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Learn how to use Explain Everything, a screencasting app for iPad.

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As I dig deeper into the reality of the one iPad Classroom I am most intrigued by apps that allow students and teachers to create. On a computer I have learned to weave together digital tools to make them do exactly what I want them to do, but I must admit I am not there yet on the iPad. One app that appeals to me for teaching and learning on an iPad is Explain Everything.

Explain Everything is a creativity app that offers many options and some exciting integrated features to make it work well. This app allows users to create slides that can include a variety of multimedia. Use photos, video, web links, shapes, files, text, and audio recordings to Explain Everything. Here are some features that make this app appealing.

Connected and Integrated

One of the best feature of Explain Everything is that it is connected. Users can seamlessly navigate between many integrated cloud apps, including Evernote, Google Drive and Dropbox. It's also easy to connect to other areas of the iPad to access stored items such as videos, pictures and music.

Explain Everything supports a variety of versatile publishing options. Finished projects can be saved to a number of locations on the iPad, since Explain Everything supports a variety of export formats includingMP4/Mov, PDF and more. Upload completed projects to YouTube or publish the files as iBooks.

Built in Screencasting

Push button recording features allow users to capture content on the screen, narrate, record, and publish. The ability to make multimedia content available to students 24/7 makes Explain Everything a nice tool for providing students with opportunities for review or previewing content prior to class.

Explain Everything can be used as a screencasting tool to create tech tip tutorials to support tech integration. Use the tool for professional development to maximize valuable staff time by providing teachers with easy access to resources and a pause button.

Portability

The portability of the iPad makes it a great tool for passing around the classroom, providing small groups of students with the opportunity to tap into their higher order thinking skills as they create and Explain Everything. Ease of use makes it an efficient tool. Access to specific apps can be restricted in the iPad "Settings" under "Privacy", allowing teachers to control access to personal items stored in cloud apps. The use of guided access also allows a teacher's device to be shared without intrusion of personal items.

Design Tools

Explain Everything allows users to create slides that can include a variety of multimedia. Uses include photos, video, web links, shapes, files ,text, and audio recordings to explain. Here are some appealing features at a glance;

Inspector Tool - Layer, group, duplicate, resize and lock objects.

Delete Tool - Tap the tool then easily select an object on the stage to delete it.

Opacity

Text - Choose from a variety of fonts and access limitless colors

Zoom and Pan Tool

Undo

Presenter Tools

Explain Everything is a convenient tool for quick student work, but the app also includes features for creating professional quality presentations. Hide the toolbars, set a slide to automatically open to a preset webpage upon access and use the Timeline Scrubber to jump to specific parts of a recording. Use the Laser Pointer tool to highlight areas of the screen while recording and direct the attention of the audience to a specific place on the screen.

Versatile Publishing Options

Finished projects can be saved to a number of locations on the iPad, since Explain Everything supports a variety of export formats includingMP4/Mov, PDF and more. Upload completed projects to YouTube or publish the files as iBooks.

Uses in the Classroom

Explain Everything's integrated design make it a flexible instructional tool for teaching and learning. Teachers can use it to create and publish interactive multimedia lessons and assessments for students. Use Explain Everything as a tool to maximize instructional time by providing students with differentiated, self-paced lessons that feature a pause button. Lessons can be published , shared, and made available to students in the 24/7 classroom to front load the learning or provide students with opportunities for enrichment and review.

Students can use Explain Everything to demonstrate and apply higher order thinking skills and extend the learning. Explain Everything can be used as a note-taking tool that can be annotated and illustrated, helping students construct knowledge as they dig deeper into concepts and ideas presented..

Be sure to check out the Explain Everything website to access resources and get more ideas for using this tool in your classroom.

Final Thoughts

Explain Everything is an inexpensive paid app, but for me the integrated and flexible features make it worth the purchase. If you decide to try Explain Everything, be sure to download the dynamic content iBook.

Susan Oxnevad is an educator, EdTech consultant and designer who is passionate about using technology as a tool for learning. Susan has been a classroom teacher and an active instructional technology facilitator in Chicagoland for more than two decades. She provides professional development for busy teachers via a variety of online and in-person platforms. Susan blogs about thoughtful ways to incorporate technology as an efficient and effective tool for learning on her own blog, Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners. Follow her on Twitter @soxnevad

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Explain Everything A Connected Creativity App - Getting Smart by Susan Oxnevad - EdTech

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As I dig deeper into the reality of the one iPad Classroom I am most intrigued by apps that allow me to create. On a computer I have learned to weave together digital tools to make them do exactly what I want them to do, but I must admit I am not there yet on the iPad.

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PLEASE NOTE
Explain EDU is a version of our whiteboard for iPad and iPhone where creations are saved locally on the device. It does not include dedicated cloud storage or online collaboration.

Explain EDU was designed for schools with iOS-only deployments. It is also intended for those who may need to exclusively purchase it via Apple's Volume Purchase Program (VPP), those with internet access challenges, or both.

Our other app on the App Store, Explain Everything Whiteboard, is our full-featured platform. It includes cloud-based video conversion, web video links, and online collaboration as well as the experiences included in Explain EDU.

To try Explain Everything Whiteboard for free, please search for it on the App Store or use this link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/explain-everything-whiteboard/id1020339980?ls=1

The differences between the two versions are explained here: https://youtu.be/1JQQ49H2P0s

CAPTURE, ANNOTATE, AND ZOOM OUT ON THE BIG PICTURE
Explain EDU infinite-touch canvas, zoom, and mix recording is an unreal experience that you have to try to believe. Explain EDU is optimized for iPad, Apple Pencil, and transforming your imagination for what is possible with mobile devices.

EASY AND INTUITIVE
You don't have to be creative to express your ideas creatively. Capture every experience by inserting, including Drag and Drop, all the media you need to tell your story: images, websites, videos, PDF & PPT files, and more. Immediately record and share authentic moments as stories.

SEE YOUR IDEAS CLICK INTO PLACE
Share to anyone, anywhere, what is most compelling for your audience and inspire them from GIF to MP4 to YouTube and more.

Privacy policy: https://explaineverything.com/privacy-policy/
Terms of use: https://explaineverything.com/terms-of-use/

* Dark Mode - Make your Explain Everything Whiteboard dark by using the iOS 13's Dark Mode settings.

Essential for Teaching

This app gets better and better the more you use it, all of the features can seem daunting at first, especially while you learn to use it in front of your class. After a few weeks though, PowerPoint and Smart Notebook were dead to me!

I run all of my lessons through this now, and it allows me to be flexible with my lesson flow. My top feature would be the ability to add pictures of the children's work and annotate or highlight them with the Apple Pencil on the fly.

This should be in every classroom teachers hands!

Thank you for your kind words! We really appreciate your feedback! We'd love to be in every classroom teachers' hands!

Six stars out of five, if it was possible!

Few apps deliver on being seriously innovative, and with regards to presenting ideas or lessons, EE has achieved something special here.

I'm a teacher and with the help of EE the lessons have stepped up in terms of engagement along with raising the opportunity for interaction.

No, this app will not make you a better teacher but yes it has the potential to make your lesson better.

Thank you for writing a review!

Amazing!!

You don't have to pay to get unlimited features!
I had the normal version and I had to pay a lot but this, you don't have to! I love it!

Thank you for leaving a review!

Information

Provider

Explain Everything sp. z o.o.

Compatibility

Requires iOS 11.4 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Languages

English, Arabic, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian

Copyright

© 2011-2019 Explain Everything

Family Sharing

Up to six family members will be able to use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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