App choice

After some research, discussion, and some simple trial we have come up with a suite of apps to use with our students. We decided, we wanted apps which the students could use to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways. Many of these apps, allow the students to either save their project to the camera roll on the iPad or by using a cloud based storage solution. Unfortunately because of FOIPPA, we must get written consent from parents to use storage options hosted outside of Canada. We have sent forms home and with most returned with full permission granted. We decided to choose GAFE (Google apps for education), as this allows the students to use email, blogs, and store their assignments, while collaborating with their classmates. The best part about GAFE is it is free. We purchased a web domain, and this allowed us to have personalized accounts for our school. After playing around with the admin account for a short period of time, we were able to create accounts for all 210 students participating in the project. Each student now has their own email address, blog and Google Drive account with 15 gb of storage. Here is a screenshot of our front page on each iPad.

Dropbox - many staff members have accounts which are linked to a school account. This will be where teachers can share their assignments and rubrics with the students. 

Docs - this is an app that will allow students to create a Google doc and share with partners or classmates and the teacher. They will use their GAFE accounts to login. 

Google Drive - this Will allow students to save their assignments to the cloud and then access them to complete the project at a later date. One issue we that potentially could happen with shared devices is students deleting other students projects. We wanted to prevent this from happening by giving the studio another way to save their project. 

I-nigma - this is the QR code reader that we chose, as it is quick and easy to use. Teachers will be able to create QR codes, which will give students easy and fast access to websites they would like to share. 

Notability - this app will allow students to hand write notes, type notes, as well as annotate PDFs and other documents.

Pic collage - this app will allow students to create posters. 

Popplet - this app will allow students to create webs and my maps to help organize their projects and ideas.

Stop motion - this app will allow students to create stop motion videos. We had lots of success using this app to create claymation movies.

Tellegami - this app allows students to have an avatar read or speak their typed out or recorded ideas. 

Book creator - this will allow students to create e-books. They can add pictures and videos to explain the written content in their book.

Doodle buddy - this app allows students to draw pictures. 

Explain everything - this app allows students create screencasts. It is a very versatile and can be used to annotate documents and videos while recording their voices. You can also be used to create presentations.

Green screen - using a green background students can place themselves and record video of them located anywhere they want. Students enjoyed pretty newscasts, while having their background being the moon or another crazy location. 

Stick around - this app allows students to create puzzles and share them with their classmates for them to solve. This works well when creating diagrams to label. 

iMovie - this app allows students to create and edit videos. Students enjoyed using the trailer function in iMovie. 

We will post as students create examples with each app.