Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Create Digital Stories with Adobe Voice




Adobe Voice is a super simple ways for kids to create and share a story.    This app can be found in the Create folder of our primary iPads.  You will find that even our youngest learners can use this tool with ease and communicate their big ideas with pictures and words.  And because a student's creation can so easily be shared with their teacher and with parents, this tool will become one of your favorites to use to document learning.



 





Check out these resources to learn this tool and get ideas for how to use it in your classroom




How can you creatively use this tool with your students in your classroom?  Share a story from Voice

Using the Seesaw Learning Journal to Document and Share Learning

The Seesaw Learning Journal app is a great tool for students to share their learning with their teacher and parents.  This app has been added to our primary iPads in the Create folder.  Read more here to learn about the power of this new tool.

Read here to learn more about the Seesaw Learning Journal app.  

Also, Read here to learn and see example classroom activities using the Seesaw Learning Journal app.






How can this app be used in your classroom to support and share student learning?

Create with the Telestory App




The Telestory app has been added to our Create tools on our primary iPads

TeleStory is an augmented reality video camera that gets kids off the couch to perform and record their own TV shows through creative play.


Ideas for Telestory in the Classroom:
Telestory from iPadeflteacher




How will you integrate the Telestory app in your classroom and your curriculum?

Read with the EPIC Digital Library App




 Read here to learn more !!

EPIC digital library app has been added during our January ipad sync to the ELA folder.

AND new news.....
Epic is now available on the web!




Follow these steps to get the best out of this app: To get a free educator subscription sign up here. https://www.getepic.com/educators/ or from the link within the app.
Then, on your classroom ipads, open the Epic app from the ELA folder and choose Have an Account? Sign in at the bottom of the screen. Enter your email address and password you used above when you created your epic educator account and ta da.

AND, if you want to .... I think, under the Teacher Profile, you are able to setup unique profiles for your students. This would give you data on how many books each student has read through the app. Not sure if it would be iPad specific or not, but cool!!!






How are you using this app in your classroom?









Create Digital Stories with the Toontastic App



Read This to learn more !!

The Toontastic app has been added to our Create tools on our primary iPads





Toontastic is a creative storytelling tool that empowers kids to draw, animate, narrate, and record their own cartoons – it's as easy as putting on a puppet show!







Links for more learning & ideas

Using Toontastic to Teach ELA


How can you promote writing, reading, speaking and listening with the Toontastic app?