Yesterday, I was browsing through the day’s Apps Gone Free (using the app on my iPhone), and was intrigued by the description of “My Album“. Â Always a bargain hunter, I was even more interested when I saw that this free app was usually priced at $4.99. Â I quickly downloaded it to our school iPad, and started to play with its many features. Â I was very impressed. “My Album” allows you to create virtual scrapbook “albums” with as many pages as you like. Â On each page, you can add backgrounds, pictures, clip art, text, and even drawing. Â You can resize and rotate the pictures, use your own photos as backgrounds or the ones in the app, and choose from dozens of fonts for your text. Â The best thing about the app is the many ways that you can share your albums and/or pages. Â You can e-mail them in jpg or pdf formats, save them to your iPad Photos, or save them as pdf’s on the iPad. Â Oh, and you can include music on your pages (I haven’t explored this feature, yet.)
This is a lot of great stuff in one app. Â Your students could use this for creating presentations. Â You could use it to keep records of daily class activities in an album to be shared on a blog or printed at the end of the year. Â There are lots of ways you can use this in the classroom.
The Help menu is fantastic – with short videos that explain each feature. Â You can also go to the developer’s website for a longer video that shows all of the app’s abilities.
I don’t know how long this app will be free. Â There is a free version of it in the iTunes store, as well, but I am not certain how it differs from this one. Â Get the full version today, if you can!