Today's chat is hosted by Amy Kingsley and the topic is creativity with the iPad. She asked us to create a fake photo with a book theme. Mine was inspired by the wonderful, lovely Noisyvillage by Astrid Lindgren.
Q1 What are your top three apps for creativity with iPad?
A1 Clips, ExplainEverything, Canva
Other answers:
Doink - BookCreator - Garageband - iMovie - Clips - Chatterpix - Pic collage - Keynote - iPad features such as camera/screenrecording - Conceptsapp - Pages - Paper53 - toontastic - Plotagon - Bloxelsbuilder - notabillity - procreate - touchcast - Goodnotes - Pixelmator - Flipgrid - Morphiapp - Bossjock jr - Thinglink - Seesaw - stop motion - Adobe Spark - TC studio - popplet - aurasma - core animation app - cateaterkkc - Luma touch - Padlet
Q2 Have you ever made a lesson hook using iPad?
A2 I made a compilation of landforms to start a new geography subject and i made a trailer with iMovie to start a #makered lesson
Other answers: It's great to produce videos that are personalised to your class rather than just taling from YouTube, much more authentic and meaningful. I have been known to 'pop' out of the wall to introduce topic using AR is great to introduce ideas as hooks. I make a lot of CCTV videos using ExplainEveryting. The video playback of procreate is awesome. I often use Padlet to have my students record feedback or jot their thoughts, I also add video of myself explaining a few things, should have used clips. There are so many ways to hook in - a puppet pals conversation, a clips video, an animation, in interactive map tour, a lego robot speaking through code, a keynote animation. The hook can be anything with the iPad and instantly engages the children. At last school we trained reception teachers to use iMovie and seesaw and quickly create an introduction video for all parents of nursery students, usuallt took over a month using a digital camera and wasn't much cop, this wime it took two weeks and was awesome! The very underrated Spark Video is also great for producing super quick and pro looking videos, jazz up a WAGOLL (what a good one look like) and make it more accessible to lower attaining readers by recording. I used Clips and Augmentyfyit to generate interest in science.
Q3 What is your best app for anabling pupils to work in a role.
A3 In class I use #clips most of the time. Later this year I would love to use iMovie, the trailer for sharing stories. Actually, will do that tomorrow!
Other answers: Clips, Plotagon, DoInk-greenscreen, LEGOboost to build and bring their creations to life. Puppetpals, camera and iMovie allows pupils to create evidence of their work and as a form of assessment through vlogging they can be very creative using video, pics, tekst and music. The simplicity of chatterpix but there are som many that allow children to be in a role. The camera, wheter you use it as intended or add in green screen or capture images to pull into puppet palls or keynote the camera helps bring the roles to life. Clips and keynote are a big one for us just now. Mix in the briljant iOs11 screenrecording feature and you can't really see individual thought and expression come to life quickly. Chatterpix is a great app for working in role but you can animate in explain everything too. I also experimented keynote and ferrite studios at the weekend. Hard to say, definitely DoInk but mixed with Mojomasks and others, for younger children Puppet pals, sock puppets, sometimes easier to role play whilst not appearing on screen. Clips definitely, but iMovie is fantastic and easy to use as well, especially if students create their own portfolio profiles or news items, DoInk is perfect as well. Photospeak or puppetpalls. I think Do ink is great for enabling pupils to work in role. They can be in the arctic one day and a victorian classroom or Egypt the next. So easy to use which allows children to think more about their performance than the functionality of the app. My students like DoInk combined with Clips, iMovie or Bookcreator, we sometimes use morpho too. My students love Clips and Doink, they are so versatile and allows students to really be creative. My talking avatar free is a grwat alternative to tellagami. To enable students work in role i'd recommend Morpho (for putting words into famous peoples mouth) Comic life 3 (for statice poses students can give context to later) and iMovie. iMovie and clips are amazing, but Touchcast, Toontastic and DoInk are other incredible options. We use DoInk a lot, especially when students want to play multi roles. Chatterpix is an app we use a lot for bringing characters to life as it's so simple, our children love using the trailer features in iMovie as a way to share too.
Q4 Share a lesson/topic where pupils have used iPad creatively to retell a story.
A4 No story yet, but I'm thinking of using trailer by iMovie tommorow in class to retell the story of a child who lives in poverty.
Other answers: A lot of our schools are using Seesaw's voiceover feature and DoInk as part of their talk, for writing work to help them retell their stories using story maps. It's great to be able to put the children 'in' their story! Working with our 8-9 year olds last term, I got them to retell the story of Finn McCool and the giants causeway using Puppetpalls, they drew their own characters on paper and animated them with the app. We used the comic feature on BookCreator and the pupils re-told a traditional fairy tail in a different way. My colleague has had her students record themselves against various backdrops using DoInk for news reports in English, it really made their day. Our students create a lot of videos, multimedia portfolios and books in almost every subject: literature, religion, languages, philosophy, physics ets. Storytelling makes any topic more interesting and easier to learn and remember. Our pupils use Keynote to deliver the history and success of a designer from their studies to the others in the class. Book reviews/storytelling with students showing up on book covers when book is scanned with an iPad: DoInk + Aurasma. We read a story about imaginary world and my pupils had to draw the items of this world and retell the story. My Y9 music pupils are currently learning about the slave song, they are using iPads to create their own sons based on the history of the slave trade. They will then film and produce a video of their performance using iMovie. We had students who had intellectual disabilities use BookCreator to present their skills and goals at their student led IEP's thus supporting and demonstrating their self-determination, they told their own stories. Variation! Recently, i sent some staff on an Apple training event, i've just set up for next week where they have to present their feedback creatively in less then 5 minutes using the iPad. Students don't get grades for the assignment, but they want to create the best video so i use them in my iBook or post them on my instagram. We interviewed Paul Pogba during Blog the Euro's using explain everything to superimpose the children in the picture with him and then used Yakit kids to ask/answer questions. Kids loved it! Also used explain everyting to commentate over youtube clips of EURO2016.
Q5 How do your pupils use iPad to apply their speaking and listening skills across the curriculum?
A5 In my geography lessons it is not part of my lessons, so I don't have good examples
Other answers: Bookcreator is perfect for enfabling pupils to apply their literacy skills across the curriculum. Flipgrid of course and Seesaw are great. It's great to make phoic sounds videos on clips for French. I'm a big fan of Seesaw for this, adding an audio narration over any piece of work gives them the opportunity develop speaking for a purpose and an audience. Listening to each others is an engaging and interesting way to listen for a purpose. We use audio recording in Bookcreator a lot. Also use garageband to record pupils soundtracks. In language classen we combine stories written and told (voice recording) by students to books which we share with the class and read and listen. Students also dub videos to practice speaking skills. They use PuppetPals for their foreign language speaking and listening skills. Combined clips with interdiction to coding. All about being clear giving instruction and following instruction. Pupils hide the treasure, record steps how to find, walk forward 10 steps etc. Airdrop to a partner and they have to follow to the treasure. To make oral presentations in which they present their own revolutionary inventions. Oracy seemt to get lost the older pupils get, yet is just as crucial in my opinion, especially in rehearsal for writing and refining ideas. Seesaw is perfect for this. Being abble record voiceovers but also record verbal feedback using the app is perfect. It allows the children to critically analyse what they have done and also reflect on their work but also the work of their peers. I love using Abode Spark to help connect with and visualise poetry. Students recite lines and accompany with images to create a polished resource. Garageband is a fantastic tool for audio recording whatever the subject. A lot of teachers think it's just for music production. Gabsee, Kouji, My talking Avatar Free. If the iPad is embedded in the classroom and used across the curriculum, it becomes much easier to plan for the consistent development of students and learners. Using apps that encourage pupils to explain, instruct, inform and perform should be in all planning to accomplish this. I just started using Seesaw to share students reading with parents, it had really increased student motivation to improve oracy. Examples such as using DoInk to show what pupils learned at the end of a unit of work…not scripted…just a quick rehearsal and then on: do you really know your stuff? In woodwork, I have students create their own safety videos on new tools they have learnt how to use like a chisel or a tenon saw. It's a great way to see if they know all the health and safety rules for that tool, and the videos are great resources for me. Also speak selection is a great feature to use for practice listening skills. For me it would be Adobe Spark video and Seesaw, great for children's explanations. Every week i make books in Bookcreator for my students related to different topics, since I work with students with ASD, these books have a similar option in the app. I still believe our subject concept books that we make in Bookcreator are our best examples of practice. The vocubulary pupils are using to express their understanding is phenomenal. Meanly using clips, they have to watch and listen to videos I have made with keynote and clips in advance in doing class work, flipped learning. They also use clips to show what they know and create videos with voiceovers and tekst.
Q6 How can iPad be used in a cross-curricular way?
A6 My hopes are: foreign language teachers who work together with e.g. Biology to explain concepts in a foreign language by using the iPad
Other answers: I love teaching all subjects through topics, currently I'm doing Vets and Pets so all my teaching is cross curricular, iPad fits in so well with that. The iPad is the ultimate cross curricular device for learning. At the end of my current unit, students will create podcasts to show their own take on what we discussed this unit, hopefully it won't just be a one-time thing. We are fortunated to have 1:1 devices and our pupils choose how to present their work; it might be a movie, written, clips, song…as long as they include key points. Their iPads are another tool/resource to enhance learning across the curriculum. You can do anything in French, Colours&Art, Geography&my town. I want to do a cross curricular project based around the Isle of man. iPads should be seen as just another tool in the classroom toolbox-adaptable, flexible nut needs to be used to enhance learning. Whether it's a soundscape, an instructional video, feedback or how to video for making a model, it has to enhance learning. Google expeditions is a fantastic cross curricular resource. You can use iPad without the cardboard expierence. In dance, we used underwater as a theme and used DoInk to place children under the sea for their performance piece. When the teachers have the right mindset and searching cross curricular connections, the iPad is the only tool to make this easy, collaboration with colleagues is the key! I like working in projects by using the collaboration feature in Pages and Keynote. So different school subjects can work together. The way in which we have developed digital portfolio's of work in DT has now been adopted by many other faculties in our school, also: using iBooks for data tracking. The use of the creative video and audio apps on the iPad challenges pupils to produce engaging content and then share it with peers, teachers an the wider community, this can be done in all subject areas. As said by many others, the iPad is like the swiss army knife of #edtech tools for learning, its versatility to so many scenarios make it a superb device to use, whatever in the classroom, learning scenario or age group. A lot of apps kan help: Keynote, Garageband, BookCreator, Explain everyting. You van use them for any topic and lesson.
Plan>research>create>publish>share>assess>repeat…this process can be applied across the curriculum at different stages. I love cross curricular projects, we try and create a big art project every year, students that take technical graphics draw the design, the art students have created and woodwork students help to build the design. The iPad has made cross curricular teaching and learning so much easier. Students can jot down feedback in a Padlet shared between subjects, the can record their processes using the camera and clips---endless possibilities. Without even trying, using an iPad for any subject is instantly cross curricular as it adds multimedia skills and technology skills. "iPads are an extension and a digital pencil case" this prase by Claire Jones is stuck in my head, it's a vital tool that can be used in any subject to creatively show learning, opening doors for poor writers. Since the iPad is such an accessible tool to work with in all classes i think that the only thing that is getting in the way of working cross curriculum is the ons using it. Simply using the camera and notes, you can do let your creative mind sound away. One thing I am so excited to get doing with is using slow motion science. My two subjects, Geography and music are quite different, but iPad had allowed use introduce more music into geography. Students recently wrote and recorded raps about rocks using garageband and iMovie.
A1 Clips, ExplainEverything, Canva
Other answers:
Doink - BookCreator - Garageband - iMovie - Clips - Chatterpix - Pic collage - Keynote - iPad features such as camera/screenrecording - Conceptsapp - Pages - Paper53 - toontastic - Plotagon - Bloxelsbuilder - notabillity - procreate - touchcast - Goodnotes - Pixelmator - Flipgrid - Morphiapp - Bossjock jr - Thinglink - Seesaw - stop motion - Adobe Spark - TC studio - popplet - aurasma - core animation app - cateaterkkc - Luma touch - Padlet
Q2 Have you ever made a lesson hook using iPad?
A2 I made a compilation of landforms to start a new geography subject and i made a trailer with iMovie to start a #makered lesson
Other answers: It's great to produce videos that are personalised to your class rather than just taling from YouTube, much more authentic and meaningful. I have been known to 'pop' out of the wall to introduce topic using AR is great to introduce ideas as hooks. I make a lot of CCTV videos using ExplainEveryting. The video playback of procreate is awesome. I often use Padlet to have my students record feedback or jot their thoughts, I also add video of myself explaining a few things, should have used clips. There are so many ways to hook in - a puppet pals conversation, a clips video, an animation, in interactive map tour, a lego robot speaking through code, a keynote animation. The hook can be anything with the iPad and instantly engages the children. At last school we trained reception teachers to use iMovie and seesaw and quickly create an introduction video for all parents of nursery students, usuallt took over a month using a digital camera and wasn't much cop, this wime it took two weeks and was awesome! The very underrated Spark Video is also great for producing super quick and pro looking videos, jazz up a WAGOLL (what a good one look like) and make it more accessible to lower attaining readers by recording. I used Clips and Augmentyfyit to generate interest in science.
Q3 What is your best app for anabling pupils to work in a role.
A3 In class I use #clips most of the time. Later this year I would love to use iMovie, the trailer for sharing stories. Actually, will do that tomorrow!
Other answers: Clips, Plotagon, DoInk-greenscreen, LEGOboost to build and bring their creations to life. Puppetpals, camera and iMovie allows pupils to create evidence of their work and as a form of assessment through vlogging they can be very creative using video, pics, tekst and music. The simplicity of chatterpix but there are som many that allow children to be in a role. The camera, wheter you use it as intended or add in green screen or capture images to pull into puppet palls or keynote the camera helps bring the roles to life. Clips and keynote are a big one for us just now. Mix in the briljant iOs11 screenrecording feature and you can't really see individual thought and expression come to life quickly. Chatterpix is a great app for working in role but you can animate in explain everything too. I also experimented keynote and ferrite studios at the weekend. Hard to say, definitely DoInk but mixed with Mojomasks and others, for younger children Puppet pals, sock puppets, sometimes easier to role play whilst not appearing on screen. Clips definitely, but iMovie is fantastic and easy to use as well, especially if students create their own portfolio profiles or news items, DoInk is perfect as well. Photospeak or puppetpalls. I think Do ink is great for enabling pupils to work in role. They can be in the arctic one day and a victorian classroom or Egypt the next. So easy to use which allows children to think more about their performance than the functionality of the app. My students like DoInk combined with Clips, iMovie or Bookcreator, we sometimes use morpho too. My students love Clips and Doink, they are so versatile and allows students to really be creative. My talking avatar free is a grwat alternative to tellagami. To enable students work in role i'd recommend Morpho (for putting words into famous peoples mouth) Comic life 3 (for statice poses students can give context to later) and iMovie. iMovie and clips are amazing, but Touchcast, Toontastic and DoInk are other incredible options. We use DoInk a lot, especially when students want to play multi roles. Chatterpix is an app we use a lot for bringing characters to life as it's so simple, our children love using the trailer features in iMovie as a way to share too.
Q4 Share a lesson/topic where pupils have used iPad creatively to retell a story.
A4 No story yet, but I'm thinking of using trailer by iMovie tommorow in class to retell the story of a child who lives in poverty.
Other answers: A lot of our schools are using Seesaw's voiceover feature and DoInk as part of their talk, for writing work to help them retell their stories using story maps. It's great to be able to put the children 'in' their story! Working with our 8-9 year olds last term, I got them to retell the story of Finn McCool and the giants causeway using Puppetpalls, they drew their own characters on paper and animated them with the app. We used the comic feature on BookCreator and the pupils re-told a traditional fairy tail in a different way. My colleague has had her students record themselves against various backdrops using DoInk for news reports in English, it really made their day. Our students create a lot of videos, multimedia portfolios and books in almost every subject: literature, religion, languages, philosophy, physics ets. Storytelling makes any topic more interesting and easier to learn and remember. Our pupils use Keynote to deliver the history and success of a designer from their studies to the others in the class. Book reviews/storytelling with students showing up on book covers when book is scanned with an iPad: DoInk + Aurasma. We read a story about imaginary world and my pupils had to draw the items of this world and retell the story. My Y9 music pupils are currently learning about the slave song, they are using iPads to create their own sons based on the history of the slave trade. They will then film and produce a video of their performance using iMovie. We had students who had intellectual disabilities use BookCreator to present their skills and goals at their student led IEP's thus supporting and demonstrating their self-determination, they told their own stories. Variation! Recently, i sent some staff on an Apple training event, i've just set up for next week where they have to present their feedback creatively in less then 5 minutes using the iPad. Students don't get grades for the assignment, but they want to create the best video so i use them in my iBook or post them on my instagram. We interviewed Paul Pogba during Blog the Euro's using explain everything to superimpose the children in the picture with him and then used Yakit kids to ask/answer questions. Kids loved it! Also used explain everyting to commentate over youtube clips of EURO2016.
Q5 How do your pupils use iPad to apply their speaking and listening skills across the curriculum?
A5 In my geography lessons it is not part of my lessons, so I don't have good examples
Other answers: Bookcreator is perfect for enfabling pupils to apply their literacy skills across the curriculum. Flipgrid of course and Seesaw are great. It's great to make phoic sounds videos on clips for French. I'm a big fan of Seesaw for this, adding an audio narration over any piece of work gives them the opportunity develop speaking for a purpose and an audience. Listening to each others is an engaging and interesting way to listen for a purpose. We use audio recording in Bookcreator a lot. Also use garageband to record pupils soundtracks. In language classen we combine stories written and told (voice recording) by students to books which we share with the class and read and listen. Students also dub videos to practice speaking skills. They use PuppetPals for their foreign language speaking and listening skills. Combined clips with interdiction to coding. All about being clear giving instruction and following instruction. Pupils hide the treasure, record steps how to find, walk forward 10 steps etc. Airdrop to a partner and they have to follow to the treasure. To make oral presentations in which they present their own revolutionary inventions. Oracy seemt to get lost the older pupils get, yet is just as crucial in my opinion, especially in rehearsal for writing and refining ideas. Seesaw is perfect for this. Being abble record voiceovers but also record verbal feedback using the app is perfect. It allows the children to critically analyse what they have done and also reflect on their work but also the work of their peers. I love using Abode Spark to help connect with and visualise poetry. Students recite lines and accompany with images to create a polished resource. Garageband is a fantastic tool for audio recording whatever the subject. A lot of teachers think it's just for music production. Gabsee, Kouji, My talking Avatar Free. If the iPad is embedded in the classroom and used across the curriculum, it becomes much easier to plan for the consistent development of students and learners. Using apps that encourage pupils to explain, instruct, inform and perform should be in all planning to accomplish this. I just started using Seesaw to share students reading with parents, it had really increased student motivation to improve oracy. Examples such as using DoInk to show what pupils learned at the end of a unit of work…not scripted…just a quick rehearsal and then on: do you really know your stuff? In woodwork, I have students create their own safety videos on new tools they have learnt how to use like a chisel or a tenon saw. It's a great way to see if they know all the health and safety rules for that tool, and the videos are great resources for me. Also speak selection is a great feature to use for practice listening skills. For me it would be Adobe Spark video and Seesaw, great for children's explanations. Every week i make books in Bookcreator for my students related to different topics, since I work with students with ASD, these books have a similar option in the app. I still believe our subject concept books that we make in Bookcreator are our best examples of practice. The vocubulary pupils are using to express their understanding is phenomenal. Meanly using clips, they have to watch and listen to videos I have made with keynote and clips in advance in doing class work, flipped learning. They also use clips to show what they know and create videos with voiceovers and tekst.
Q6 How can iPad be used in a cross-curricular way?
A6 My hopes are: foreign language teachers who work together with e.g. Biology to explain concepts in a foreign language by using the iPad
Other answers: I love teaching all subjects through topics, currently I'm doing Vets and Pets so all my teaching is cross curricular, iPad fits in so well with that. The iPad is the ultimate cross curricular device for learning. At the end of my current unit, students will create podcasts to show their own take on what we discussed this unit, hopefully it won't just be a one-time thing. We are fortunated to have 1:1 devices and our pupils choose how to present their work; it might be a movie, written, clips, song…as long as they include key points. Their iPads are another tool/resource to enhance learning across the curriculum. You can do anything in French, Colours&Art, Geography&my town. I want to do a cross curricular project based around the Isle of man. iPads should be seen as just another tool in the classroom toolbox-adaptable, flexible nut needs to be used to enhance learning. Whether it's a soundscape, an instructional video, feedback or how to video for making a model, it has to enhance learning. Google expeditions is a fantastic cross curricular resource. You can use iPad without the cardboard expierence. In dance, we used underwater as a theme and used DoInk to place children under the sea for their performance piece. When the teachers have the right mindset and searching cross curricular connections, the iPad is the only tool to make this easy, collaboration with colleagues is the key! I like working in projects by using the collaboration feature in Pages and Keynote. So different school subjects can work together. The way in which we have developed digital portfolio's of work in DT has now been adopted by many other faculties in our school, also: using iBooks for data tracking. The use of the creative video and audio apps on the iPad challenges pupils to produce engaging content and then share it with peers, teachers an the wider community, this can be done in all subject areas. As said by many others, the iPad is like the swiss army knife of #edtech tools for learning, its versatility to so many scenarios make it a superb device to use, whatever in the classroom, learning scenario or age group. A lot of apps kan help: Keynote, Garageband, BookCreator, Explain everyting. You van use them for any topic and lesson.
Plan>research>create>publish>share>assess>repeat…this process can be applied across the curriculum at different stages. I love cross curricular projects, we try and create a big art project every year, students that take technical graphics draw the design, the art students have created and woodwork students help to build the design. The iPad has made cross curricular teaching and learning so much easier. Students can jot down feedback in a Padlet shared between subjects, the can record their processes using the camera and clips---endless possibilities. Without even trying, using an iPad for any subject is instantly cross curricular as it adds multimedia skills and technology skills. "iPads are an extension and a digital pencil case" this prase by Claire Jones is stuck in my head, it's a vital tool that can be used in any subject to creatively show learning, opening doors for poor writers. Since the iPad is such an accessible tool to work with in all classes i think that the only thing that is getting in the way of working cross curriculum is the ons using it. Simply using the camera and notes, you can do let your creative mind sound away. One thing I am so excited to get doing with is using slow motion science. My two subjects, Geography and music are quite different, but iPad had allowed use introduce more music into geography. Students recently wrote and recorded raps about rocks using garageband and iMovie.
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