Technology Tuesday
11/12/2013 - Arab City Schools
Free Apps
Knowmia
Knowmia is a destination for learning that features short video lessons from great teachers everywhere. Once you signed up for Knomia, you’ll be allowed to access the site; all you need to do is type the relevant keywords and pick up the perfect tutorial in search results. The free Knowmia iPad app helps you create video lessons on any subject and publish them on its website. Knowmia makes it easy to import your own visual aids, organize them in steps and record your voice and face to bring them to life. You can record illustrations as you draw them and create sophisticated animation sequences with the simple stroke of a finger.
Shadow Puppet
Shadow Puppet is a free, universal iOS app that lets you select photos on your iDevice, put them in any order you like, then narrate the slide show while you highlight something in the photo with an animated icon, or zoom and move the photo. After you sign up for an account, creating is easy. This app is great for digital storytelling!
See the example below created by my wife's third grade class:
Free Teacher Web Tools
Smore
How can you use Smore in your classroom?
- School Events/Fundraisers/Clubs
- Class Experiments
- Book Reports, Topic research, Biographies, Tutorials
- Student Portfolios and more
Here are a few Smore pages used in education.
- Wonder Book Report
- Information on Fawn Calf Syndrome
- What is Smore?
- The History of Still Photography
- Stolen Children Book Summary
Notegraphy
Introducing Notegraphy
Michael Fowlkes
Technology Coordinator
Arab City Schools
Email: mfowlkes@arabcityschools.org
Website: www.arabcityschools.org
Location: 511 Arabian Drive Northeast, Arab, AL
Phone: 256-931-9321
Twitter: @arabcitytc