Tools For Teachers

Tools for teachers is a resource for teachers that provides irreplaceable tools for creative educators, This apps assist teachers with planning out their weekly schedules, and ideas for various projects. Tools for teacher is within the app iTunes U . You select the educators tab then there is an icon that states tools for teachers. Whenever I noticed this I instantly saw some apps that I have become familiar with through the summer being enrolled in DED318. The future is teaching at schools that have one to one iPads. Therefore it is very important to be knowledgeable about what these different apps could be used for throughout the school year.

The First app that I downloaded was Nearpod. This app can be access through iPhone, iPads and mac computers. This app is a grade way to keep your students engaged through the lesson. You can display the lesson on every students iPad. The teacher has access to what is on every students iPad at all times. You can’t also conduct formative assessments by placing a few questions throughout your near pod lesson. That way the teacher is able to monitor the understand of all the Students by gaging wether or not the students answered the questions correctly.

 

Show me is an interactive whiteboard app. This app you are able to apply your own pictures and prewritten math assignments. You can record various voice recordings that go along with this lesson. When doing a lesson over an interactive whiteboard the students can go back and review the information to help them study for their assessments.This app could also be on the student side of things. Students could create group projects using this app and present their work to the class in a fun interactive way that utilized technology.

Khan Academy is a great app for teachers and students. Students can use this app to get help with their math homework while they are at home when they may not have anyone to help them with their homework. Khan Academy is very easy to use. You simple select what you are working on and their are videos that walk you through example problems to help work through the procedures. There are various examples for every lesson that Khan Academy provides. This app could also be side from the teachers benefit as well. The teacher could view how they are teaching these new methods that way the student is familiar with the process. The students and the teachers benefit from using this app.

Within the iTunes U app by just selecting educators this app provides you access to thirty different types of lesson plans that very between all grades. This is a valuable source for educators that are looking for a quick easy way to apply technology within the classroom. This lesson ideas allow the teachers to build ideas off of other educators and figuring out how to reach the students as a team. It is awesome to me that teacher are working together to help other teacher to benefit the students. They are posting their creative ideas that worked for them within their classroom. This is a great source to gain ideas on how to incorporate technology with a wide variety of subjects.

To fully have access to these lessons you need to subscribe to these lessons. The first lesson that jumped out to me was was a lesson that within primary science, called Endangered Animals Writing Project. Some of the parts within the lesson you have to purchase to have access to the information. Their are very resources such as iMovie, interactive whiteboards,and keynote all apps that we have had experience with.

There are also resources for physical education. I checked out the lesson about Organic PE: Basketball. I never realized how technology could be used during the physical education. However instead of just explain the rules to a knew game you could use an interactive white board. iMovie was also a remorse that was being used through this folder as well. There were also apps that could be download that could be beneficial to physical education teachers.

These next group of lessons that I opened was the Create a Toy Challenge. This was a challenge for schools to collaborate with a local organization, such as a company that teaches stem. The challenge is to create a toy that follows a procedure. Students must be able to be knowledge about the toy as well as be able to assemble and dissemble the toy. This is a lesson that has a lot hands on learning incorporated within these lesson. Very awesome idea for teachers to incorporate.

IMOVIE

RATING:3.5 out of 5 stars

PRICE:Free

ITUNES DESCRIPTION

With a streamlined design and intuitive Multi-Touch gestures,iMovie lets you enjoy your videos and tell stories like never before. Browse your video library, share favorite moments create beautiful movies, and watch them on all your devices in iMovie Theater. And with the iMovie extension, its fast and fun to make every video more memorable- right in the photos app

Make every video more memorable

• Use the iMovie extension to enhance video clips right in the Photos app
• Add a video filter, animate title, and soundtrack to any clip.
• Instantly save new video clips to your photo library

 

Browse and share your videos

• Enjoy all your videos in a full-screen video browser.
• Quickly share a clip or a portion of a clip
• Mark favorite moments to easily find them later.

Make Hollywood-style Movies

• Choose from 14 trailer templates with stunning graphics and original scores by some of the worlds top film composers.
• Customize movie studio logos, cast names, and credits
• Select the best video and photos for your trailer with the help of animated drop zones
• Record video for your trailer right in iMovie.

WHAT I LIKED ABOUT THE APP

The app was very easy to use overall. You are able to select different themes that set the mood for your movie. There also is music that you could utilize as background music during various parts of your movie, or throughout your whole movie. iMovie allows various choices wether you prefer to use pictures or different clip recordings. You can also edit these clips. IMovie allows you to do voice recording over various clips and pictures. You can’t delete these records and replace them with other information very easily. I movie is very easy to use. However I don’t know if I would use this app within the classroom because it is very time consuming. With looking up all my information and adjusting the pictures with the recordings they way that I believed the information fit the best took me about three hours to create an informational video that was a little over three minutes. Overall I think the app is awesome just not for me or my classroom.

Adobe Voice

                            Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Price: Free

Itunes Description

** Featured by Apple as one of the Best iTunes Apps of 2014**

One of the simplest, most creative, most joyous apps ever written!

Voice help you create stunning animated videos in minutes. No filming- just talk to tell your story. Pick from over 25,000 beautiful iconic images to show your ideas and voice automatically adds cinematic motions and soundtrack. Persuade, inform and inspire anyone online. Make an impact.

If you like Voice, you’ll love another member of our family- adobe slate!

 

YOUR VOICE TELLS THE STORY

• Fun, fast and super simple
• Touch to record your voice one line at a time
• Voice automatically adds the perfect soundtrack. Play it back and hear yourself sound amazing.

TAP TO MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL

• Pick from the stunning collection of over 25,000 icons and millions of images or use your own.
• Choose the perfect theme with one tap- engaging motion makes every element memorable.
• Select your own colors and fonts to make your stories look and feel exactly how you want them to.

WHAT I LIKED ABOUT THE APP

The app was extremely simple to use. I discovered all the imformation that I wanted to include within my story and was prepared before opening the app. I also saved pictures as well. The picture placement and the voice recordings only took me about ten minutes. It was very convent if you messed up you would just record over your previous recording. You didn’t have to delete or start over at all. This app would be very easy to utilize within my classroom. I think digital storying telling would be a great way for all students to learn. You could even provide the text so students could follow along with the voice recording. This would accommodate all the different styles of learning. Students could create their own digital story as well. I created a digital story about trees. It is linked below.