Thing #21 Webinar

July 30, 2012

I attended 3 Simple K12 webinars. The Simple K12 had a day of learning. Some attendees had stayed in their PJs and did the entire day of learning. But with my beautiful 6 year old, there was no way to spend a day in front of the computer without showing her some "mommy" time. So I choose to do 3 of the webinars that interested me the most. In the beginning, I went in expecting new apps that I could play around with to see if and how I could use them in my classroom. But I walked away with more than I expected.

The webinars were Express Yourself with Screencasting iPad Apps, iPhoneography for the Classroom and 10+ Offline Activities to do with an iPad. The highlighted apps of these webinars were Puppet Pals, Sock Puppets, Mindblowing, Tom and Ben News Reporter, Animate, EverNote, PSExpress, Be Funky, Popplet, Pocket Wave HD, ShowMe, Animoto, MouthOff, Screen Chomp, StoryKit, Voicethread, Videolicious, Bunsella Bedtimes, Educreations, ProCamera, Camera +, DMD Pano, iPhoto, Snapseed, Camera, Camera +, Instagram and Touch Retouch.

This is a long list, I know. But two things that I walked away with from these webinars were
1. Which ones can be used on the Android and the Apple platforms and which ones only worked on the individual platforms
2. Classroom ideas on how to USE these great apps.

My favorite classroom usage ideas were to guess the place and name the sound. In both of these, the students will challenge the class to find out where they took the picture and what the sound was. It was a mixture of the webinars that was more inspirational to me instead of just a single webinar.