App Smashing: iPad Created Student Multimedia Projects – Ed Tech 2013

In this session we will walk you through the complete process of a student multimedia project. From the planning, research, writing, creating, editing and sharing. All will be done on the iPad…well almost : )

Note: This page is a resource for anyone who wishes to use it.  You can share it with your students and alter items to meet your needs.

South Carolina EdTech 2013 Presentation – Greenville, SC

• Presentation: Made in Haiku Deck

Foundations

• Tips for a Successful App Smashed Media Project
• Copyright Information and Resources
• Assessment
  • Sample Rubric #1 – from Michelle Futrell, HEHP
  • Sample Rubric #2
  • Sample Rubric #3 – from Multimedia Mania
  • Sample Rubric #4 – from the Statewide Instructional Resources Development Center (doc)

Research and Planning

• Evernote is a great tool for research, but there is not a free web clipper option for the Evernote app on the iPad.  There is a work around that will allow a user to clip web pages on the iPad just as they would on a computer.  This may not be appropriate for younger children but it is a viable option for high school students.
  • Click here for Installing the Evernote web clipper on the ipad instructions — Tutorial
• Storyboard Template – if you use UPad on the iPad it has a wonderful storyboard template.
  • Sample Storyboard – created with UPad lite
• Interview/Image Release Form – Lower Grades
• Interview/Image Release Form – Higher Grades

Mobile Project Creation – App Smashing

iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch

• App Smashing Matrix – a listing of free apps for each stage of the process.
• Operating the iPad Camera — Tutorial
• Importing Other Videos onto the iPad
• Miro Video Converter to Convert Video for the iPad — Tutorial

Images

You can create a picture of anything displayed on the iPad screen, no matter which app or website you have open, by taking a screenshot.  The screenshot is automatically saved in the Photos/Camera Roll.

To capture a screenshot

1. Press and hold the Menu button (a.k.a. Home button, the main button below the screen).
2. While the menu button is held down, press the power/lock button (the switch on the top edge of the device).
3. You will hear a camera shutter sound and the screen will be saved in your Camera Roll.

It’s often hard to find the true owner of a web image so when possible use free or copyright free images.  Here are several resources to help you get started.  A more extensive search I’m sure will reveal more:

• Creative Commons
• Pics4Learning
• Johns Hopkins Media Collection
• Archive.org
• NASA Space Images
• Smithsonian Institute
• Finding Copyright “free” images to use in projects — Tutorial

Audio and Music

• How to add and use audio/music on the iPad
• Supplemental Content
  • Archive.org – Internet Archive containing music, video, and audio that can be used in student projects.  Includes wonderful speeches and texts as well.
  • Free Music
    • Archive.org
    • Musopen.org
    • Incompetech
    • PacDV
    • Open Music Archive
    • YouTube Audio Library  (requires a Google account login)
    • SoundBible (sound effects)

Putting It All Together

• Splice for the iPad — Tutorial
• VoiceThread on the iPad — Tutorial

Sharing

• Sharing Methods Matrix – a list of sharing methods and security options
• YouTube – Uploading and Making it Private  — Tutorial
• Dropbox App Sharing — Tutorial
• VoiceThread Sharing — Tutorial
• AirDrop (iOS 7 only) — Tutorial