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Little Story Creator – A Free App for Creating Multimedia Stories

May 27, 2015 by admin

Screen Shot 2015-05-27 at 3.33.36 PM Little Story Creator (not to be confused with the similar sounding Little Story Maker) is a free iPad app that students can use to create multimedia stories on their iPads. The app was designed with students in mind and is therefore rather easy to use. On the app students can create multiple page stories. On each page of their stories students can add images and videos, type text, draw, and apply digital stickers. Students can also record audio on each page to narrate their stories.

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The stories that students create on Little Story Creator are automatically saved on their iPads. Students do not have to register on the app in order to use it or save their work. To share work students must have a parent or teacher log-in and share the story.

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Filed Under: Elementary School, Middle School Tagged With: digital storytelling, free apps, free ipad apps, ipad apps, Multimedia ebooks, multimedia stories

Talkboard – Sketch and Talk With Others in Realtime

May 26, 2015 by admin

talkboard Talkboard is a free iPad app from Citrix. Talkboard enables you to sketch on whiteboard while talking to collaborators at the same time. You can invite people to your talk board by sending them an email from the app, by Airdrop, or by posting a link for them them to click on their iPads.

Within Talkboard you can create projects. Each project can have multiple whiteboards. This makes it a nice tool for students who are working together on a large project. By creating multiple boards within a project students are essentially storyboarding or outlining each phase of their project.

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Talkboard could be a good app for providing remote homework assistance. It also has great potential as an app for remote peer tutoring.

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Filed Under: High School, Middle School Tagged With: free apps, free ipad apps, Talkboard, tutoring

5 Apps for Creating Digital Portfolios on iPads

May 13, 2015 by admin

ipad-606766_640As the end of the school year nears you may find yourself asking students to create collections of examples of their best work of the year. There are a lot of ways that your students could go about accomplishing that task. Here are five free apps that can be used for the purpose of creating a digital portfolio.

Seesaw is a free iPad app through which students can create a portfolio to document the things they have learned. Students can add artifacts to their portfolios by taking pictures of their work (in the case of a worksheet or other physical item), by writing about what they’ve learned, or by shooting a short video to record something they have learned. Students can add voice comments to their pictures to clarify what their pictures document. To get started with Seesaw create a free classroom account. Students join the classroom by scanning a QR code (you will have to print it or project it) that grants them access to your Seesaw classroom. As the teacher you can see and sort all of your students’ Seesaw submissions. Seesaw allows parents to create accounts through which they can see the work of their children. As a teacher you can send notifications to parents when their children make a new Seesaw submission.

WeLearnedIt is an offering from Adam Bellow and eduClipper. WeLearnedIt offers many of the great features of eduClipper that you currently enjoy along with additional digital portfolio elements. Through the WeLearnedIt iPad app you and your students can create digital portfolios that contain files from Google Drive, Dropbox, links from the web, images and videos captured with your iPad, and whiteboard videos created within the WeLearnedIt app.

Pearltrees allows you to organize collections of links, videos, images, and files. All of your collections appear in your Pearltrees homescreen and from there you can access and add to any of your collections. The new format makes it easy to drag-and-drop files from your desktop to a collection in your Pearltrees account. The Pearltrees browser extension enables you to quickly add content from a webpage to your collections. Pearltrees works the same way on an iPad as it does in a web browser or on Android tablet.

Tackk is a free service available to use as an iPad app, Android app, or web app.  By using Tackk you can create a page to announce an important event, to advertise an event, or to show off your best digital works. To create a Tackk page you do not need to register for an account, but unregistered Tackk pages expire after seven days. If you register for the service your Tackk pages stay up indefinitely. I registered for the service before creating my first Tackk page. Creating my Tackk was a simple matter of uploading an image then adding text in the customizable fields above and below my image. Tackk pages can accommodate videos, audio files, and maps.

Featured on this blog yesterday, PopBoardz is a free iPad app for organizing collections of images, videos, links, and notes. If you went by just that description you would think that PopBoardz is another Pinterest clone, but it’s not. Unlike Pinterest, PopBoardz is designed for organizing resources for yourself rather than publishing collections to the web. When you do want to share a board you’ve created, you can do so by exporting your board as a document that can be shared via email, Google Drive, Dropbox, or iCloud. PopBoardz could be a good tool for students to use to create and present digital portfolios. They can create boards by importing content from the camera rolls on their iPads and or import content from Google Drive, Dropbox, and iCloud. Students an also add simple text notes to their boards. Students who want to include work they’ve published online can add links to their PopBoardz.

Bonus Item – Teacher Only App

Three Ring is a fantastic, free service for digitizing and organizing your students’ physical work. With the free app installed on your iPad or iPhone you can take a picture of a student’s assignment and upload it to your Three Ring account. In your Three Ring account you can add note about the assignment for yourself, the student, and the student’s parents to see. You can create folders for each student in each of your classes. Three Ring provides a great way for teachers whose students produce a lot of handwritten, drawn, and hand-built work. Three Ring could be used by art teachers to create a digital record of each student’s work. Three Ring is also useful for mathematics teachers whose students do a lot of work on paper rather than typing as they solve problems.

Disclosures: I have a small equity stake in WeLearnedIt. SeeSaw’s parent company advertises on one of my other blogs. 

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Filed Under: College, Elementary School, High School, Middle School Tagged With: digital porfolio, digital portfolios, free apps, free ipad apps, ipad apps

PopBoardz – Organize and Present Collections of Images, Notes, and Links

May 12, 2015 by admin

popboardz PopBoardz is a free iPad app for organizing collections of images, videos, links, and notes. If you went by just that description you would think that PopBoardz is another Pinterest clone, but it’s not. Unlike Pinterest, PopBoardz is designed for organizing resources for yourself rather than publishing collections to the web. When you do want to share a board you’ve created, you can do so by exporting your board as a document that can be shared via email, Google Drive, Dropbox, or iCloud.

The real appeal of PopBoardz is found in its layout and presentation options. Boards on PopBoardz are arranged with symmetrical tiles instead of the random sizing of tiles that appears on Pinterest boards. PopBoardz is also designed for presentation use. Tap on any tile in your board to project it in full size.

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PopBoardz could be a good tool for students to use to create and present digital portfolios. They can create boards by importing content from the camera rolls on their iPads and or import content from Google Drive, Dropbox, and iCloud. Students an also add simple text notes to their boards. Students who want to include work they’ve published online can add links to their PopBoardz.

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Filed Under: High School, Middle School Tagged With: digital portfolios, free apps, free ipad apps, popboardz

The eduClipper App Works on Apple Watches

April 24, 2015 by admin

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Disclosure: I have a very small advisory and equity interest in eduClipper.

The Apple Watch was officially released today. I don’t expect that a whole lot of teachers and or students will be sporting these soon. That said, I’m sure there are a few early adopters who are looking for an educational app for their new watches. If that’s you, take a look at eduClipper’s updated app.

eduClipper has updated their app to work on Apple Watches. With the app installed on your Apple Watch you can view your own clips (bookmarks), view the clips of those people you follow (including your students), and comment on clips. The commenting feature includes the option to leave voice comments.

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The eduClipper app on an iPad has many more features including creating whiteboard videos, organizing projects, and managing students’ accounts.

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