STArts Apps 2013General:

Dropbox – Share documents, files, songs, anything with cloud access. This can be downloaded onto your laptop, iPad, iPhone, etc.COST: FREE!

Google Drive - Get started with 5GB for free to safely keep all your stuff in one place and then access it from any device, anywhere. Store documents, pictures, or other files - even the big ones - using Google Drive and easily share them with anyone. COST: FREE!

Edmodo- An easy interface to connect to the Edmodo website. Join the Starts group!COST: FREE!

Minu Timer – Super cool version of the timer. Easy to set and peaceful. No big explosions when the timer goes off. :D COST: FREE!

SimpleMind+ Create MindMaps (critical thinking, what!?!) COST: FREE!

Classroom organizer (by booksource) Organize and keep a file on all the books you have. You can scan the book’s barcode and create a mini-library card catalog. COST: FREE!

eBackpack eBackpack is an assignment, storage, and collaboration service. eBackpack provides teachers, students, and administrators personal and group storage for assignments, handouts, and homework and the ability to do the entire homework workflow process without the need to print any paper.COST: FREE!

Blooms Taxonomy The best planning resource and reference tool for teachers! This app breaks down cognitive levels, providing lesson activities, question stems, and action verbs for each step of the learning process. Tailored around the Common Core, this app was made by a teacher for teachers. Take your students to higher levels of thinking without extra planning time on your part.COST: $0.99

Presentation:Doceri – AMAZING! Use to mirror your desktop. Bring up

multiple images (musical staff, grids, graph paper, etc.) to manipulate or draw on.COST: FREE TRIAL leaves a watermark on your screen. FULL version is $30 and I’m not sure if/when the free trial ends.

Mobile Mouse – Turns your iPad into a wireless remote with a virtual trackpad for your computer. Helpful for presentation and display techniques. COST: FREE “Lite” trial version. Full version is $2.99

ShowMe – Use like a virtual whiteboard. It can be used to record presentations to be replayed later. Import and manipulate photos and images. Allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online.COST: FREE!

Educreations – Virtually the same as ShowMe. Use as a virtual whiteboard. Record, import images, manipulate, etc. COST: FREE!

Multimedia:Beatwave Really cool way to connect sound to an image. Fun to

play around with and create a visual/musical arrangement. COST: FREE!

iMovie Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app that puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. COST: $4.99

Animoto Video Creator - Turn your photos into stunning, professional-quality videos, complete with music and text, with Animoto’s free app!  Parties, holidays, trips and family events - you've got a ton of photos on your phone just waiting to be turned into something incredible. COST: FREE!

MIC Pro – use as a microphone to record yourself easily. Great recording ap. COST: $0.99

SoundPrism Another cool (mostly musical) app that shows a connection with music and pictures. Easy to create and improvise sounds together. Might be cool for art teachers to show the connection between sound and imageryCOST: FREE!.

Puppet Pals HD – Create puppet shows to go with songs or stories. Record vocals and music to go with the show. COST: FREE!

SoundBrush SoundBrush is the easiest way to create music on an iPad. Create full featured songs by drawing, as SoundBrush converts the lines into musical notes. Share your songs with people around the world using Discover, a place to inspire and be inspired. COST: FREE

Coach’s Eye Record it. Break it down. Get better. Improve your pitcher's fastball, straighten your golf swing, easily break down a volleyball serve, improve soccer skills, or even demonstrate weightlifting form. Coach's Eye makes instant feedback possible on the field or on the go. COST: $4.99

Pinnacle Studio Big-screen moviemaking comes to the touchscreen with Pinnacle® Studio for iPad. Our leading film-editing technology brings you an easy-to-use app that enables you to quickly edit video, audio, and photos at the speed of your creativity.COST: $12.99

IN A WORLD where you can be the star of your own movie trailers... InAWorld…Drama is a fun app that lets you create and star in your very own movie trailers. It's a combination of Mad Libs meets the movies that's very entertaining and surprisingly addictive. COST: $1.99

IN A WORLD where you can be the star of your own movie trailers... InAWorld…Comedy is a fun app that lets you create and star in yo ur very own movie trailers. It's a combination of Mad Libs meets the movies that's very entertaining and surprisingly addictive.

COST: $1.99

Classroom Management:Planbook – Lesson planning app. You can set it to match your schedule and

lessons can be moved around if needed. Good for organization. COST: $5.99

Decide Now- Cool App that gives either rewards or consequences or whatever you want in a randomized way if students to something good. COST: $0.99

Teacher Kit – Organize students. Take attendance, grades, and monitor behavior. Molli modeled this in the morning session. COST: FREE!

Classroom Dojo Helps teachers work on and manage student behavior. Also captures and stores data on students in case you’d like to share with administrators/parents. COST: FREE!

You Can Handle them All is a quick-action resource for managing 124 student behaviors at school and at home.  Categorized by the 4 primary causes of student misbehavior, this app:

Clearly describes 124 different student behaviors you may encounter. Offers a number of quick actions you can take to manage each behavior. Reveals the common mistakes teachers often make when trying to correct behaviors.COST: $1.99

Stick pick Helps you pick a student out just like a traditional stick jar. You can also differentiate so that you pull questions based on what a student’s level of Blooms, etc. You can even track a students responses and send feedback.COST: $2.99

NearPod The Nearpod platform enables teachers to use their iPads to manage content on students' iPads, iPhones or iPods. It combines presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution. COST: FREE

Too Loud This app allows you to see volume levels in simple numerical form and will warn you if you should be wearing ear plugs!COST: FREE

Art:ArtSite Allows students to crate visual galleries, find out

background information on museum pieces and comment on other student’s work. COST: FREE!

Art Race A gave where students have to learn some of the most famous works of art. Start out as an “apprentice” and then move up to “master” by learning the must known works of art history. COST: FREE!

VSB Art History Concentrates on the philosophies, inspirations, and styles of Western art. Examples of realism, cubism, impressionism, expressionism, and fauvism will be shown and discussed.COST: FREE!

artCircles Take a spin through artCircles™ to discover a world of art images in a brand new way. Let your fingers wander as you whirl through wheels of art by colors, words and themes. Get inspired by our Inspiring Insiders: the artists, designers and creatives of our times who share their unique visual perspectives and the art that moves them. Each spin reveals new art that just may surprise you and change the way you see a painting or photographCOST: FREE!

PBS has opened up even more of its amazing video archive and is now offering thousands of new videos. Explore and see what is new for all of your favorite programs! You also can now connect with PBS using your favorite social network.COST: FREE!

MoMa Art Lab creates one of the most creative and inspiring experiences that I've encountered since the iTunes Store opened. The tools are easy to use and produce fascinating artwork. The six [now nine] activities based on the work of real artists make brilliant use of the iPad.COST: $2.99

National Gallery, London HD “London National Gallery HD” gives you a unique chance to enjoy the masterpieces of the world art without even standing up from your sofa. No matter whether you go by subway or stand in a traffic jam, with our application you will always have time to plunge into the world of Rubens, Tiziano and Rembrandt.COST: $1.99

ArtHD Great Artists and their masterpieces. Art Gallery. Slideshow and Quiz. COST: FREE!

Art Museum (timeline) Timeline brings to life the paintings of such masters as Botticelli, Da Vinci, Micheclangelo, Van Gogh, Monet, Courbet, Klimt, and 73 others in an eye-catching and easy to navigate format.COST: FREE!

Art Mogul Fun game!! Travel around the world, bidding at exciting auctions, exposing fakes and masterpieces as well as acquiring priceless collections. Find over a thousand objects, open your very own art gallery and build your art empire that will stand the test of time.COST: FREE!

Louvre HD The application contains a collection of 770 best paintings of the Louvre Museum. Here you will find the works of Raphael, Rembrandt, Da Vinci, Veronese, Delacroix and many other eminent masters of painting.COST: $0.99

IconPopBrand is a logos quiz game with a fun twist! It challenges players to name products, brands, companies and organisations using imaginative, handcrafted visual clues inspired by each answer. The more accurately and quickly you respond, the better the score you’ll have to compete against friends worldwide on Game Center! Can you guess all the icons? COST: FREE!

Let’s Create! Pottery HD Free your creativity! Making ceramics has never been more simple and fun! Become a true artist and create "one of a kind" pottery items. Throw the clay on the wheel, release all your artistic talents and take benefit of dozens of materials available in order to create your own design! Even when you glaze and fire your very first pot you will feel accomplished and relaxed as pottery is the best way to relieve your everyday stress and find your inner peace. An amazing, therapeutic and uplifting experience you can enjoy with your family and friends! COST: $4.99

123D SculptWith Autodesk® 123D™ Sculpt you can sculpt and paint interesting and realistic 3D shapes. It’s easy to get started. Choose a shape from the library of creatures, humans, vehicles, and more. Then push, pull and paint to make the sculpture your own. When you are done, take snapshots in the camera room or create animated QuickTime turntable movies to upload to YouTube or email to friends.COST: FREE!

Drawing Carl Simply the best drawing App for kids in the Appstore. Making beautiful drawings has never been so easy thanks to Carl. You can even play with talking stickers that repeat anything you say with a funny voice!COST: $1.99

Spin Art+ One of the best-selling iOS apps of all time! Join millions of SpinArt fans around the world and find out what all the fun is about! The New York Times says "if you and your child were stuck on a desert island with just one app, you’d want it to be SpinArt!" COST: $1.99

iOrnamentLITE combines art and science, creativity and education, math and fun. With iOrnament everyone can be an artist. You draw strokes and iOrnament repeats them according to rules of symmetry. You will create fascinating ornaments and intricate designs. Fun and challenge from ages 3 to 103. Interactive pop-up tutorial and many drawing tips included! COST: FREE!

Creatorverse Become an inventor as you design unique creations and then set them in motion. You’ll never know what to expect as you watch your creations bounce, roll, tilt or even accelerate on the screen. Let your creations come to life as you play with different joints, forces, motors, teleporters, and inputs then watch what happens next. From the simplest bouncing ball to an elaborate pinball machine, the possibilities for tinkering are endless on Creatorverse.COST: FREE!

DRAMA:

Sock Puppets Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice.

COST: FREE

Scripts Pro Write that Hollywood blockbuster movie script anywhere with Scripts Pro. You can create, edit, or review your scripts whenever creativity strikes -- in the coffee shop, at home, or on the go.

COST: $12.99

Stage Write for iPad Capture creativity with this revolutionary app designed for directors, choreographers and stage managers. Easily document choreography, spacing, traffic patterns, and movement for theatrical events and productions, as well as cheerleading and marching band formations. Create dynamic spacing charts, blocking books, and track the complex movements of all moving elements of a production, including details about staging and choreography.

COST: FREE

Young Performer is a bi-monthly magazine providing advice, tips and inside information for young people who want to perform, both for enjoyment and as a career. YP is published by Ten Alps on behalf of Stagecoach Theatre Arts plc theatre schools which provide training in the performance skills of drama, dance and singing.

COST: FREE

The Amazing Improv Generator is a tool for those who need spontaneous ideas either for improvisational performances or creative writing assignments! This incredible app will provide you with a random Character, Setting and Event all at the push of a button!

COST: $0.99

Music:Meet the Orchestra with Jiminy Cricket, you can learn instruments

of the orchestra and also do some aural training. Learn about different families of instruments. COST: $1.99

MSO Learn (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) Learn about different instruments in the orchestra. Learn about their different sections and the musicians who play those instruments. Cool musical examples of each instrument. COST: FREE!

Recorder Master: You can play your recorder with the app and it helps with intonation. Also helps students to play in time and use basic technique. COST: $1.99

MLM (Music for Little Mozarts) High and low sounds, etc. basic/young K-2 musical concepts. COST: $0.99

Singing Fingers Mostly just fun to play but can help associate sound with movement and drawing. COST: FREE!

Magic Piano Easy way to play some really cool songs. Fun to play around COST: FREE!

Blob Chorus Ear training and fun. You have to identify when things are higher/lower and sequence. COST: FREE!

Musicnotes Decks: Music Flash Cards- Music Symbols, Music Notes, etc. COST: $2.99

DO RE MI Memory Another flashcard app for kids so that they can learn notes and find their place on the staff.COST: $0.99

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – Pictures, bios, videos, etc. that teach rock and roll music history. COST: $1.99

The History of Jazz – an interactive timeline An interactive history of jazz using the iPad as a platformCOST: $9.99

Finger Stomp Like STOMP – environmental sounds. Using trashcans, brooms, etc to make sounds COST: $0.99

Flashnote Derby Pick the notes you want students to use and it will give them a random note. If they can answer it correctly in the allotted time their horse will win the game. Motivates students to be able to quickly identify notes on the staff. Nikki uses in a center to get kids to work together on this activity. Showst students what they’ve missed. COST: $0.99

You can also download a variety of instruments for free or cheap. For example: “PercussiveFree” “Instruments” “Ukulele” “Xylophone” etc.

Also check out this website for more teacher apps:

http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/47-core-teacher-apps-a-visual-library-of-apps-for-teachers/