ULearn 2017 - Day 3: Coding and storytelling tools

From Shakespeare to Star Wars – Coding and storytelling tools

Presenter: Brad Waid

During this presentation, Brad Waid shared many great apps for bringing learning to life for students through cool storytelling tools. He also shared some great sites for coding programmes.

Storytelling is a superpower that we all possess

Tools: books, tv, movies, commercials

Walt Disney - master storyteller

Dr Seuss, Stan Lee, George Lucas

Popular TV shows - we can relate to the characters, humour, scenery/location, drama, storyline,

Puppet Pals, Shadow Puppert Edu

Toontastic

Music is powerful to tell a story

Select a scene, characters

Story Bird

Zimmer Twins

Chatter Pix - animate and bring anything to life

Write Comics

Using tool is just a medium to show understanding. Can students apply what has been learnt/taught in another medium?

Marvel Comics

Touchcast Studio - can use with greenscreen

Morning announcements - students can do daily broadcasts

Book Creator - create ebooks

Canva - graphic design tool. Simpler version of photoshop.

Wordswag

Adobe Spark

Action Movie FX

Chromville - can colour in a character, scan and bring to life

Quiver and quiver education

Crayola Color Alive - bring characters to life

Tools can leverage power of technology to engage students

Atlas Trac Labs - programming robots

Coding:

Kodable - Junior kids level

Lightbot

Scratch

Tynker - using lines of code like Scratch

Pixel Press Floors - robust, free, students program and code with their hands first, draw own video game, symbols represent a piece of coding. Scan drawing and digitise drawing. Students can upload games for others to play.

Bloxels - 21st century programming - hands on and digital

Blocks of colour, dropped into board, scanned and then digitised. Can create characters, villains, kids create and then play.

Code.org

Cospaces - year 4 up

Hopscotch

Box island

Game froot

Piktochart similar to canva

Musical.ly - year 5 up

Aurasma

Tale blazer

Explain everything

Tellagami

Pixar on a box

Kahoot - interactive quiz tool

See Saw app
This was a really cool presentation just to see what the most popular apps and programmes were being used for educational purposes.