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Hello Crayon is an easy to use app for coloring and illustrating. It has a variety of textures from crayons, markers, paint brushes, paint-fill, and a pen. Users can free draw, complete coloring pages, and annotate pictures. This app would work well for students wanting to respond to questions and email them, or even create amazing slides for a presentation or slideshow.  Other great apps where these pieces of work could be utilized:  Shadow Puppet 30 Hands Story I apologize for the lengthy video. However, it includes a quick tutorial as well as some integration ideas involving CCSS  RL 4.1  and RI 1.5 . (I also apologize at the poor placing of my text. I didn't plan that very well.) 

Story by Disney has to be one of my favorite iOS applications out there. It is user-friendly. It is versatile. Name a content area that where it can't be applied. I dare you! Click to see previous posts and sample projects with Story I'm posting about the update on Story by Disney because the environment has been completely revamped. In many ways, the app is much easier and stable than it was in the past. You will also want to know that you might have some issues with your classroom account if you had one previously. At first, the app would not let me sign into my account. If you have a device that does not want to sign in, try making a new account with a different email address and then log in with your original class account. Why this is an issue? I have no idea. However, eventually Story let me log in with my original account. I made a video tutorial on the changes with Story. If I'm unavailable to work with your students on the new version of Story, fe...

I love to take time out to post the fun and cool ideas my fellow teachers are doing in their classrooms. It is always a great way to inspire and encourage one another as East Noble Staff. Please comment if you have other ideas or are inspired by these samples. Mrs. Erexson Second grade teacher at Wayne Center, Mrs. Erexson, has been really excited about the possibilities that her iPads hold for gathering information about her students' learning. Through her classroom set of iPads, she's able to essentially able to meet with every student because she gets to see their responses all from the convenience of her iPad and PC. Using 30 Hands , her student was able to take a picture and report a quick summary about the book. This allows Mrs. Erexson to conference with more students than ever before. Does she have to listen to every video? That's probably not even necessary, but it allows her to do quick and regular checks with students. This activity of taking a picture of t...

The first graders at Rome City took a field trip to the Gingerbread Festival today! They were able to take pictures of gingerbread houses and were looking for patterns at the same time. As the first graders were on their trip, Ms. Ruse contacted me over email asking if we could come up with a project on Shadow Puppets to talk about the patterns they saw while on their trip. Here is a small sample of what they created. Using Shadow Puppets is easy. However, we have run into a few issues with it. For example, by having all students signed into the same account, I didn't realize that when a student created a video that it would go to the entire class set of iPods. That was quite a surprise last week. Instead of dismissing it, we trained the students to make sure that they always put their first name in the title and that it was vitally important that they did not change or delete another student's video. This is going to take some practice and quite a few reminders.  ...

Last week I posted about using Story by Disney  with second grade students to create an adjective book. This week I began using Story with Kindergarten students at Rome City Elementary . After taking a look at the Kindergarten scope and sequence chart for East Noble School Corporation, I saw that color words was being covered for this week. So to help support their learning and introduce this new app, all the students created a Story on their own iPod while I demonstrated on my iPad. To start the procedure, I sent the students images of foods the match the color words through email. (The students especially found the eggplant to be humorous for the color purple.) The students downloaded the images onto their iPod touch and we moved on to the Story app. I went through the first few steps to show them what to expect because Kindergarten kids tend to panic with their device if something is not familiar. By the time we were finished, they had imported all the pictures, added the text...

I have had a really busy week getting classes rolling with new tech skills and thinking up possibilities for teachers. I was pondering how beneficial it would be for me to share out what I've been doing this week. I am hoping it will spark some ideas for teachers as they contemplate lesson planning in the next few weeks. This week in Mrs. Bollman's second grade class at Wayne Center Elementary we utilized Story by Disney on the iPad to create an adjective book. The students had never used Story before, but I was able to get the kids oriented with the app well enough that they were able to get started on a digital book. We worked together as a class on the first one and then I cut them loose and had them try it on their own. The activity included pictures that I sent to them through email, making a list of adjectives to describe the picture, and then a sentence using one of the adjectives. It turned out to be a fun little project. (As you can see, it can be embedded on a web...

Story has quickly become a very popular app amongst teachers. Students can quickly create a high quality presentation or digital book with the app. It allows the user to put in pictures, captions, and full pages of text within the book. Here is an example that Mrs. Yoder had her first graders build. For several days, the students collaborated and built a list of animals for each letter of the alphabet. Mrs. Yoder sent the list to me and I used Morgue File  to gather royalty-free photographs. I then sent her about four or five letters worth of pictures to her so that she could forward them to her students. (Yes, teachers can email fairly large amounts of photos to students. In this project, I was able to send 26 pictures .) The first graders downloaded the images to their camera roll, imported them into the Story project, and if students had additional time, they added facts about animals. There was one little hiccup though. Mrs. Yoder quickly found out toward the end of the pr...

Zack recently posted about the field trip project that Mrs. Millus' class was able to complete earlier this week.  I was able to follow up with Mrs. Sims today to go a little further into the project. This time we had students create a title page with their name, add five photos, and add a fact that they know about each animal. I took roughly ten minutes to orient them through the app. I taught them how to start a new Story, edit the title page, insert photos, and insert more text boxes. Along with that, I also had to teach them how to move pictures or text boxes that may seem out of place. The students quickly caught on surprisingly well since this is the first time that they have ever used the application. If you are uncertain of how to do all those steps, I do have a video that will help orient you with the application.  One downfall of this application is that we had to type in the teacher's entire email address. Typically when students email work to their teacher, the...

Zack recently posted about the Story app by Disney.  I went ahead and made a video to show you how it works. I also made a separate video for those of you that would rather just see the final product so that way you can fiddle with the application yourself. I tend to be one that learns better just be trying it out myself, so I understand those of you that would just rather see the final product completely! Here is the final product video: