Ronda

Smashing Great Idea: 

Combine 2 or more apps to create a multi-layered video/project, called app smashing.  The link below will take you to a web page created by Janet Corder and Joan Gore. They put together tons of awesome ideas, directions on how to create app smashed projects, and super cool examples. 

App Smashing

Janet Corder and Joan Gore

(click on title above)

Attending the above seminar and all the others last week sparked my interest so much that I came home and began to try my hand at app-smashing.  Don't laugh too much when you view my little project, but if I can do it, anyone can! 

I know it was silly and not perfect, but it was so easy to do. Then I went into Seesaw, the app my students already love to use.  There I uploaded and "smashed" my little experimental video and shared it with all my students.  

It got me thinking about what my first graders could do. They had already created some great single layered app projects.  I decided to try to smash one of their projects from Seesaw into Tellagami. Here is what I did with two of their finished pieces:

The TCEA conference provided an overwhelming amount of seminars to attend; however, there was no way to get to every fabulous one. TCEA presenters uploaded their presentation handouts so that anyone could peruse them at their leisure.  In doing so, I found the following seminar I wish I had been able to attend:

Click Me!

The link above has a lot of great ideas.  Please take time to look through them. Below is an example I found in the above link.

App smash using Word Mover and Show Me:

(or any interactive white board app)

Students can use the app Word Mover to practice their word sorts each week.  Students open the app, type in their name and then begin adding their words one at a time.  When done adding words, they drag and sort them.  After they are done sorting, they take a screen shot of their sort and save it to the camera roll.  From there they can open up another app like Educreations, Show Me, or Seesaw (my favorite one) and upload their picture from the camera roll.  They then record themselves telling how they sorted their words.  Younger students like Kinder and early 1st graders can just cut apart their paper list, sort them on their desks like always, and then take a picture with the ipad to save to the camera roll.  Then they could upload it in Seesaw and record how they sorted.  

 

Want other ideas?  Just google app smash in Pinterest or even YouTube and you will find lots of ideas. 

Click link below!

App Smash Challenge Ideas