1. iPad Apps for Students
How can students use iPads
to show their knowledge?

2. Leave the Worksheet Behind
Not all practice has to be on worksheets
Not all assessments are with paper and pencil
Students can CREATE to show their knowledge
Not all kids need their own device
Creating with a partner = DISCUSSION

3. Write Scripts NOT Paragraphs
A script implies an audience
A Script makes the writing seem more authentic
(and more fun!)
Audience changes everything!

4. Upload to Canvas
Automatic audience for school and home
Kids can comment on each others’ work
A safe place to keep their work that could be an
electronic portfolio

5. Let’s Look at a Few Examples
• Explain Everything
• Creative Book Builder
• Tellagami
• iMovie

6. Explain Everything
• Video screencast
• Student record narration as they “write” on
the screen
• Possibilities:
– Explaining anything
– narrating a math problem
– adding text to pictures or video and saving as a
videomath problem,

7. Get Started

8. Ways to add images or videos

9. Position images or videos
Add narration by recording your voice
Add more
slides to
create a
longer
presentation

10. Save as a video

11. Creative Book Builder
• Easy to use iPad app
• Students write and publish an iBook
• Includes titles, subtitles, text, pictures, videos
• Saves as iBook to all iPads for students to read
Possibilities:
journal, report, anything that could be a
paragraph can be an ebook!

12. Create a cover

13. Very easy to use

14. Choose what to add to each chapter

15. Add text

16. Add a video or image

17. Save as iBook

18. And here it is!

19. The saved version

20. Ways I’ve Used CBB
• Reports for Book Awards (in partners)
– Informational text
– Included images and videos (they created the
videos)
– Shared with classmates to teach each other
• Lego Journal (in partners)
– Learning log with reflection
– Included images and videos of their work

21. Tellagami

22. Tellagami
• Select an avatar/person to tell the story and
the background
• Write a short script (30 seconds) for the
person to narrate. Choose your own voice or
choose a narrator.
• A different way to write a report

23. Tellagami:
My presentation example

24. iMovie Videos
• iMovie Trailer
Templates
– Formatted story boards
that kids fill in with
pictures, video, and text
– Music goes with
template
– NOT flexible – must fit
template
– About 2 minutes
• iMovie Video
– Not formatted
– May use with green
screen with Mac but not
iPad
– Allows for more
creativity with editing
– Can add any music
– Can be any length

25. When you open the app,
you choose to
make a movie or a trailer

26. Creating a Trailer

27. iMovie video
• A tool to create and edit any raw video
• Use green screen (on Mac, but not on iPad)
• Record skits, plays, explanations, or anything
else worth keeping
• Kids LOVE this!

28. This is the timeline

29. Import video onto timeline

30. Preview and Edit

31. Save as a movie and load to Canvas

32. Ways We’ve Used iMovie
• Shark Tracker Research – wrote script from the
perspective of the shark and read it in front of
the green screen
• Habits of Mind Videos – trailers
• Book commercials – trailers
• Math problems- act it out
• Recording skits and speeches

33. Put the Pieces Together
• Poetry project:
– Student reads their favorite poem using green
screen and iMovie
– Student analyzes poem, looking for literary
devices, using Explain Everything
– Student tells about author and what the poem
means using iMovie
MASH the whole thing together using iMovie

34. Let’s Review with Kahoot
• Go to Kahoot.it on your iPad
• https://getkahoot.com/
• Create your own Kahoots for any content area

35. Let’s Review
• Use the iPads for students to create
• Don’t be afraid to try it
– The kids will take these ideas and run with them!
– They will think of things that you haven’t!!

36. Contact Me
• Twitter: @beebekienstra
• mkienstra@naperville203.org
• My blog: marykienstra.com