30 Hands App

30 Hands App

Description

30 Hands is a higher level "creating app"  that can easily be used by students across all content areas.  The app store states that "it allows students, teachers and anyone with creativity to easily create stories or presentations based on photos, images or slides using an iPad, iPhone, or iPod."  Presentations or stories can be narrated, emailed, saved to Google Drive after email, or easily saved to the camera roll and uploaded to YouTube by the teacher.  

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How To

5 Easy Steps:

1.  Add images from camera roll, take photos, or draw on slides

2.  Arrange them into any order by dragging them

3.  Record Audio For Each Slide

4.  Preview your creation

5.  Publish it as a video to your camera roll

After that, students can email the video to the teacher, upload it to KidBlog, or the teacher can post it to YouTube from student iPad to later post on class website.

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Sample Ideas and Videos

Narrate Original Writing

-take photos of original illustrations

-use 30 Hands drawing feature

-use pic collage to add original illustrations from camera roll and text

-upload pic collage as slide in 30 hands

-Use search feature in 30 hands

-narrate story over slides

Create How To Video

-follow directions above

or

-take photos of yourself acting out each step

Create a Reader's Theatre with a small group

-create pics from options above or take photos of group while using props for each scene

-Take turns reading from script while narrating (use voice of character)

Explain a Math Problem In Steps

-Use drawing feature to show one step on each slide

-Narrate each slide

Use Props to Set Up Scenes For Each Frame of A Story

(Use legos, super hero figures, clay animals with hand drawn backgrounds...)

Move characters and change backgrounds as story moves along

Narrate each slide

Defend An Idea/Position

-Include photos or images in 30 Hands web search that support an opinion or idea

-Narrate slides to expand upon idea and add more concrete support & examples

Practice Fluency

-take photos of each page in book

-read book aloud with record feature

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Spice It Up...

-Add music in background while speaking

-Use character voices

-Use an avatar in each slide

-Use cartoon or comic app first and upload to 30 Hands to narrate story

-Collaborate with a partner and take turns speaking

-Add student work from 30 Hands to your Teacher Website

-Students post video to student blog for authentic audience and so others can add comments

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Final thoughts....

Why does the teacher always make the flipped video used for homework? Why not let students create flipped videos?  Why not with a partner?  Choose a current topic and give students the opportunity to flip what they know using the 30 Hands app?  Just remember to check the rough draft before they record to make sure the information you will be posting for others is correct.  Post all the videos in one night to give students a choice of which videos to view for homework.  This would work great as a review before a test or as an exit slip.