Cost - $9.99
A presentation creating app with choice of style masters, animations, fonts and styles. Touch, tap and drag to arrange objects on your slides. Easily add photos and videos to your presentations.
Audionote
Cost - $4.99
A note taking app that synchronizes notes and audio. Each note has a direct link to when it was recorded to make it easy to find later. Has a pen mode to handwrite notes, and highlights notes during playback. Notes and audio can be e-mailed. Great for students who have trouble taking notes in class.
Notes Plus
Cost - $4.99
A note-taking tool that supports handwriting, typing, and audiorecording. Can write with your finger and text shows up small and neat. Has a shape-auto detection function. Easy to edit, organize, erase and recover material.
Pages
Cost - $9.99
Lets you create great looking letters, reports, flyers, invitations, reumes, posters and projects. Lots of templates to choose from. Write in your own words or speak them and they appear on the screen. Add photos, movies, and graphics. Automatically saves as you go so you won't loose your work. Can easily add header, footers and page numbers. Spellchecks your work.
Story Kit
Cost - Free
Create your own stories by either drawing on the screen or using a picture from the camera roll. Can add voice recording or sounds to the story. App also has four public domain children's stories and you can re-order them, add text or voice recording.
Cost - $0.99
Great for both beginner and seasoned writers. Provides tips to improve your writing. Topics include the writing process, technique, how to read like a writer, developing plot and story, dialogue, dealing with writer's block, editing, and getting published. Includes over 300 excercises to get creativity going.
Writing Prompts
Cost - $4.99
Has over 600 creative writing prompts. Uses different scenes, current events, words, sketches, colours, genres, and writing types.
Essay Writing Wizard
Cost - $6.99
An excellent guide to support high school students with their essays. Has different sections for notes, outline, bibliography, and essay. Has step-by-step writing instructions for each section so you can concentrate on content.
High School Writing
Cost - $17.99
A little pricey, but worth the money. Helps you through any type of essay you would need to do for high school. Types of essays are: persuasive, cause and effect, compare and contrast, descriptive, expository, five paragraph, narrative (first person), narrative (third person), opinion, and reaction. Also contains a list of college prep essay types.
A.I.Type Tablet Keyboard
Cost - Free
Will help you type faster and better. Has word prediction, auto-correction, auto-learning, undo/redo/navigation capabilities and cool skins that you can customize. Here is a YouTube video of the app in action.
Instant Poetry
Cost - $1.99
Similar to the once popular magnetic fridge magnets to create poetry, it comes in an iPod app. Drag and drop words to create poems. Can import a background from iPod pictures. Can e-mail the document. Good to trigger ideas in the writing process.
iThoughts
Cost - $7.99
A graphic organizer app to help students organize their thoughts. Similar to Inspiration with concept maps, bubbles and links to the bubbles. Easy to navigate. Can export to a pdf file. For lower level content skills.
Voice Memo
Cost - $0.99
For students with problems with mechanical skills (ex: holding a pencil) or fine motor skills. You do a voice recording and it saves it. Good for students with really good ideas but written output is difficult. Can e-mail the recording. Easy to use.
DocToGo
Cost-9.99
Pricey app but you get word processor, Excel and Power Point on your i-pod. Use it as your computer. Send document via e-mail. 3 templates for Power Point slides.
Tiki Notes
Cost-Free
A good word prediction app. Has an alternate keyboard for those who find it too small. E-mail text. Supports spelling. Copy and paste document. For upper level mechanics issues.
Dragon
Cost-Free
Good app for students who have all the ideas and excellent verbal expression, but have difficulties putting it on paper. A voice to text app. You must have Wifi in order to send the voice to a server. Must have the skills to articulate, plan and oraganize ideas. Firewall must be opened to use this app. Easy to use. Can do editing, grammar, etc., E-mail text.
Pictello
Cost - $14.99
A words to picture app with option of voice recording. An e-journal using pictures from camera roll. Good for story development, sequencing of ideas. Text to speech to create a read-aloud book. Can type in story of voice record. Can send e-journal via e-mail. Good for any sequencing type activity or for use in social stories.
StoryBoard
Cost - Free
Create your own cartoons with this app. Hundreds of characters and props to choose from for those who need prompts. Good for sequencing events. Free version lets you do two stories with ten drawings. Many options to show movement of the characters or direction. Can add pictures that can be moved around, re-sized, etc. Can add arrows. For background, can use a picture from your camera roll. Good for sequencing of events, show cause and effect, for reluctant writers. Can add text.
Reel Director
Cost - $1.99
Captures video and creates small films. Can include voice overs, text, editing feature. Can be exported.
Evernote
Cost - Free
Has many of the features other apps have, all in one app. It can do voice to text writing. Purpose is to save any notes via text or voice recording. Can add pictures with text and voice overs. Good for students who have ideas but problems putting in into text. Or students who have ideas at home or on the bus and with this app, you can quickly voice record an idea (for a story or project) and save it for later.
Create your own cartoons with this app. Hundreds of characters and props to choose from for those who need prompts. Good for sequencing events. Free version lets you do two stories with ten drawings. Many options to show movement of the characters or direction. Can add pictures that can be moved around, re-sized, etc. Can add arrows. For background, can use a picture from your camera roll. Good for sequencing of events, show cause and effect, for reluctant writers. Can add text.
Reel Director
Cost - $1.99
Captures video and creates small films. Can include voice overs, text, editing feature. Can be exported.
Evernote
Cost - Free
Has many of the features other apps have, all in one app. It can do voice to text writing. Purpose is to save any notes via text or voice recording. Can add pictures with text and voice overs. Good for students who have ideas but problems putting in into text. Or students who have ideas at home or on the bus and with this app, you can quickly voice record an idea (for a story or project) and save it for later.
Private Journal
Cost - Free
A daily journaling app that allows you to keep track of daily events. Type in text and add pictures and music. Good for students going on a trip to keep track of events with pictures and save it as a writing project. Can also be used for science field trips, band trips, etc.
MindJet
Cost - $6.99
More sophisticated looking than Inspiration. Can add neat symbols, arrows or rounded lines to connect the bubbles. Can be saved and exported. Good to organize ideas before the writing task or for sequencing of events. Works with MindManager program.
The Brainstormer
Cost - $1.99
This app allows you to develop story with prompts. Good for writers block. Very visual and engaging. It has three spinning wheels with plot, theme, and subject/location. By spinning the wheels you can develop story ideas or let the wheels take you where they may. Good for creative prompts for writing.
Whack Pack
Cost - $1.99
An app for the more advanced writer who has a serious case of writers block. This app has won many awards for creativity and innovation. There are 64 illustrated creative strategies to help writers develop ideas. Four themes. Based on the original Whack Card Deck. The cards that come up will be random that makes it fun. Can also be used as a problem solving app. Very unique.
Check out YouTube demo by the creator of this app.
Mind Mash
Cost - Free
A brainstorming and note taking app for the i-Pad. You can generate ideas by combining text, pictures and drawings to generate ideas. Great for projects in any subject area. Can add these "bits" onto a sheet and use text, pictures and/or drawings or scribbles. Layout of the sheet is free form.
Mind Node
Cost-$5.99
A mindmapping app similar to Inspiration program. Easy and intuitive application to put ideas down and to organize them. Bubbles are called nodes in this app. You can drag and drop them on the screen which makes it interesting and fun. Save and export. Bright and colourful.
Simple Mind
Cost - $6.99
A mindmapping app for the i-Pod and i-Pad. You can drag and drop bubbles and lines. Bubbles can be color coordinated and lines can have various designs. Search topics for ideas. Scroll, zoom or rotate page. Final product can be e-mailed or saved in camera roll.
Idea Sketch
Cost - Free
A brainstorming and note taking app for the i-Pad. You can generate ideas by combining text, pictures and drawings to generate ideas. Great for projects in any subject area. Can add these "bits" onto a sheet and use text, pictures and/or drawings or scribbles. Layout of the sheet is free form.
Mind Node
Cost-$5.99
A mindmapping app similar to Inspiration program. Easy and intuitive application to put ideas down and to organize them. Bubbles are called nodes in this app. You can drag and drop them on the screen which makes it interesting and fun. Save and export. Bright and colourful.
Simple Mind
Cost - $6.99
A mindmapping app for the i-Pod and i-Pad. You can drag and drop bubbles and lines. Bubbles can be color coordinated and lines can have various designs. Search topics for ideas. Scroll, zoom or rotate page. Final product can be e-mailed or saved in camera roll.
Idea Sketch
Cost - Free
Another mindmapping app that lets you convert your map to a text outline similar to Inspiration program. Good for brainstorming ideas and then having an outline already made into text. Facilitates the writing process.Maps can be saved. Easy to use. Enter the text and move the shapes around.
Popplet
Cost-$4.99.
Another mindmapping app to use to organize ideas or sequencing. What is unique about this one is you can add pictures from your camera/web or draw inside the bubbles. You can create vision boards for personal use or to visualize a project. Can re-size the bubbles. Drag across and it automatically creates another "popplet". Touch the screen to create a stand-alone bubble. All the connecting is made on the screen. Bright colors. Good for students who have the ideas and thoughts, but have difficulty organizing them. Can save your popplets. Can zoom in and out.
You can watch demo on YouTube.
Simple Mind
Cost-$6.99
A simple mindmapping app to organize thoughts and ideas. Good for students who have never tried an app organizer. You can colour code the bubbles. Type in the text in the bubbles. Tap to make a connection between the bubbles. Check out the demo on YouTube.
Cost-$6.99
A simple mindmapping app to organize thoughts and ideas. Good for students who have never tried an app organizer. You can colour code the bubbles. Type in the text in the bubbles. Tap to make a connection between the bubbles. Check out the demo on YouTube.
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