Collins Big Cat Story Creator

Collins Big Cat Story Creator from Southfield Christian School on Vimeo.

Originally posted March 2013

Today, Miss Young’s first graders helped me test out a new app.  We used a free app called Collins Big Cat In the Garden.  This app has a storybook that students can listen to and read while they interact with the beautiful illustrations.  It also has a Story Creator feature that is pretty cool. Our students picked a background, added objects and characters, typed in text, and even recorded their voices reading their text.  Above is a short clip showing the students in action.

The students really enjoyed using this app.  It worked great with pairs of students.  I do think the interface for adding the text is a bit confusing, but the students seemed to figure it out.  Unfortunately, there is no way to share or transfer the stories that are created on the app.  Even so,  I think it is good for students to use just to experiment with being creative and is wonderful to help students write, record, and then listen to their own language.

Here is a link to the Collin's Big Cat website.  Scroll down for links to all of the apps:

Collin's Big Cat Website

PreK Sr. Seuss Cam

Originally posted on March 13, 2013 by kbosch

The PreK classes have been reading Dr. Seuss books and doing Dr. Seuss art, so it was such fun for Mrs. Vowles to use the Dr. Seuss Cam app to take the students’ pictures right inside of a Dr. Seuss picture!

Then Miss Bosch used the 30Hands app to record each student talking about their picture.  Check out the video to hear what the students had to say!

http://vimeo.com/62278394

http://vimeo.com/61742050

The 30Hands app is FABULOUS for creating narrated image videos!  You can use it with or without an account and can save the projects either to the camera roll or to your account.  It imports multiple photos at one time for your project.  And the best feature is that you can rerecord audio for each photo until you get it right, instead of having to start the entire project over!  And it’s FREE!

Dr. Seuss Camera – The Cat in the Hat Edition (currently $0.99)

30hands  (free)