Apple-Tudes 
Apple-Tudes are 
contagious. Are yours 
worth catching? 
* Appletude: Our Apple-tude can 
determine our success in using iPads in 
the classroom. You all heard: There’s an 
app for that. In fact, there are hundreds of 
thousands of apps on the market designed 
for teaching and learning. 
Liz Wernig - 
lwernig@mursd.org
MY MULTIMEDIA FAVORITES 
Apps 
• iMovie 
• Teleprompter 
• Stop Motion Video 
• Tellagami 
• Explain Everything 
• ShowMe
MULTIMEDIA 
iMovie 
USING iMOVIE IN YOUR CLASSROOM 
•To create documentaries, present science 
experiments, historical reenactments, and news 
reports on current events. NEWS REPORT SAMPLE 
•To create digital stories, poetry, bring journal writing to 
life, and produce movie adaptations of literature. 
DIGITAL STORY SAMPLE 
•To present math concepts, enabling teachers to more 
effectively assess their knowledge. Student created 
math sample 
•How to videos: How-to video sample 
•Trailers: 
sample 1 
sample 2 
sample 3
iMovie 
My Lesson,Templates,Rubric 
iMovie has some great features that will have you 
producing your own work in a few minutes. 
iMovie for iPad - 5 Minute Tutorial 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTQjmsCZRk
TELEPROMPTER 
•It’s free
STOP MOTION VIDEO 
Your students can create a time-lapse or stop-motion film using 
this video app. make a movie by combining still photos. They 
can set this app to take photographs at timed intervals to show 
elapsed time (like a plant growing or a sunset) or for stop-motion 
film (using action figures or puppets
Tellagami 
Some quick ideas you might try 
Samples: sample one sample two 
https://tellagami.com/gami/2TTK0W/ 
• Have your character tell a story. 
• Pick a person in history and have them introduce themselves 
• Use a plant cell as the background and have the avatar name and 
discuss the function of each part of the cell. 
• Recite a famous poem or speech 
• Read a poem they wrote 
• Take a trip or go back in time and describe where the location/time 
period 
• Speak in Spanish, French, Mandarin or any language 
• When you are all done, Gamis can be emailed, also generates a link to 
share. You can also view your movie online.
Explain Everything 
ExplainEverything is an app for creating 
video like tutorials. Students or teachers can 
take photos or images, annotate them, 
record voices over them and explain 
different concepts that way. 
It could be good for giving students 
directions or for having students explain 
what they’ve learned 
What is Explain Everything? 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4JOsrEsyo0 
Samples: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3efp1kxmUQ 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75IlpvSkC3s 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu4WBAttRik&fea 
ture=youtu.be
Explain Everything
• Once it’s uploaded you can 
Share your ShowMe via email! You 
can also copy the URL to share 
anywhere else you’d like!
Screen casting App 
SHOWME 
http://www.showme.com/learn
SHOWME 
• Math: High School students created and 
shared math tutorials. 
• Geography: Why civilizations developed along 
rivers? 
• Social Studies: The Thirteen Colonies. 
• Science: Sorting Objects By Solid, Liquid and 
Gaseous State 
• Spanish: A student sample. 
• English: Adverbs
FACETALKER 
FaceTalker is a free app for the iPad that allows 
you to take any image and make it talk. All you have 
to do is import a picture, define the speaking area, 
then record your narration. This app is great for 
encouraging digital storytelling and having students 
creatively share something they have learned. 
• Sample one 
• Sample two (by Kerry) 
• Facetalker Tutorial
Photo Editing App 
BeFunky 
• You don’t have to sign in. 
• It’s an excellent, free and easy 
photo editor app
Cloud Storage 
DROPBOX 
• Using Dropbox
Cloud Storage 
DROPBOX 
• Just right click on a file or folder in 
Dropbox and select “Share a Dropbox 
Link.” Paste that link into an email and 
the person who receives it can either 
download it independently or have it 
appear magically in their own Dropbox 
folder 
• It’s simple, easy and quick access 
between my students and I. 
• when a student deposits a file in one 
of my shared folders I get a little pop-up 
message to let me know. 
• It’s been very reliable making my 
classroom projects (and life) so much 
more organized!
Share folders
Favorite Book Creator App 
Book Creator for iPad - create ebooks and 
pdfs, publish to iBooks 
By Red Jumper Limited 
•Sample of books made with the Book Creator App 
•About Book Creator. 
•Open books in dropbox ,google drive or iBooks. 
• Quick Tutorial 
•Leah's Book! 
iBook Creator Create Books 
Over 6 million books created 
Book Creator for iPad is the no.1 book app in 80 countries, 
with over 6 million books created so far. 
Book Creator is a fantastic tool for students to use to create 
short stories or to create longer research papers that include 
multimedia elements.
• Example: students in their World History 
class used their literary talents to author a 
book on an African Trading Empire. Using 
the app “Book Creator”, students recorded 
their researched data in the form of an 
original book describing the kingdom of 
their choice. 
Burlington, Ma Schools
Social Media App 
PINTEREST 
Pinterest is like a virtual bulletin or cork board that allows 
users to find and curate images and videos. 
• The Educator's Guide to the Use of Pinterest in the 
Classroom: EducatorsTechnology.com published this 
useful guide for teachers interesting in using Pinterest 
with students. Here, you'll find everything you need to 
get started, including tips for building boards, pinning 
basics and ideas for using Pinterest in the classroom. 
Other Pinterest ideas for teachers: 
– "The Teacher’s Guide To Pinterest," via Edudemic 
– "37 Ways Teachers Can Use Pinterest in the 
Classroom," 
Free Tools for Teachers 
iPad Apps 
Explain Everything 
Creating eBooks
Note Taking App 
PaperPort! 
Some of us brainstorm using text. Others visualize 
new ideas by doodling or drawing. Still others 
process out loud. 
Every great thinker, artist, and inventor has a 
sketchbook to capture their inspiration anywhere, 
anytime a new idea strikes. 
Paperport Notes allows users to import documents 
(e.g. PDF, Word Doc, PowerPoint, JPEG and 
more) then edit, annotate, draw, insert additional 
images and highlight on the document. Users can 
also insert images from their camera roll or 
capture a snapshot from a webpage. 
Advanced features allow users to create audio 
recordings that are saved into each page, 
bookmark notes for quick return access, and 
convert an image of text into an editable textbox. 
After users creates a note, it is saved automatically 
and can be shared as a PDF or jpeg using email, 
Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, Camera Roll, or with 
another 
student sample
Evernote 
by Evernote 
• Evernote is one of the greatest additions to 
any middle school student’s iPad. 
• Evernote is a service that syncs your notes 
across a wide variety of different platforms. 
Whatever kind of computer or device you are 
using there is certainly a way to get an 
Evernote app onto it. 
• You can record audio while typing. You can 
also add pictures to your note to create a 
really rich document. 
• All of your notes have location information. 
This is incredibly useful in finding notes from a 
certain location. 
• Currently the limit is around 100 notebooks. 
There is no limit on the number of notes you 
create. 
• The app supports AirPrint and background 
audio recording.
Skitch 
Skitch 
Mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and web 
pages then share them with anyone you like 
- “It is great for annotating pictures, maps, or 
screenshots. 
Tutorial
Discovery 
Education 
• We have a United Streaming account so students and 
teachers at Nipmuc and Miscoe have access to more 
than 170,000 standards-aligned digital 
resources: instructional videos, skill builders, games, 
audio files, images, writing prompts, and encyclopedia 
articles. 
• Check out the new Common Core destination provides 
curriculum, instruction, and assessment resources for 
21st century skills.
Smithsonian Channel for 
iPad 
Smithsonian Channel App, students can explore the history of 
our planet, life and culture, national heroes, and scientific 
advances. 
The app includes a rotating selection of full episodes, which 
means there is always new free content. The video library also 
features more than 1,000 short videos. Students can also test 
their knowledge with artiFACT quizzes. The app offers new 
quizzes each week.
KAHOOT! 
• Using a drag and drop tool, educators 
create and manage “Kahoots” in the form 
of quizzes, surveys or polls related to the 
topics they’re teaching; either asking 
quick questions to get feedback or 
opinion, or more in depth questions for 
formative assessment. 
8259
KAHOOT! 
• 5 MINUTE TUTORIAL 
Test PIN 1124 
8259
• WeVideo is a video creation tool and again 
something that up’s the engagement ante in 
classrooms. There is nothing better than 
videos to get students involved in classroom 
learning and this is where WeVideo scores 
over many other tools available on the 
market. It enables Project-Based Learning 
(PBL) enabling students to collaborate on a 
video project and create topical presentations 
that showcase their understanding of a 
particular subject. 
• Creation of videos fosters deep knowledge 
about a particular subject, and is one of the 
more interactive learning methodologies that 
can be used to explore topics in depth.
iTunes U 
• iTunes U is Apple’s education center. 
Featuring a large library of video and 
audio podcasts as well as books and 
documents created by teachers and 
professors across the globe, you are sure 
to find something that will help you review 
or learn something new. iTunes U also 
features a note taking ability to take an 
extra step out of your studies and bring 
everything into one place.
Honorable Mention 
• Padlet – online bulletin board/blog – 
http://padlet.com/lwernig/miscoepsablog linking images, links 
videos. Students can contribute to the wall. 
• TouchCast – green screen technology in a free App! – 
http://bhshelpdesk.com/2014/05/14/touchcast-the-future-of-the-web/ 
• Flowboard – Interactive presentation app. 
https://flowboard.com/s/118l/10-Quick-Wins-for-STEM-Integration 
• TedTalk App -The TED Talk iPad app allows you to search for new 
talks, organize playlists and watch your favorite talks on your iPad. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11u3vtcpaY 
• Haiku Deck is an iPad app that all students and teachers should 
have installed on their iPads. Haiku Deck enables anyone to create 
beautiful slide presentations. http://blog.haikudeck.com/haiku-deck-tutorial/ 
• Aurasma - Augmented reality app 
http://www.pinterest.com/psdmobileminds/all-about-aurasma/
Appletude workshop session

Appletude workshop session

  • 1.
    Apple-Tudes Apple-Tudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? * Appletude: Our Apple-tude can determine our success in using iPads in the classroom. You all heard: There’s an app for that. In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of apps on the market designed for teaching and learning. Liz Wernig - lwernig@mursd.org
  • 2.
    MY MULTIMEDIA FAVORITES Apps • iMovie • Teleprompter • Stop Motion Video • Tellagami • Explain Everything • ShowMe
  • 3.
    MULTIMEDIA iMovie USINGiMOVIE IN YOUR CLASSROOM •To create documentaries, present science experiments, historical reenactments, and news reports on current events. NEWS REPORT SAMPLE •To create digital stories, poetry, bring journal writing to life, and produce movie adaptations of literature. DIGITAL STORY SAMPLE •To present math concepts, enabling teachers to more effectively assess their knowledge. Student created math sample •How to videos: How-to video sample •Trailers: sample 1 sample 2 sample 3
  • 4.
    iMovie My Lesson,Templates,Rubric iMovie has some great features that will have you producing your own work in a few minutes. iMovie for iPad - 5 Minute Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTQjmsCZRk
  • 5.
  • 6.
    STOP MOTION VIDEO Your students can create a time-lapse or stop-motion film using this video app. make a movie by combining still photos. They can set this app to take photographs at timed intervals to show elapsed time (like a plant growing or a sunset) or for stop-motion film (using action figures or puppets
  • 7.
    Tellagami Some quickideas you might try Samples: sample one sample two https://tellagami.com/gami/2TTK0W/ • Have your character tell a story. • Pick a person in history and have them introduce themselves • Use a plant cell as the background and have the avatar name and discuss the function of each part of the cell. • Recite a famous poem or speech • Read a poem they wrote • Take a trip or go back in time and describe where the location/time period • Speak in Spanish, French, Mandarin or any language • When you are all done, Gamis can be emailed, also generates a link to share. You can also view your movie online.
  • 8.
    Explain Everything ExplainEverythingis an app for creating video like tutorials. Students or teachers can take photos or images, annotate them, record voices over them and explain different concepts that way. It could be good for giving students directions or for having students explain what they’ve learned What is Explain Everything? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4JOsrEsyo0 Samples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3efp1kxmUQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75IlpvSkC3s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu4WBAttRik&fea ture=youtu.be
  • 9.
  • 10.
    • Once it’suploaded you can Share your ShowMe via email! You can also copy the URL to share anywhere else you’d like!
  • 11.
    Screen casting App SHOWME http://www.showme.com/learn
  • 12.
    SHOWME • Math:High School students created and shared math tutorials. • Geography: Why civilizations developed along rivers? • Social Studies: The Thirteen Colonies. • Science: Sorting Objects By Solid, Liquid and Gaseous State • Spanish: A student sample. • English: Adverbs
  • 13.
    FACETALKER FaceTalker isa free app for the iPad that allows you to take any image and make it talk. All you have to do is import a picture, define the speaking area, then record your narration. This app is great for encouraging digital storytelling and having students creatively share something they have learned. • Sample one • Sample two (by Kerry) • Facetalker Tutorial
  • 14.
    Photo Editing App BeFunky • You don’t have to sign in. • It’s an excellent, free and easy photo editor app
  • 15.
    Cloud Storage DROPBOX • Using Dropbox
  • 16.
    Cloud Storage DROPBOX • Just right click on a file or folder in Dropbox and select “Share a Dropbox Link.” Paste that link into an email and the person who receives it can either download it independently or have it appear magically in their own Dropbox folder • It’s simple, easy and quick access between my students and I. • when a student deposits a file in one of my shared folders I get a little pop-up message to let me know. • It’s been very reliable making my classroom projects (and life) so much more organized!
  • 17.
  • 18.
    Favorite Book CreatorApp Book Creator for iPad - create ebooks and pdfs, publish to iBooks By Red Jumper Limited •Sample of books made with the Book Creator App •About Book Creator. •Open books in dropbox ,google drive or iBooks. • Quick Tutorial •Leah's Book! iBook Creator Create Books Over 6 million books created Book Creator for iPad is the no.1 book app in 80 countries, with over 6 million books created so far. Book Creator is a fantastic tool for students to use to create short stories or to create longer research papers that include multimedia elements.
  • 19.
    • Example: studentsin their World History class used their literary talents to author a book on an African Trading Empire. Using the app “Book Creator”, students recorded their researched data in the form of an original book describing the kingdom of their choice. Burlington, Ma Schools
  • 20.
    Social Media App PINTEREST Pinterest is like a virtual bulletin or cork board that allows users to find and curate images and videos. • The Educator's Guide to the Use of Pinterest in the Classroom: EducatorsTechnology.com published this useful guide for teachers interesting in using Pinterest with students. Here, you'll find everything you need to get started, including tips for building boards, pinning basics and ideas for using Pinterest in the classroom. Other Pinterest ideas for teachers: – "The Teacher’s Guide To Pinterest," via Edudemic – "37 Ways Teachers Can Use Pinterest in the Classroom," Free Tools for Teachers iPad Apps Explain Everything Creating eBooks
  • 22.
    Note Taking App PaperPort! Some of us brainstorm using text. Others visualize new ideas by doodling or drawing. Still others process out loud. Every great thinker, artist, and inventor has a sketchbook to capture their inspiration anywhere, anytime a new idea strikes. Paperport Notes allows users to import documents (e.g. PDF, Word Doc, PowerPoint, JPEG and more) then edit, annotate, draw, insert additional images and highlight on the document. Users can also insert images from their camera roll or capture a snapshot from a webpage. Advanced features allow users to create audio recordings that are saved into each page, bookmark notes for quick return access, and convert an image of text into an editable textbox. After users creates a note, it is saved automatically and can be shared as a PDF or jpeg using email, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, Camera Roll, or with another student sample
  • 23.
    Evernote by Evernote • Evernote is one of the greatest additions to any middle school student’s iPad. • Evernote is a service that syncs your notes across a wide variety of different platforms. Whatever kind of computer or device you are using there is certainly a way to get an Evernote app onto it. • You can record audio while typing. You can also add pictures to your note to create a really rich document. • All of your notes have location information. This is incredibly useful in finding notes from a certain location. • Currently the limit is around 100 notebooks. There is no limit on the number of notes you create. • The app supports AirPrint and background audio recording.
  • 24.
    Skitch Skitch Markup photos, screenshots, maps, and web pages then share them with anyone you like - “It is great for annotating pictures, maps, or screenshots. Tutorial
  • 25.
    Discovery Education •We have a United Streaming account so students and teachers at Nipmuc and Miscoe have access to more than 170,000 standards-aligned digital resources: instructional videos, skill builders, games, audio files, images, writing prompts, and encyclopedia articles. • Check out the new Common Core destination provides curriculum, instruction, and assessment resources for 21st century skills.
  • 26.
    Smithsonian Channel for iPad Smithsonian Channel App, students can explore the history of our planet, life and culture, national heroes, and scientific advances. The app includes a rotating selection of full episodes, which means there is always new free content. The video library also features more than 1,000 short videos. Students can also test their knowledge with artiFACT quizzes. The app offers new quizzes each week.
  • 27.
    KAHOOT! • Usinga drag and drop tool, educators create and manage “Kahoots” in the form of quizzes, surveys or polls related to the topics they’re teaching; either asking quick questions to get feedback or opinion, or more in depth questions for formative assessment. 8259
  • 28.
    KAHOOT! • 5MINUTE TUTORIAL Test PIN 1124 8259
  • 29.
    • WeVideo isa video creation tool and again something that up’s the engagement ante in classrooms. There is nothing better than videos to get students involved in classroom learning and this is where WeVideo scores over many other tools available on the market. It enables Project-Based Learning (PBL) enabling students to collaborate on a video project and create topical presentations that showcase their understanding of a particular subject. • Creation of videos fosters deep knowledge about a particular subject, and is one of the more interactive learning methodologies that can be used to explore topics in depth.
  • 30.
    iTunes U •iTunes U is Apple’s education center. Featuring a large library of video and audio podcasts as well as books and documents created by teachers and professors across the globe, you are sure to find something that will help you review or learn something new. iTunes U also features a note taking ability to take an extra step out of your studies and bring everything into one place.
  • 31.
    Honorable Mention •Padlet – online bulletin board/blog – http://padlet.com/lwernig/miscoepsablog linking images, links videos. Students can contribute to the wall. • TouchCast – green screen technology in a free App! – http://bhshelpdesk.com/2014/05/14/touchcast-the-future-of-the-web/ • Flowboard – Interactive presentation app. https://flowboard.com/s/118l/10-Quick-Wins-for-STEM-Integration • TedTalk App -The TED Talk iPad app allows you to search for new talks, organize playlists and watch your favorite talks on your iPad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11u3vtcpaY • Haiku Deck is an iPad app that all students and teachers should have installed on their iPads. Haiku Deck enables anyone to create beautiful slide presentations. http://blog.haikudeck.com/haiku-deck-tutorial/ • Aurasma - Augmented reality app http://www.pinterest.com/psdmobileminds/all-about-aurasma/

Editor's Notes

  • #2 In this session I would like to explore the apps that I have use and are available for creativity, instruction and curriculum areas. 
  • #3 The trend in the past year of iPad usage is slowly moving towards using the iPad as a creation device, as opposed to just a consumption device. More and more people I know are creating great material with iPads
  • #4 iMovie can bring your lessons to life through video, sound, and picture It is a powerful and highly engaging tool for students to share their knowledge and express themselves in multimedia form iMovie can open many doors in your classroom for students to use their 21st century skills of communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking along with using technology It promotes collective knowledge construction and individual reflection It offers a variety of backgrounds and experiences to engage students.