iPad
iPad Tutorials
Apps for iPad
PicCollage
10/1/12
Create collages with your pictures, text and more; import photos from your library, Facebook and the web
Leafsnap
10/8/12
An electronic field guide which uses visual recognition software to identify the tree species from photographs of their leaves. The app contains beautiful high-resolution images of leaves, flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds, and bark. It currently includes trees of the Northeast, but will grow to contain trees of the entire continental U.S.
Gaggle
10/15/12
Designed for K-12 students and teachers, the Gaggle iPad app has a digital locker to display shared files, new photo editor within the digital locker, assignment drop box where teachers can create and edit assignments and where students can view assignments and submit their work
iTunes U
10/22/12
Access to courses from leading universities and schools (including CMS). This is the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content
iMotion HD
10/30/12
An intuitive and powerful time-lapse and stop motion app. Take pictures, edit your movie and export HD 720 videos to your device or directly to YouTube.
For more information go to http://www.fingerlab.net/website/Fingerlab/iMotion_HD.html
Study Blue
11/5/12
It is an AASL 2012 Best Website for Teaching and Learning. Teachers can create online flash cards for students or students can create their own to study online or on-the-go with Apple and Android apps. Students can quiz themselves from flashcards and track their mastery of key concepts. You can also add photos and audio to the flashcards. Study Blue is free, suggested for high school and college students, and works best with Firefox in CMS.
SlideShark
11/13/12
This free app can be used to upload power point presentations for presentation from an iPad. It even preserves at least some of your pre-designed animations.
Photosynth
11/19/12 & 11/26/12
Capture your world in 3D. Shoot wraparound panoramas, share with friends, and/or publish them online. Create your own Photosynth panorama or select and use one of over 300,000+ previously created collections, such as bridges, towers, museums, national parks, markets, insects, forests, beaches, archeology, and aerial views.
Goodreads (goodreads.com)
12/3/12
Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations with a vast database of thousands of books. Currently it is open to staff in CMS, but not students because of mature content and themes. Goodreads could be considered a social network for readers and it will allow you to:
· Maintain a list of books previously read, books currently being read, and books to read in the future
· Have “friends” and see what friends have read, are reading, and want to read
· Read and write reviews and recommendations of books
· Explore book lists of all different types of books and much, much more
ShowMe
12/10/12
This app can be used as an interactive whiteboard to create voice-over tutoriats which can then be shared as an online resource on the Show Me website. Your students can then go to the website and view your demonstration.
Toontastic
12/17/12
a storytelling and creative learning tool which empowers students to draw, animate & share their own cartoons through imaginative play. Making cartoons with Toontastic is as easy as putting on a puppet show - simply press the record button, move your characters onscreen, and tell your story. Toontastic records your animation and voice as a cartoon video to share with friends and family on ToonTube, the app's global storytelling network for kids.
Skitch
1/7/13
Use Skitch to annotate over images like photographs, diagrams, and maps and store in Evernote. Insert your images by taking photos, using maps from Skitch, or saving appropriate images from the web. Annotate over the images and share as a public link, email, or simply save to your device photos and share from device gallery.
Teacher Clicker – Socrative (app)
Socrative (socrative.com)
1/14/13
Socrative doubles as an app and Web 2.0 tool. It can be used as a student response system for in class assessments. Socrative can be accessed on anything which has a browser (computer, tablet, or smartphone). Teachers simply create a free account, create an assessment activity, choose either student or teacher pacing, and give the activity number to students. Students can then go to the website or app, enter the activity number, and answer the questions. Teachers can project (via LCD) the questions and updated student responses. Reports of the activity and responses can viewed online or emailed. Currently, this could be a great way to informally assess students for something like a closure procedure using a computer lab, tablets, or cell phones.
Snap Guide
1/23/13
Snapguide is great for creating "how to" guides on just about anything that requires visual support. Take photos with an iPad of a step-by-step process. Add captions to explain how to get through each step as shown in each photo. What you end up with is a clear set of visual instructions. Use Snapguide to create visual instructions for anything from artwork, science experiments, exercises, or any step-by-step process that you can photograph. Email the guide through Gaggle or post to a wiki.
SimpleTransfer
1/28/13
SimpleTransfer is very useful for transferring iPad or iPhone videos to a different computer. Teachers and students can shoot iPad videos and upload them to the app. Then, an IP address will be provided. Type the link into a browser on any computer, and the videos will be accessible to play or download. This should work well for transferring your own iPad shot videos as well as student iPad videos. The free version does have a limit to the amount of videos one can transfer. The pay version is $2.
Poplet
2/1/13
Poplet is a storyboarding/mind mapping tool. It allows the user to directly enter text, write, draw, and/or add an image to each content tile. This could be very useful for displaying concept relationships during sequencing events, brainstorming, or storyboarding. The finished product can then be emailed to others.
Nearpod
2/8/13
A terrific free iPad app that teachers use to create interactive presentations then share on student's iPad devices. Students then use their Nearpod app to submit responses which teachers can then assess on their own Nearpod app. (Requires teacher to download two apps, both student and teacher versions of Nearpod)
Haiku Deck
2/19/13
Haiku Deck is the simple new way to create stunning presentations – whether you are pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement. Featured on the iTunes “New and Noteworthy” and “What’s Hot” lists, Haiku Deck makes it fast and fun to create beautifully designed slideshows you’ll be proud to share. Beautiful - Instantly create the perfect look by choosing from a range of stylish themes. Easy - Select the perfect backdrop for your words from millions of free high-quality Creative Commons licensed photos. Import images from your iPad, Flickr, Picasa, Instagram, or Facebook for a personalized touch. Apply fonts and image settings with one tap. Select the perfect layout for each slide with one tap. Toggle image filters to achieve the perfect look with one tap. Shareable - Share to email, Twitter, or Facebook. Display decks with an iPad, a projector, a smartphone, or any web browser. Export to PowerPoint or Adobe .pdf
Haiku Deck is perfect for all kinds of presentations. Here are some specific ways people have used it:
· Summarize a discussion
· Pitch an idea
· Recap and share a book
· Illustrate a blog post
· Teach a lesson
· Show how to do something
· Create a visual resume
· Give a report
· Make a stand-out status report
· Enliven a to-do list
· Share a personalized poem or message
· Express your vision
· Illustrate an idea with a visual storyboard
· Share highlights from a trip or event
· Tell a story with words and pictures
· Present evidence
SAT Flashcard Review
2/25/13
SAT Flashcard Review provides over 5,000 simple, easy-to-use flashcards for studying for the standardized tests required to apply to most colleges such as the SAT, SAT2, and ACT. Because there are so many words, chances are you'll be studying new words every time you open the app. You can also star a word if you would like to revisit it later. Star all your problem words, and you have an easy study resource for only the words you haven't yet memorized.
Khan Academy
3/4/13
Khan Academy is a useful app and web 2.0 tool which is loaded with instructional mini-lessons and resources which cover a variety of learning topics. It is designed so the user can easily search through the materials starting with the academic subject and then continuing through various subtopics which represent specific skills and knowledge. The web 2.0 version even has some practice options.
Find My iPhone/Find My iPad (icloud.com)
3/11/13
If checking the usual spots hasn’t turned up your missing device, Find My iPhone can help. Just sign in at iCloud.com or use the Find My iPhone app on another device to locate yours on a map, display a message on its screen, remotely set a passcode lock, or initiate a remote wipe to delete your data. With iOS 6, iCloud offers Lost Mode — making it even easier to find and protect a missing iOS device. Lost Mode immediately locks your device with a four-digit passcode and sends it a message displaying a contact number. That way a good Samaritan can call you from your Lock screen without accessing the rest of the information on your device. While in Lost Mode, your device even keeps track of where it’s been and reports back to you when you check in at iCloud.com or on the Find My iPhone app. http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/find-my-iphone.html
Electric Slide
3/18/13
Electric Slide serves as an app for wirelessly projecting and presenting presentations with an iOS device. After creating a free account at ElectrideSlide.net and uploading your presentation, the content can be displayed on your PC browser by typing in the IP address. Then, the content can be wirelessly presented on a projector using an iPhone or iPad. Another way to present is to have students type the IP address in a browser on a device such as a phone, tablet, or computer. Teachers could then present as it advances on everyone’s device.
Baiboard
3/25/13
Baiboard is a collaborative interactive whiteboard that has many convenient features. Like with many other interactive whiteboard apps, Baiboard also allows users to add images, files, and shapes to the canvas. Then it is easy to annotate over the chosen background using textboxes or free writing. There are many other features of Baiboard which set it apart from other interactive whiteboard apps. The first of those differences is the ability to broadcast your annotations in real time to other users who can simply open the app and join the canvas you’ve created by entering the number for that particular board. Not only can the users on iOS devices watch your annotations in real-time, but they can add to the annotations. Followers can also watch the annotations with a web browser. It is even possible to carry on a group chat that will show up on the canvas. This app could be very useful for teachers to demonstrate something for students who could then participate by adding to the canvas upon request. Also, students could create their own canvases for a small group to collaborate on a topic. The finished product can be easily saved as a photo, emailed to the teacher on Gaggle, or shared with the class by plugging an iOS device to a projector.
Mind Mash
4/8/13
MindMash is a brainstorming & note-taking application for the iPad. It allows users to create an ideas mash-up by combining and manipulating text, images & drawings on the iPad in a visual and free-form manner.
MindMash turns the iPad into a canvas of ideas for students, bloggers, writers, designers, and other creative individuals. Users can add text, images & drawings (called 'bits') to a sheet or several sheets and use these bits to compose visual outputs for personal or professional use. It aids in the creative process by making use of a free-form layout for the sheets as well as helps in efficiently organizing thoughts and ideas by allowing users to easily edit bits of data.
With MindMash, you can:
- Organize notes and thoughts easily and creatively
- Add text and images to a sheet
- Sketch freely on a sheet during Drawing mode
- Resize images and adjust text area through pinching
- Replace images and text by double tapping
- Drag around bits of data to manipulate layout
iBird Lite
4/15/13
The iBird app is available for Android, Windows, and iPad/iPhone. Features include a blog and “help me identify a bird.” It plays bird songs and teaches the user how to identify birds. “Forget the field guide…newbie birders can narrow in on an avian ID simply by entering a bird’s size and colors, its location and the month.” It includes birds of North America and the UK.
Pocket Wave HD
4/22/13
This app is great for auditory learners. The app allows the user to record and edit one’s voice and email it. The recording can be sent to Gaggle and uploaded to the digital locker. It could be anything from an assignment reminder to a mini lecture on a given topic. Students can also use this app for audio blogging about any topic to practice speaking and listening skills.
Loopster
4/29/13
Loopster is a video creation app. Shoot and upload clips directly to the camera roll using an iPad. Import videos and use the tools to cut or combine clips or narrate and add music, transitions, and/or text. The finished product can be saved and uploaded to Gaggle. This app is especially useful for flipping your classroom. Mini-lessons and/or content can be filmed, edited, and uploaded for students to view as necessary. Also, students can use the app to create their own videos and upload to their digital lockers.
iPadio App & Web Tool
5/6/13
iPadio is a free phonecasting tool. After signing up for a free account, use your phone to call the provided iPadio phone number. Enter your provided pin, and record your phonecast after the beep. Others can access the phonecast by visiting the website and finding your phonecast channel. Concept explanations, assignment instructions, or simple postings/reminders can be left on iPadio using your cell phone for auditory learners to easily access. (app for iPhone and Android; it is also a web tool) Links for the phonecasts may be embedded on your CMS Wiki.
Diigo
5/13/13
Diigo is a web tool and app bookmarking technology for highlighting text or posting sticky notes on web pages. Those annotated web pages can be accessed by logging into Diigo and choosing “My Library.” This dual web tool and app is especially good for research of any kind. Annotated web pages can also be shared with others to review for collaborative research or projects.
Pathbrite
5/20/13
Pathbrite – This easy to use digital portfolio webtool/app provides a variety of options for uploading portfolio items including computer files, web pages, uploaded videos, and cloud documents as well as others. The content can then be easily organized with Pathbrite’s user-friendly design features. Pathbrite could be useful to students to make progress on an continuous project or for showing off one’s talents and work experiences in college or the professional world.
9 Slides
5/28/13
9 Slides - 9 Slides is a web tool/app for explaining/summarizing presentation content. Upload presentation style content from power point or Google Drive on the web version or access content from Slideshare, Google Drive, or Dropbox on the app version. Immediately, the camera will turn on showing your face next to your slide show. Press record to speak about the presentation, and then use your finger to move through the rest of the slides as you emphasize important key ideas. Continue until you are finished with the presentation. The end result will include the video of you explaining the concepts of the presentation as the slideshow progresses alongside the video. A good use for 9 slides is to summarize a concept for students to view on their own, or students could use this web tool/app to create and explain their own content for the class. The finished presentations can be emailed or found by going to the 9 Slides website.
Apps for iPad
PicCollage
10/1/12
Create collages with your pictures, text and more; import photos from your library, Facebook and the web
Leafsnap
10/8/12
An electronic field guide which uses visual recognition software to identify the tree species from photographs of their leaves. The app contains beautiful high-resolution images of leaves, flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds, and bark. It currently includes trees of the Northeast, but will grow to contain trees of the entire continental U.S.
Gaggle
10/15/12
Designed for K-12 students and teachers, the Gaggle iPad app has a digital locker to display shared files, new photo editor within the digital locker, assignment drop box where teachers can create and edit assignments and where students can view assignments and submit their work
iTunes U
10/22/12
Access to courses from leading universities and schools (including CMS). This is the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content
iMotion HD
10/30/12
An intuitive and powerful time-lapse and stop motion app. Take pictures, edit your movie and export HD 720 videos to your device or directly to YouTube.
For more information go to http://www.fingerlab.net/website/Fingerlab/iMotion_HD.html
Study Blue
11/5/12
It is an AASL 2012 Best Website for Teaching and Learning. Teachers can create online flash cards for students or students can create their own to study online or on-the-go with Apple and Android apps. Students can quiz themselves from flashcards and track their mastery of key concepts. You can also add photos and audio to the flashcards. Study Blue is free, suggested for high school and college students, and works best with Firefox in CMS.
SlideShark
11/13/12
This free app can be used to upload power point presentations for presentation from an iPad. It even preserves at least some of your pre-designed animations.
Photosynth
11/19/12 & 11/26/12
Capture your world in 3D. Shoot wraparound panoramas, share with friends, and/or publish them online. Create your own Photosynth panorama or select and use one of over 300,000+ previously created collections, such as bridges, towers, museums, national parks, markets, insects, forests, beaches, archeology, and aerial views.
Goodreads (goodreads.com)
12/3/12
Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations with a vast database of thousands of books. Currently it is open to staff in CMS, but not students because of mature content and themes. Goodreads could be considered a social network for readers and it will allow you to:
· Maintain a list of books previously read, books currently being read, and books to read in the future
· Have “friends” and see what friends have read, are reading, and want to read
· Read and write reviews and recommendations of books
· Explore book lists of all different types of books and much, much more
ShowMe
12/10/12
This app can be used as an interactive whiteboard to create voice-over tutoriats which can then be shared as an online resource on the Show Me website. Your students can then go to the website and view your demonstration.
Toontastic
12/17/12
a storytelling and creative learning tool which empowers students to draw, animate & share their own cartoons through imaginative play. Making cartoons with Toontastic is as easy as putting on a puppet show - simply press the record button, move your characters onscreen, and tell your story. Toontastic records your animation and voice as a cartoon video to share with friends and family on ToonTube, the app's global storytelling network for kids.
Skitch
1/7/13
Use Skitch to annotate over images like photographs, diagrams, and maps and store in Evernote. Insert your images by taking photos, using maps from Skitch, or saving appropriate images from the web. Annotate over the images and share as a public link, email, or simply save to your device photos and share from device gallery.
Teacher Clicker – Socrative (app)
Socrative (socrative.com)
1/14/13
Socrative doubles as an app and Web 2.0 tool. It can be used as a student response system for in class assessments. Socrative can be accessed on anything which has a browser (computer, tablet, or smartphone). Teachers simply create a free account, create an assessment activity, choose either student or teacher pacing, and give the activity number to students. Students can then go to the website or app, enter the activity number, and answer the questions. Teachers can project (via LCD) the questions and updated student responses. Reports of the activity and responses can viewed online or emailed. Currently, this could be a great way to informally assess students for something like a closure procedure using a computer lab, tablets, or cell phones.
Snap Guide
1/23/13
Snapguide is great for creating "how to" guides on just about anything that requires visual support. Take photos with an iPad of a step-by-step process. Add captions to explain how to get through each step as shown in each photo. What you end up with is a clear set of visual instructions. Use Snapguide to create visual instructions for anything from artwork, science experiments, exercises, or any step-by-step process that you can photograph. Email the guide through Gaggle or post to a wiki.
SimpleTransfer
1/28/13
SimpleTransfer is very useful for transferring iPad or iPhone videos to a different computer. Teachers and students can shoot iPad videos and upload them to the app. Then, an IP address will be provided. Type the link into a browser on any computer, and the videos will be accessible to play or download. This should work well for transferring your own iPad shot videos as well as student iPad videos. The free version does have a limit to the amount of videos one can transfer. The pay version is $2.
Poplet
2/1/13
Poplet is a storyboarding/mind mapping tool. It allows the user to directly enter text, write, draw, and/or add an image to each content tile. This could be very useful for displaying concept relationships during sequencing events, brainstorming, or storyboarding. The finished product can then be emailed to others.
Nearpod
2/8/13
A terrific free iPad app that teachers use to create interactive presentations then share on student's iPad devices. Students then use their Nearpod app to submit responses which teachers can then assess on their own Nearpod app. (Requires teacher to download two apps, both student and teacher versions of Nearpod)
Haiku Deck
2/19/13
Haiku Deck is the simple new way to create stunning presentations – whether you are pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement. Featured on the iTunes “New and Noteworthy” and “What’s Hot” lists, Haiku Deck makes it fast and fun to create beautifully designed slideshows you’ll be proud to share. Beautiful - Instantly create the perfect look by choosing from a range of stylish themes. Easy - Select the perfect backdrop for your words from millions of free high-quality Creative Commons licensed photos. Import images from your iPad, Flickr, Picasa, Instagram, or Facebook for a personalized touch. Apply fonts and image settings with one tap. Select the perfect layout for each slide with one tap. Toggle image filters to achieve the perfect look with one tap. Shareable - Share to email, Twitter, or Facebook. Display decks with an iPad, a projector, a smartphone, or any web browser. Export to PowerPoint or Adobe .pdf
Haiku Deck is perfect for all kinds of presentations. Here are some specific ways people have used it:
· Summarize a discussion
· Pitch an idea
· Recap and share a book
· Illustrate a blog post
· Teach a lesson
· Show how to do something
· Create a visual resume
· Give a report
· Make a stand-out status report
· Enliven a to-do list
· Share a personalized poem or message
· Express your vision
· Illustrate an idea with a visual storyboard
· Share highlights from a trip or event
· Tell a story with words and pictures
· Present evidence
SAT Flashcard Review
2/25/13
SAT Flashcard Review provides over 5,000 simple, easy-to-use flashcards for studying for the standardized tests required to apply to most colleges such as the SAT, SAT2, and ACT. Because there are so many words, chances are you'll be studying new words every time you open the app. You can also star a word if you would like to revisit it later. Star all your problem words, and you have an easy study resource for only the words you haven't yet memorized.
Khan Academy
3/4/13
Khan Academy is a useful app and web 2.0 tool which is loaded with instructional mini-lessons and resources which cover a variety of learning topics. It is designed so the user can easily search through the materials starting with the academic subject and then continuing through various subtopics which represent specific skills and knowledge. The web 2.0 version even has some practice options.
Find My iPhone/Find My iPad (icloud.com)
3/11/13
If checking the usual spots hasn’t turned up your missing device, Find My iPhone can help. Just sign in at iCloud.com or use the Find My iPhone app on another device to locate yours on a map, display a message on its screen, remotely set a passcode lock, or initiate a remote wipe to delete your data. With iOS 6, iCloud offers Lost Mode — making it even easier to find and protect a missing iOS device. Lost Mode immediately locks your device with a four-digit passcode and sends it a message displaying a contact number. That way a good Samaritan can call you from your Lock screen without accessing the rest of the information on your device. While in Lost Mode, your device even keeps track of where it’s been and reports back to you when you check in at iCloud.com or on the Find My iPhone app. http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/find-my-iphone.html
Electric Slide
3/18/13
Electric Slide serves as an app for wirelessly projecting and presenting presentations with an iOS device. After creating a free account at ElectrideSlide.net and uploading your presentation, the content can be displayed on your PC browser by typing in the IP address. Then, the content can be wirelessly presented on a projector using an iPhone or iPad. Another way to present is to have students type the IP address in a browser on a device such as a phone, tablet, or computer. Teachers could then present as it advances on everyone’s device.
Baiboard
3/25/13
Baiboard is a collaborative interactive whiteboard that has many convenient features. Like with many other interactive whiteboard apps, Baiboard also allows users to add images, files, and shapes to the canvas. Then it is easy to annotate over the chosen background using textboxes or free writing. There are many other features of Baiboard which set it apart from other interactive whiteboard apps. The first of those differences is the ability to broadcast your annotations in real time to other users who can simply open the app and join the canvas you’ve created by entering the number for that particular board. Not only can the users on iOS devices watch your annotations in real-time, but they can add to the annotations. Followers can also watch the annotations with a web browser. It is even possible to carry on a group chat that will show up on the canvas. This app could be very useful for teachers to demonstrate something for students who could then participate by adding to the canvas upon request. Also, students could create their own canvases for a small group to collaborate on a topic. The finished product can be easily saved as a photo, emailed to the teacher on Gaggle, or shared with the class by plugging an iOS device to a projector.
Mind Mash
4/8/13
MindMash is a brainstorming & note-taking application for the iPad. It allows users to create an ideas mash-up by combining and manipulating text, images & drawings on the iPad in a visual and free-form manner.
MindMash turns the iPad into a canvas of ideas for students, bloggers, writers, designers, and other creative individuals. Users can add text, images & drawings (called 'bits') to a sheet or several sheets and use these bits to compose visual outputs for personal or professional use. It aids in the creative process by making use of a free-form layout for the sheets as well as helps in efficiently organizing thoughts and ideas by allowing users to easily edit bits of data.
With MindMash, you can:
- Organize notes and thoughts easily and creatively
- Add text and images to a sheet
- Sketch freely on a sheet during Drawing mode
- Resize images and adjust text area through pinching
- Replace images and text by double tapping
- Drag around bits of data to manipulate layout
iBird Lite
4/15/13
The iBird app is available for Android, Windows, and iPad/iPhone. Features include a blog and “help me identify a bird.” It plays bird songs and teaches the user how to identify birds. “Forget the field guide…newbie birders can narrow in on an avian ID simply by entering a bird’s size and colors, its location and the month.” It includes birds of North America and the UK.
Pocket Wave HD
4/22/13
This app is great for auditory learners. The app allows the user to record and edit one’s voice and email it. The recording can be sent to Gaggle and uploaded to the digital locker. It could be anything from an assignment reminder to a mini lecture on a given topic. Students can also use this app for audio blogging about any topic to practice speaking and listening skills.
Loopster
4/29/13
Loopster is a video creation app. Shoot and upload clips directly to the camera roll using an iPad. Import videos and use the tools to cut or combine clips or narrate and add music, transitions, and/or text. The finished product can be saved and uploaded to Gaggle. This app is especially useful for flipping your classroom. Mini-lessons and/or content can be filmed, edited, and uploaded for students to view as necessary. Also, students can use the app to create their own videos and upload to their digital lockers.
iPadio App & Web Tool
5/6/13
iPadio is a free phonecasting tool. After signing up for a free account, use your phone to call the provided iPadio phone number. Enter your provided pin, and record your phonecast after the beep. Others can access the phonecast by visiting the website and finding your phonecast channel. Concept explanations, assignment instructions, or simple postings/reminders can be left on iPadio using your cell phone for auditory learners to easily access. (app for iPhone and Android; it is also a web tool) Links for the phonecasts may be embedded on your CMS Wiki.
Diigo
5/13/13
Diigo is a web tool and app bookmarking technology for highlighting text or posting sticky notes on web pages. Those annotated web pages can be accessed by logging into Diigo and choosing “My Library.” This dual web tool and app is especially good for research of any kind. Annotated web pages can also be shared with others to review for collaborative research or projects.
Pathbrite
5/20/13
Pathbrite – This easy to use digital portfolio webtool/app provides a variety of options for uploading portfolio items including computer files, web pages, uploaded videos, and cloud documents as well as others. The content can then be easily organized with Pathbrite’s user-friendly design features. Pathbrite could be useful to students to make progress on an continuous project or for showing off one’s talents and work experiences in college or the professional world.
9 Slides
5/28/13
9 Slides - 9 Slides is a web tool/app for explaining/summarizing presentation content. Upload presentation style content from power point or Google Drive on the web version or access content from Slideshare, Google Drive, or Dropbox on the app version. Immediately, the camera will turn on showing your face next to your slide show. Press record to speak about the presentation, and then use your finger to move through the rest of the slides as you emphasize important key ideas. Continue until you are finished with the presentation. The end result will include the video of you explaining the concepts of the presentation as the slideshow progresses alongside the video. A good use for 9 slides is to summarize a concept for students to view on their own, or students could use this web tool/app to create and explain their own content for the class. The finished presentations can be emailed or found by going to the 9 Slides website.