Exploring 'Explain Everything'

Recently we purchased the app Explain Everything for our set of iPads. Previously, students had been familiar with Show Me and really enjoyed it. However, the thing I liked about Explain Everything is that they can embed videos as well as images and drawings for screen capture. It's not as simple to use as Show Me, and that has provided some challenges, especially when we don't (currently) have Apple TV to allow sharing via the SmartBoard for tutorials, but I am muddling along! Here's a video I found for teachers that begins explaining the basics of using this screen capture tool... As I've been exploring various uses for Explain Everything, I like the versatility of the app and the range of age and education levels that find it useful and accessible. One thing I haven't discovered yet is how to get the project to automatically play multiple slides or how to play a video as part of the overall slide playback (without having to click 'play' for it). Perhaps this isn't possible, but since viewing the above tutorial, I suspect the thing that must be done is to import the video and then hit record for the entire piece, manually moving from slide to slide and choosing play on the video and then stop the screen capture recording at the very end. Playing THIS back SHOULD, if my theory is correct, allow for seamless playback of all elements... Stay tuned while I try is out a little later. I also need to discover how to upload these projects to my students' blogs so they become the most useful learning outcomes possible because of the authentic audience. More on that later...

More to do with AudioBoo!

I discovered today, upon viewing a youtube tutorial @audioboo posted on Twitter, that boos can be recorded using laptops as well as mobile devices and iPads. I further discovered that they could be embedded within blogs, etc.! This is exciting because it opens the door to our students doing more with AudioBoo. Fluency Station participants can now post their read alouds to their own blogs, and students are not limited to the availability of the iPads. I created a test boo, and posted it on several of our class blogs to be used later.

listen to ‘Welcome to AudioBoo!’ on Audioboo

Here's the tweet I read...

Wow! @sconlineteacher has made an awesome Audioboo tutorial for teachers: youtube.com/watch?v=PFlnBA…

— Audioboo (@audioboo) April 15, 2013