Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Tech Tip Tuesday-Apps from our PD session

Here are the links to some of the apps we used at our back to school professional development sessions.  Some of these are paid apps so please let us know if you are interested in adding these apps to your classroom iPads.

iMovie
iMovie lets you enjoy your videos and tell stories like never before. Browse your video library, share favorite moments, create beautiful movies, and watch them on all your devices in iMovie Theater.

You know what a "green screen" effect is, right? It's used in the movies to make it look like the actors have landed on an alien planet, and it's used on TV to make it look like your local news announcer is standing in front of an animated weather map. The green screen effect works by combining images from multiple sources into a single video. These images can come from photos or videos in your camera roll, or from the live video camera. 

Finger paint with your favorite colors and drop in playful stamps. 
WHAT MAKES DOODLE BUDDY SO SPECIAL?
• Funny sounds paired with stamps are a blast!
• Doodle and stamp all over your own pictures
• Scribble inside fun stencils to draw perfect shapes. Get more stencils    with Doodle Bucks!
• Text Tool with resizable text and four fonts
• Post your doodles on your Facebook page
• Draw with other users on the same WiFi network
• Text chat back and forth with your drawing buddy
• Send your drawings to friends via email

Tynker is the easiest way to learn programming. Students solve puzzles to learn concepts and easily build their own games. Themed graphics, music, and animated characters are included to create imaginative games, apps and stories. Plus, with the new connected devices supported, they control Sphero robots, Parrot drones and Philips lights! Classroom management features for teachers available via tynker.com.

By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy. With ScratchJr, children don’t just learn to code, they code to learn.

Help your child bring their LEGO characters to life with the LEGO Movie Maker App. Simple tools and guides make it easy to shoot, edit, and even score your movie with music.

The LEGO® Movie Experience is the ultimate fan-guide for the first-ever, full-length theatrical LEGO® adventure. 

This award winning game and accompanying curriculum, is designed to teach the basics of computer coding to kids 5 and up

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 for iPad provides easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from around the globe and a news feed featuring breaking news from NSF-funded institutions. Content is either produced by NSF or gathered from scientists, colleges and universities, and NSF science and engineering centers.

Take control of your robot friend, Alpha-1, using logic, puzzle solving and math skills. Use your arsenal of shrink rays, invisibility cloaks, shields, propeller packs and a whole lot more as you program your way through 80 mind-teasing levels. Program a sequence of instructions for your robot to follow, and earn all 3 ribbons per level by creating efficient programs and collecting all the coins.

TinkerBox is a fun, free-to-play physics puzzle game. While it is full of interesting science facts and teaches basic engineering concepts.

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