This is a tool you can use to upload pictures and add captions and music to create a video.
This is a fun tool that allows students or teachers to upload a photo, add a mouth, and record audio to create a mini-movie.
This is a tool you can use to create free online concept maps.
This tool allows teachers to create video quizzes by uploading videos and writing multiple-choice questions. Teachers can also search from a variety of pre-made video quizzes that are categorized by English proficiency level.
This is an online tool students and teachers can use to create multimedia posters with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments, and more.
This tool is great for student revision and editing. Students can create an avatar and then type in their writing assignments. The avatar will then read aloud the writing assignment so that the students can hear errors they have made.
An excellent digital storytelling tool you can use in the classroom.
This site provides language immersion through authentic language videos.
This is a free online tool that can be used to create quick formative assessments that will allow you to instantly and anonymously assess student learning of new concepts.
This is a free tool comic strip creation tool that provides teachers and students with a variety of characters, templates, and prompts for building their own comic strips.
This tool allows students and teachers to create mindmaps that others can view and add to.
This tool allows teachers or students to enter any text to have it read aloud. Users can adjust the speed of the text to account for different proficiency levels.
This is a free online stopwatch you can use in the classroom.
Using this tool, teachers can create a virtual wall that students can post comments on.
This tool allows students to practice their oral improvisational skills by responding to a random generated set of images.
This tool allows you to create an online journal. Entries are automatically dated and you can add images as well. Journal entries can be emailed or printed.
This is an easy-to-use tool that allows teachers and students to create comics.
This tool allows students and teachers to create virtual word webs. Students can also collaborate on the same web.
This is a tool student and teachers can use to create virtual flashcards to practice vocabulary with. In addition, students and teachers have access to hundreds of pre-made flashcards.
This is a tool teachers can use to assess student comprehension throughout a lesson. Teachers can create multiple-choice, true/false, and/or short answer questions that students can respond to online. The tool can then be used to generate excel reports that teachers can view to check student understanding.
This is a tool that allows students and teachers to make, read, and share visual stories.
This tool allows students to create their own comic trips with little technology knowledge. All they need to do is drag and drop.
This tool allows users to develop characters and enter dialogue in order to create a movie.
This site allows your students to create and use interactive flashcards.
Using this tool, teachers can upload an image and then have students add annotations.
This is a tool you can use to upload photos and then add comments, links, video, and sounds.
Using this tool, teachers can create a chat room for classroom discussions.
This tool allows students to choose from a wide variety of art in order to design totally original cartoons.
This tool allows users to shorten youtube videos to focus in on key pieces of the video segments.
An interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that grow with meanings and branch to related words.
Students or teachers can easily record their voice. This would be a great tool for students to practice pronunciation and reading fluency.
This tool is great for student revision and editing. Students can create an avatar and then type in their writing assignments. The avatar will then read aloud the writing assignment so that the students can hear errors they have made.
An excellent digital storytelling tool you can use in the classroom.
This site provides language immersion through authentic language videos.
APPS FOR CREATING POETRY ON THE IPAD
’1. USE POETREAT TO WRITE HAIKU AND RHYMING POEMS.
Use Poetreat mostly for drafting since the appearance is very basic. However the syllable counting feature and the suggested rhymes are very helpful for any type of poetry that requires syllable counting and/or rhyming. The app even has a rhyme scheme selector so students can select a scheme and the suggested rhymes for that line will pop on when appropriate.
After drafting with Poetreat, recopy poems onto iCan Write Poetry paper to display in the hall
2. SET UP A POETRY RECORDING AND LISTENING STATION WITH KIDS RECORDER.
Poetry is meant to be read aloud and heard. Students can use this very kid friendly recording app in a listening center to read aloud and record poems as well as listen to poems read by their classmates.
Consider setting up the center with one iPad, a bunch of poetry books, headphones and a print out the center activity directions available {here}
3. USE DRAW FREE ON THE IPAD (OR DOODLE BUDDY) TO CREATE PAPERLESS BLACKOUT POEMS.
Blackout poetry was making the rounds on Pinterest – there are some truly incredible examples using pages from a book or newspaper and a sharpie. .
Use this activity packet {here} for making the same kind of poems but on the iPad – no paper needed! Students take a picture of text, upload it to Draw Free on the iPad or Doodle Buddy, circle words from the text to make a poem, then color the rest black so that only the words they chose remain. They can also add a picture by drawing over the blacked-out part.
4. MAKE ONE-LINE CONCRETE POEMS ON BEND PIC EDITOR.
This photo app allows students to create custom shapes for their text – as long as the text is short (typically a sentence). Have students take pictures of something in the classroom, upload it to the app, then trace around the object and type their descriptive poem about the object. The app will insert their words into the shape that they traced!
Be warned, if your students like add pieces of flair to their projects– there are free stickers and frames that can be added as well…including “sunglasses.”
5. CREATE ACROSTIC POEMS ON PIC COLLAGE.
Use {this packet} to make autobiography acrostic poems at the beginning of the year using Pic Collage. The neat thing about Pic Collage is students can select different fonts for the letters and the rest of the sentence to make their acrostic poem stand out. Plus they can add pictures of things mentioned in the poem along with selfies.
Consider using Pic Collage to create acrostic poems of the planets in the solar system, holidays, characters in books, mini anchor charts using acronyms, or any topic that you are currently studying.
6. FIND RHYMING WORDS WITH PRIME RHYME – A FREE RHYMING DICTIONARY APP.
Use this on-the-go app as it does not overwhelm with words. Instead it selects a sample of words that rhyme to pull from.
It also includes near rhymes and slant rhymes so be sure to introduce these terms before using the app.
7. LINK PICTURES TO POETRY WITH THE VISUAL POET APP.
Use this app when introducing free verse or descriptive poetry. Students can use the in-app picture search or take pictures around the classroom or from stories. Students write lines about each photo, which are then combined into a photobooth style chain.
Since the app searches Google Images, Make sure to check the terms students plan to type in first just in case. Have students write their key words on a post-it.
8. MIMIC MAGNETIC POETRY OR FOUND POETRY WITH WORD MOVER.
This app by Read Write Think allows students to arrange words from famous text, word banks, or their own selections into a poem. I remember when Magnetic Poetry was the thing – so much so that they had all of these spin-off sets.
This app does pretty much the same thing although they can select a different background and add in their own words (perfect for kids who get frustrated when there is only one “the” magnet and they want another).
Students follow {this guide} when making their found poems in a center.
9. HOOK RELUCTANT POETS WITH INSTANT POETRY.
This app shoots out words and your poets-in-training arrange them however. Even your writers who struggle for ideas will be able to create a poem!
There are a variety of backgrounds too. The end result is a “found” poem with more limitations on words – which is a good for some students who need the scaffolding.
10. ARRANGE POEMS INTO BEAUTIFUL SHAPES AND COLLAGES WITH VISUAL POETRY.
Visual Poetry basically allows students to make a collage or shape out of their words. They have preset shapes or students can use their own. Students can adjust sizes, fonts, and colors too.
Use this after drafting a poem in Poetreat. Similar to Tagxedo on the PC, but WAY more user friendly with more options too.
Best used with concrete poems and descriptive poetry.
LOOKING FOR A WAY TO DISPLAY ALL OF THOSE POEMS YOUR STUDENTS HAVE SAVED ON THE IPAD CAMERA ROLL?
Pick up my FREE iCan Write Poetry paper {here} for students to either recopy their poems or glue QR codes that link to their digital files for display.
Have students upload their poems to their blogs, grab the image URLs for each poem, make QR codes out of them, and glue them on their iCan Write Poetry iPad paper. You could also use Google Drive, Drop Box, Flickr, or Photobucket -any site that will allow you to grab a URL of the image.