Adobe Slate is an easy to use and intuitive iPad app that makes telling a visual and textual story simple. With limited menu choices and a clear workflow/path, students will quickly master the story and be up going right away. Students open up the app and have a blank slate with four choices for adding […]
Bit Strip Should Be Your Go To Comic Making Tool | Audio Review #120
Overview A teacher at Concordia attended a class on digital literacy and learned about a tool called Bit Strips. Apparently this has been around for awhile, but I have never heard of it and really enjoyed creating the comic above. Bit Strip really has everything you could want in a comic making tool. You can […]
Famous Painting App Frames European Art History With Broad Strokes| Audio Review #119
Overview Famous Paintings is an app for Androids (Google Play), but the Apple equivalent is for-cost, and not the same (iTunes App Store). I will review the Android app which allows users to examine 100 of Europe’s most famous … well, you guessed it … paintings, on Android-capable handheld devices. Concerns As a fun exercise […]
Dyslexie Font Makes Reading a Breeze! | Audio Review #118
Overview A parent introduced me to a new typeface that I love. It’s called Dyslexie Font. The typeface was created in 2008 by Christian Boer. Boer is dyslexic and wanted to create a font that made it easier for people like him to read. In the past few years this font has gotten a lot […]
OneShot Makes Tweeting Book and Article Quotes as Easy as Pie | Audio Review # 117
When I was a lot younger, I learned to read. It has been a wonderful thing! Thankfully I am still able to read and I even use my iPhone to do lots of reading on the Kindle app. I also like to read articles from websites or using my Flipboard app. Once in a while […]
Audio Review # 116 | Fakebook Lets Students Create a Fake Facebook Page
Overview What we put on our Facebook home page usually involves some deep thinking about how to put our best “face” forward. We have to represent our personalities in a few pictures, posts, interests and taglines. Now, this sort of thinking process just might be interesting if you were to apply it to a character […]
Audio Review #115 | Touch Physics Lets Students Digitally Interact With Pushes and Pulls
Touch Physics is an iPad or Android app. It’s designed to teach students physics through challenges that become increasingly harder the more they solve. Each challenge requires students to apply the concepts of force and motion to solve. In order to solve the challenges students draw shapes on the screen to cause actions. For example […]
Audio Review # 114 | P2PU, By Any Other Name, Still Smells As Sweet
Overview P2PU’s (Peer to Peer University) tagline says it all, “Playful, networked learning experiences that last. Instead of lonely, anonymous online courses, our communities sustain interest and engagement because folks build them together. We are open and welcoming in everything we do, and help folks generally feel comfy on the internet.” P2PU creates a platform […]
Audio Review #112 | RefME Makes Citations As Easy As Taking A Picture
Overview RefME is the next generation research tool that makes building works cited and bibliographies for research impressively easy. So, what makes RefME special compared to EasyBib, Son of Citation, and any of half a dozen other citation automaters? First, RefME takes advantage of working on computers, iPhones, and Android devices. RefME stores your various […]
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Audio Review # 113 | Periscope Let’s You Live Stream Your Life to Twitter
Posted on May 4, 2015 by miles.mei in Adult, High School Tech, Medium Learning Curve, Michael, Middle School Tech, Mobile App, Podcast, Review
Overview Twitter recently purchased and released the Periscope mobile app. Like its competitor Meerkat, Periscope lets you stream long form video directly from your phone to the world. It is linked into your Twitter account; your contacts will get a tweet from you when you turn on the video stream. People interact with it by […]
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