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Try WeVideo’s Camera App for Collaborative Video Creation

Cross-posted at Free Technology for Teachers.

WeVideo is a collaborative, online video creation and editing tool that I’ve been quite excited about since last fall. In January they left beta and opened to the whole world. Their latest update was the launch of a free Android app.

The WeVideo Android app will allow you to capture images and videos then quickly add them to collaborative video projects in WeVideo. Before you upload your videos with the app you can trim them to save editing time when you’re using WeVideo on the web. And just like when you use the web version of WeVideo, you can invite other WeVideo users to view your media and contribute to your projects.

While using the WeVideo online editor you can upload your own media clips or use stock media clips to produce your video. The video editor provides tools for trimming the length of display and or sound of each element you add to your video project. What makes WeVideo collaborative is that you can invite other people to create and edit with you.

Enjoy TED Talks Offline on Your Android Tablet

There are other apps in Google Play that feature TED Talks, but until last week there wasn’t an official TED Talks app. The new official TED Talks app for Android has some handy features.

The most notable feature of the TED Talks app for Android is the option to download talks to your Android device. You can bookmark and download talks in “my talks” section of the app. Another nice feature is the “radio” feature. The radio feature allows you to listen to talks without playing the video.

More than 1200 TED Talks are available through the new app. The app automatically updates whenever new TED Talks are published. You can search the archive of videos according to theme, tag, rating, popularity, and recency.

iNaturalist – An App for Sharing Observations of Nature

Cross-posted on Free Technology for Teachers. 

iNaturalist is a community website for sharing pictures and observations of plants and animals. To enable easy sharing of observations, iNaturalist offers a free Android app and a free iOS app. Using the apps you can take a picture, geo-locate it, write your observations, and upload to the iNaturalist community. If your observation is incomplete, for example if you’re not sure of a scientific name, you can ask the community to add comments to improve the recording of your observation.

I learned about iNaturalist through an excellent post on the Google Lat Long Blog that outlined the efforts of a group to compile a large collection of observations about the Pepperwood Preserve in California. Pick a woodlot or nature preserve in your area and have your school build a record of observations about that area.

GradeDroid – Two Student Android Apps in One

GradeDroid is a free app that is one part flashcard generator and one part GPA calculator.

The flashcard aspect of GradeDroid allows you to create and study flashcards directly on your phone or tablet without the need to sync your device to an external website. You can easily add or delete flashcards from the menu. When you study your cards you can specify which cards you want to appear more or less frequently than others in your set.

The GPA calculator in GradeDroid gives students tools to keep track of their course grades and calculate their rolling grade point averages. The GPA calculator isn’t anything fancy, but it could be handy for some students.

Try Mindjet for Mind Mapping on Android Devices

Mindjet for Android is a free app for creating mind maps on your Android phone or Android tablet. I have to admit that at first some of the utilities of Mindjet were a little tricky to figure out, I’m still not sure what the purpose of one of them is, but the more I explored Mindjet the more I liked it.

At the most basic level you can use Mindjet for Android to create a simple diagram using boxes and text. You can connect the boxes in a number of ways, change the colors of anything in your mind map, and quickly undo any mistakes that you make. Your Mindjet mind maps can include images that you upload from your device or from an online gallery like Picassa. You can also include links to external references in each aspect of your Mindjet mind maps. When you’ve completed your mind map you can export it as an image to save on your device or send it to any number of online storage services like Dropbox and Evernote.

The video below provides a good overview of the features of Mindjet for Android.

Mindjet for Android could be a good tool for middle school, high school, and college students to create outlines of topics they’re studying and or writing about. Mindjet for Android is probably a bit too complicated for elementary school students.

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