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Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Blogger


Blogger
Create a class blog and have all your students contribute to it!

* Compose a post that you can save to draft or immediately publish
* View list of your saved and published posts
* Switch account/blog if you have more than one
* Embed an image from the gallery, or, by taking a picture directly from the app
* Add labels to your posts
* Add location information

With the Blogger app for iOS, you can quickly and easily publish posts to your blog wherever you are.

Book Creator


Bookcreator
Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. With over 15 million ebooks created so far, Book Creator is ideal for making all kinds of books, including children's picture books, comic books, photo books, journals, textbooks and more. And when you're done, easily share your book, or even publish to the iBooks Store!

Book Creator is open-ended, creative and cross curriculum, and is one of the most popular iPad apps for teachers across the world.

FEATURES
* Add text, choosing from over 50 fonts
* Add photos and images from your iPad's photo library, from the web, or use the iPad's Camera
* Resize, rotate and position content as you like with guidelines and snap positioning
* Add video and music, and even record your voice
* Use the pen tool to draw and annotate your book
* Choose from portrait, landscape or square book sizes
* Add super powers to your books with comic templates, stickers and styles
* A quick tap and you're reading your book in iBooks!

A blank canvas for all ages, levels, and abilities. Integrate into instruction in infinite ways or just use for fun in a personal setting. There is a reason this app has won so many awards. It is just simply the best. The creators reach out to educators all the time on how to make improvements or what they can do to make Book Creator even better. AND they listen! Start creating today! Get Book Creator.

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Comic Books


Comic Books
Transform the ordinary to share-worthy extraordinary easy as: B.A.M!
Arm yourself with the best graphic effects, 105 inspiring layouts, 374 hand-drawn* comic Stickers, 12 caption and text tools, auto-content from Facebook and Flickr, and you have the superpowers to Rule the Universe - in Your stories! YOUR IMAGES YOUR WAY
Import images from your library and Flickr
Import images with editable auto-captions from Facebook
Capture a new image
Scale, rotate & position imported images
10 ADJUSTABLE IMAGE FILTERS
Comic effect; best in class, Sketch Effect with 5 textures, Photo Adjustment filter, Noir, Sinkcity, Poster, Moody, Rock & Hope Effects
374 AWESOME STICKERS INCLUDED
Vast majority lovingly hand-drawn by Joanna Mulder!, Paste PNG and JPG images as custom stickers, Position, Mirror (flip), scale & rotate stickers, Optional drop shadow and transparency, 500+ additionally available
11 CAPTION TOOLS
"Messy" option for drawn look, each is unique!, Captions have small, medium & large fonts, Customizable caption background colors, Customizable caption text colors, Curved pointers with hints
105 LAYOUTS INCLUDED
Selectable aspect ratio (1:1, 3:2, 4:3 and 16:9)15 Fun Photo Portrait Layouts, 15 Classic Portrait Layouts, 15 Classic Landscape Layouts, 15 Vintage Portrait Layouts, 15 Vintage Landscape Layouts, 15 Modern Portrait Layouts, 15 Modern Landscape Layouts

iBooks


iBooks
iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBooks Store, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.

Download books
• Download best-sellers and classic books from the iBooks Store
• Find fully illustrated books, including children's picture books, designed art books, photo books, cook books, and more in the iBooks Store
• Experience gorgeous fullscreen Multi-Touch books filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, videos, and more
• Read a free sample of any book on the iBooks Store before making it a part of your permanent collection

Great ways to read
• Choose from seven beautiful fonts and three easy-to-read page colors
• Highlight your favorite passages and add notes with the built-in bookmarking features
• Find a word, character, or phrase anywhere in your book with the built-in search feature
• Easily adjust your screen brightness to find the perfect lighting for any environment
• Scroll through your books with the flick of a finger using the scroll view
• Use iBooks with the amazing accessibility features in iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch—such as speaking the words on a given page
• Print PDF documents and notes you've written in iBooks using AirPrint

iCloud features
• Organize your books and PDFs into personal Collections that appear on all your devices
• Keep bookmarks, highlights, notes, and your current page up-to-date everywhere using iCloud
• See all your iBooks Store purchases in iCloud right on your bookshelf

Kindle


Kindle
Carry a library in your pocket anywhere you go. Get access to more than 3,000,000 books and audiobooks including over 850,000 Kindle exclusive titles. With the Kindle app, get your book once and read it on any device and share across your family’s devices.
Build your own library
• Read a sample of any book before adding it to your library
• Share your books across your household with Family Library
• Get personalized recommendations with Welcome Experience
• Get popular magazines and newspapers, and even textbooks with high-resolution color images
• Go into your local library to check out an eBook, and have it delivered wirelessly to your Kindle app

Kindle Education
• Maintain the rich formatting of your textbook, just like the print edition, with Kindle Print Replica
• Explore important terms in your textbook using X-Ray, including links to Wikipedia and YouTube content
• Make your own flashcards or auto-generate them to brush up on concepts, terms, and definitions after each chapter

Organize your reading
• Easily group your reads into custom categories with Kindle’s Collection. The sorted collections are then stored in the Cloud linked to your Amazon account
• Send PDFs or any documents to Kindle for later reading. Amazon provides free Personal Documents Service to assist with file transfers

Picture Book


Picture Book
Nurtures creativity and writing skills
Can be used as a digital sticker book without text for younger children
Fun for all ages (parents, too!)
Extra picture sets available as in-app purchases include school, farm animals, Cinderella, ninjas, pirates, vampires, dinosaurs and more
Include your own pictures to make a photo album
Share picture books through Facebook, email PDF, or directly with other Picturebook users

Sonic Pics


Sonic Pic
The best digital storytelling app just got even better! SonicPics makes digital storytelling fun and easy! Turn your photographs into narrated slideshow movies to share with your family and friends!

1. Add images from your photo library or snap new ones with your camera.
2. Arrange your photos however you would like.
3. Record a voiceover narrating your images as you swipe through them.

Once you are finished, you have an enhanced m4v movie with your images synchronized to your narration. You can share your recording with your family and friends.

Features: Create and narrate custom photo slideshows. Records your voice while you flip through your images. Automatically synchronizes your images to the audio recording. Publish your recordings to YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox, Evernote, Google+, iCloud, iMessage, Slack, Storehouse, email, and more.  Present your stories on the big screen using video out while recording or to watch recordings. Make .m4v movies of your images and narrations from your iPhone or iPod Touch or iPad. Build slide shows with photos from photo albums, camera roll or built in camera. Recordings processed right on your phone, no 3rd party service required! Intuitive user interface.
Sample Uses:
- Digital story telling
- Class field trip
- Podcast recording
- Video blogging
- Lecture recording
- Creating Mini-presentations
- Travel Logs
- Museum tours
- Create Audio books

Story Buddy 2


Story Buddy2
Create, read and share multi-page ePub & PDF stories right on the iPad. Draw directly on the iPad's screen with your finger as you create your very own picture book - page by page. Add customizable text with the built-in keyboard. Import images from your photo album for that personal touch. Even add beautifully crafted paper styles to each page. Compile your story and experience the excitement of interacting with its pages like a real book. Listen to your very own audio narration for each page.

Every child has a story . . . bring it to life with StoryBuddy 2.

FEATURES:
- House multiple stories on your bookshelf
- Customize title and author
- Add, arrange, and delete pages
- Paint with ease using your fingers
- Add/Delete draggable text layers
- Customize text font, size, color, alignment and location
- Add/Delete draggable photos from your photo library
- Customize photo size, rotation, location, frame
- Choose from beautifully handcrafted paper styles
- Record and manage audio narrative for each page
- Flip through the pages of your story like a real book
- Listen to narrative in your own voice using audio playback
- Email your story
- Share your story as PDF
- Share your story as ePub
- Send your story to iBooks as ePub
- Support for iBooks fixed layout format with double page images and audio
- Access your story on the computer through iTunes file sharing
- Page by Page Audio Recording & Playback

Epic



Epic
Epic! is the leading all-you-can-read eBook library for kids 12 and under offering unlimited access to over 10,000 high-quality children’s books, now including thousands of read-to-me and Audio books.
THE EPIC! LIBRARY
Epic!’s award-winning service includes a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction books from leading publishers such as Scholastic, National Geographic, HarperCollins, Macmillan and many more. With over 10,000 books available now and many more titles added each week, Epic! has been called the “Netflix of kids' books” – it's an unlimited library your kids can take anywhere!
Well-known books and series include Fancy Nancy, Flat Stanley, Warriors, Rainbow Magic Fairies, The Chronicles of Narnia, Disney’s Frozen, Ramona, Batman, Goosebumps, Clifford, A Series of Unfortunate Events, National Geographic Kids, Goodnight Moon, The Berenstain Bears, Big Nate, and many more.
The Epic! library contains everything from picture books to chapter books, early readers, audiobooks, “read to me” audio books, comic books, graphic novels, non-fiction titles, educational books, and junior novels.
KEY FEATURES
• Over 10,000 great titles with many more added weekly
• Audiobooks and “read-to-me” books
• Individual customized child profiles at no additional cost
• Personalized book recommendations for each child
• Online and offline reading (take Epic! in the car, on a plane, or camping)
• A detailed reading log to track reading progress available in the app, and emailed weekly to parents
• Access your Epic! account and Epic!’s full library on any device