The Adobe Creative Suite is by far the professional choice for all things digital-media-editing-print. In my experience for classroom use, we typically tap into no more than 5% of the capability of these programs, which sometimes can make it hard to justify spending the thousands of dollars on the entire Adobe suite. Granted, it's worth giving students the experience on industry standard platforms, and depending on what you are trying to achieve and [...]
With National Science Week starting on 11th August to 19th August we have launched a new Apps collection called Science Discovery Apps on the App Store. It brings together all the best of all our science collections in one place. So get excited, and inspired like Einstein: where e (excited) = m (mesmerising) c (cool) ²(together) Science Discovery Apps for iPhone Science Discovery Apps for iPad
Aurasma. Aurasma is a an app that allows you to provide information to your students via augmented reality. Use this app transform a static image into a video, much like you see in a Harry Potter movie. Put simply, record a video on your iPad, open the Aursama app, capture/set the trigger image, link to the overlay (your video), save your aura. That it! Use Aurasma to differentiate a worksheet activity, [...]
Socrative | Student Response System | Audience Response Systems | Clicker | Clickers | Student Clickers | ARS | Mobile Clicker | Software Clicker. My Room # Socrative is a smart student response system that lets you easily and quickly create and conduct quizzes. You can start an instant quiz to ask multi-choice, true/false or short answer question from your presentation. Or you can create and save your own online quizzes. [...]
iMovie on the iPad is a great creation tool for both teachers and students. You can quickly and easily use the movie trailer feature to create dynamic video presentations. Have your students create trailers to review or summarise an event or concept. Capture some short video clips. Choose the trailer template that suits. Drag and drop your video clips to the storyboard. Edit the text boxes to suit your topic and [...]
