Compare & Contrast Ideas
ScreenChomp
ScreenChomp is an application that records your touch interactions and audio with your device and creates a video that can be shared with anyone, anywhere. The video you create can be shared with a short URL or downloaded as an MPEG-4 file. Screenchomp allows students to share ideas with one another or it can be used by teachers to instruct students on new ideas step-by-step from anywhere.
Adapt Content
Aurasma
Aurasma is an augmented reality application. The user scans an area with the camera on his/her phone and an animated sequence appears to come alive with what the app calls "auras." For instance, the user can scan a movie poster that has been tagged with an "aura"and see the actor jump off the poster and interact with the user. Furthermore, users can create their own "auras." While this seems mostly like a way for advertisers to utilize more dynamic advertisments, I could see this being an extremely valuable tool for educators. A teacher can create auras relevant to his/her lesson and tag them onto a plant for science class, or a piece of art for art class. By using Aurasma, the educator can adapt content onto reality itself.
Share Ideas & Opinions
Comic Life
Comic Life applies a comic-book style template on to user's photos. This allows students to create narratives from the photos on their phone. It might seem a little out of the box, but I think this app would be very useful in making less exciting lessons a lot more dynamic and interesting for students. They could make a comic of that day's class and share it with their peers.
Working Together
Tapose
Tapose is an application for creating journals with a huge array of content that users can create themselves, find on the internet, or create with a variety of in app tools. Users can collaborate with one another by sharing their journals. This would be an extremely useful app for group projects.
Bianca, these are a great apps. I have actually used Aurasma and Comic Life in my teaching, and my students have loved working with them. I particularly like Aurasma, and I think it would be especially relevant to your content area. Students can photograph pieces of art, and then provide narratives that explain those images. These narratives can then be shared with anyone who has the Aurasma app. I almost think of this app as a rudimentary way to experience what Google Glass might offer!
ReplyDeleteWow! Awesome pictures and amazing apps! Comic Life could be used for any subject, especially Lamguage Arts & History/Social Studies. Students could create comics about a day in the life of a character from literature or a historical figure. For Health/Phys Ed. the students could imagine themselves as Superheroes who fight junk food and earn power-up & points by eating healthy foods & completing physical activity. Tapose would be great for keeping an interactive Health Journal. With these very cool and educational apps, the possibilities are endless!
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