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Annotable
Annotable is relatively easy to use and allows you a range of tools to annotate and edit image and features on an appshare live, posted below. There are a whole range of uses for the tools from both a teachers and a students viewpoint. As a teaching tool, you can highlight areas, add text and arrows, magnify a particular part etc and is a good replacement for those who may have used Skitch in the past. The annotations are still and end up producing annotated images, which in itself is good for demo, but not all that to review or look back on compared with those that offer video playback of the annotations and discussion of the time. Something iVisualser offers, but in my opinion Seesaw does even better.
iVisualiser
iVisualiser is a handy tool that again can be mirrored onto your whiteboard to demo to the children, yet in this case it does offer a video recording function through the 'visualiser' function and still images can be annotated through, yes you've guessed it, 'annotator' The video below shows how you can use it, and I'm sure there are lots of applications in a range of subjects.
Seesaw
What I love about this function in Seesaw is the immediacy of the feedback and the personalisation it offers to children. I can reinforce a concept as a whole class and send out on in a matter of seconds, directly from the app, or I can focus on an individual and give him/her personalised feedback in the same time it would take (well maybe a few seconds more) to talk to them anyway. People ask how we find the time, in honesty I feel that as the children get more efficient and older, it will actually save time when it comes to feedback as they will be able to provide it. Imagine the responses you could get with peer feedback when hearing their voices and how efficiently it could be shared in a ks2 class. It could actively support a child in ks1 by allowing the parents who engage to see where they are at and what they need to do. Using it as a tool for learning and explanation is something powerful that we could all have in our grasp.
AppShareLive - Playlist
To extend you may even want to check out the ever popular 'Explain Everything' or a simpler version called 'Show Me' or even the platform 'Educreations' for other ways of sharing video recordings of annotated work or annimated slideshows, but these are a whole other range of apps and skill sets to learn. (Very valuable but a little time consuming, but then again amazing for the pupils to use top explain concepts etc)
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