Android and iPad apps for language teachers

Below is a collection of iPad apps we have particularly curated for art lovers.  Students can use these applications to unleash their expressive power and enhance their creative thinking skills.  The apps feature a wide variety of tools and features (e.g.,built-in  brushes, fonts, stencils, text, shapes, and more) that make art-making a fun and engaging activity. Students can use them to doodle, draw, and sketch their artwork and share them with others.

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Mindmapping apps uses diagrams to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.

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The iPad can be so may different things. I use mine for reading, writing, making music, watching movies, and if I have any time to waste, I might play a game. The iPad is pretty much the ultimate creative tool, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t sit back and “consume” the odd “content” every once in a while.

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"Hundreds of apps can follow your movements and share the details with advertisers, retailers and even hedge funds. Here’s how to limit the snooping."

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The best writing apps for iPad, like any concept of ‘best,’ is subjective and further based on need and circumstance.

Are you a poet drafting when inspiration strikes? A student taking notes and writing essays? A novelist that usually uses a desktop, but needs their new iPad Pro to do work on the go?

While the idea of writing more than a few hundred words on an iPad may seem crazy, using the iPad as a powerful portable writing tool allows you to take advantage of inspiration whenever and wherever it strikes. And with iPad screens now approaching 13″ and capable of supporting USB connections to enable standalone keyboards, it’s easier and more comfortable than ever to draft a masterpiece while away from your desk with the help of an app, an iPad, and a good idea.

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Making animated movies is one of my favorite video creation projects for elementary school students. Students love hearing their voices bringing to life an animated character on the screen. You can have students create animations to tell stories from their own lives or to animate short stories that they have written in your classroom. The following three free iPad apps enable elementary school students to create talking animated movies.

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"Unleash your students creativity with this updated collection of awesome iPad apps. These are drawing apps we curated from iTunes App Store specifically for middle school students.  You can use these applications with your students to engage them in a wide variety of creative and multimodal activities that include drawing, sketching, painting, doodling and many more. We invite you to check them out and share with us your feedback. For more apps for middle school students check out this page."

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The mobile application is the fastest growing digital market. According to all projections, it will continue to rise at a significant rate mostly due to increased penetration of the internet and smartphones. Various researchers predict that the mobile application market will reach $188.9B worldwide by the end of 2020. At the same time, many mavericks around the world use ios app development not only to make a fortune but also to take a stand, promote their cause and fight social and environmental issues. Let’s dive into some exciting, mobile app projects made by students.

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Make an amazing mobile app from Google Sheets in just minutes. It's easy and fun and you don't even need to know how to code.

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Using keyboard shortcuts is a quick way to perform actions. macOS has its own set of shortcuts, and I’ve put together a list of iPad keyboard shortcuts. These work in Apple apps, although third-party apps may have their own set of shortcuts.

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Sure, smartphones and smartphone apps can waste our time and bring out the worst in people, but they can most definitely also be a force for good: They can educate, inform, and inspire. With that in mind we’ve put together a list of our favorite apps that can teach you something new every day, in small, easily digestible chunks.

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If anything the Internet and web technologies have instigated a massive learning revolution analogous, in its grandeur and scope, to the one that marked the 15th century especially after the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440. Gone are the days when you have to pay or attend specific formal settings (e,g, schools) to learn. Now, the world knowledge is just a click away. Independent learning, self-learning, life-long learning, self-directed learning are all forms of learning that have been radically redefined by this digital boom. There are tons of resources, educational materials, video tutorials, free online courses, and several other learning materials to help you take responsibility of your own learning and become an enlightened individual. In today’s post we are sharing with you a sample of some of the best iPad apps that will help you in your learning endeavour. They provide a treasure trove of knowledge covering a wide variety of topics presented in different formats. Check them out and share with us your feedback in our Facebook page.

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