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App Smashing Intro

Created By: Kristi

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What is App Smashing?Content created in one app transferred

to and enhanced by a second app and sometimes third. Preferably the final product is then published to the web – remember, digital presence is the new résumé!

App Smashing Tutorial

Reasons to App Smash:

1. It demands creative thinking2. Students are CREATING!!!!!!

3. It demands more from the technology (value for money)

4. It turns the issue of not having a ‘wonder app’ into a positive

5. It removes any restrictions to take a topic as far as it can be taken.

6. It often results in more engaging learning products

7. It’s a fun challenge for ‘digital natives’

Key rules for successful App Smashing:

1. Use the Camera Roll as your main conduit between

Apps.

2. Leave the app choice to the students.

3. Have a list of apps capable of smashing content together. (recipes)

App Smashing Steps1. Create a goal or an essential

question (start with the end in mind)

2. Conduct research

3. Organize (use a storyboard)

4. Find or take pictures/video

5. Choose your app smashing recipe

6. Publish and share your piece

Publish Your Work

Smash #1

Ideas: Plant/Animal reports, Book summaries, Book Retellings, Book recommendations, Science and S.S. reports, vocabularyWords, sight words, Author’s Purpose, biographies………..

Take a picture or save an image off of the internet

Import to

Chatterpix

Create an

Aurasma+ =

Chatterpix + Aurasma Tutorial

Biography Example

+

Chatterpix + Aurasma

Smash #2

Ideas: Advertisements, Book summaries, Book Talks, Reports, Promotion of activities, foreign language/ESL, go back in time, Digital Storytelling, fluency reading, CGI problems

Create a tangible object

or poster Import to

Tellagami EDUCreate

an Aurasma

+ =

Aurasma Tutorial1st grade example

+

TellagamiEDU + Aurasma

Take a picture or import image from internet

Smash #3

Ideas: Book reports, Biographies, Social Studies topics, Creating images, summaries, narrative writing

Toontastic Storyboard

+Save to Cameral

Roll

+ +Print a

Screenshot

Toontastic 3rd

Grade Example

Create a Toontastic

Create an

Aurasma

Toontastic + Aurasma

Smash #4

+

Trading Cards + Explain Everything + AurasmaDesign a set of cards based on characters, places or

even words themselves then import into Explain Everything to screencast, sharing more information

about each card or even telling the story they are part of. Another variation of this smash would be to replace

ExplainEverything with Chatterpix.

Trading CardApp Tutorial

Explain Everything Tutorial

Create an

Aurasma+

Smash #5

+

Google Earth or Google Maps + Pic CollageDesign a collage to showcase landforms, or places of

Interest. Have students plan a vacation or give Directions. Design a map of planets.

or

=

Google Earth tutorial

Google Maps tutorial

Pic Collage tutorial

or +

Rainforest ThinglinkThinglin

k

Smash #6

Ideas: Math problems, story problems, shapes, patternsScience projects, procedural writing, sequencing……….1st

Grade ideasMiddle School ideas

+ +Internet

Upload into

Explain Everything

Import into Book

Creator

Explain Everything + Book Creator

Explain Everything + Book Creator Example

=+

Publish

Popplet

Smash #7

Ideas: Math equations, story problems, shapes, patternsScience projects, procedural writing, sequencing, emotions,Writing prompts, character traits, descriptive writing……….

+ + =

Upload photos to Pic Collage

Save to

Camera

Roll

App Smashing Challenge

Upload Pic Collage

into Tellagami

2nd

Grade Example

Pic Collage + Tellagami

Publish

Smash #8

Ideas: Genius hour, weather reports, animal reports, bookSummaries, book recommendations, book reports…….

+ + + +

Upload imagesFrom the

internet

Record your

Message-use

a green background

Upload into Green Screen

App

Print out a picture

that relates to your project

Create an

Aurasma

5th

Grade Genius hour examplesGreen Screen lesson plan

Green Screen + Aurasma

Smash #9

Ideas: Genius hour, weather reports, animal reports, bookSummaries, book recommendations, book reports…….

+ + + +Upload imagesFrom the

internet

Record your

message

Upload into Green

Screen App

The Camera

Roll

Import toiMovie/

addMusic

Elementary ideas

Middle School ideas

Green Screen + iMovie

Green Screen Tutorial with Do Ink

Smash #10

Ideas: Science and Social Studies reports, current events,Book summaries, character traits, non-fiction retelling,Research reports, biographies, landforms, animals, planets

+ +Pic Collage + Youtube + Thinglink

Create a Pic

Collage

Find Youtube videos

That relate to yourimages

Upload into ThingLink

Thinglink Tutorial

Pic Collage tutorial

Smash #11