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Apps in the Classroom

Welcome Teachers and Students!
Ever wanted to learn more about the apps I use in the classroom? Then this is the page for you.

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iPad Interactive Books

9/29/2013

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Check out the description and costs in the Teacher Resources.

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Cut Me In: An app similar to Paint but for iPad

9/28/2013

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One of my students named Yessica found this free app that students can use to overlap two images.

You can choose a background such as places, animals, landscapes or you can upload your own image. Then simply take a new photo or upload a new photo and follow the simple instructions on how to "Cut" and then "Paste" into your background. 

I love how tactile this app is. You can use two fingers to rotate your image.

Cost: 
Free, but it has ads.
$1.99 with no adds.

I created the following example in less than 2 minutes. 

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Microsoft paint: Overlapping images

9/28/2013

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Microsoft Paint is an easy to use photo editing software and the best part is that it is FREE. You can open images with Paint and edit them. I created the image to the left by uploading two images into two different sessions of Paint and then tracing the lion head from one, copying, and pasting it into the other one. 

Cost: Free

These were the three tools I used:


How to Create overlapping images using Paint:

  • Step 1: Open the image you will be cutting from with Paint.
  • Step 2: Use the "Select" function with the "Free-form selection". This will allow you to trace out your image.
  • Step 3: Select "Copy"
  • Step 4: Open the image you will be pasting to with Paint.
  • Step 5: "Paste" image.
  • Step 6: Select "Transparent selection" to eliminate white space.
  • Step 7: If you want your image to face another way, you can select the "Rotate" function which has many options. For my lion, I wanted him to face to the right, not the left so I selected the "Flip horizontal" function. 
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Netflix

9/14/2013

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Netflix is hands down the best way to show videos in my classroom. 

Pros:
  • I don't have to carry around a physical DVD and run the risk of losing it, damaging it, or having it stolen.
  • Netflix usually has Closed Captioning which is great for English Language Learners.
  • Netflix has an immense collection of movies, but also documentaries.
  • Low price of $7.99
  • I can drag the mouse along the bottom and see thumbnails of scenes to find the scene I'm looking for.

Cons:
  • Sometimes they temporarily remove a video as I found out this week. They removed Wallace & Gromit films! I'm not sure why, but I am utterly disappointed as I have to go to the store an actually purchase the DVD.

As we watched scenes from the documentary Birdmen to understand more about air pressure and flight, one of my students made the comment, "They show videos on Netflix?" Students often watch Youtube to find videos of amazing feats by athletes or other short snippets and refer to these as videos as opposed to "movies". I loved that we could have the discussion in my classroom that yes, there are other visual media besides "videos" on Youtube and that Netflix has more than just movies. These are documentaries and they have documentaries about EVERYTHING. 

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    Kelly Garcia teaches physics in New York City to Latino students using a humourous and hands-on approach. She manages to circumvent the boredom of test-prep with thoughtful and creative projects.

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