{"id":8291,"date":"2012-10-03T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T02:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/?p=8291"},"modified":"2012-10-03T19:04:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T02:04:10","slug":"excellent-creative-learning-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/2012\/10\/03\/excellent-creative-learning-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Creative Learning Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you don&#8217;t mind but I&#8217;ve noticed that a few of us in the group have young children and so I thought I&#8217;d share a couple of apps that my kids love and that I find to be of high quality. \u00a0 One is <strong>NFBPixstop<\/strong> \u00a0which is a FREE app created by the National Film board of Canada. \u00a0This app allows students to create their own short stop-motion films with ease. \u00a0 I took five minutes to show my kids how to make a film and they have been creating ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to an example:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/youtu.be\/l4pLzaj1CxM[\/youtube[youtube][\/youtube]]<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/youtu.be\/qI3-9dQBhcg[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Another outstanding app is <strong>Toontastic<\/strong>. \u00a0 It costs $2.99 but is well worth it. \u00a0 This app allows students to create a cartoon. \u00a0 It guides children through developing a story line, picking music, moving characters, and so on. \u00a0Using the &#8220;Story Arc&#8221; children set up each scene and can either draw their own backgrounds and\/or characters or use ready made ones.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example that my seven year old did yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toontube.launchpadtoys.com\/104872\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/toontube.launchpadtoys.com\/104872<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you don&#8217;t mind but I&#8217;ve noticed that a few of us in the group have young children and so I thought I&#8217;d share a couple of apps that my kids love and that I find to be of high quality. \u00a0 One is NFBPixstop \u00a0which is a FREE app created by the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8291"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8299,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291\/revisions\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}