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Best of the Best: Content Creation Apps

This year, we highlighted apps recommended by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).  AASL considers these to be some of the Best Apps for Teaching & Learning.  As a recap, we’ve resorted them into their five categories and will feature one list per week for the next five weeks. 

For our final week, we focus on the Content Creation apps:

Notability icon

 

Notability allows users to make their notes richer – through writing, drawing, and voice recordings!

Tellagami

 

Tellagami is a platform for making animated videos.

Shadow Puppet

 

Shadow Puppet lets users create a presentation and add their voice recording if they want!

Photo Editor by Aviary

 

Photo Editor by Aviary is full of touch-up tools, filters, stickers, and frames to add to your images.

RWT Timeline

 

RWT Timeline provides an interactive way for users to create timelines.

More Best of the Best Apps: STEM, Social Science, Books, and Organization & Management.

Best of the Best: Organization & Management Apps

This year, we highlighted apps recommended by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).  AASL considers these to be some of the Best Apps for Teaching & Learning.  As a recap, we’ve resorted them into their five categories and will feature one list per week for the next five weeks. 

This week, we focus on the Organization & Management apps:

Subtext icon

 

Subtext encourages students to connect learning material to real life experiences.

Pocket icon

 

Pocket allows users to save online material so that they can view it later!

Goodreader

 

GoodReader creates a place for users to organize and annotate their various files, from PDF to PowerPoint!

instaGrok

 

instaGrok is an interactive, personalized, search engine app.

Easy Portfolio

 

Easy Portfolio provides users with a portfolio to save multiple forms of media to.

More Best of the Best Apps: STEM, Social ScienceBooks, and Content Creation.

Best of the Best: Book Apps

This year, we highlighted apps recommended by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).  AASL considers these to be some of the Best Apps for Teaching & Learning.  As a recap, we’ve resorted them into their five categories and will feature one list per week for the next five weeks. 

This week, we focus on the book apps:

Wonder of Life

 

Brian Cox’s Wonders of Life has 3D capabilities that engage the user as they learn about science and social studies.

A Day in the Market app icon

 

A Day in the Market teaches the user about other cultures and languages while they interact with the story’s main character!

Disney Animated

 

Disney Animated takes users behind the scenes of their favorite Disney movies!

War Horse Interactive

 

War Horse Interactive Edition pairs English and History, providing users with a richer understanding of the context of the novel.

Audubon Guides, Butterflies

 

Audubon Guides: Butterflies encourages its many users to interact with each other, and has great image quality.

More Best of the Best Apps: Social ScienceSTEM, Organization & Management, and Content Creation.

 

Best of the Best: Social Science Apps

This year, we highlighted apps recommended by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).  AASL considers these to be some of the Best Apps for Teaching & Learning.  As a recap, we’ve resorted them into their five categories and will feature one list per week for the next five weeks. 

This week, we focus on the Social Science apps:

DuoLingo

 

Duolingo is a game that teaches users a foreign language – points for translating correctly!

History Pin icon

 

Historypin lets users put their pictures on the map – and compare to pictures from the past that were taken in the same location.

Civil War

 

Civil War by KIDS DISCOVER interacts with users through nonfiction readings, battlefield visits, and info about the key players of the Civil War.

Umano

 

Umano saves users’ time by reading their news stories out loud!

More Best of the Best Apps: STEMBooks, Organization & Management, and Content Creation.

Best of the Best: STEM Apps

This year, we highlighted apps recommended by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).  AASL considers these to be some of the Best Apps for Teaching & Learning.  As a recap, we’ve re-sorted them into their five categories and will feature one list per week for the next five weeks. 

This week, we focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) apps:

moster_physics

 

Monster Physics users play with monsters while they learn the rules of physics!

Water Cycle HD icon

 

Water Cycle HD uses videos to make learning about the water cycle more interactive.

DragonBox Algebra 5+

 

DragonBox Algebra 5+ has its users solve equations in a gaming environment.

Kodable Pro

 

Kodable teaches users how to code as they play their games!

NOVA Elements

 

NOVA Elements features a game, videos, an interactive periodic table, and a chance to build atoms and molecules.

More Best of the Best Apps: Social ScienceBooksOrganization & Management, and Content Creation.