Though my inquiry is in math, I have been exploring new ways to utilize this wonderful piece of technology across the curriculum.
I was playing around with the Google Drive App and discovered a hidden button... in the top right corner. With a slight touch of my finger, a tab appeared asking which app I wanted to open the PDF with (the text that I was reading at the time). A selection of apps were displayed (already downloaded on the iPad). So, as I grew curiouser, I selected Explain Everything and BOOM! Each PDF page became a slide in Explain Everything. This was awesome and just like that, I solved my problem with journaling on the iPad vs a paper and pencil task.
Our learning block at the time was "Les Olympiques". I found these great journaling prompts on a website, and displayed it on our Smartboard as our shared reading. The students then had their own copy saved in Explain Everything and were not only able to journal daily, but then recorded what was written. Très cool! Once we were done this mini journal, the students/the teacher, uploaded each one to Google Drive, which converted it to an MP4 video file.
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| Example of a slide in Explain Everything |
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