One great app to use to help add content to your iTunes U course is
Explain Everything, which is a way to take presentations such as Keynote or
PowerPoint, PDFs, photos, videos, and allow you to annotate
them with your finger, with text, as well as with your voice and tell a story using
slides that you likely already have or have already started working on.
This is their website and
it will tell you a lot of different things that they could do.
So as it can show you, you can kind of do a tutorial.
You can show different things using a video of a phone or an iPad.
You can annotate.
You could also challenge your students to make these presentations with
Explain Everything as well.
There's a lot to it, as well as it hooks up really well with different services
including Box or Google Drive or Dropbox.
Any of those things, it hooks up with them very well.
Let me show you what that looks like on an iPad.
Here I've loaded a presentation into Explain Everything.
On the left, I have my menu that'll help you navigate, draw,
put shapes, add text, amongst other things on the side,
as well as change what color my pen is going to be.
I also really like the laser pointer tool,
which allows you to point out things as you're talking about them.
It's very fun here but not as much fun as they are with pets in real life.
But still, it's still a great tool to have in Explain Everything.
Then on the bottom it allows me to move through my different slides
as well as record.
And it records everything that you say, what's shown on the screen, and
how you annotate it.
And it puts it all together to make an easy, engaging presentation.
Let's start by pressing record.
I pressed record, now I wanna actually really emphasize the Ohio part.
So I took my pen.
I'm gonna make it red, of course, naturally, or scarlet.
And I'm gonna draw around it.
That's not big enough, so I'm gonna tap and
actually choose a bigger, there we go, perfect.
Living in Ohio, excellent.
Now, say there are other things you want to do.
And I'm gonna add a shape this time.
I'm gonna add an arrow.
There we go. And then if I go back to my hand,
I can move it around.
Make it bigger.
We really want to focus on the weather in Ohio, of course.
So, with that, like I said, as I'm doing my presentation,
it's recording what I'm talking about.
Here I want to point out this type of tree,
as well as the student wearing a backpack.
Those sort of things I can point out using my tool right there.
What's also nice is that Explain Everything presents its content
in an infinite canvas.
So I'm gonna select the hand tool at the top, and squeeze my fingers together.
And I can place it wherever I want.
So that way if I want to add additional notes or even maybe another photo or
a slide or something like that, I could do so using one of these different areas.
I also can type.
And I can move that around, change the size,
move it around to wherever I want it, and I can talk about it that way.
Again, I can change the color and everything as well.
Hopefully you could explore Explain Everything and
see how it could be useful for you.
As I've been recording this entire session,
let's take a look at what it looks like.
What I wanna do is I'm gonna take this box with the arrow pointing up and
that's my export box.
And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna select a way to export it.
And you have different options here.
I wanna export the video as it shows, and I'm gonna just send it to photos.
So here it's compressing my video and the longer your video, the more time it takes.
All right, let's take a look.
So, I'm gonna go into my photos.
And here, I could see exactly what my presentation was.
I can scoot through.
Just as I did it, the video that I presented to my students.