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A Practical Guide to Apps

A Practical Guide to Apps. Presented by: Kim Boyd and Kay Cole Digital Learning Specialists Fort Bend ISD. Edmodo Code: kdm39a. Objectives. Provide detailed information on some of the most popular educational apps. Demonstrate apps. Share lesson sample and ideas.

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A Practical Guide to Apps

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  1. A Practical Guide to Apps Presented by: Kim Boyd and Kay Cole Digital Learning Specialists Fort Bend ISD Edmodo Code: kdm39a

  2. Objectives • Provide detailed information on some of the most popular educational apps. • Demonstrate apps. • Share lesson sample and ideas.

  3. PicCollage • Free – iOS and Android • Easy to use • Great for a one day lesson • Search for images within the app • Saves to camera roll for easy transfer off the iPad

  4. PicCollage • Lesson Ideas • Holidays around the World • Illustrating French Phrases • Analyzing Quotes • Illustrated Timeline • Types of Angles or Triangles • Types of Volcanoes • Illustrating Amendments to the Constitution

  5. Haiku Deck • Free and Web Version • Visual Presentations • Search for images within app • Share via URL • Convert to PowerPoint or Keynote

  6. Haiku Deck • Lesson Ideas • Images of the Great Depression • Life Cycle of a Butterfly • Artists and Types of Art • Chemical Reactions • Polygons • Book Reports • Countries in Africa

  7. Explain Everything • Costs $2.99 • Screencasting and Interactive Whiteboard • Multiple import and export options • Manual in iBooks store

  8. Explain Everything • Lesson Ideas • A Trip through the Digestive System • Solving Equations • Website Validity • Propaganda • Continental Drift • Causes and Effects of the Vietnam War • Analyzing Works of Art/Artists • Types of Biomes • Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces

  9. Trading Cards • By Read, Write, Think – Free and Available on PC • Easy to Use • Provides Guiding Question to help complete card • Share-Save to Photos

  10. Trading Cards • Lesson Ideas • Biography • Character Analysis • Historical Event • Student Introduction – Get to Know You • Greek Celebrities • Heroes of the Texas Revolution • Vocabulary Words

  11. Sock Puppets • Free and Paid Versions - $3.99 • Paid Version allows from longer recordings and gives you options to save and share. • Add puppets, props, and backgrounds.

  12. Sock Puppets • Lesson Ideas • How to work a math problem • Animal Classification • Point of View • Historical Events • Interview with scientist, explorer, mathematician • Differences of animal & plant cell • Plot of a story, character analysis • Explain landforms • Branches of Government

  13. Tellagami • Free • Produce a short video on a photo background of choice • Record voice or type a message • Share– Camera Roll, Web URL

  14. Tellagami • Lesson Ideas • Travel through a blood cell • Visit the constitutional convention • Types of angles found in a sports stadium • Describe a food chain or ecosystem • Report from a historical event, i.e. the Alamo. • Describe the setting for a story or novel.

  15. Yakit Kids • Free • Easy to use • Make one or more characters in picture talk • Improve summarization skills • Share-Camera Roll, embed code.

  16. Yakit Kids • Lesson Ideas • Scientist tell about their greatest finding • Historical character explains their journey or what made them famous • Mathematician explains their mathematical equation • Character in story gives their point of view • Artist explains brush stroke or technique in a picture

  17. Baiboard • Free – iOS and Android coming soon • Collaborate in real time • Multiple pages • Upload photos or PDFs.

  18. Baiboard • Lesson Ideas • Post different math problems on several pages and assign groups to solve each problem. • Post a picture that illustrates a cause of the Great Depression on one page and one that shows an effect on another. • Post a definition and have students post a sentence using that word or a picture that illustrates it. • Students take turns labeling the parts of a heart. • Construct Bohr models. • Post a quote and have students analyze or illustrate it.

  19. Screen Chomp • Free • Easy to Use • Record actions and voice • Share via URL

  20. Screen Chomp • Lesson Ideas • Solving equations • Balancing chemical equations • Annotating a Map of the 13 Colonies • The Water Cycle • How Levers Work • Analyzing a Political Cartoon • The Pythagorean Theorem

  21. Educreations • Free • Great website with already created presentations • Import pictures and type • Must record to save • Has to be completed in one sitting.

  22. Educreations • Lesson Ideas • Types of Clouds • Newton’s Laws of Motion • The Lewis and Clark Expedition • Branches of Government • The Four Types of Conflict • Mean, Median, and Mode • Transformations

  23. StoryKit • Free iPhone App • Book Creator • Easy to Use • Add Text, Voice, or Draw

  24. StoryKit • Lesson Ideas • Book on an Element • Children’s Book on a Character Trait • Alternate ending to a Fairy Tale • Texas Symbols • Founding Fathers • Types of Triangles • A Part of Speech

  25. More Apps

  26. Contact Information • Kim Boyd Email: kimberly.boyd@fortbendisd.com Twitter: @KABoydETS • Kay Cole Email: kay.cole@fortbendisd.com Twitter: @KayCole13

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