A Cool App to the Rescue

I can hardly comprehend that my students will be in the lab only two or three more times this year.  I had so much more I wanted them to be able to do.  I find that I have gotten myself in somewhat of a bind, especially with the fourth graders.  Last year the fourth grade students, at the request of the social studies teacher, researched and created Animotos for famous people of Texas.  I placed the Animotos on a glogster poster for them to refer to while taking a quiz in Moodle by matching the name of the person to their accomplishment.  I had intended to allow this group of students to do the same, but have run out of time.  They still need to complete the quiz before the end of the year.  I looked at creating folders of the 20 famous people with an image and the accomplishment and having the students upload the images to Animoto, but did not like how long it takes to create the videos.  I believe it would require at least two technology periods just to create the videos.  There was my dilemma.  I remembered I had placed an app on my recently acquired iPad2 for use with digital storytelling called Storyrobe.  (Click HERE for a great tutorial on using Storyrobe).I decided to check it out.  After playing around with the app for a while, I decided it would be the perfect tool to solve my time problem.  With my macbook, I typed the name of the famous person (one at a time) in Pages and took a picture of it with my iPad2.  Then I searched for an image of the person.  I placed the image in Keynote on a slide and clicked on Play Slideshow to take the picture with my iPad2.  Using Storyrobe, I created a video with the person’s name and image. I recorded the person’s name and accomplishment and created the video.  Then I simply uploaded the video to my Youtube account.  I then created a Page document with the accomplishments of the famous people listed in the same order as in the Moodle quiz.  Using the Youtube video url, I created a QR code for the video. I printed the code and pasted it under the listed accomplishment on my Page document.  I have 12 iPod Touch 4Gs the students will use to complete the Moodle quiz.  Each student will log in to their Moodle account and go to the Famous People of Texas quiz.  Using the pdf document of QR Codes, they will us the iPod Touch to scan the code using the Inigma app which will take them to the Youtube video. After watching the short video, they will be able to complete the quiz.  Below is a short video of how I created the pages of QR Codes.

One thought on “A Cool App to the Rescue

  1. You are an amazing and motivating teacher! I love reading your class activities. I know that the students love participating in each of them.

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