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Blog Post #9: Creativity and Collaboration Apps for your Students

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This week we are looking at apps that allow students to express creativity and collaborate with each other in the classroom. The first creativity app that I looked at and played around with was Toontastic . This app allows Permission By  students to create their own animated stories. It allows the students to be creative and choose what kind of story they want to create, how many and what type of characters they want to use for their story, the setting of their story, and so much more. This app allows students to create their own narrations by recording their voices and moving their characters around in a way that goes with their script. I really enjoyed playing around with this app. I think that this app will allow students to be creative while having fun creating their own interactive story/book. I think that this app can be very practical and useful in the classroom for all students to express their creativity while learning how to write different types of stories. I did not
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Post #8: Audio Recording, Editing, and Scriptwriting Apps

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For the next two weeks, I will be completing a script writing for my Instructional Video, as well as, recording and editing audio for my video.  I have research what scriptwriting is and how to write one. After much research, I have concluded that scriptwriting is a script or screenplay that is written by the screenwriter for things such as movies, TV shows, etc. In scriptwriting, a script contains actions, movements, emotions/expressions, and dialogue of characters. I viewed many websites that listed steps on the process of how to write a script. Most of the websites that I viewed listed the same steps, some broke down the steps more than others. The website that I found most useful with listing and describing the steps was "The Write Practice." This website listed five steps which was 1) craft your logline, 2) write a treatment: your first sketch, 3) structure your screenplay's outline, 4) write a flash draft and 5) edit. The website explained what each step consist
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Blog Post #7: Online Resources for Teachers

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It is important for teachers to utilize online resources that are available so that they can learn new ideas about education and how to teach their students more effectively. Technology is constantly changing and as a result of that, there are more and more resources and apps that teachers can learn to use and implement in their classrooms that can help their students interact and be creative with the material. Two very helpful resources for teachers is Kathy Schrock's resources and iPads4Teaching . After viewing a few links in both of these online sources, I found that many of the ideas and apps could be very useful in the classroom. I thoroughly enjoyed looking through and reading some of the links listed on these online resources.  One link that I clicked on that I found very interesting was Augmented Reality . After looking through this link, I found more resources linked at the bottom. It had resources for AR in education and AR Permission by  apps. After looking at
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Blog Post #6: Spelling with Phonics Educational Gaming Apps

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There are tons of educational games that allow students, varying in age, to interact with lessons and material presented to them. I recently created an interactive lesson on spelling simple words using phonics. After completing this lesson, I decided to search for educational apps that help students practice spelling words phonetically. Some of the apps that I discovered were more effective than others. Permission by One of the apps that I found was Endless Wordplay . This apps was one of my favorites out of all the apps that I tried. This app is very easy to navigate and very interactive and engaging. I like this app because it says the word first, then it jumbles up the letters and gives the student a chance to spell the word. The student must drag the letters and put them in the correct order to spell simple words. One thing that I really like about this app is that when the student drags the letter it says the sound of the letter until the student places it in one of the bo
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Blog Post #4: Interactive Whiteboard Technology in the Classroom

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Technology integration in current classrooms has significantly increased over the past few years, including interactive whiteboards. Technology is constantly evolving in our daily lives, as well as, in our classrooms. This is apparent in the interactive whiteboards. There are many different models and upgrades of the interactive whiteboards in hopes to make them more accessible, easier for students and teachers to use, and programs/software that help engage students, such as the SMART notebook software. Permission by  From elementary school to high school I experienced the transition from overhead projectors, Promethean boards , and eventually SMART boards. From kindergarten until fourth or fifth grade, I can vividly remember my teachers using the overhead projectors to teach. They often had the worksheet or lesson that we were doing on a projector sheet that allowed them to project the picture of worksheet or lesson we were discussing, as well as, to write annotations and answ
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Post #3: My Instructional Video Developmental Process

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As an education major, I am enrolled in Technology for the 21st Century Classroom course. In this course, we will learn how to incorporate technology into our classrooms as a 21st-century educator. One of the assignments that we have begun to work on is our education instructional video. Throughout the remainder of our class, we will learn how to plan for, construct, and create an instructional video for our students. Permission By Like most things in life, there are steps to this process that we must take into consideration. The process of the development of a video consists of four stages. The four stages in the process are pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution. Pre-production is where the concept and planning of the video occurs. In the pre-production stage, this is when we will map out our video, figure out where the video will be recorded, what we will say in the video, as well as, the equipment, materials, and software that we will need. The next s
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Post #2: My Use of Communication Apps

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Growing up in a technology-based society I have engaged in communicating with others through apps on my phone more than in person. Today most people rely on communicating with others through apps because it is an instant, faster, and more convenient way to communicate. I have used apps such as Voxer, HelloTalk, Marco Polo, and ClassDojo to communicate with others. Permission by Voxer is an app that I access on my phone to communicate with friends and coworkers. Voxer is an app that works like a walkie talkie. It gives me the opportunity to communicate through voice audio, as well as, sending messages, photos, and links. To use this app effectively, I search for my friend or coworker's Voxer account name to start a conversation with them either through messaging them or sending them a voice audio by holding down the orange button located on the bottom middle of the screen to communicate with them directly as if I was using a walkie talkie to communicate with them. I enjoy thi
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