TechKNOW Tips: Week of 11/18/13
Technology that YOU should KNOW!
Downloading an app without using an iPad!
Little known fact: you do NOT have to actually have an iPad in your hands to download an app. All you need is a computer loaded with iTunes and you are good to go! Check out this video, demonstrating how to do this:
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iOS 7...it's time.
If you haven't already, go ahead and update your and your students' iPads to iOS 7. Follow these directions:
Be one of the COOL kids!
Here's your chance to get in at the ground level, and use a phrase that is modern enough to make your colleagues envious, and fresh enough to make you look cool to your students. The phrase is "App-smashing." App-smashing, a phrase coined by history teacher, Greg Kulowiec, is the process of using multiple apps on an iPad together to create a finished product. An example would be taking a photo with the built-in camera app, opening it up in Skitch to annotate, and then importing it along with other videos and images into iMovie to create a video sequence. Check out this example of app-smashing at its finest!
Feeling "Appy?"
This week, I focus on three apps that demonstrate unique ways for students to tell a story. These apps are three of my favorites!
Haiku Deck
Haiku Deck is a visual presentation app. Like Powerpoint, you can create presentations for any audience. What separates it from Powerpoint are the rich images that create the visual story!
- Link: Haiku Deck
Story Me
Story Me let's you create comic strips or framed collages out of images. Add some speech bubbles, captions, and some built-in filters, and you have yourself a nice visual story!
- Link: Story Me
Tellagami
Tellagami is an app that let's you quickly create and share a video that the creators call a "gami." You can create custom backgrounds, insert props, and choose to type in text or use your own voice to bring your "gami" to life!
- Link: Tellagami
- EXAMPLE: MacArthur HS Library (Janelle R.-librarian)
Just for FUN!
Check out this Thanksgiving funny. Enjoy your much-deserved break with family and friends.
Chad Belford-ITS
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