text+voice prompts included!
RECENT REVIEWS:
“Versatile and easy to use for kids of many ages. The pictures are engaging and show diversity; the prompts get kids thinking critically and creatively.” -Common Sense Media
“An excellent app to use for developing writing and fluency skills with students.” -Karen Bosch, K-8 Educator, ADE
"My favorite is using the Write About This app because it is real data with their recorded voice and it would be a great artifact to have when speaking to parents at conferences as well as a wonderful component to digital portfolios." - appsolutelyapril.com (@AprilRequard, ADE)
“Editor’s Choice!” “Outstanding” “Great for a very wide range of ages and abilities..a highly useful and flexible tool for home or classroom to encourage children to write.” -BestAppsforKids.com
Featured in “Best iPad Digital Storytelling Apps” on EducatorsTechnology.com
"The ability to change the complexity, remove text prompts and search by topic and image is great, especially for children at different reading and writing levels. If your child likes to write or express their imagination, we highly recommend this app for your collection."-CNET
“Very intuitive...an embodiment of the Universal Design for Learning principles” -EdTechKit.com
“Making writing fun again... an ‘A’! For any parent who may have a child who is needing extra practice in writing, I highly suggest this app.” -TeachersAppReview.com
WHAT TEACHERS SAY:
“I couldn’t get students to stop writing at the end of the day!” - @RebeccaWildman, 4th Grade Teacher
“Great for writing prompts...very easy to use!” - @pwagnerlcisd, Instructional Technology Specialist
“My students love it! They are even downloading and writing at home with family iPads!” - @appleclassroom, 3rd Grade Teacher
Full version Includes:
**COMMON CORE ALIGNMENT
An easy way for students to compose and share Opinion and Narrative digital writing!
**AMAZING COMBINATION OF IMAGES AND PROMPTS
Carefully selected and written by teachers, all 125 pages and 375 prompts are interesting and appropriate!
**SIMPLE DIGITAL PUBLISHING
Multiple authors can write and save to the gallery. Download to the Camera Roll or share a polished Write About by email (.JPG, .PDF or .MOV)!
**CELEBRATE STUDENT WRITING
Authors can now add a voice recording with their work to create a personalized movie on the Camera Roll!
**FAST PHOTO+WRITING
New Quick Write button gets kids publishing immediately– perfect for when they have an idea and an image (no prompt needed)!
**CREATE AUTHOR PORTFOLIOS
New Profiles feature with custom avatar and default email allows for further individualization and saved work can now be filtered by author!
**ANYONE CAN CREATE THEIR OWN
Use your photos, ideas and voice to capture unique Write Abouts!
**FLEXIBILITY TO FIT EVERY LEARNER
Voice & Level options based on learning theory and real classroom experience!
**WORKS WITH ANY NUMBER OF DEVICES
From single teacher iPads, to carts, to 1:1...educators are using the app to meet their unique needs!
**EASY AND ACCESSIBLE
Search content based on interest, curriculum, season or theme.
Our world is full of amazing scenes with stories yet to be written...what will you Write About?
Visit our Learning Hub at WriteAboutApp.com
Discover and share books you love on Goodreads, the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations!
Find new and interesting books by browsing personalized recommendations based on books you've read and your favorite genres. See what your friends are reading, write book reviews, and keep track of what you want to read.
Use our barcode scanner the next time you are in a bookstore. Add the book in your hands to your "to-read" shelf and browse reviews before buying.
More than 20 million members have added more than 570 million books to their shelves. No other app combines the power and depth of the Goodreads community with an enormous catalog of books and reviews.
Features:
• Get personalized recommendations and discover new books based on your tastes.
• Goodreads Choice Awards: vote for your favorite books of the year and see the winners!
• Participate in the Reading Challenge!
• Barcode scanner!
• Keep a want-to-read list.
• See book reviews and updates from your friends.
• Discover new books and explore popular book lists.
• Read ebooks! We have more than 2,000 public domain books, completely free.
• Rate and review any book in our catalog of more than 12 million books.
• Share notes and progress updates as you read.
• Recommend books to friends.
• Join online book clubs and connect with other readers.
• View literary events near you.
Hopscotch teaches kids to code using simple, intuitive building blocks. Kids can make games, animations and programs in this colorful, interactive environment.
Play the biggest update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition so far! It’s the overhaul of a generation. Download it now and see for yourself!
Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures.
Pocket Edition includes Survival and Creative modes, multiplayer over a local Wi-Fi network, infinite worlds, caves, new biomes, mobs, villages and lots more. Craft, create and explore anywhere in the world so long as you have hands spare and battery to burn.
There’s never been a better time to enjoy Minecraft on the move.
Minecraft — Pocket Edition is a Universal App. Pay once and play on any of your iDevices.
Chatterpix can make anything talk -- pets, friends, doodles, and more!
Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then share your Pix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, or creative cards. And best of all, it’s FREE!
This App allows sharing via email, Facebook, and YouTube. If you'd like to restrict these options, please download “ChatterPix Kids” - aimed at kids 13 and under.
TOOLS: 22 stickers, 12 frames and 11 photo filters
About Duck Duck Moose -- We’re a small team of design-minded parents, illustrators, and engineers focused on creating the best content for kids of all ages. We’ve been creating apps since 2008 that follow our goals of making experiences that delight, encourage, and allow for open exploration and imagination. We hope you like this one!
Visit us: www.duckduckmoose.com
Email us: support@duckduckmoose.com
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Watch us: www.youtube.com/duckduckmoosedesign
Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Our software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web.
The Kindle app puts over a million books at your fingertips. It's the app for every reader, whether you're a book reader, magazine reader, or newspaper reader-and you...
This app is for your students. Full teacher features coming soon!
EDpuzzle is an easy and effective way to deliver videos in the classroom. Video is no longer a passive experience, with EDpuzzle video comes to life with audio-notes and questions. An interactive an unique experience for your students. Make any video your lesson.
For students, EDpuzzle provides an easier way to learn through video-lessons outside of the classroom. Students can download the app and opt-in to receive video-assignments directly with questions, so they can check their understanding through the video.
Use EDpuzzle to make any video your lesson, engage your students to learn in a 21st century tool. Try it today! And if you love it, share it with your colleagues or write a review!
Note: EDpuzzle is only available in English. Stay tuned for more languages!
iDoceo is your new powerful and easy to use gradebook for the iPad.
Its spreadsheet engine will calculate averages in real time as you put information in.
No internet connection is required to use it.
You can insert any kind information for each class, student and semester visually, no more boring spreadsheets. Scroll , expand, filter, export,import and view your information at any time.
-Add columns, rows and pages to organize your information at will.
-Use configurable editors on each column for ultrafast edition and adapt the gradebook to your needs.
-Define your own grades system, apply roundings and automatic color schemes
-Add files ,images, links, record audio and video , add text or annotations in a cell,student,class,diary, or column header.
-Up to five seating plans per class, with three different views and configurable backgrounds
-Planner for each class, with single day view,week or month. Add&Edit iCal events.
-Protect your contents with a password
-Landscape, Portrait and full screen modes
-Import your data from a XLS or CSV file
-Export everything to native PDF , XLS , or CSV (for any major spreadsheet software)
-Configure your own reports
-Send personalized information to your students by e-mail automatically with their grades, annotations or files
-Filter information of students on screen.
Full backup and restore with Dropbox/Google Drive/iCloud/WebDAV. Your data is completely safe with iDoceo
Import your current information and use it from today!
Visit our website's forum at www.idoceo.net if you have any questions or suggestions for our next updates
Impress your friends with your own personal comic strips, created on your iPad, iPhone or iPod using 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.
Text balloons can be positioned, sized, and rotated freely on the page. You can alter colors, font, text-size. You can give the balloons color gradients for additional impact.
There are plenty of stickers to spice up the action, but you can also create your own using photos from your photo-album and the built-in masking and drawing tools.
Use warped text with thick borders and gradient color-fill to give your cartoon the super-hero look.
Additional fonts can be installed from the web, so you will only be limited by your own imagination.
While you work, you can freely pan and zoom to control even the smallest details.
Once you have finished your masterpiece you can save it to your photo album, email it to your friends, upload it to Facebook or Flickr, or create a tweet with Twitter and Twitpic
-- All from within Strip Designer.
Features:
• More than a 100 page templates with 1 to 9 photo cells
• Multipage books
• Create your own layouts with up-to 12 photo cells
• Many different balloon types
• Text with per letter colors and fonts
• Warped and perspective text (even 3D)
• Change ballon size, rotation, color, and transparency
• Use any iOS font or install additional fonts
• Color gradients
• More than 150 stickers to insert for additional impact
• Dropbox and WebDAV photo, fonts, and document download/upload support
• Publish on Facebook, Flickr and Twitter
• Download photos directly from Facebook
• Export to PDF to create real comic books
• Control scale, position and rotation of photos
• Integrated drawing tools to create your own drawings, paint on photos, or make your own stickers
• Many different cell styles
• Various photo filters
• Freely pan and zoom while you work
• Insert maps
• PDF import (for both cells and custom stickers)
• Advanced cell-layout management
• iCloud sync
• Page effects to give your pages old look
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