This post is a sales pitch directly to the tech committee. I try to limit how much I ask for in regard to paid apps for the elementary iPad program. The last one was the Puppet Pals director's cut app which has now been used by grades K,1 and 3.
This time I am asking for an app primarily for grades 5-8, but I know we will use it in K for a PSA project. You may or may not know that the 8th grade has done some amazing work this year with greenscreen video, but we unfortunately started with the wrong app. While many of the features of Touchcast were great, the downfall was how hard it was to get videos out of the program. Touchcast was a free app and the app I am requesting is $2.99 and the output saves directly to your camera roll. Green Screen by Do Ink lets you load the photos into a timed background and see the green screen replacement live as you record it. Our students could then import the movie into imovie for final editing and production.
Green Screen technology is amazing for creating instructional videos and presentations. If your students build a diorama they can use a green screen to walk inside their own diorama. In this video below I used screen shots of the ipad app as the background. All of the production of the video was done in the iPad, from record to publish. The video is a review for Feedly, an Rss reader that allows you to read and share articles.
More about Green Screen in Edu
http://learningandsharingwithmsl.blogspot.com/2013/08/using-green-screen-technology.html
http://inspiredclassroom.com/green-screen-studio/
This time I am asking for an app primarily for grades 5-8, but I know we will use it in K for a PSA project. You may or may not know that the 8th grade has done some amazing work this year with greenscreen video, but we unfortunately started with the wrong app. While many of the features of Touchcast were great, the downfall was how hard it was to get videos out of the program. Touchcast was a free app and the app I am requesting is $2.99 and the output saves directly to your camera roll. Green Screen by Do Ink lets you load the photos into a timed background and see the green screen replacement live as you record it. Our students could then import the movie into imovie for final editing and production.
Green Screen technology is amazing for creating instructional videos and presentations. If your students build a diorama they can use a green screen to walk inside their own diorama. In this video below I used screen shots of the ipad app as the background. All of the production of the video was done in the iPad, from record to publish. The video is a review for Feedly, an Rss reader that allows you to read and share articles.
More about Green Screen in Edu
http://learningandsharingwithmsl.blogspot.com/2013/08/using-green-screen-technology.html
http://inspiredclassroom.com/green-screen-studio/
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