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Think Outside the App

Using apps and web tools inside and outside of the classroom to effectivley connect with and engage your students. 

TouchCast

Fabulous Intro Video

Price: Free

Description: Brand new app with endless possibilities. Easily create casts that look like video but feel like the web. Endless possibilities for the classroom. Download it quick because there is no way that this app will stay free for long. 

 

Watching the videos through youtube is great, however when the videos are being watched within the Touchcast app, the user is able to interact with the websites. For other classroom examples, see the Professor How videos. 

SnapGuide

Price: Free

Description: Create "how-to" guides using text and photos. Leave comments and critiques on users videos.

 

Great Video on how to use SnapGuide

 

 

Ideas for Use: 

  • Create a PechaKucha Video/Presentation

    • This is a presentation that is 20 images X 20 seconds with audio. 

  • Create How-To videos 

  • Create a video to share with the class all about oneself

  • Critique one another's videos or connect with another class

  • Use the already created user videos to FLIP your classroom

  • Document the steps it takes to solve a problem.

  • Create a gallery of their artwork with thought behind each piece.  

  • Students can use device screenshots to narrate how to operate an app. 

 

Quora

Price: Free

 

Device: iPhone App and Webbased

 

Description:  Quora's mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge. Quora is your best source of knowledge. Ask any question, get real answers from people with first hand experience, and blog about what you know.

 

Ideas for Use: 

  • Following topics that are related to class content.

  • As the instructor, post questions and require students to answer a certain number of questions, and prove answers. 

  • Use Quora for research, but make sure research found on Quora is then proved using other resources. 

  • As students set-up their profile have them write for a professional audience. 

What are... 

  • Credits: These are what you get for answering questions and what you give when people answer your questions. 

 

Groupme#

Price: Free

 

Device: All device

 

Description:  The best way to chat with everyone you know. Easily set up group chats about various topics. Include maps, locations, images, links, etc. 

 

Ideas for Use: 

  • FLIP your classroom

  • You won't need to share your phone number with students, so you can connect with them without doing that.

  • You can create a link for students to join your grou.

  • Collaboration on projects

  • Reminders

  • Organization during campus events.

  • Split Costs (not relevant to school, but so cool) 

VideoScribe

Price: $4.99

 

Device: iPhone and iPad App

 

Description:  Quickly and easily create amazing animated videos in seconds. It is so worth the $4.99.  

 

Great "How-To" video

 

Ideas for Use: 

  • Student present research or tell a story

  • Create engaging content for your students ot watch

 

Don't want to use the App? 

Metta Storybuilder

Price: Free

 

Device: Website (creation) and ios (viewing)

 

Description: Create stories by mashing various online video resources. It's essentially creating a collage of media. You also have the ability to add polls within your videos. 

 

Ides for Use: 

  • Show or explaine a process

  • Share something you're passionate about

  • Book Trailers

  • Students can collaborate to create a video

 

 

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