Think Different #72
Resources for the Week of Oct. 8, 2018
Two Detailed Presentations About Copyright for Educators
Quick and Easy Purpose games
Purpose Games: Activities like labeling continents, recognizing kitchen utensils, and identifying simple machines. And if you can’t find a game that exactly matches your needs, you can make your own!
Simply upload an image, add and label hotspots, and publish your game. If you’re like me, you’ll end up using Pic Collage, Keynote, Google Slides, or PowerPoint to create and save your image before uploading to PurposeGames.
To play a game, click the correct hotspot that corresponds to the label that is displayed at the top of the screen. Games can have an optional timer to encourage speed. Each game has its own URL, so you can get students to a specific game through a web link or QR code. PurposeGames uses HTML5, which means it works on the desktop and on mobile. It’s not great on a small mobile phone screen, but it does work.
FREE iPad apps for creating Animations
ChatterPix Kids is a free iPad app that students can use to turn pictures into talking pictures. To create a talking picture just snap a picture with your iPad or import a picture from your iPad’s camera roll. After taking the picture just draw in a face and tap the record button to make your picture talk. Your recording can be up to thirty seconds in length.
Simple Repeat Timer
Timer is simple, clean, and effective. To set a timer, slide your finger up from the bottom of the screen. Tap to start, tap to stop, or double-tap to reset. After all of the time ticks away, the timer will start all over again. You’re able to add up to two additional timers to track things like sessions and intervals. Frequently used timers can be saved.
THE COLOR THESAURUS by Ingrid Sundberg
by Ingrid Sundberg
I love to collect words. Making word lists can help to find the voice of my story, dig into the emotion of a scene, or create variety.
One of my on-going word collections is of colors. I love to stop in the paint section of a hardware store and find new names for red or white or yellow. Having a variety of color names at my fingertips helps me to create specificity in my writing. I can paint a more evocative image in my reader’s mind if I describe a character’s hair as the color of rust or carrot-squash, rather than red.
So for fun, I created this color thesaurus for your reference. Of course, there are plenty more color names in the world, so, this is just to get you started.
Fill your stories with a rainbow of images!
The new MyScript© Calculator 2 makes daily math fun and easy!
Calculator 2 is based on MyScript Interactive Ink®, the next step for digital ink. It is the successor of the award-winning first handwriting calculator.
SUPPORTED OPERATORS
- Basic operations: +, -, ×, ÷, /, ·, :
- Powers, roots, exponentials: 7², √, ∛, e³
- Miscellaneous operations: %, |5|, 3!
- Brackets: ( )
- Trigonometry: sin, cos, tan, cot, cosh, sinh, tanh, coth
- Inverse trigonometry: asin, acos, atan, acot, arcsin, arccos, arctan, arccot, acosh, asinh, atanh, acoth, arcosh, arsinh, artanh, arcoth
- Logarithms: ln, log
- Constants: π, e, phi
iTunes Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myscript-calculator-handwriting-calculator/id1304488725
30 Sites and Apps for Digital Storytelling
- 30hands Learning - A fantastic user-friendly iOS app for creating a story by adding a narration to photos. Also, 30hands has excellent video tutorials to help users create a story.
- Animaker Class - An excellent site with an educational portal for students to create animated stories.
- Book Creator - A great mobile (iOS/Chrome) app that educators everywhere are using to create stunning eBooks and digital stories.
- BoomWriter - A fantastic safe site for students (teachers create accounts - student email not required) to create digital stories/books through a collaborative process. Once a story is completed, it gets published online and an actual book can then be ordered.
- Buncee - The world's leading digital canvas for creating digital stories and more. Best of all, is the educational portal that allows educators to track and monitor student progress and assignments.
- Comic Life - Probably the most popular digital comic iOS app for creating comics. This is a very fun and easy to use app for telling the story by creating a customized comic.
- Digital Films - A nice site for creating a digital animated story and then embedded into a site/blog to share it with others.
- Imagine Forest - An innovative site where a student can create a digital story or use a story starter for brainstorming that writing process.
- Little Bird Tales - One of the most popular sites for digital storytelling that allows students to create their own art and record their voice. Also, there is a excellent iOS app available for mobile learning.
- Make Beliefs Comix - A nice site for creating digital comics in a number of different languages as well of lots of educational resources.
- Motion Comics - A cool site for creating animated comics that lets users embed into a site/blog.
- My Story - A wonderful iPad app for creating a digital book/story. All a user has to do is draw or upload a picture, add some text, and then record audio to tell a story.
- Nawmal - A popular site for creating stunning looking animated videos with educational portal.
- Pixntell - A simple to use iOS app for organizing iPhotos into a story then recording audio.
- Pixton for Schools - A nice site with educational portal for creating digital comics.
- Plotagon - An innovative site that reminds me of the now defunct Xtranormal, where are user selects a character then types up a script and Plotagon takes care of the rest.
- Speech Journal - A nice iPad app for pairing recorded audio with a digital picture from one's iPhoto library to create a story.
- Sock Puppets - A very fun iOS app that allows users to lip sync audio to a sock puppet, one of my kids favorites.
- Story Creator - One of my favorite iOS apps for creating a digital story by syncing audio and photos together. Also, an option allows for highlighting of text during narration to help a student with Reading.
- Storybird - A great site with educational portal where students create art inspired stories and then embed into a site/blog.
- StoryJumper - A fantastic site for creating a digital story by building a story from scratch or choosing one of the story starters. A student can add objects, text, and even upload their own art too.
- StoryKit - A simple to use iOS app for telling a story by adding text, photos, and audio.
- Storyboard That - A wonderful site with educational portal that teachers are using in a wide variety of ways including digital storytelling.
- Strip Designer - A iOS app similar to Comic Life for creating a digital comic.
- Tellagami - A nice way to tell a short story by creating an avatar and then recording audio, similar to Voki.
- ToonDoo Spaces - A great site with educational portal for students to create digital comics.
- UtellStory - A nice place to tell a story through audio, images, and video, as well as collaborating with others.
- VoiceThread - One of the most popular educational sites/apps for creating a interactive digital storytelling by uploading multimedia content and recording an audio narration. A finished VoiceThread can then be embedded into a site/blog.
- WriteComics - A simple to use site for creating a digital comic to tell a story.
- Zimmer Twins - A fun site with educational portal for creating animated movies/stories.
You’ve heard “There’s an App for that!” and there is, but it takes time, effort and money to find that right app. And even then it probably won’t really fit your needs.
So why not just master the apps you already have for your teaching and learning.
Join Ken Tuley for a day of hands-on experience to maximize the power of the built-in apps. Leverage the power and features of the Camera, Notes, iMovie, GarageBand, Clips, Safari, Pages, Keynote and Numbers to enhance and elevate any lesson to new heights. Even skilled iPad users will learn new tricks to maximize these built-in apps and discover features you didn’t even know existed. It will be a game-changing day!
Reserve your spot now: (Registration opens Oct. 5)
http://coe.k-state.edu/events/ipad-camp.html
iPad iCamp will be a refreshing day of ideas and activities to help teachers be more productive in their classroom and organized in lesson planning. No more sticky notes stuck here & there. We'll look at teaching and learning with iPads and be reminded of best instructional practices to engage and enhance student learning. We'll finish with reflection ideas on the iPads that will help with planning for the next lesson.
I hope you will join us for this inspiring day of learning
Register Online: https://www.enrole.com/ksu/jsp/session.jsp?sessionId=261907&courseId=IPADICAMP&categoryId=10002
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