Raff's rant

So Videoscribe is a great fun tool to create digital stories with – you can add your own images or use the ones from the library, add text, sounds or record your voice. Then You set camera angles for creating the animation. It is easy to use Mr 6 and I have been playing with for some time now. I have used it with my year 7 class and they loved it too. It is a little on the expensive side at just over $5 but works really well. Created animations, digital stories can be sent to camera roll, uploaded to you tube, twitter etc. Once in your camera roll you can email them or download them to your computer photo library. Too easy and very cool for explaining a concept, showing key understandings or creating a digital story. You could even use videoscribe hd as a flow chart or a timeline. It creates a funky animated story of your sequence of events which you can then share. Here is one of Mr 6′s efforts.

Digital story by Mr 6 from clare rafferty on Vimeo.

Ancient Roman’s masters of technology true or not? Create pic collage collage to explain the truth in this comment using pictures and words to explain the innovative technology created by the Romans and why it was important and innovative.

Students write a script for two gladiators who are waiting under the area floor for their turn to fight in the Colosseum. Use your senses in your writing – what do you hear, see, feel etc Students then record their script using PuppetPals HD.

Compare and contrast the role of women in the ancient societies we have studied use Corkulous Pro to create and show the similarities and differences.

Using Sketchbook express students are to draw and label a sketch showing how Scipio set out his troops for the Battle of Zama include in annotation format why this strategy was successful.

Create a timeline using Popplet lite, of the key events for the first two Punic wars.

Use the app to Skitch to label and annotate a diagram of the Roman army in battle. Include as much detail as you can about the soldiers, their bodies and weapons, dress, forts, and their enemies. Students are then to write an account from a soldier to his mother about conditions on the battlefield and camp life.

Students use Popplet lite to create a flow chart of who is ruling the Roman republic. Include details on the role of and who were the patricians and the plebeians.

Truth or Myth: Play the students rasputin by boney m and read the lyrics , as well as show the students a clip from the movie Anastasia – students then research and work out what is truth and what is myth.

Thanks Lucy for this idea

Message in a bottle – students create a message from Odyssess returning from the Trojan wars about one of his learnings and discovers from his 13 stops on his voyage to return home to Ithaca.