140363 - A Practical Guide to Apps
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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.
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
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
Haiku Deck
Free and Web Version
Visual Presentations
Search for images within app
Share via URL
Convert to PowerPoint or Keynote
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
Explain Everything
Costs $2.99
Screencasting and Interactive Whiteboard
Multiple import and export options
Manual in iBooks store
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
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
Trading Cards
Lesson Ideas
Biography
Character Analysis
Historical Event
Student Introduction – Get to Know You
Greek Celebrities
Heroes of the Texas Revolution
Vocabulary Words
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.
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
Tellagami
Free
Produce a short video on a photo background of choice
Record voice or type a message
Share – Camera Roll, Web URL
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.
Yakit Kids
Free
Easy to use
Make one or more characters in picture talk
Improve summarization skills
Share-Camera Roll, embed code.
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
Baiboard
Free – iOS and Android coming soon
Collaborate in real time
Multiple pages
Upload photos or PDFs.
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.
Screen Chomp
Free
Easy to Use
Record actions and voice
Share via URL
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
Educreations
Free
Great website with already created presentations
Import pictures and type
Must record to save
Has to be completed in one sitting.
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
StoryKit
Free iPhone App
Book Creator
Easy to Use
Add Text, Voice, or Draw
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
More Apps
Snapguide
ShowMe
Splice
Creative Book
Builder
Socrative
Timeline
Nearpod
Venn
Contact Information
Kim Boyd
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @KABoydETS
Kay Cole
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @KayCole13