Happy Pi Day 2015!

I still love this video created by a 5th grader last year on an iPad. It is a great example bringing together a few iPad apps to create something unique and expressive that demonstrates understanding. You can call it app-smashing or app-synergy. I always say when it comes to creativity on the iPads: “If there is an ‘app for that’ you’re doing it wrong.” When you blend apps together it becomes more of what you want to create, rather than what an app can do.

Apps used to create this video:

Garageband + YakIt + iMovie

I love talking picture apps. Two of my favorites are ChatterPics Kids and YakIt. I talk more about them in this post on Richard Byrne’s Free Technology for Teachers blog and on my blog last June. Creating talking pictures or animations offer amazing possibilities in the classroom. These two apps are so easy to use, students can complete a simple project in a short amount of time or make more complex projects that can lead to collaborative videos, ebooks, or websites.

For this video, the student:

1. Wrote the words set to the music he picked
2. Played the piano and recorded it into GarageBand
3. Found images and animated them in YakIt.
4. He did not like the way his voice sounded so he raised the pitch in YakIt
5. Each image was a scene
6. All scenes and the music were put together in iMovie and the titles were added.