My Story App

Well Spring Break is upon us and on this VERY SNOWY Saturday morning I am at my computer, coffee in hand, doing all my favorite things!


1.  Listening to my daughter sing and dance (she is so good at entertaining herself)
2.  Enjoying my caramel coffee
3.  Surfing the net checking out all the blogs I follow, the new pins on pinterest and of course reading the facebook updates:)


Oh how I love Saturday mornings!


Last night I had so much fun playing with my iMovie (yes techie work on a Friday night is fun for me).  As I worked away I thought about other ways to use technology in my classroom.  My own children are my guinea pigs and I plan to try some stuff out over spring break.  Here is one app I have had for awhile, have never explored but found this inspirational video and now think I will put it to good use:  My Story.  This app is $1.99 in the itunes store.  

Check back to see how "My" stories turn out, I wonder if they can be embedded?  Happy "Spring " Break, looks a lot more like Winter!!!!
 

iMovie

So I have had a project in the works for a few weeks now, it just took me a while to get around to learning to edit using iMovie.  Thanks to a fellow colleague for finding and sharing this YouTube tutorial with me.  It walked me step by step through the features of iMovie.  I sat with my laptop playing the video and my iPad right beside me so I could pause the video and work along with the tutorial.  In under an hour I created the product I had been visualizing for months!  

The process was "easy peasy mac and cheesy" as the kids in my class would say.  And I think I might just be making another one in the very near future ( I already have the footage prepared)!   


The tutorial also walks you through how to share your finished product.  I decided to upload mine to You Tube.  As I prepare this blog post my iMovie is uploading - although I must confess, it seems to be a LONG process to upload a 4 minute video.... so much for high speed internet!


 

ipad lesson plans

This looks like a very worthwhile site to give teachers an idea of what to do with the ipad. There's so much information out there and it can be overwhelming. It's important to pick one --get comfortable with that and then go forward with something new. Ahhh-good advice I should listen too!!! Check these out and I'll let you know which one I'm going to explore.

http://pinterest.com/techchef4u/ipad-lessons/

Who knew?????

I have not had time to check this out but certainly plan to as it sounds SUPER cool.  Who knew your ipad could control your PC!!!!!  http://teachinghappilyeverafter.blogspot.com/2011/06/control-your-desktop-computer-with-your.html

Check it out!

Bump

Here's a great app for sharing  apps, photos, music and contact info. with your friends along with free texting. Yes, they claim it is private and safe. Basically, you each have to download the bump app and gently bump or shake your iPads together to share. I haven't had much experience with it other than discovering with Christine that you need a strong internet connection or it doesn't work. Here's a tutorial for those many hmmm-questions I'm sure we'll run into.http://bu.mp/faq