Some iPad Apps to Use with Teens

Are you looking for some fun program ideas to use iPads? Here's a simple one I've used a few times with teens, and they have loved it!

 

A really fun and FREE app is Cartoon Creator. You can take pictures with the ipad and then insert those pictures in a cartoon format. You can add speech bubbles, kanji, and even dancing Psy from "Gangman Style." This is a great app for any program, but my anime club teens particularly enjoyed it. 

Once you take the pictures with Cartoon Creator you can leave them there, or input them into a free video maker and make a movie with those images. I used Animoto. After taking the pictures in Cartoon Creator, you upload them to your photo gallery on the iPad. From the photo gallery you can import the images into Animoto and make a short video.

 

The teens really enjoyed watching their videos come to life and we had fun watching them all together. The teens were able to pick up quickly on how to use the apps and I have had requests from my anime club to do it again!

Submitted by
C. Rogers
Senior Librarian
Kearns Library (Salt Lake County Library Services)