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.
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.
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.
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 uses four public domain children's stories and you can re-order them, add text or voice recording.
Writing Prompts
Cost - $4.99
Has over 600 creative writing prompts. Uses different scenes, current events, words, sketches, colours, genres, and writing 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.
Storyteller
Cost-$1.99.
Good app to trigger ideas. You can pick a scenario using pictures from your camera roll. Easy to use with thousands of ideas, plots, etc.
Storycubes
Cost-$1.99
Easy to use app. Put pictures together in sequence to make up a story. You can e-mail the finished product. Decks of pictures to sequence. Helps with triggering ideas and sequencing a story.
Language Builder
Cost-$3.99
You choose a picture from your camera roll and record your voice to create a story. Picture-based story telling. You can e-mail the recording. Can help with sequencing, improve expressive and receptive language. Good to get ideas going.
StoryBuilder
Cost-$3.99
Records your voice based on a picture. Sequencing. Triggers ideas. E-mail your story with the voice recording.
WritePad
Cost-$3.99
A unique app for handwriting recognition. You write on your i-pad or i-pod touch and it translates it into text. Good for students with problems with mechanics of writing and spelling difficulties. Increases speed of input. Can store files in folders and e-mail document. Exports to a pdf file.
Speak It
Cost - $1.99
A basic text to speech app. Easy to use. You type in the text and it reads it back to you. Good for editing.
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