In this video we are going to look at an App called
ExplainEverything for the iPad.
It is available in the Apple App store for $2.99.
It is a really remarkable app that allows you to
create really high level lecture captures,
tutorials, and whiteboard activities on your iPad.
So when you launch ExplainEverything to get
started in the upper left hand corner are the plus
signs.
The first plus sign are some color templates.
This is version 2 of ExplainEverything, so in
Version 2 you get some of these template based
creation options.
The next plus sign allows you to import from photo
library, from Dropbox, from Evernote, Google
Drive, or Box.
And this is really powerful because you could
build a presentation in PowerPoint or Keynote,
save it as a PDF and import it into
ExplainEverything to annotate over the top of
and record on.
In this example, I'm just going to grab some photos
from my camera roll here on my iPad.
Click done.
And it will import my photos into a new project.
Because I selected 2 photos it automatically
breaks them into 2 slides.
This is the same effect when you import a
PowerPoint or Keynote.
I would recommend saving it is a PDF and then
import from your Box or DropBox account into
ExplainEverything and it will break it up so that
each slide has it's own page to annotate on.
The first tool in the upper left hand corner is
the finger tool.
This allows you to move your objects around, you
can resize them by pinching together and
using the gestures on the iPad.
The next icon, which is this page with the plus
sign, when I click on it, it adds a blank page to my
presentation.
This is really good when working in a presentation
and recording a lecture in a classroom, because you
can on the fly grab a new page and work a math
problem.
To do annotations you need the pencil tool.
That is the third one down here.
I can click and hold on it and change the size and
width of the pencil.
And then if I go down to the bottom left, I can
click and hold on the color and I can change the
color of my pencil.
So right now it is black, but I can change it to
green.
Then I go anywhere on my screen and I start
annotating.
Again, when we get down to the bottom, I will show
you the record feature so that you can record your
voice with your annotations.
Working down again on the left, is the shapes tool.
When I click down on it and hold down, I can pick
various shapes.
So I can draw an arrow on my screen and then with my
tool at the top left, my finger tool, I can move it
around, sort it, change it.
Again this is my finger tool, add a page, my
annotation pencil tool, and I'm shapes right now.
Next up are the text, if I click on it.
I can click on the screen and I can start typing.
If I click and hold down on the text button, I can
change the font and font size and I can actually a
border to my textbox.
So again, I can go to my screen, click and type
with my iPad keyboard.
You can move it, center it, anyway you would like,
normal word processing features.
If I'm happy, I click the check box and again it
makes it an object so that I can move it around my
page anywhere.
The next item is the sort of, add objects on the
fly, so if I wanted to add another picture, a video,
or something from somewhere else on my iPad
or in my Dropbox or Box accounts.
I can pull it right in with that button on the
fly.
This is a great feature, so if you wanted to use
ExplainEverything to create your presentation,
you could really build it from the ground up as
opposed to importing a PowerPoint or previously
created presentation, this is a great way to do that
and I think with Version 2 of ExplainEverything,
which I'm showing here, they have done a great job
to make this a really powerful presentation
software that would be realistic to build your
own presentations right through here.
Next up is the X, this allows you to delete an
object.
If I click on it, after clicking the X and hitting
the red X it will delete that object.
To delete that, or to not delete something just
click away from it.
So I'm going to go back to my finger.
Again that is the delete.
This is a really cool tool for professors and
teachers, this is the laser pointer tool.
If I click on it, I now a laser pointer.
So if I'm in a lecture hall and my iPad is
connected to an Apple TV and a projector or through
VGA to a projector, I no longer have to have a
laser pointer, I can just present right from my iPad
and point things out with this laser icon.
If I click and hold down on it, there are some
different options for the laser pointer, like an
arrow.
The next tool is the layering tool, for this
tool, I'm going to create another shape to
demonstrate the layering.
So, I'm going to click and hold down and I'm going to
create a square this time, make the border really
thick.
If I want to change the color of my shape, I just
click and hold down, I'll make it yellow and then I
just draw my shape.
If I wanted to layer my shapes right now, because
this is the latest so it is automatically on the
top, let's say I wanted to add Type to the top of
this object.
That is where this tools with the dotted square
with the i comes in really handy.
If I click on it and then click on the object that I
want to move, bring it to the front, and now it is
on top of my box.
So this is just like a lot of different whiteboard
software, this allows you to lock things in place so
that they won't move anymore, it allows you to
do a lot layering of object sort of things and
it is really powerful and a brand new addition to
this version of ExplainEverything.
Next up is the Undo button, which allows you
to undo your last move and it actually goes back a
little bit farther.
That it is a really handy tool to undo an error you
may have made.
Next up is a really cool magnifying tool that
allows you to really get infinite space inside your
presentations.
So I'm going to go to a new slide, this ones has
an image that I had added before, but let's pretend
I was working a math problem here.
I'll do a really advanced math problem, let me
change my color, so that it is a little bit darker.
And I'm working this really advanced math
problem and I'm bringing down and I run out of
space, let's say, but I want to keep going and I'm
capturing my voice here.
I can click on this magnifying glass with the
plus sign, pinch together with my gestures on my
iPad, move it to the corner up here.
Go back to my pen and start working the problem
again.
This is extremely powerful and it's similar to what
you can do in Prezi, where you have infinite space
available as a presenter.
I can zoom in also, and I can also zoom out, so it
really it opens up the ability to some really
advanced things on your slides, and not have to
worry about if you are working, in this example,
a math problem, running out of space.
I'm just going to grab a shape again so that I can
point out some features, so I will just build an
arrow really quick.
Spin it around.
I'm just using my iPad and two fingers, moving things
around and spinning objects, click and touch,
because it is an iPad app, really easy and really
user friendly.
So next up is this icon here, all this does it
gives me just my basic presentation tools.
So if I pulled in my presentation or created it
in ExplainEverything, and didn't want to have all of
this area around my presentation with this
gray bars.
I can minimize it and then start working my
presentation, changing slides with the arrows,
and so on.
It just de-clutters your screen when you are in
presentation mode.
So now I'm going to skip down to the bottom.
Down here.
And this is the running list of your slides that
you have available.
If I click on it, I can actually reorder my slides
by clicking and holding down on the slide and just
drag and drop.
It allows me to reorder my slides in a different
order.
The arrows on either side are just forward and back,
so I can change my slides that way.
The real powerful tool here is the recording
feature, which is located right down here at the
bottom.
This is really amazing and takes this app to a whole
different level.
To allow professors and teachers to lecture
capture directly from the iPad, which is an
extremely powerful thing.
So if I click the red button, it is now
recording everything I am doing on the screen.
I can start working some annotations or problems
and annotating over slides, it is capturing
everything that I'm doing and saying inside of this
slide.
If I change slides, It will record now everything
happening on this slide.
I would recommend, sort of a tip, is to pause between
slides, because ExplainEverything captures
everything on the individual slide, if you
talk over when it is transitioning there will
be break, a little digital glitch if you will, when
you make your recordings, so it is better to pause
when you hit this arrow button to go forward.
And then start talking on top of your lectures.
To stop a recording, you just hit the pause sign.
And if I go over here to the right these are your
save and export features.
So if I was using this in a meeting, just as a
whiteboard, again connected to say a
projector, if I click on it, I can actually save
what happneded on a slide, not the audio, just
visually the annotations right to my camera roll.
So if I click on it is says my images was saved
to camera roll, so now if I go back to my photos you
can see right there that there is a jpeg of
everything that happened on my screen when I was on
my whiteboard in ExplainEverything.
So that is really great for note taking or just
basic problem working so that your students would
just have a snapshot of what is happening there.
Now if you are using this to capture a lecture or
work a tutorial, the next is this film icon.
If I click on that, this where you can actually
everything you have done, either directly to
YouTube, to your camera roll, or any of your
accounts.
Again, Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, or Box.
You export as an MP4, everything that happened
on your presentation in ExplainEverything.
This is really powerful, because professors or
teachers could capture an entire lesson right in
here in ExplainEverything.
Now a tip this would be to break up recordings into
15-20 minute segments, so then it is more of a
workable file.
It is not quite as big, and students probably
don't want to watch a 90 minute lecture.
This is your save button.
If I click on it, I can title my project.
And click save.
And it will save this as a project back to my home
screen.
And then the last button is the home screen.
And you can see, Title 2 is what I just saved this
as.
Also notice, Last autosaved project 0, is
when I jumped out to my camera roll it did
autosave my project.
So I find ExplainEverything to be an
extremely powerful app.
It is probably my personal favorite.
If you click the i in the upper right hand corner,
you do get some tutorials and some information,
provide some feedback directly to
ExplainEverything and this is version 2 that just
came out in 2013.
The icon to the left of that are some settings.
You can change where you want it to export as far
as the quality.
You can setup some recording features, again
the camera size and resolution.
You can link all of your accounts, whatever you
have so that you could directly export or post to
Box, Dropbox, Drive, wherever you wanted to
put and it will be right there.
So thank you and enjoy ExplainEverything!