Tellagami
Subject: Digital Technologies
Description: This iPad/ iPhone application allows students to present information in a different way. Students can access their camera roll to select a photo to use at the background or simply select a preset one through the app. The avatar can be customised with selections for clothing, gender, size as well as facial expressions. Students can record their own voice or type text which will be converted to audio. When the audio is played, the avatar moves as if they are speaking. The finished product can be saved to the camera roll.
Link to curriculum: 2.6 Visualise, generate, develop and communicate design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling
Year level: Years F-2
Strand: Design and Technologies processes and production skills
Sub strand: Generating
Cross curriculum priorities: Critical and creative thinking, Information and communication technology, Literacy
Links to other learning areas: English, The Arts
A classroom activity featuring this resource: This app can be used in a variety of tasks, allowing students to share their knowledge in a story telling manner without having to stand up in front of others and present. While studying the life cycle of a butterfly, I have seen this app used as a form of formative assessment with Pre Primary students. Each student had an opportunity to use the iPad independently and describe the life cycle of a butterfly in their own words. This was exciting for them because they were demonstrating their learning in a new way. The teacher then viewed all of the saved animations and judged which stages of the butterfly life cycle had been missed out and what needed to be retaught.
Additional information:
http://ipadlex1.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/tellagami-to-tell-story.html
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tellagami/id572737805?mt=8
WebDAV
Subject: Digital Technologies
Description: This application is similar to many others in that it is a way to store and access information stored by peers and teachers. It allows for easy sharing of information which increases the students responsibility for their own learning. It also provides teachers with easy access to work which means assessments can be conducted throughout the tasks.
Link to Curriculum:
6.3 Acquire, store and validate different types of data, and use a range of commonly available software to interpret and visualise data in context to create information
Year level: Years 5-6
Strand: Digital Technologies processes and production skills
Sub strand: Collecting, managing and analysing data
Cross curriculum priorities: Information and communication technology
Links to other learning areas: English, Mathematics, Humanities and Social Sciences
A classroom activity featuring this resource: There are countless ways for this app to be used in the classroom, especially if the students have a 1-1 iPad program. It is a way for students to access their work, their peers’ work as well as anything the teacher wishes for them to access to assist with learning activities.
To give an example of the use of this app, students could save results they gathered from an experiment on to the class WebDAV and this data could then be analysed by everyone in the class. This makes it easier to share results and well as peer-assess work.
Additional information:
http://seanashton.net/webdav/
http://ipadlex1.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/webdav.html
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/webdav-navigator/id382551345?mt=8