Adobe Voice

Upon telling a digital story about water and some simple facts, the app Adobe Voice was extremely simple and interesting to use. Out of all the apps i have reviewed I think this is the best that I have used and one of the apps that I could possibly use on a regular basis. The steps on making the digital story was very easy and fun to do, granted that there are a few hiccups on when I keep recording bad takes. The background music and the theme was easy to manipulate and edit. I didn’t even have to have pictures downloaded separately on my iPad, I could browse directly from the app itself and embed on the story. This could be a great starter for each lesson or class to get the students hooked and show them a brief preview on what the days lesson will be over.

Overall this is an app I will recommend highly and will use!

Explain Everything Lesson Ideas

This Apps in the Classroom was found through iTunesU which is an app that provides courses that are education related. Upon browsing through different collections I chose the Explain Everything Lesson Ideas, which I found that i could definitely use in a classroom situation that I will be teaching in.

The course uses the app called “Explain Everything” which is basically like an interactive whiteboard. As i read through the course I found that it could be utilized within science classes as an assignment and be educational for students

As you can see above there is an example that a student made about tornadoes, it is very simple yet informative and can be used for a flipped classroom situation and can be very engaging for students. The utilization of this app in class can promote students to think deep and logically to come up with a way to explain a certain concept to their peers and can be used in a jigsaw type assignment where each group will be an expert and explain to their peers.

This app can be definitely highly recommended.

One Best Thing: Twitter in the Primary Classroom Engage, Inspire, & Collaborate

I visited the One Best Thing collections on iBooks and found a book that was most interesting to me, it was about the use of Twitter in classroom. To me technology means a lot, not sure whether it is because i’m from a country that is technologically advanced but I want to be able to utilize technology to its fullest. When reading the book, I found that there were various ways to integrate twitter to the classroom including class discussions and also having class to class discussions and question boards. It is a great way to interact with the students and introduce them to technology and proper use and etiquette in using the net.

The most important and attention grabbing part of the book was the disclosure paper part where it let the parents know what was going to happen and laid out the rules and expectations for the use of twitter. This is extremely important to have in the beginning so that written expectation can be enforced and kept.

I find it interesting that iBooks has a program like this, it would be fascinating to find out what else there could be. I will most likely be reading several and keep up with the updates.

Earlier in the beginning of the semester I was introduced to an app called OSMO words and it was a useful app in introducing visual to word connections and increased tactile and the kinetics modality. This week on the app I was able to make my own set of words associated to the chemistry subject with words and visuals connected. My created words are 1. Benzene ring, 2. Amino Acids, 3. Alcohol, 4. Ketone, 5. Water, 6. Polar, 7. Ethane, 8. Non-polar, 9. Single Bond, 10. Atom, 11. Periodic Table, 12. Double Bond, 13. Ethene, 14. Triple bond. This type of collection can be used as a formative assessment so that the students have exposure within the materials before doing this activity. This activity is specific for high school students. The app was easy to use and to make my own collection was also easy.

The only aspect within the app that was difficult to use was the fact that you had to use large images. So if you had images that were small or medium sized it couldn’t register the images to upload and had to find larger images. However, it is an easy app and package to use in class.

Tellagami

Price: Free

Review:

When i used Tellgami, it was really easy to use, and the steps were very short. All I had to do was choose gender and change the physical looks to my desire, however, since i downloaded the free version I was limited to only 1 options per category. If I decided to actually implement this in a class i could purchase the full version and use it for short introductory of each lesson since on the free version it is only allowed a 30 second video, but for the full version 90 seconds is allowed. Personally if the time was not limited and I could make a video for however long then i think it would be easier to use and much more use in class.