Story Creator

Story Creator is a wonderful iOS app for digital storytelling that I found out about from Sue Gorman.  This app allows users to create interactive books that contain: audio, video, text, and images.  One of my favorite features is that it helps students learn how to read by highlighting text as it is read.

I highly recommend checking out Story Creator by clicking here!!!

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Language Nursery School

Language Nursery School is a wonderful iOS app for introducing young kids to foreign languages.  This app uses interactive nursery rhymes to expose children to 5 different languages such as: French, Spanish, English, and more.

I recommend checking out Language Nursery School by clicking here!!

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Stack the States

Stack the States is a wonderful iOS app for learning about different facts and shapes of the 50 US states.  The game is simple in where a student tries to answer a question about a state and then stack them up to reach a "finish line" (think Tetris)  Once the line is a hit the user moves on to the next board.  This game helps teach students about the: US capitals, nicknames, state shapes, Geography, and more.

I recommend checking out Stack the States by clicking here!!!

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Map Tales

Map Tales is an interesting site that is ideal for digital storytelling.  The way this works is a user creates a story that integrates w/ a map by plotting points/locations.  These "points" contain information and images that the user creates.  This is a great way to share a story w/ visuals or even engage audiences w/ an exciting book report.  Best of all once a Tale is create it can then be embedded into a site and shared w/ others.

I recommend checking out Map Tales by clicking here.

Below is a demo of the Map Tale for Homer's Odyssey....

30hands

30hands is a wonderful free iOS app that I was lucky to find out about from an email.  This app is perfect for digital storytelling and very easy for students use.  All a student has to do is upload any photo from their iPhoto library into the app.  Once this is done they can arrange which order their pictures are in.  After that a user can either record their voice or create a new slide w/ images.  Best of all there is a simple video tutorial that one can watch before starting.  This is something that not all apps have and is refreshing to see.  A finished story can then be saved into a user's iPhoto library or exported onto 30hands learning website.

I highly highly recommend checking out 30hands by clicking here!!!

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Kids Book Report

Kids Book Report is a fantastic iPad app for teaching students how to create and write a book report.  This is all done from a very nice easy to user interface that has a template for students to fill out on each part of the report, such as: book information, setting, characters, etc.  Finally, the report gets saved as a PDF and can be shared via email.

I highly recommend checking out Kids Book Report by clicking here!!

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Quadblogging

Quadblogging is a new term/concept that I just found out about on Twitter.  This is a great concept that has 4 schools blogging in a cycle that helps people view and comment on students blogs.  The way this works is once a class/user signs up they get entered into a "quad" and then a moderator makes sure things run smoothly.  Classes/students will start blogging from a school while others view and comment.  The following week another school/class will then blog and others will read/comment and the cycle goes on until all 4 schools/classes have blogged.

I highly recommend checking out Quadblogging by clicking here!!!

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