Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Some new iPad app favorites

New iPad apps are always popping up and with so many to chose from it's hard to decide what to bother to look at, let alone which to use with your students. Some new favorites brought up at the District iPad training:

https://tellagami.com/
Tellagami is a mobile app that lets you create and share a quick animated Gami video, using an avatar to tell your story or lesson.
It's is a fun, new way to share animated messages. Customize your character. Change its mood or outfit. Record your voice or add dialogue. Then share your Gami. Cost: Free (but to unlock more choices fees are involved).


http://www.morriscooke.com/?p=134
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage. Add existing photos, objects, import PDF documents from local storage, Google Drive, Dropbox or insert a fully functioning web browser window. Cost: $2.99