Today's tech tip is really quite awesome. It's an app called Tiny Tap that allows you or your students to create apps. It is suitable for any age. At GaETC, I learned that their is a Speech Pathologist, Ellen Weber, that creates apps with Tiny Tap quite regularly for her clients. If you would like to see the apps she has created (you can use them too!), click here. You must create your own Tiny Tap app on an iPad or iPhone but you can play and use the apps on an iPad, iPhone, or a computer. How great is that?! This is a free resource. You can use other people's apps for free too.
The story behind the app is quite interesting. The creator of the app invented Tiny Tap to help him communicate with his mentally disabled father. He found it to be quite powerful and was sharing it at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. An educator at SXSW thought the app would be useful in his school and helped him leverage his market for the app. People that now know about Tiny Tap can't get enough of it.
What are some ways that you can use it in your classroom?
*Students can create an app to learn about content
*Students can play each other's apps to study that content
*You can create an app to advertise a classroom event or even better, have your students create it (for example, the Hanukkah party)
*Students, Teachers, or Parents can create an app to assist with learning math facts
*You or your students can create an app to teach digital citizenship
*Students or teachers can create an app to practice site words
*Teachers can create an amazing activity to do on Grandparent's today- have students create an autobiographical app with their grandparent
*Teachers can use this app for differentiated instruction- have students create an app as an enrichment activity
To see an app that Ellen Weber created about Narrative Elements using the book Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty, click here. (It is one of my favorite picture books!) I can't emphasize enough what a "gem" this tech tool is and I hope you will find it to be fabulous too.
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