Apps
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*ShadowPuppet
Quick Start Guide
@puppet
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Easily create videos in the classroom! Students as young as five can make videos to tell stories, explain ideas or docment their learning. 30+ lesson ideas supporting Common Core make it easy to get started!
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~Practice reading aloud from a book or poem
~Summarize a story describing beginning, middle and end
~Diagram a sentence or describe grammar rules
~Create an infomercial for a make-believe product
~Describe the steps of how to make something
~Practice spelling by sounding out words
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Third Grade Examples |
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Chatterpix
@ChatterPixIt
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Similar to Blabberize, Chatterpix allows students to take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record their voice. |
~book reports
~book trailers
~biography report
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Book Report |
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Yakit Kids
From the iTunes store
@FreakGenius
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This app can bring any photo/artwork to life with comical and cool features. Simply take or select a picture and highlight the mouth and record your voice to make your very own talking character. Tweak your video by changing the voice pitch, add special effects.
Demo video
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~create a Yakit using new vocabulary
~bring a story character to life
~ create a YAKiT of major characters from classroom novels or outside reading
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Tellagami
https://tellagami.com/
@tellagami
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The Tellagami App is free. Tellagami Edu allows for more options and costs $4.99
Graphite Review
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~create a character from a book or story to explain motivation or recap story
~recite or read original work
~read from a book or story
~book reviews
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Book Reviews from Mrs. Griffin's Library
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Lego Movie Maker
@LEGO_Group
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Create stop motion movies using the free app. |
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The Hobbit |
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UsTyme
http://ustyme.com/library.html
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Freemium App allows for video calls to read books together, which are built into the program, or to play games.
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~Connect students with older students
~Connect students with reading buddies
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Sample screen shot |
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Green Screen DoInk
@DoInkTweets
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Take photos and place them on a background photo
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ThingLink
https://www.thinglink.com/
@ThingLink
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Make your images come alive with private video, notes, or even music from YouTube.
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~Support vocabulary by linking to images representing meaning
~Insert links to answer text-dependent questions
~Interactive book talk
~Interactive author study
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Laurie Halse Anderson
Literary Analysis ThingLink
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App Smashing
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| About App Smashing |
Greg Kulowiec's App-Smashing App-Pack with tutorials |
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Readworks
http://www.readworks.org/
@ReadWorks
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Explain Everything
http://explaineverything.com/
@explainevrythng
(Free alternative: ShowMe)
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Book Creator
http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/
@BookCreatorApp
App Smash~~~
1. Select a passage from ReadWorks
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ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly.
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Collaborative and interactive whiteboard. ($5.99)
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Combine video, text, images and audio to create original works
Youtube Playlist
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2. Import it into Explain Everything. Students read and record the passage and use pointer to indicate words as they read.
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Skill lessons covering author's purpose, main idea, and many more.
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~sketch out a story
~read aloud from text
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Engage kids in storytelling
Teacher-created audiobooks
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3. Bring into Book Creator and ask students to add reader response, or share own thoughts about passage.
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Reading Passages
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The Outsiders
Amelia Earhart
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Girls Don't Play Basketball by Leah, Age 11
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Idea from Eileen Pasquini
@pasqe
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More Smashes
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