ActionandExpression

=Multiple Means of Action and Expression=


 * Phonecasting with iPadio/Audacity/SoundCloud/Podomatic - With iPadio, students can directly upload their audio clips to the class/teacher channel. Audacity records the audio but it then still needs to be sent somewhere or embedded into a website. SoundCloud is an iTunes app that records your audio and also needs to be sent to a teacher or shared somehow. With Podomatic - this is a podcast website. Audio recordings can be uploaded and saved in one area here. No direct posting from students though.
 * [|Evernote] app - take notes of anything and everything (audio, video, text, image, save webpages, share info). Syncs with all of your devices.
 * Edmodo ([|ideas], [|more integration ideas], [|Teacher Rollout Resources])
 * Yelp - [|Edmonton] - fun and easy way to find and talk about local businesses
 * Calendar
 * Tasks
 * [|ChaCha] - Q&A app for iDevices, Androids ([|local trends updates])
 * DropBox - teacher then has a DropITtoMe account
 * Nintendo DS - Pictochat - [|see blog] - [|How-to sheet]

Group work

 * [|Audacity Portable app]
 * [|GroupMe] - easy to set up group text messages for all types of smartphones. You can start a group, ask a question or even send a direct message.

Language Arts
- Students could interview local community members to record, document and publish an oral history project (this could have more of a Humanities = LA + SSt focus). Specific powerful questions could first be created by the class, divided up and local people contacted for interviewing. The recordings via cellphone could then be posted to a blog, wiki or website.
 * Facebook
 * Voice recorder/Audacity/SoundCloud - Poetry sharing podcasts where students could recite their original poems and upload them to a podcast site (like Podomatic).

Social Studies

 * Tumblr ([|ideas])
 * GoogleMaps - One map can be set up by the Teacher with students adding a photo write up and description of a particular historical event on the locator pin.

Science

 * [|Cellblock] - Teacher sets up a cellblock URL and shares this with students. In a geometry unit, students could build a geometry digital textbook using Cellblock to demonstrate their understanding of different types of geometric angles by taking pictures of right, obtuse, and acute angles found in their community and school building. Here's an example of [|Cellblock from #ATLE2010]
 * Animoto app - uploading photos and music from a topic of interest or a specific project and Animoto will create a complete video of your experiences. AnimotoEdu is also available online. Users must sign up on AnimotoEdu first before using the Animoto app.