TIES15 - Ditch School Newsletters For Interactive TouchCast Videos

Ditch your monthly classroom and school newsletters that never survive the trip home in students' backpacks. Create dynamic video newscasts that include interactive images and documents that can be accessed onscreen in the video itself with the free iPad app TouchCast, which makes green screen videos simple to create, fun to share, and very professional looking with almost no work! Engage your audience and let them really see and connect with you. Let your students create weekly classroom videos to share with parents, the community, and a global audience to get them excited about school.

Resources

Apps Featured:

TouchCast Studio

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchcast-studio-annotate/id603258418?mt=8

TouchCast Remote

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchcast-remote-control-your/id932722680?mt=8

Examples Of Principal TouchCasts:

http://www.touchcast.com/tosaelem/principals_october_message

Greenwood Elementary Principal Brad Gustafson
http://www.touchcast.com/tca2015/greenwood_elementary_brad_gustafson

Examples Of Teacher TouchCasts:
Lesson On Earthquakes
http://www.touchcast.com/stcscience/earthquakes

Examples Of Student TouchCasts:
Gregor Mendel
http://www.touchcast.com/flipsci/gregor_mendel_

Radioactive Elements in Chemistry
http://www.touchcast.com/chem_talks/Radioactive-2

TIES2015 - Making Learning Visible With The iPad

Take a hands-on tour of a variety of free and low-cost screen casting and multimedia apps on the iPad that can be used to make instruction more visual and student learning more visible. Learn how to use these apps to engage students in content area learning to create standards-based artifacts of learning, improve teacher analysis of students' strengths and areas of need, extend learning beyond the classroom walls and school day bells, and support student and parent understanding of process and product expectations to raise achievement. 

Resources

Apps featured:

Educreations Interactive Whiteboard

50 MB storage

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/educreations-interactive-whiteboard/id478617061?mt=8

ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard

1 hour video storage - 1GB monthly bandwidth

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/showme-interactive-whiteboard/id445066279?mt=8

ScreenChomp

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/screenchomp/id442415881?mt=8

Skitch

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skitch-snap.-mark-up.-send./id490505997?mt=8

Adobe Voice

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-voice-show-your-story/id852555131?mt=8

Paper  by FiftyThree

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-by-fiftythree/id506003812?mt=8

Book Creator Free

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator-free/id661166101?mt=8

Book Creator

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator-for-ipad-create/id442378070?mt=8

TouchCast Studio

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchcast-studio-annotate/id603258418?mt=8

Examples:

Educreations

Ocean Floor - Techtonic Plates

 https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/ocean-floor/630835/

2nd Grade Perimeter Estimation

https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/grade-2-student-b/8883110/

Lesson Search - https://www.educreations.com/browse/

ShowMe

Drawing An Eye

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=FC2JwTA

Max's Fish Measuring

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=aMXSOoK

Screen Chomp

Chemistry

http://www.screenchomp.com/t/jdB6mFODMHx7

Converting to Decimals

http://www.screenchomp.com/t/LCRBKPKr1Z

Skitch

Features of a Journal Entry

 http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/uploads/7/9/1/2/7912840/4446148_orig.jpg

Parts of an Insect

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/3d/5d/f4/3d5df419677d2bc17ab884e6d3047971.jpg

Adobe Voice

Text and Bullying

http://voice.adobe.com/v/9AVYDLhmwss

Paper by FiftyThree

Multiple Intelligences

https://wjuedtech.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/evernote-snapshot-20140918-101047.jpg

Statistics - Normal Distribution

http://www.thegraphicrecorder.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Student-Sketchnotes-2.jpg

3rd Grade Rainforest

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcQhWgRld4_9DxQf7QmfsRFbnN_GCFluzyDGPbcU3p8Ex_XCTAMoGLgla9TfeGKtenLZIlVxJuuSp34WGjgdfquxh7P2aeisTi7bZRgnV88zNUluJkjl5aO3nGS8s5L_z3v8exjq_ROE8/s1600/Sketchnotes+Rainforest+1.png

Book Creator

Space - Saved as a video

Math Class Books

http://www.mathycathy.com/blog/2014/05/students-use-book-creator-to-author-mathematics-part-2/

TouchCast

Gregor Mendell

Radium

Book Creator for iPad App Giveaway

 Click the link below to enter your name into a drawing for a Book Creator for iPad iOS app license.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cDgXt4aFUTk5x2VrFTsNA-OJ7ofanTxVrtx0aGkIJ6I/viewform

TIES2015 Workshop - Creative Amazing Interactive Videos With TouchCast

Are you looking for a way to create dynamic video newscasts that include interactive elements like images and documents that can be accessed onscreen in the video itself? Come learn about how the free iPad app TouchCast makes green screen videos simple to create, fun to share, and very professional looking with almost no work! Throw out the weekly/monthly newsletter and start creating exciting videocassette that engage your audience and let them really see and connect with you. Create videos of your students to share with parents, the community, and a global audience to get them excited about school.

Resources

Apps Featured:

TouchCast Studio

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchcast-studio-annotate/id603258418?mt=8

TouchCast Remote

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchcast-remote-control-your/id932722680?mt=8

http://www.touchcast.com/cturnbull/create_amazing_interactive_videos_with_touchcast