Storyrobe

Storyrobe is considered a CREATIVE app. A creative app is an app that can be used in a variety of ways. (Versus some apps that only allow you to practice one skill like grammar or math facts.) This app is open ended and is only limited to your own teacher creativity. This is a FREE app!

How this app works:

With this app you can take pictures (or retrieve pictures from your photo album) and create a slideshow. With each picture in the slide show your student can record their voice. There is a 3 minute limit to the slideshow.

How have I used this app?

I have used this app across the curriculum from reading, to social studies, to math. In language arts I have had my students take pictures from the story they are reading. First, they take pictures of the main events of the story. Then they record their retelling of the story. In social studies I have used Storyrobe for my students to monitor their understanding of the content area. They take pictures of what they have learned (right out of their social studies book) and then they record their understanding of the content. In math, I have had my students take pictures of each step of a math problem on a small whiteboard (we were working on adding two digit numbers with regrouping). Then they record how to solve the problem step by step.

This app really allows you to have a quick assessment of your students' understanding. It also provides a safe and secure way for your introverted students to have a voice.

Do you use ipods in the classroom?

Welcome teachers! I am excited to begin this blog. If you are on the cutting edge of education (or want to be) the future of education is the use of the iPod Touch and iPads in the classroom. However, beginning this new adventure for your students can be challenging. What apps are the best? Should I buy apps? Should I only use free apps? These are the questions I have been regularly contemplating since I began using iPods in the classroom.

As you know time is everything in the classroom and what little time we have with our students is extremely valuable.The purpose of this blog is to help guide you to making better choices about which apps give you the most bang for your buck. Please use this site as a resource to help make your iPod or iPad experience in the classroom successful!

Just so you know a little bit about me. I am a second grade teacher and have been teaching for 11 years. I obtained my master's degree in Literacy. My focus has been integrating technology into the classroom and preparing my students to be 21st century learners. I began using iPods in the classroom in 2010 and have enough iPods for my students to be 2:1 (two students per iPod). The success and focus of I have seen in my students is phenomenal. The use of iPods comes naturally to my students and provides a "hook" like no other I have experienced in my years as a teacher.

I hope you find this blog helpful and visit often to read review of apps that I have used in the classroom. I intend to only share the apps that are tried and true. I will only blog about apps that my students love and apps that have an educational purpose.

Happy teaching!