Shoot video and overlay explosions, crash landing satellites, spaceships and more. Great for using as a stimulus for writing. In and amongst great video overlays such as alien spaceships landing there are inapproprite oneswith horror based content. If you craete a video using this app we would only install this on a teacher device and use it as a stimulus rather than letting children use it.
GamePress is a game creation app that allows anyone to make the games of their imaginations with no programming or graphic design. Whether you have a story to tell, a topic to teach, or just want to play a game, GamePress allows you to create, share, and play right on your iPad. GamePress is fun, creative, and entertaining.
GamePress is great for beginners.
If you’re new to making games, our interactive guide will help you make your first game in minutes!
GamePress includes all the necessary tools to create the games of your imagination.
Don’t just make games, play them too!
With the GamePress Arcade you can share your games to the world, and even play other users’ games.
Click here to watch our short video tutorial (login needed).
Create music using the smart instruments, jam along with other users, connect and record real instruments. Import your music into other projects. Works especially well with iMovie.Great for recording spoken word work too.
Create, edit, and collaborate with others on documents from your iPod, iPhone, iPad or other tablets with the free Google Docs app. With Google Docs you can:
* Create new documents or edit any that were created on the web or on another device
* Share documents and work together with others in the same document at the same time
* Open, edit, and save Microsoft Word documents
* Get stuff done anytime even without an internet connection
* Add and respond to comments
* Never worry about losing your work everything is automatically saved as you type
* Protect your documents with a 4-digit passcode
Work together to create documents and spreadsheets on different devices at the same time.
Use the Google Docs element of Google drive to create simple documents. More than one person can write and edit, work can be shared with teachers for commenting and marking. Includes speech recogntition so words sentences can be dictated
Also accessible on computers. You need a Google account to use Drive. Sign up for a Google account to use with your class or speak to us about setting up your school with Google Apps for Education
Google Slides makes your ideas shine with a variety of presentation themes, thousands of fonts, embedded video, animations, and more. All for free.
An app for reinforcing and practicing the grid method. Two different levels.
Halftone turns your photos into unique, vintage comics that friends and family will love! More than a simple “photo filter” app, Halftone makes it easy to add paper styles, captions, speech balloons, graphic stamps, and fonts (including built-in comic fonts). Your final image can be sent via e-mail, uploaded directly to Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, shared with apps like Instagram, Camera+, and Color Splash, printed, and even sent as a real, physical postcard through the mail!
Halftone 2 makes it easy to create comic and scrap books with your images. Choose a page layout, apply photo filters, position captions, add speech and thought balloons, place some WHAMs, BAMs, and POWs, mix in a few sound effects, and share your creation as an image, multi-page document, or high-definition video. There’s no faster or more fun way to share your stories.
Hopscotch works by dragging and dropping blocks of code. Build little routines and press play to see your code in action! As you get more advanced, you can add more objects and run your code using events like shaking and tilting the iPad or even shouting at the iPad! It is heavily inspired by MIT's Scratch.
Covers sections devoted to Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar. Over 2500 unique questions.
I am learning: KS2 Maths is an entertaining and engaging game based revision and assessment tool,
Create animations with this easy to use app. We’d recommend buying tripods for iPods or iPads for use. Export finished films to the camera roll, open and edit in iMovie to add titles, music, captions and voice overs.
Apples e-book app. Due to Apples Volume Purchasing Programme you’ll need to buy a copy of every book for every device. It’s worth installing as books pupils make in Book Creator can be exported to iBooks.
Time lapse app, great for use in Science. You’ll need a tripod to keep the iPad / iPad steady. The latest generation of iPads have time lapse built into the camera.
Click here to watch our short video tutorial (login needed).
Free with iPads purchased after September 2014. Can be used for video, time lapse and slideshows. One of the most important apps for teachers to use on their iPads.
Shoot, edit and upload your film all in one app. Create high quality trailers from the pre –made templates. You can take photos or import them to create a slideshow and record your own audio.
For Maths, Record pupils working through questions on whiteboards. Fim pupils responses to questions for use in data handling work. Create slideshows of real life examples of shapes. Record people in school posing real life Maths questions such as the caretaker, cook, business admin.
Interactive Telling Time is great for kids from ages 3 to 12 and comes in 5 difficulty levels so that it helps kids master telling time progressively (statistics is provided to help keep track of your child’s progress).
Beautifully illustrated with many adorable clock designs and accompanied by encouraging voice-overs and cheerful background music, this app creates a kid-friendly environment to enhance their learning experience.
The free version has less games and activities
Create posters and interactive content with video and images on this app. Syncs with your school j2eaccount. All BLN schools get j2e accounts for all pupils as part of their subscription.
All content can be uploaded to your free school blog on j2webby (after teacher approval).
Click here to watch our short video tutorial.
Apple’s Presentation tool creates superb presentations that can be exported and saved as PDF, Powerpoint or Keynote files.
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