{"id":970,"date":"2014-05-08T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T18:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2016-03-01T11:07:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:07:30","slug":"think-outside-the-app-3-outstanding-app-smashing-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/think-outside-the-app-3-outstanding-app-smashing-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"Think outside the app: 3 outstanding examples of app-smashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>What-smash?<\/h2>\n<p>Despite sounding like a weird potato-fruit dish, app-smashing\u00a0gets your students thinking less about apps and more about tasks. Hopefully with a minimum of actual smashing.<\/p>\n<p>App-smashing is when you\u00a0give students a specific assignment that can best be solved using more than one app. <a href=\"http:\/\/ipad4schools.org\/2014\/04\/19\/why-app-smash\/\" target=\"_blank\">iPads4Teachers has a fantastic overview of app-smashing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Sounds good, but I need examples<\/h2>\n<p>You got &#8217;em!<\/p>\n<h3>1. Video cards<\/h3>\n<p>Sylvia Duckworth,\u00a0an elementary grades French teacher in Canada,\u00a0created Mother&#8217;s Day video cards by taking screenshots with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haikudeck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HaikuDeck<\/a>, then importing those into iMovie to add voice and music. The result, you&#8217;ll agree, is simply smashing*!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9y38AIcOK_M?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>2.\u00a0Cultural anthropology<\/h3>\n<p>A group of students at the Cabot School in Vermont tackled a cultural anthropology project by using iPhones to record audio interviews they did with community members, editing the audio in GarageBand, then\u00a0embedding the results in a map with <a href=\"http:\/\/thinglink.com\" target=\"_blank\">Thinglink<\/a>.\u00a0Smash!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/noCkOgYhgl0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>3. Show your work: demonstrate your solution to the problem<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DWdtprrDxtM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Susan Hennessey put together the above video as part of an assignment for\u00a0the MOOC <a href=\"https:\/\/novoed.com\/creativity-music\" target=\"_blank\">Creativity: Music to My Ears<\/a>. She writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #262626;\">We were tasked with picking a problem, brainstorming 100 possible solutions for how music could help solve it (on a shared Google doc) and then selecting 2 or 3 to create a novel solution.\u00a0 We were given 1-minute to present the problem and solution.\u00a0 Since we were working with middle level students, we wanted to defer to what they liked about the 100 possibilities.\u00a0 The two profiled by the <a href=\"https:\/\/tellagami.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tellagamis<\/a> are the top two selected.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Google Docs + Tellagamis + iMovie. A novel approach to the assignment, which, after all, is what app-smashing is all about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What are some ways you&#8217;ve used app-smashing in your classroom?<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*I&#8217;m actually obligated by law to make that pun at least once during this blogpost. True story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What-smash? Despite sounding like a weird potato-fruit dish, app-smashing\u00a0gets your students thinking less about apps and more about tasks. Hopefully with a minimum of actual smashing. App-smashing is when you\u00a0give students a specific assignment that can best be solved using more than one app. iPads4Teachers has a fantastic overview of app-smashing here. &nbsp; Sounds good, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/think-outside-the-app-3-outstanding-app-smashing-assignments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Think outside the app: 3 outstanding examples of app-smashing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,113,49,125,369],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovative-edtech-classrooms","tag-digital-storytelling","tag-haikudeck","tag-imovie","tag-tellagami","tag-the-cabot-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}