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Using iPads in the Classroom:The twelve apps of Christmas?!?
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App 1: Socrative
Practical Ideas: • Create a weekly tables quiz.• Assess knowledge at the start and end of a topic.• Ask your children to create a quiz about them.• Use as a way to assess emotional wellbeing at the start of a day.
The Socrative app allows your children easy, quick access to the quizzes that you
create online, it is self marking and
free!
App 2: Word Salad
Practical Ideas: • Assess the children’s vocabulary choices by pasting in their last
piece of work.• Give children interesting vocabulary lists.• Create a visual poem through careful word choice.
The Word Salad app allows you to create
word clouds from pasted or written
text. You can choose how to format and then save it as an
image.
App 3: iMovie
Practical Ideas: • Instead of creating a newspaper, film a news report.• Convert a class book into a film trailer.• Plan a conversation between characters and then get into role
and film it.• Become a scientist and explain a concept using a whiteboard.
iMovie allows you to shoot, edit and
enhance films only using the iPad. It is simple to use, but
has a wide ranging functionality.
App 4: Dragon Dictation
Practical Ideas: • Give a writer with low confidence the chance to see their
writing come to life.• Get the children in your class to add punctation verbally to a
paragraph without punctuation.• Write a paragraph in a pair, only speaking one word at a time.
Dragon Dictation automatically
scribes writing from your spoken words
App 5: Popplet
Practical Ideas: • Collect together photos from the web to create a mood board.• At the start of a topic, create a board of what you know and then
at the end, correct it with what you have learnt.• Map out a key concept by breaking it down into its smallest
parts.
Popplet allows you to create mood
boards with text, photos and drawings.
App 6: Inspiration Maps
Practical Ideas: • Choose different words to use instead of simplistic verbs by
mapping all the alternatives.• Plan a five part story by considering each part at a time.• Generate ideas for a DT project by mapping out your ideas as
quickly as possible.
This is a mind mapping
application, which allows you to organise your
thoughts using text, image and links.
App 7: Foldify
Practical Ideas: • Use the character net to map out a character from your class
text.• See how many properties the children can label on 3D shapes
that they have made.• Create a Minecraft style object from cuboids.
This application gives the user nets
for 3D shapes, which can be decorated, printed and then
created in real life.
App 8: Halftone 2
Practical Ideas: • Create a story map of a recently read text, by photographing
hand drawings and then adding them to a comic strip.• Create a five part non chronological text using creative
commons photos from Flickr.• Shoot a story by freeze framing the action on the camera and
adding the text.
This is a comic strip creator, which
allows you to simply and easily create comic strips from
photos.
App 9: Book Creator
Practical Ideas: • Write a story, but deliver each part in a different medium.• Re-write a story using the photos from the text.• Explain the most recent maths method that you learnt, using
text and image.• Throughout a school year encourage the children to create a
book of their best work, which can then be printed and taken home.
This app allows you to create beautiful
ibooks from photos, text, audio and
video.
App 10: Garageband
Practical Ideas: • Use the digital drum machine to create a times table rap.• Record, edit and publish a podcast of your school’s news.• Capture the sounds of learning in a soundscape.
This is the most complex, yet simple to use digital music
creation tool we have ever used.
App 11: Soundcloud
Practical Ideas: • Improve writing by asking the children to record their writing.
As the record they should correct and embellish their work.• Share learning with others in school by creating a song about
what you have learnt.• Record a class podcast, explaining a complex subject or topic.
This application allows you to record, edit and share audio
recording on the web.
App 12: Slingnote
Practical Ideas: • Find out information about a topic and note it down by stealing
the key information.• Create a mood board for a new product, by looking at similar
existing products.• Look at example websites, before creating your own using the
same features.
This application allows you to
browse the web and then clip ideas,
images and texts from what you read.