Week 7 Oct, 3.
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1.Website critiques.

2. Share your 3 or so apps that you found. Remember this is on post/reflection on your blog with all 3, include the App name, price, iTunes link, description and your sales pitch as to why we should get the app.apps

Let's explore a few more apps and make a couple of things!!


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Haiku Deck...FREE
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/haiku-deck/id536328724?mt=8
Haiku Deck is the simple new way to create stunning presentations – whether you are pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement. Featured on the iTunes “New and Noteworthy” and “What’s Hot” lists, Haiku Deck makes it fast and fun to create beautifully designed slideshows you’ll be proud to share.

Assignment: Think about a PowerPoint or Keynote you have made in the past...Re-make it using Haiku Deck or create a completely new presentation on a new topic, possibility something you need for another class.

Here is the link to the developers site http://www.haikudeck.com/. There is some good info.

And here are some Youtube tutorials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zDoeGofYJM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or_pTQQ942I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdGwKwKHjpM


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Animoto.....Free
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/animoto-videos/id459248037?mt=8

Description

“..... took less than five minutes to make an impressive, share-worthy video. .... a great option for the holidays or any special occasion .... when you’d want to share photos with loved ones.” MacWorld
Turn your photos into stunning, professional-quality videos, complete with music and text, with Animoto’s free app! Parties, holidays, trips and family events - you've got a ton of photos on your phone just waiting to be turned into something incredible. Choose your photos, video clips, music, and video style. Within minutes, you'll have an amazing video slideshow you can save and easily share with everyone.
Features include:
  • A unique video every time
  • Multiple video styles, huge music library and the ability to add text to your video
  • Preview and edit your video before producing it
  • View videos within the app and on our site
  • Easily share your videos via email, text, Facebook and Twitter or save to your Camera Roll
  • Upgrade to unlimited full length videos within our app

Assignment: now make a presentation about yourself to add to your About me page of your site.

Remember Wordle and the Fun with Type thing we did week 1, I just found a coupke more that are SORT OF similar.........


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Visual Poetry -Word Collage .99¢
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/visual-poetry-word-collage/id364299857?mt=8
Visual Poetry makes beautiful text collages. Type a your text or phrase and watch it instantly arranged as a mosaic in a variety of shapes. 16 symbols and 5 type styles included.
☆ Save images to use as wallpaper, or share via Instagram, Twitter and email.
☆ New Version 2.0 Just Released -- Completely redesigned and re-engineered. Now supports iPhone and iPad. Watch all the new features in action at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F23ybgu9eA&feature=plcp
Created by ImageChef. Express yourself instantly with hundreds of tools and templates at ImageChef.com. Try our other hit creative apps ImageChef and ImageChef+

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ImageChef......FREE
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imagechef/id330357169?mt=8
ImageChef is an easy to use application for doing amazing things with photos & text. Now supports iPad!
☆ Drop your photo into a series in scenes such as a wanted poster, billboard, picture frame and many more. Also browse and download from hundreds of frames and collages generated by ImageChef.com community members!
☆ Send your photos to friends, save to your album, or post on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter -- all from within the app!
☆ Works FAST. Does not require a network connection to create images, so you can personalize photos instantly anywhere!
☆ With integration to the ImageChef.com community site, you can connect to friends on ImageChef and see their posts in a shared feed.
☆ You can also design your own frames using the Sketchpad tool at ImageChef.com and use them within the app!
★ Latest Free Update Packs
  • Halloween Pack
  • Love Pack
  • Birthday Pack
  • Shadow Pack
  • ...and many more
★ Photo Features include
☆ Multi-photo scenes. Combine up to 4 photos in one image.
☆ Text templates - add your text to funny pre-made scenes. Great for posting notes on Instagram
☆ Animated GIF animations - Watch your photos bounce or flash colors
☆ Recrop / adjust brightness on each photo.

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Type Drawing $2.99 (kind pricey, but kinda cook too!!!)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/typedrawing-for-ipad-v3.0/id372350676?mt=8
"All New, Totally Typographic!"
TypeDrawing is the best typographic drawing app, and V3.0 makes a giant leap forward.
TypeDrawing is super easy and perfect for creating typography art and even unique watermarks on your photos. Type a sentence, then just draw with your finger. Voila! You've now got a one of a kind, totally unique and amazing typographic work of art. If you love typography, or even if you don't know what that means, you can easily create poetic visual art with this fun and easy-to-use app.
• See this video (iPhone version):
http://vimeo.com/41599875
• Main Features
  • - Gallery (all drawings saved)
  • - Type any languages and symbols
  • - A number of fonts and various controls (size, spacing, and rotation)
  • - Unique color controls (single color and ranged random colors)
  • - Professional outline and shadow controls
  • - Custom favorite colors
  • - Eyedropper tool
  • - Zooming and panning with two fingers
  • - Import photo and draw on it
  • - Unlimited undo and redo
  • - Replay the whole process of your drawings
  • - Lock (protect from being deleted or edited by mistake)
  • - Save to photos and share via email and twitter
  • - PDF and high resolution export
  • - Export options (document type, rotation, and color/transparent background)
• See and join Flickr group:
http://flickr.com/groups/typedrawing/


Now here is an easy way to share resources and make a little website., give it a try.
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Zapd....Free
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zapd/id426955081?mt=8
Zapd is a super simple and fun app that lets you create instant, themed websites straight from your iPhone. Just select a theme and then add photos, text, or links and you’re done! A stunning, unique website is an incredibly powerful way to share your personal and/or professional life. You can even use Zapd to share as many photos as you want on Twitter or Facebook with just one link. Zapd is totally free. You can create as many “Zaps” as you like and have one for each flavor of your life – going on vacation, sharing a work project with colleagues, showing off your latest toy, ranting about a topic, capturing special moments with your family, etc.

Each of your Zaps can have it's own unique custom URL - use any name you like to make it easy to remember and share!

Zapd has over 20 “themes” to choose from that change the website’s colors, fonts, layout and overall look and feel. New themes are released all the time. The results are gorgeous and are optimized for use on an iPhone, iPad and of course, a computer. Why mix all the parts of your life in one blog or in your Facebook profile? Create a Zap for each distinctive expression of you! Quickly. Easily. From your phone. From anywhere!

Zaps are real websites! Have a blast with Zapd and be creative! Sharing your Zap is easy too. You can share directly from your iPhone - post to Facebook, Twitter or just email the links to your friends.

Assignment; Make a Zapd website and share some NEW resources you found that would be useful to your students on a topic. Not less than 5, each has to have an image, a link, information and a explanation about how you would use it in a lesson.