Post #11 Happy Veterans Day! • Re-Visit Adobe Voice • Digital Citizenship

I had the good fortune to be in Capitan today and attended the Veterans Day celebration the school put on for Veterans.  We were treated to a great "Capitan Tigers" Band, an equally as great "Capitan Choir" - High School, Middle School and Elementary School as well.  Later during the day I was in several classrooms and saw continued learning occurring, students still exploring Veterans Day issues.  This is a picture showing a whole school of support.

This weeks App of the week is one we featured before but they have added new features and it's worth a second look.  If you haven't tried it, now is the time!  Hurry while it's still free.

Adobe Voice

Back in May Adobe launched a free iPad app calledAdobe Voice. Adobe Voice allows you to record your voice, import pictures, and write text to create a short video. The latest update to the app allows you to customize the background colors in your story’s theme. In addition to background colors you can also customize font colors and the colors of stock icons in the app.

To create a story with Adobe Voice you start by select a story template (you can change templates at any time). After choosing a template you construct your story by recording your narration for a frame then adding an image or text to the frame. You can import your own image, take a picture, or select one of the stock images provided by Adobe Voice. To find a stock image or icon you simply enter a search word and then select from the search results. In that regard it is similar to Haiku Deck’s image search tool. If you decide to add text to a frame, the text will automatically resize as you type. Music is automatically added to the background of your narrated Adobe Voice story. You can change the music by tapping the edit option and selecting a different track.

Web Site of the week - Also ties back into your mobile device to allow digital reading.  This is from Commonsense Media.  It is a free book by grade level for digital citizenship.  You could easily add this into your daily routine and create a semester long training with your students on appropriate use with technology.

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/blog/announcing-our-free-ibooks-textbooks

I'd love to hear about your technology use in your classroom, just comment to the blog and we'll figure out a nice way to share your experience with others.