Best Apps for Content Creation

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Presented by: Meredith Martin www.techforteachers.com [email protected] @geekyteach

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Presented by: Meredith Martin

[email protected]

@geekyteach

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Skitch allows you to mark up and annotate any image. Add text, arrows, shapes, stamps, and highlighter.Use to edit photos or screenshots easily.Simple photo editing with zoom, crop, and pixelate.Share via email or Evernote, or any app that accepts images.

Skitch Ideas: Snap photos of student work and use Skitch to annotate.Create graphics for lessons or handouts quickly and easily.Share blank images (maps, diagrams, etc) and have students annotate.Students can snap photos of physical projects and annotate to explain in more detail.

Also available as desktop version for Mac & PC and as an Android app.

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Simple, elegant presentation creator.Multiple themes available.Search for creative commons images or import your own.Add graphs, public notes, or private notes.Easily share via web, email, or download as PowerPoint/Keynote file.

Haiku Deck Ideas:Great for simple student presentations - limited text requires them to be concise and focus on important points.Use to create booklets or guides.Students can present via projector and private notes will appear only on their screen as speaker notes.Create student portfolios.Create how-to presentations.

A great collection of examples: http://pinterest.com/haikudeck/

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Quickly and easily create lip-synced video clips.Choose from a variety of puppets, backgrounds, and props.Record your own voice, plays back in 'helium' mode.30 second recording limit for free version.

Sock Puppet Ideas:Create videos to introduce lessons.Students can create videos to show understanding.Create video book reviews.Review vocabulary words.Act out appropriate behaviors or responses.Use to retell stories.

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A great way for students to share information. Create trading cards for people both real and fictional, places, events, and more. Add text and images to your cards. User management system lets students save cards in their own collections. Export cards to photos or Share via email.

Trading Card Ideas:Create cards for characters or places in a book. Create cards for local landmarks or for those you are studying.Create cards for vocabulary words as a review.Create cards for an event in history.

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Educreations is a recordable interactive whiteboard. Draw, add text, insert images and animate by dragging them around while recording. Create multiple pages. Narrate as you record your drawing. Share via email, the educreations website, or embed in your site or blog. Web interface also available with course creation tools for teachers.

Educreations ideas:Use to flip classrooms lessons.Create video lessons for long distance tutoring.Explain concepts in more detail.Show how to solve sample problems.Students can create peer-teaching lessons.Students can explain concepts and show work as they solve problems.Create courses for students, including Q&A.

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Beautifully simple mind mapping app. Just a few quick taps will create elegant mind maps. Add text, drawings, and images, link ideas together. Free version is limited to a single popplet at a time. Export via email as an image file or PDF. Export to camera roll.

Popplet Lite Ideas:Use for brainstorming and mind mapping.Create diagrams and charts.Use as a journal or note taking device.Create portfolios, photo albums, or presentations.Create story maps or character maps.Create scrapbook type of projects.Use to outline and plan out reports and presentations.

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A recordable interactive whiteboard similar to Educreations, but with a simpler interface perfect for younger students. Use a few simple pen tools to draw and annotate blank pages or a background image from the photo rolls. Record drawing and voice to create videos of lessons and activities. Share to screenchomp.com to get a link to share, or download to your computer. No account needed!

Screenchomp Ideas:Use to flip classrooms lessons.Create video lessons for long distance tutoring.Explain concepts in more detail.Show how to solve sample problems.Students can create peer-teaching lessons.Students can explain concepts and show work as they solve problems.

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A creative storytelling tool that lets students draw and animate their own cartoons. Choose from a variety of backgrounds or import your own from the camera roll. Record voice and animation as you move characters around the screen. Import your face to characters via the camera. Use the story arc prompts to improve storytelling skills.Create a class account on TuneTube for private sharing.

Toontastic Ideas:Students can retell a story from class.Use to tell original stories.Create conflict resolution videos.Create a video to explain a concept.

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A puppet style storytelling app similar to Toontastic. Choose from a variety of backgrounds or import your own from the camera roll. Record voice and animation as you move characters around the screen. Import pictures and cut out to create your own custom characters. Export videos to camera roll for sharing, or to embed in website or blog.

Puppet Pals Ideas:Students can retell a story from class.Use to tell original stories.Create conflict resolution videos.Create a video to explain a concept.

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Combine your photos and videos with Animoto's themes and music to create easy, eye-catching videos. Import photos and videos, arrange, add captions, edit, and trim clips. Select from a variety of themes. Choose from Animoto's huge music library or import your own. Requires free animoto account. Basic free accounts are limited to 30 seconds of video, but teachers can apply for a free education account for up to 20 minutes of video and pro features. Sign up at http://animoto.com/education/classroom

Animoto Ideas:Create introductions to lessons to hook learners.Students can create video presentations.Explain a concept or idea.Retell a story.Create review videos.

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A game of 'Telephone' for the iPad. Students begin with a common saying. THey pass to another student to illustrate the saying. The next student creates a title for the illustration without seeing the original saying. The next student illustrates the title, and so on.

Storylines for Schools builds on Storylines by adding grade level appropriate vocabulary, quotes, and SAT words.

Storyline Ideas:Great for enhancing creativity.Use as a vocabulary builder or test prep station.

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A great way to plan out a story. Easy interface lets you plot out characters, locations, scenes, and novels then combine them to create your plot. This is a great way for students to outline and plan their stories or to review stories read in class. Pro version provides export to iTunes or Dropbox.

A Novel Idea Ideas:Students can use it to plot out stories they are writing for class.Use it to learn about the parts of a story by plotting out a book read in class.

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Diagramming app similar to Popplet Lite. Allows students to create mind maps with just a few taps. You can copy and paste text from other apps into Idea Sketch. Easily converts your diagram into a text outline, and also allows you to turn text outlines into diagrams automatically. Share diagrams via email, or save to camera roll. Simpler interface then Popplet Lite - great for text only diagrams and outlines.

Idea Sketch Ideas:Use for brainstorming and mind mapping.Create diagrams and charts.Use as a journal or note taking device.Create story maps or character maps.Use to outline and plan out reports and presentations.

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Meredith Martin is an educator with 15 years experience teaching in elementary school. She is a tech junkie who loves learning about new ed tech tools to use in the classroom. She is a Google Certified Teacher, a Google Geo Educator, a Discovery Star Educator, a SimpleK12 Ambassador, a Symbaloo PD Pro, and a Haiku Deck Guru.

She is also a professional development provider who presents workshops and webinars on technology in education both in and out of her school district. She is also on the planning committees for two conferences, St. Hacktrick's Day and EdCamp STEAM.

Email: [email protected]: www.techforteachers.comTwitter: @geekyteach