Tools for eLearning Lessons

There are so many great tools you can use on the iPad to create lessons for students.  You don't have to wait for an eLearning day to start creating awesome digital content.  Here are just a few apps that can really enhance teaching and learning!

1. Doceri is a free whiteboard app for the iPad that lets you record your voice while you annotate on the screen.  It allows you to save to your camera roll, so that is a huge benefit!  Once it is in your camera roll, you can move it to pretty much any other app!  It is a wonderful tool for creating a lesson . . .  and students can watch it again and again if they need to!  Doceri can also be used by students to demonstrate their learning.
2. Book Creator is a free iPad app that will allow you to create a lesson that appears in book format. Each page can be customized with your own text, writing, drawings, images, and more.  You can even record your voice and insert short videos from your camera roll.  The free version only allows a few books to be created, but once you’ve loaded them into eBackpack, you can delete them and create more.  Students can open the book in iBooks, and the book will remain on their shelf for future use!!  Students can also use the free app to create books of their own.  
3. Adobe Voice is a free iPad app that is amazing!  It allows you to quickly and easily create slides that include your voice, photos, text, and more.  The finished product looks very professional! This app also allows you to save your finished product to your camera roll, so that is a bonus, too!
4. Shadow Puppet EDU . . . ok this sounds like an app that would work only for elementary students, but it is great for anyone!  Just like the others mentioned, you can create a lesson that includes video, photos, audio, and more. And it is so easy to use!  
5. Keynote and iMovie are also great ways to create interesting lessons.  Don't forget that you can narrate a keynote presentation and record it so students can watch and listen to it more than once if necessary.

Step by step instructions for all of these tools can be found in our eBackpack group NWCS Tech Tidbits and Training Materials.