App of the Day: Story Creator

Story Creator is a great app to use for digital storytelling. With Story Creator you can easily create beautiful story books containing photos, videos, text, and audio all in one gorgeous collection. Story Creator truly brings your best stories to life and easily allows you to retell and share your most memorable moments.


Application for Education:
"Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. Digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes." (University of Houston)


Benefits of using Story Creator:
☆ 100% FREE
☆ Add as many stories as you like
☆ Sharing stories with friends and family is as easy as email
☆ Backup stories online so kids can't accidentally delete your hard work
☆ Download stories on multiple devices - create once, experience anywhere
☆ Can add photos, videos, audio, and text
☆ Can add photos from device, Dropbox, Flickr, Picasa, or Facebook
☆ Supports drawing tool to make stories truly your own
☆ Create a personal book cover for every story
☆ Add your own voice - bring stories to live by adding your own narrative
☆ Add audio highlights - highlights makes it really easy for kids to learn how to read
☆ Leave comments on stories shared by friends

App of the Day: Explain Everything

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage. No account is necessary to use Explain Everything.

Application for Education:
With Explain Everything, an explanation can be recorded at the same time and this can be exported as a movie file to be watched by the students. Teachers can keep a record lessons for students to watch at a later time. Outside the classroom Explain Everything is a great tool for "flipping" the classroom. Instructional videos for students to watch before entering the classroom.

Explain Everything Video:

Benefits of using Explain Everything:
☆ Interactive whiteboard
☆ Annotate, animate, narrate on whiteboard, pictures, and/or videos
☆ Import and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere
☆ Create slides, draw in color, add shapes, and add text
☆ Rotate, move, scale, crop, paste, clone and lock any object
☆ No account is necessary

Download the free Explain Everything Manual on iBooks.