We play and learn with many apps, both at home and at school.
Love the app challenge pages: http://www.thedigitaldogpound.com/app-task-challenges.html. Hosting a workshop for my building teachers as well as the district would be a fun time. Teachers after introduction be able to take what they learned from the app or task and use it within their classroom.
After exploring librarian-approved-30-ed-tech-apps-to-inspire-creativity-and-creation/ there are many interesting apps to test out including: adobe spark which allows the user to create an animated video. User combines video clips, photographs and overlay text to create a video. Would be interesting to see what my students could do with it with a short research project and how to display their info.... working in teams would be a good thing too.
Another one would be https://storybird.com/lark/ good for poetry. Add a photo and it can be an illustrated poem. With April coming up soon, I would love to play more with with this free app and possible let my students make a poem... either as a project or in a center.
Combining both online PD I watch a webinar at http://www.edweb.net/emergingtech
and seeing theres-app-50-apps-will-rock-world-60-minutes/
What I am hoping to do is learn how to create a working app. (will explore in a different "thing post")
Also Looked at http://www.edweb.net in their communities and saw that Tech & Learning has community. There I found in their forums a list of top technologies. From here I looked at the apple apps page where things are broken down by level. there are also a few different guides to evaluating apps and organization for teachers.
Stumbled across story wheel where kids can spin the wheel and add features of a story and watch the story come to life on the screen. They can record their voice to go along with the story as well. Cost is $2.99, but a lite free version is also available.
I also like the idea of combining apps to make a project... say taking pictures and editing them into black and white or distorting the image, then using a comic strip creator to add text to the pictures... I think my third graders could handle something like this... Maybe an extension of a biography project or frog research...
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It is really hard to believe that this workshop has come to an end.... my first blog post for this series of classes was from 2010... m...
Sharing the app challenges with your colleagues for a PD session would be great. I did this for a group a year or so ago. Most of the folks really enjoyed it. A few... well not so much. Was interesting to watch learning styles. And Lark! Wow, just installed it and lost a half hour playing with it. Great app. Thanks for highlighting it.
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