Creating


 * Verbs: generate, plan, design, produce, invent, make, construct, write, re-write**

  scroll to page 6 for the // Creating // page  **Reminder: Please check the Terms of Service before posting a website or an app. Some websites and apps require accounts be created and do not allow access by students under 13 years of age.**   **Website Examples ** **BigHugeLabs** A variety of tools for working with digital images. Make a movie poster or magazine cover among other things. **PicLit** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Drag and drop words onto a picture to capture the essence of the image. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> ** Sketchup **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">(tutorial) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> **Blog** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Use Blogger to post content, post assignments for students, or facilitate a discussion. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> ** Diamante poem **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An interactive tool that guides students through creating a diamante poem. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Build Your Wild Self** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Here students can combine animal parts to create a "wild" version of themselves. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> ** Digital Vaults ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Photos, documents, and popular media from the National Archives provide resources and interactive opportunities for users to access materials on endless U.S. historical topics and themes. The user can then organize the resources in any number of ways to relate to our country's history and tell a story. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Make Beliefs Comix** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Choose from characters and settings to create a 4-panel comic strip. The product can be emailed. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">**ePubBud** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">This tool allows for the creating of original publications that can be emailed and opened in iBooks. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">
 * Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing. Creating requires users to put parts together in a new way or synthesize parts into something new and different a new form or product. This process is the most difficult mental function in the new taxonomy.**
 * Wikispaces** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">well....you are using one right now. :-) Great platform for content compilation and collaboration
 * Thinkquest** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This site is sponsored by Oracle which holds a website competition for teams of students (do not have to be from same school site) each year. It also offers a social networking-like platform in a safe, teacher controlled environment.
 * VoiceThread** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Teachers can create activities for students to collaborate on and students can create original work. A great list of lesson ideas can be found here.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> KerPoof **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here users can create an animated skit, drawing...many options to "learn through creativity"
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Stapleless Book **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> An interactive tool that guides students through making a book that can be printed, folded, and turned in.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">**App Examples (iPad)** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">** Videolicious ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">a presentation creator, like PhotoStory. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">** Toontastic **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guides users through the story creation process (Setup, Conflict, Challenge, Climax, Resloution) asks for user input each step of the way. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">** Storyboards **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a storyboard for a presentation or retelling of a story. The product can be emailed as a pdf file. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Comic Book! ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">S tudents can create original graphic novels. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Frame Artist] ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> or **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Pic Frame] ** Import photos from the camera, camera roll, or other social networking sites and create a collage with the images. Frame artist has a text option; Pic Frame does not. Both apps save the images to the camera roll. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|PicSee Pro] ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Add text, captions, stickers, and more to images saved on your camera roll. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Pic Collage] **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This app will allow the creation of a collage. Import pictures from the camera, camera roll, or even search the internet within the app. Very easy to use. You can save the creation to the camera roll or share it via other methods including email. The app window does not rotate to landscape. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Puppet Pals **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Tell a story or explain an even with narration, music, and a combination of pre made characters that you can animate by moving as you narrate. You can also draw your own characters. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sock Puppets **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Choose your sock puppet, set the scene, and tell your story or explain a process. Each puppet has a disticnt set of characteristics...even the voices are different mutations of the narrator's voice! There will be giggles when using this app. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Voicethread **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> This app works like the website. You can create a Voicethread with images from the camera roll. Requires a log in. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Educreations **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Use your iPad as an interactive whiteboard. Explain a process, record math notes...it will save the recording to the device, but you will need to create an educreations account to share the video. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Garage Band **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Experiment with music. Different keyboards and guitars for varying level of musical knowledge. Create original music! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">iMovie ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> As it's name implies, this can be used to create and edit movies. The app also includes premade movie trailers that can be customized. The editing process is very specific and outlines every element needed down to how long the video clips need to be, whether their are action shots or not, and how many subjects they should have....a guided storyboard process - great place for students to start. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** [|SketchBook Express] ** Created by Autodesk, this app allows complex artistic work or simplistic creativity. It could also be used as a way for students to show work <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Doodle Buddy ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Some obvious uses would include creating a picture with the tools and stamps this app offers. Because the width of the writing instruments is adjustable, this app could be used to show work. Shake the device or tap the trash can to erase.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Strip Designer **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This app is very similar to Comic Book! and Frame Artist. There are a few differences in the layouts available and the sharing options. Strips can be emailed as images or .pdf files in addition to the standard saving to the camera roll.

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