Scribble My Story

Scribble My Story 
Encourage your students to create and customize stories!  There are 6 free story starter books included and 1 free recordable blank book! The app includes access to stickers, backgrounds, a drawing tool set, and an audio record option. Books can be shared via email or read directly from the iPad.
• All About Me
• If I were a Mermaid
• My Dino Book
• My Pet
• I can Fly
• My Vacation
• 1 Blank Book for freeform custom audio and illustration

Classroom Applications:

• Creative Writing
• Writing Fluency
• Emerging Readers
• Art and Drawing

Tech Resources

Sometimes we just need a great idea to inspire us!  Here are some sites from which you may find some great tech-inspired learning resources.  Check them out...

  http://www.technologytailgate.com/2013/04/40-ipad-lessons-and-resources-for.html   

http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/

 

http://ipadapps4school.com/

 

http://www.iteachwithtechnology.com/

   

Bluescreen - It

Bluescreen-It! is a fun app that allows your students to "visit" and become a part of a time period or location by placing them into the scene.  Simply find your background scene, take a picture of students in front of a blue or green screen, and then mash the two together using the Bluescreen-It app. Have students dress and hold props to match the scene to really make the experience meaningful.  Just be sure that students avoid wearing green clothing if using a green screen and avoid blue clothing if using a blue screen.



Classroom Applications:  Science (ie. place students in space), Historical Studies (ie. place student on Ellis Island), Springboard for Writing, Class Posters, Import into FaceTalk or iMovie app to create a video

Kodable

Kodable is a self-guided app that introduces computer programming to elementary students.  It is just one of the featured learning experiences in the 2013 Hour of Code coming up next week during Computer Science Education Week! Be sure to look at the many learning possibilities for K-12 students available!

What's an Hour of Code?

It's a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code" and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, an innovator.

Classroom Applications:

• Learn to solve problems in sequential steps
• Introduce programming concepts and problem solving
• Set up your classroom or computer lab with learning stations which use various tutorials from the Hour of Code Day!

Monkey Drum

 

Monkey Drum is a fun app for all ages! Excellent for building rhythm skills and creating songs!

Explore the Monkey Drum area -- tap "Play" in the center. The cute monkey will repeat rhythms and melodies you play on the djembe drum, kalimba (thumb piano), or  marimba. Tap the monkey's head and mouth for special sounds to include in your rhythms.  You can even spin him around! After playing for awhile, you are rewarded with a banana to feed the monkey.  After the monkey eats 3 bananas, you get free hearts which will unlock other instruments, accessories, and songs.
The Song Maker allows you to create your own music using a vertical grid.  You can change the tempo as well as the instrument. The bottom right corner allows you to add measures (or pages) to your song.  Each is 8 beats. Tap play to hear your song played by the monkey.
 
You also receive free hearts each day you play, so be sure to check the mailbox!

Classroom Applications:
* Echo & create rhythms
* Repeat rhythm patterns on other instruments
* Teach melody and melodic direction using the marimba or kalimba keyboard
* Create songs
* Develops listening skills
* Develops memory skills