Famous American Research

My students just completed research on American heroes. In addition to books, students used their iPads to do the research, mainly on World Book Online, BrainPop Jr., and Reading A-Z books in their iBooks library. To teach others about they learned, each student created a Keynote presentation on their iPad. I am impressed with how smoothly this went on the iPad. The Keynote app is very kid-friendly and easy to use. We also tried out a new app I learned about at METC called Chatterpix Kids. Kids imported a picture of their famous American, drew a mouth, and the recorded themselves telling a few important facts about the person. They were a lot of fun to create and to watch. Students could even embed the Chatterpix video into their Keynote. They iPad made this entire process, smooth, flexible, and very engaging.