Explain Away!

This all-in-one screencasting interactive whiteboard iOS app (now Android version too) allows students and teachers to narrate, annotate, animate, import and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.

 

 

The ability to easily annotate, animate and narrate as well as import photos, .pdf, .ppt, .xls, .rtf, Pages, Numbers, Keynote from Dropbox, Email, Evernote, iPad photo library/camera roll is amazing. And export can occur to Camera roll, YouTube, Email, Dropbox, and Evernote.

 

Uses in the Classroom

• Practice letter formation
• Taking pictures of sequencing and speaking about the sequence
• Demonstrate your learning about a particular Science concept
• Explain how you solved a math problem
• Import an image and explain the 5W’s about the image
• Create a tutorial/how-to clip
• Retell a story
• Brainstorm ideas

 

It’s one app that I share often with teachers.

 

iPadnesday: Numeracy

Today I had the opportunity to share and learn with teachers who are interested in apps that can be used in the Math class. In Western Canada our math program of studies concentrates on the following: Numbers, Patterns and Relations, Shape and Space, Stats and Probability. Therefore together we explored apps that work within these categories. The overall discussion and sharing concentrated on apps that allow students to build on basic skills, that are interactive (individual to multi-player, that are allow demonstration of skill level and are engaging. Check http://bit.ly/iPadnumeracy to see which apps we reviewed.

 

iPadnesday: Literacy

Today I met with a group of teachers who were interested in seeking out resources to use on the iPad for Literacy tasks in the classroom. I grouped the resources I was sharing into:

Class Project – Flat Stanley

Challenge – Textropolis, 4 Pics 1 Word, Photo Quiz, Pics and Words, MixTwo, Word Wall, Bluster!

Create/Demonstrate – Creative Book Builder, Toontastic, PuppetPals HD, Sock Puppets, Word Foto, Comic Touch Lite, Fotobabble

Notetaking – Notability, Dragon Dictate, Paperport Notes

Reading – TeachMe, LAZ, Booksy, MyScript Memo, MeeGenius, iBook

Our purpose was to review what apps were available in the above groupings and see how they could be used in the K-12 classroom. The early years teachers loved the Flat Stanley app while the middle – high school teachers really liked Comic Touch lite, Fotobable and Paperport Notes. One of the second language teachers saw a great opportunity to use WordFoto in language acquisition. Check out the more in-depth information provided at http://bit.ly/ipadLiteracy.