Presentation & ScreenCasting Tools
Apps for creating presentations, movies, mind maps, and screencasts
App
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Price
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Classroom Use
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Comments
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Keynote
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$9.99
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Presentations /
Slide Show |
Easy, intuitive. Many options for animating slide elements and slide transitions. Can now export to most web tools (email, dropbox, etc), is accessible via iCloud and can be opened in other apps (eg, Explain Everything where presentation can be recorded and converted to a movie).
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Perspective
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Free / $19.99
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Animated Data Presentation to show changes in data over time
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This app has the potential to be really amazing--to provide really advanced and professional options for presenting data. However, you only have the opportunity to create/edit one story without the purchase of the $19.99 authoring tool. This is an app I'd like to play with a bit more to really see how it could be used in class.
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VoiceThread
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Free
(up to 5 threads) / $2.99 for 5 additional threads / $5.99 per month for Pro |
Presentation commenting / communication.
Can post a video, question, slideshow or picture and invite / allow individuals to post comments (audio, video, text) about it. Teachers can decide whether comments are public or private. |
VoiceThread is an awesome tool that allows students/teachers to communicate in an asynchronous setting. My students use this as a tool for peer review of their screencasts, and, to communicate on assignments outside of class. VoiceThread is really easy to use online (voicethread.com) but not as functional on the app. Still, it is a great tool for providing feedback and sharing ideas.
Can use voicethread as both an intro activity to get students sharing their initial ideas, as well as exit tickets, quick formative assessments and even summative assessments in which students have to explain their understanding of a concept. Lots of potential uses! |
Explain Everything
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$2.99
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Screencast / Presentation App.
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Although Explain Everything has some serious issues with editing features, it is the app we prefer for classroom use because students (and teachers) can write- and voice-record in sync and export the overall presentation as a single movie file that can be exported to mail, the photo library and Dropbox. While other screencasting apps are more user-friendly, most can videos only be uploaded/exported to the company's website, which I wanted to avoid.
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PageSend Interactive Whiteboard
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Free
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Screencast / Interactive and Collaborative White Board / Presentation App
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PageSend is quickly becoming my new favorite ScreenCast tool. While it is meant to be more of a collaborative meeting space for businesses, I've found it to be incredibly easy for creating screencast tutorials that are quickly exported to the photo library as movie files. The only problem that I've found is it does not have a black pen for writing, but otherwise, it's been very functional and user friendly.
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VideoScribe HD
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$4.99
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Animated, fast-draw presentations similar to Powtoons.
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My students love creating Powtoon animated presentations on the laptops and this App is the closest that I've found for creating similar presentations on the iPad. Takes a bit of time to get acquainted with the tools, but a very powerful creation tool.
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Popplet
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Lite: Free
Full: $4.99 |
Mind Map / Concept Map / Brainstorming App
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Can insert photos and text to create fun, illustrated mind maps. We often use mind mapping as an intro activity to help students share their background information about a topic. Full version allows upload to Popplet.com and creation of multiple Popples.
I have my students take screenshots of their creation to save in their photo library, so that we do not need the full version. |
Inspiration Maps
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Lite: Free
Full: $9.99 |
Mind Map / Concept Map / Brainstorming App
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Inspiration Maps are used with the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Biomedical Sciences classes for brainstorming and building concept maps. I purchased the full version thinking that we needed it, but a peer has used the lite version for all her classroom needs. You can create/save multiple concept maps. To "export", we often take a screenshot to save it in our photo library.
We often use mind mapping as an intro activity to help students share their background information about a topic. |