Featured iPad App: Explain Everything
Explain Everything is an interactive whiteboard app that offers many features. You can create slides on an "infinite canvas"--add images, text, videos, shapes, audio files, drawings, and more--then, record audio (and even video!) of your slides to make a screencast. Explain Everything provides many different export options to make it easy to share your final product.
Click here to view a slides presentation on getting started, and watch the video below to see the app in action. I also recommend that you check out the large collection of tutorial videos on Explain Everything's YouTube channel. They are very helpful!
Explain Everything is a paid app ($5.99) and is currently available on all kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, and gen ed cart iPads.
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