Ms. Iihara's 5th graders in the Sue Crouch STEM program have given us great examples of how to use the Touchcast App with a green screen for science. Check them out.
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Kidspiration LiteKidspiration has been a software program for many years and many classrooms have used this mind-mapping software. Whether you are creating a timeline, flow map, or bubble map this app is easy to use. Add shapes, preloaded images, or photos to give your map more dimension. The free version even comes with preloaded activities in ELA, science, social studies, and math. Be aware this free version only allows you to create 5 maps.  | ToontasticToontastic has been around for a while, but the new updates since Google acquired this app has made it much more education-friendly and easy to navigate. If you haven't seen the new version of Toontastic, you should take a look. A great story-telling app, the format follows the basic five part narrative introducing terms such as conflict, climax, and resolution. Students choose a setting and characters from a large selection or can even draw their own. Dragging the characters around the set while adding their own voice means even young students can create interesting cartoon stories. |
Padlet is a collaborative bulletin board. It is web-based and works on both computers and iPads. It can be used for everything from brainstormining sessions, to discussions, to a way for students to turn in digital work. Check out the way Peppy Zesty Teacherista uses Padlet in her classroom.
Now that you have access to iMovie on the student iPads what can you do with it? Plenty. Just using the movie trailer feature students can create exciting, concise, one minute videos on most anything. How about a book trailer to get their classmates excited about a book they are reading? Create a travel commercial to advertise a country, state, of landmark you are studying. Even a trailer to describe an important concept or vocabulary work. Tony Vincent's site has examples of iMovie trailers on everything from verbs to Ionic Compounds. In addition you will find PDFs that will help your students plan their iMovie trailer before you ever hand them a device.
http://learninginhand.com/blog/2014/8/6/plan-a-better-imovie-trailer-with-these-pdfs
Find out what you can do with this exciting tool.
http://learninginhand.com/blog/2014/8/6/plan-a-better-imovie-trailer-with-these-pdfs
Find out what you can do with this exciting tool.
Ms. Morris' fourth grade students at Bess Race Elementary read the nonfiction article, "The Deadliest Animal on Earth". Using their classroom iPads students have recorded news reports describing this deadly creature and the damage it does.
Students can really demonstrate their knowledge about a historic or literary character with these two tools.
Trading cards is both an iPad app and website that allow students to create and share short informational cards on their character or term. Students follow the prompts to describe their character.
Fakebook allows students to build a Facebook like webpage for their characters. Students can include friends, likes, and status updates.
Popplet Lite is a free app that allows you to create graphic organizers. When you're finished, save it to your camera roll and create a new one.
Check out the new tool that comes embeded in your Blackboard class. Students can make audio, video, or text comments on your multimedia presentations.
Here you can find directions for using VoiceThread in your Blackboard class.
Take a look at these 26 ways to use VoiceThread in the classroom.
-Michelle
Take a look at these 26 ways to use VoiceThread in the classroom.
-Michelle
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