Ever wonder if your students are watching the videos you create for them to watch at home? Looking for a way to engage your students when watching your tutorials? TouchCast just may be the solution! TouchCast allow you to create videos with interactive features such as polls, maps, documents and more. It's a bit overwhelming at first to figure out how to use the app. so I'd recommend watching their tutorials. https://touchcast.zendesk.com/hc/en-us This app would also make a great tool for students to show what they know about any given topic. You could even do some App Smashing and bring in a video you creating in Explain Everything, a Pic Collage or a Popplet web. The possibilities are endless.
I love teaching and helping students learn on on an iPad, but have been frustrated about how to get projects off. Many apps allow you to use Twitter, Facebook, email, Google Drive, etc. for sharing. These are great ways, but in the elementary school setting where we don't have all those options or they don't always work efficiently I wanted to find another way. At the FETC 2014 conference I heard about Flick. This is cross platform app that allows you to quickly send files between devices. Recently I needed to get a Tellagami project off my iPad to use in a presentation. I was able to use my Google Drive app to upload it to my Google Apps for Education account. This entailed logging into the Drive app, selecting the video, uploading, and then going to a desktop computer to verify the process worked. Then I tried Flick. I opened the Flick app, navigated to my Photos, selected the video and sent it to my desktop. Much quicker and I loved not having to login. Couple of things to keep in mind... you will have to have both the mobile app and the desktop app installed and running in order for Flick to work. Once they are installed, it takes just seconds to open them and share files. So glad I found Flick! |
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