Apple-tudes! for Teachers
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Apple-Tudes Apple-Tudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? * Appletude: Our Apple-tude can determine our success in using iPads in the classroom. You all heard: There’s an app for that. In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of apps on the market designed for teaching and learning. Liz Wernig [email protected]
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Apple-Tudes
Apple-Tudes are contagious. Are yours
worth catching?* Appletude: Our Apple-tude can determine our success in using iPads in the classroom. You all heard: There’s an app for that. In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of apps on the market designed for teaching and learning.
Liz Wernig [email protected]
MY MULTIMEDIA FAVORITESApps
• iMovie
• Teleprompter
• Stop Motion Video
• Tellagami
• Explain Everything
• ShowMe
MULTIMEDIAiMovie
•To create documentaries, present science experiments, historical reenactments, and news reports on current events. NEWS REPORT SAMPLE
•To create digital stories, poetry, bring journal writing to life, and produce movie adaptations of literature.DIGITAL STORY SAMPLE
•To present math concepts, enabling teachers to moreeffectively assess their knowledge. Student created math sample
•How to videos: How-to video sample
•Trailers: sample 1sample 2sample 3
USING iMOVIE IN YOUR CLASSROOM
iMovie
My Lesson,Templates,Rubric
iMovie has some great features that will have you producing your own work in a few minutes.
iMovie for iPad - 5 Minute Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTQjmsCZRk
•It’s free
TELEPROMPTER
STOP MOTION VIDEO
Your students can create a time-lapse or stop-motion film using this video app. make a movie by combining still photos. They can set this app to take photographs at timed intervals to show elapsed time (like a plant growing or a sunset) or for stop-motion film (using action figures or puppets
Free!
Tellagami
Some quick ideas you might try
• Have your character tell a story. • Pick a person in history and have them introduce themselves • Use a plant cell as the background and have the avatar name and
discuss the function of each part of the cell. • Recite a famous poem or speech • Read a poem they wrote
• Take a trip or go back in time and describe where the location/time period
• Speak in Spanish, French, Mandarin or any language • When you are all done, Gamis can be emailed, also generates a link to
share. You can also view your movie online.
Samples: sample one sample two https://tellagami.com/gami/2TTK0W/
ExplainEverything is an app for creating video like tutorials. Students or teachers can take photos or images, annotate them, record voices over them and explain different concepts that way. It could be good for giving students directions or for having students explain what they’ve learned
Explain Everything
What is Explain Everything? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4JOsrEsyo0 Samples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3efp1kxmUQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75IlpvSkC3s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu4WBAttRik&feature=youtu.be
$2.99!
Explain Everything
• Once it’s uploaded you can Share your ShowMe via email! You can also copy the URL to share anywhere else you’d like!
Screen casting App SHOWME
http://www.showme.com/learn
Free!
SHOWME
• Math: High School students created and shared math tutorials.
• Geography: Why civilizations developed along rivers?
• Social Studies: The Thirteen Colonies.
• Science: Sorting Objects By Solid, Liquid and Gaseous State
• Spanish: A student sample.
• English: Adverbs
FACETALKER
• Sample one
• Sample two (by Kerry)
• Facetalker Tutorial
FaceTalker is a free app for the iPad that allows you to take any image and make it talk. All you have to do is import a picture, define the speaking area, then record your narration. This app is great for encouraging digital storytelling and having students creatively share something they have learned.
Free!
Photo Editing AppBeFunky
• You don’t have to sign in.
• It’s an excellent, free and easy photo editor app
Free!
Cloud StorageDROPBOX
• Using Dropbox
Cloud StorageDROPBOX
• Just right click on a file or folder in Dropbox and select “Share a Dropbox Link.” Paste that link into an email and the person who receives it can either download it independently or have it appear magically in their own Dropbox folder
• It’s simple, easy and quick access between my students and I.
• when a student deposits a file in one of my shared folders I get a little pop-up message to let me know.
• It’s been very reliable making my classroom projects (and life) so much more organized!
Share folders
• You can share any folder in your
Dropbox with friends, colleagues,
and students even if they use a
different operating system from you.
• You can save a file in the public
folder and any file you save to the
Public folder is assigned a public
link you can share with others.
• Quick Tutorial
Favorite Book Creator AppBook Creator for iPad - create ebooks and pdfs, publish to iBooksBy Red Jumper Limited
•Sample of books made with the Book Creator App
•About Book Creator.
•Open books in dropbox ,google drive or iBooks.
•Leah's Book!iBook Creator Create Books
Over 6 million books created Book Creator for iPad is the no.1 book app in 80 countries,
with over 6 million books created so far.
Book Creator is a fantastic tool for students to use to create short stories or to create longer research papers that include multimedia elements.
• Example: students in their World History class used their literary talents to author a book on an African Trading Empire. Using the app “Book Creator”, students recorded their researched data in the form of an original book describing the kingdom of their choice.
Burlington, Ma Schools
Social Media AppPINTEREST
• The Educator's Guide to the Use of Pinterest in the Classroom: EducatorsTechnology.com published this useful guide for teachers interesting in using Pinterest with students. Here, you'll find everything you need to get started, including tips for building boards, pinning basics and ideas for using Pinterest in the classroom. Other Pinterest ideas for teachers: – "The Teacher’s Guide To Pinterest," via Edudemic – "
37 Ways Teachers Can Use Pinterest in the Classroom,"
Free Tools for TeachersiPad AppsExplain EverythingCreating eBooks
Pinterest is like a virtual bulletin or cork board that allows users to find and curate images and videos.
Note Taking App PaperPort!
Some of us brainstorm using text. Others visualize new ideas by doodling or drawing. Still others process out loud.
Every great thinker, artist, and inventor has a sketchbook to capture their inspiration anywhere, anytime a new idea strikes.
Paperport Notes allows users to import documents (e.g. PDF, Word Doc, PowerPoint, JPEG and more) then edit, annotate, draw, insert additional images and highlight on the document. Users can also insert images from their camera roll or capture a snapshot from a webpage.
Advanced features allow users to create audio recordings that are saved into each page, bookmark notes for quick return access, and convert an image of text into an editable textbox.
After users creates a note, it is saved automatically and can be shared as a PDF or jpeg using email, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, Camera Roll, or with another
student sample
Free!
Evernoteby Evernote
•Evernote is one of the greatest additions to any middle school student’s iPad.
•Evernote is a service that syncs your notes across a wide variety of different platforms. Whatever kind of computer or device you are using there is certainly a way to get an Evernote app onto it. •You can record audio while typing. You can also add pictures to your note to create a really rich document. •All of your notes have location information. This is incredibly useful in finding notes from a certain location. •Currently the limit is around 100 notebooks. There is no limit on the number of notes you create. •The app supports AirPrint and background audio recording.
Free!
Skitch
Skitch Mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and web pages then share them with anyone you like- “It is great for annotating pictures, maps, or screenshots.
Tutorial
Discovery Education
• We have a United Streaming account so students and teachers at Nipmuc and Miscoe have access to more than 170,000 standards-aligned digital resources: instructional videos, skill builders, games, audio files, images, writing prompts, and encyclopedia articles.
• Check out the new Common Core destination provides curriculum, instruction, and assessment resources for 21st century skills.
Smithsonian Channel for iPad
Smithsonian Channel App, students can explore the history of our planet, life and culture, national heroes, and scientific advances.
The app includes a rotating selection of full episodes, which means there is always new free content. The video library also features more than 1,000 short videos. Students can also test their knowledge with artiFACT quizzes. The app offers new quizzes each week.
KAHOOT!
• Using a drag and drop tool, educators create and manage “Kahoots” in the form of quizzes, surveys or polls related to the topics they’re teaching; either asking quick questions to get feedback or opinion, or more in depth questions for formative assessment.
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KAHOOT!
• 5 MINUTE TUTORIAL
Test PIN 11248259
• WeVideo is a video creation tool and again something that up’s the engagement ante in classrooms. There is nothing better than videos to get students involved in classroom learning and this is where WeVideo scores over many other tools available on the market. It enables Project-Based Learning (PBL) enabling students to collaborate on a video project and create topical presentations that showcase their understanding of a particular subject.
• Creation of videos fosters deep knowledge about a particular subject, and is one of the more interactive learning methodologies that can be used to explore topics in depth.
iTunes U
• iTunes U is Apple’s education center. Featuring a large library of video and audio podcasts as well as books and documents created by teachers and professors across the globe, you are sure to find something that will help you review or learn something new. iTunes U also features a note taking ability to take an extra step out of your studies and bring everything into one place.
Honorable Mention
• Padlet – online bulletin board/blog – http://padlet.com/lwernig/miscoepsablog linking images, links videos. Students can contribute to the wall.
• TouchCast – green screen technology in a free App! –http://bhshelpdesk.com/2014/05/14/touchcast-the-future-of-the-web/
• Flowboard – Interactive presentation app. https://flowboard.com/s/118l/10-Quick-Wins-for-STEM-Integration
• TedTalk App -The TED Talk iPad app allows you to search for new talks, organize playlists and watch your favorite talks on your iPad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11u3vtcpaY
• Haiku Deck is an iPad app that all students and teachers should have installed on their iPads. Haiku Deck enables anyone to create beautiful slide presentations. http://blog.haikudeck.com/haiku-deck-tutorial/
• Aurasma - Augmented reality app http://www.pinterest.com/psdmobileminds/all-about-aurasma/
