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More info and ideas for using Explain Everything (and others)

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Screencasting for Learning June 17 workshop (Tech Visit 2015)

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Screencasting with iPads Enhancing instruction using video tutorials: Examples and lessons learned goo.gl/6vHPK7 Ben Stanerson @benstanerson

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Students wrote and illustrated a story about Penguins based on research they had done. They also labeled a penguin using Skitch

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This project was done using Doodlecast Pro and Skitch. We also used Popplet to web our ideas prior to the project

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Students completes several fact families, then made one of their own and then told 3 things they knew about fact families

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Learn Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Song

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This was an assessment that I used with my students on their knowledge of fact families. It started with basic knowledge/recall, then required them to apply their knowledge of fact families and ended with an exit slip/reflection

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Have students take a picture of the book page that reminds them of their connection. Draw their self connection and then record the T-S connection

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We have started using DoodlecastPro as a way to share our Text to Self, Text to Text, and Text to World connections.

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Doodlecast Pro

Explain Everything

ShowMe

Educreations

Screen Chomp

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We have been working on comparing 2 digit numbers less than 100 in math this past week. We've been building the numbers using base 10 blocks, using both traditional blocks as well as virtual base 10 blocks on our iPads. We've been noticing and discussing how the 10s place is what helps us to know if the number is larger (as long as the 10s place numbers are not the same- we talked about what to do with that debacle as well). As a quick assessment this week, I gave each child 2 different numbers to build using the app, Number Pieces Basic. This is a great app for students to build, compare, add and subtract numbers with and best yet, it's free! Click the link above to check it out for yourself.

After building their numbers on the app, each student took a screenshot of their page and then imported that picture into the app, Doodlecast Pro. Doodlescast Pro is an app which allows us to write on our pictures, as well as record our thoughts. This is not a free app, but there is a similar one called Screen Chomp that is free. Students then had to tell what their numbers were, which was larger and explain the thinking that they used to know which number was larger. When we were done, I had my students email their videos to me. I listened to each one and then forwarded it to their parents along with a note about how they were doing with the concepts we were working on. I had a dad email today with the following comment,
"This is awesome! Get to see his learning and development of concepts in action."
Yes! That madde my day as a big part of why I think the iPads are such a great tool is that our classroom learning can be transparent to parents and the world!

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We have been working on comparing 2 digit numbers less than 100 in math this past week. We've been building the numbers using base 10 blocks, using both traditional blocks as well as virtual base 10 blocks on our iPads.

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Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that you can use to find ideas for all your projects and interests.

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Explain Everything in the Primary Classroom

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Explain Everything in the Primary Classroom

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Explain everything is a screen casting and interactive whiteboard app that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. My students can export their video to our dropbox folder to save it, to our youtube channel to share it and to the camera roll to easily upload to their kidblogs all with a touch of a button. My grade 1/2 students can easily do all of these functions independently. In my classroom, we are at the point that I let my students choose the app they want to use to show their learning. We have many great content creation apps to choose from, however my students are choosing the Explain Everything app more often than ever before. There are many options with the explain everything app that are not offered on many of the other content creation apps we have on our classroom iPads and I think that is one reason they keep coming back to this great app.

Here are a few ways my students have been using Explain Everything in our classroom:

1. I have 6 and 7 year old children in my classroom. At the beginning of grade one, many students cannot write or draw pictures that I can understand without a little bit of an explanation. For this particular assignment, students completed a worksheet on time, where they needed to use words and or pictures to answer the questions. I then instructed them to take a picture of the sheet, and explain their work. They later posted it to their blogs.

2. During our procedural writing unit, students had to eat a gingerbread cookie, and write about how they ate it. They then had a partner take pictures of them eating the cookie and recorded themselves reading their procedural writing.

3. In science, students were asked to show their learning about the water cycle, here is an Explain Everything done by two girls in my class.

4. This fourth example is a grade one student explaining how she counted her buttons in different ways.

There are so many other ways to use this fantastic app, you can now add new or existing video, you are able to annotate video, and you can change the background and color templates, We have been playing around with these new options and it makes this app even more appealing to my students.

I would love to hear how your students are using Explain Everything in your classroom!

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Using Explain Everything in the Primary Classroom

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Explain everything is a screen casting and interactive whiteboard app that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. My students can export their video to our dropbox folder to save it, to our youtube channel to share it and to the camera roll to easily upload to their kidblogs all with a touch of a button.

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Last week I shared a Symbaloo of resources for using Explain Everything here, and with the staff at my school. When I shared at school, one of my friends asked a question I couldn't answer right away.

"Can you mute the mic while you draw in Explain Everything?"

I had no idea. As far as I knew it didn't look like there was a way. But, I got to Googling, and after some pretty decent digging, it turns out you can!

Here's an excellent tutorial that I found, made by Rockwall ISD, that shows how to add the mic mute button.

If you don't need the whole tutorial, here's an overview of how to show the Explain Everything mic mute button ...

Tap settings, and select the "Record" tab. Then just turn on the "Show MIC MUTE button".

Here's what it will look like, right next to your time counter. Tap the mic to mute or unmute.

We used the mic mute button this week while we recorded some writing on a screencast. It was awesome to not have to have a silent group of wiggling students while we worked! It does leave the video a bit quiet, maybe next time we'll add in some music.

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Last week I shared a Symbaloo of resources for using Explain Everything here, and with the staff at my school. When I shared at school, one of my friends asked a question I couldn't answer right away. "Can you mute the mic while you draw in Explain Everything?" I had no idea.

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All you want to know and more about Explain Everything

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Tutorials and lesson ideas for using Explain Everything in the classroom