AR Flashcards - Bringing the Alphabet and Dinosaurs to Life

AR Flashcards is an augmented reality app.You will need to download and print the flashcards from their website (http://arflashcards.com/). Using the AR Flashcards app on your iPad, tap on Get Started and hold the iPad over the flashcards. You can rotate the iPad or the flashcards to view it from different angles. If you tap the projected image, it will say the letter and animal (or dinosaur name). They suggest that you print the flashcards in color but black and white will also work. The website also has AR Space flashcards but the AR Space App costs.

Classroom Applications:
Vocabulary
Letter Recognition

Popplet Lite

Popplet Lite is a free mind-mapping application. It is easy to use for brainstorming and for students to share ideas and knowledge. The app allows students to save their finished map as an image to their camera roll. The "lite" or free version of the app will only let you store one popplet at a time. When you create a new one, the old one is erased. 

Classroom Applications:

• Map/Visualize Vocabulary words - click here for an example
• Create Character Maps
• Create a Story Map
• Work out a math concept, sorting
• Share research  - Social Studies/Science
• Create mind-mapped images to bring into other video/project apps –  iMovie, Videolicious, Educreations, etc…

Click here for a great science application/lesson idea of Popplet lite.

Bitsboard

Bitsboard

Bitsboard (from Grasshopper Apps) is a fantastic app that includes games and flashcards for learning reading, spelling, and much more!

Teachers can create their own "boards" with current vocabulary words, spelling words, unit terms, etc. -- just type a word and it magically provides you a choice of pictures and also audio.  You can also choose to download boards from the catalog. Popular topics include English 101, Spanish 101, Action Words, Telling Time, Count Money, Phonics, First Sentences, Emotions, Seasons, US States & Capitols, and many more!

Classroom Applications:
* Flashcards for any subject
* Spelling
* Sentence Creation
* Vocabulary Words
* Foreign Language
* Students can create their own board!

bookPress

The bookPress app is a free tool to create digital books. There are templates to create a children's book, poetry book, cookbook, a picture book, or a storybook. You can also use a blank template to create any kind of book you wish. Bookemon, the publisher, provides bCloud storage for your books.  Your completed books can be viewed through this app or read online. From the app you can also choose to order print copies of your book.


Bookemon also provides edCenter, a free, private, secure environment for teachers and students to create, collaborate, and share their books. Email addresses are not required for student accounts. This video provides a brief introduction and overview of this app:

Classroom Connections:

• write a class book about a field trip
• research and write biographies of historical figures
• create a class memory book
• publish student narrative writing
• create expository "how to" manuals
• publish student poetry anthologies
• create a book to document STEM activities and scientific explorations
• create a leadership book of ways students demonstrate the 7 Habits

Trading Cards

Trading Cards - This is one of my favorite new apps! It allows students to show what they know about people, places, or things in an original format. This even has an option to practice and show learning of new vocabulary!







Here is what the developer said about this cool app:

Create trading cards for any number of categories, including:
• Fictional person
• Real person
• Fictional place
• Real place
• Object
• Event
• Vocabulary word

Each category has  guiding questions for creating the card.

You can send the completed trading cards to the camera roll and then save it to WebDAV so you can move it or print it later!

Classroom Applications:

* summative project on famous historical figures

*culminating project-based learning activity

*formative checks for new vocabulary terms

*formative/summative assessments of literary characters

and, MUCH MORE!