ALEX Learning Assets
Title: Digital Presentations for All Ages
Digital Tool: 30hands iOS app
Digital Tool Description: Story-telling/presentation app that allows information to be shared via images, text, and audio. The multimedia is compiled into a quick video format that is easy enough for an average 2nd grade student to complete.
Title: Making Inanimate Objects Talk
Digital Tool: ChatterPix Kids app
Digital Tool Description: Using any image from your device camera roll, draw a mouth and record informational text to produce a fun, informative, short video. The app is appropriate for ages 5-95. No account is required and work can be exported to the device camera roll. Once the app is installed on the device, no internet connection is required.
Title: Let's Collaborate with Notability
Digital Tool: Notability
Digital Tool Description: It's time to move beyond stacks of paper to something smaller, lighter, and more resourceful. Go paperless today: hand out, complete, collect, and grade assignments with Notability. Combined with GoogleDrive, Dropbox, or Box your workflow is natural and simple.
Title: Tailor Your Teaching with Today's Meet
Digital Tool: Today's Meet
Digital Tool Description: This is a live stream chat, where students can ask questions and leave comments. Teachers can use the comments and questions to tailor their teaching on the spot to meet student needs. Students can also respond to one another, creating a live learning community. A temporary room can be set up that will automatically delete in a set time frame.
Title: Digital Diaries
Digital Tool: Kizoa
Digital Tool Description: Kizoa is a comprehensive and easy-to-use slideshow creating platform online, enabling people to easily share photos in a dynamic and creative way.
(Description provided by Kizoa)
Title: Using Voki To Create A Unique Book Trailer
Digital Tool: Voki
Digital Tool Description: Voki is an online learning resource that allows the user to create a customizable avatar that will star in a short video clip. The avatar can be placed in a variety of settings, and students can record the script for the avatar to say. There is also a text to speech component of the program where students can choose a voice style and then type the script for the avatar to perform.