This document outlines several app mixer activities for students to get familiar with iPad apps in the first week or two of school. The activities include using GarageBand to create wireless jam sessions in small groups; using iMovie to record classmates stating their favorite superhero in 4 minutes; using Educreations to create slides interviewing classmates about favorite items and recording voiceovers; taking screenshots of items likely in a refrigerator and making a Keynote collage with photos, titles and drawings. The goal is to introduce apps, have students learn from each other, and get comfortable using the technology in an informal way.

1. Smart School Start
2014
iPad Version
App Mixers
Estimated time: 20 minutes each

2. APP MIXER CONCEPT:
Get kids using the most important apps QUICKLY
Introduce the kids to each other and build culture
Work on presentation skills, in informal ways
Teachers get comfortable with apps

3. APP MIXER CONCEPT:
Do one or two of these a day
during your first week with iPads
Suggestions:
Or do them all day long for one day!

4. These App Mixers will
be MESSY!
It’s ok.
It’s only the first or second
week of school, right?

5. Have fun!
Let the kids show off
their tech and leadership skills

6. Garage Band JAMS
Students form teams of three or four
Students open Garage Band
One student starts a
Bluetooth Jam Session
The other three students can play instruments
in one single track, wirelessly recorded
on the main iPad
These can be played for the entire class via the
teacher’s computer speakers

7. Garage Band JAMS
Academic outcome?!
!
Students can use Garage Band for interviews
and to record original jingles for their videos.

8. iMovie Superheroes
Students open iMovie,
click the “+” to make a new movie
(not a movie trailer….yet)
Locate the camera and turn it on

9. iMovie Superheroes
Locate the camera and turn it on
Check the ? for help

10. iMovie Superheroes
MISSION: !
Find out ONE favorite superhero
name from as many classmates
as possible!! Record them saying it.
They should say:
My favorite superhero is: _________________
!
TIME LIMIT: ONLY 4 minutes!
!
HINT: Only record ONE sentence per person!

11. iMovie Superheroes
Drop the clips in any order
Trim them
Add favorite music!
Share them via Airplay!
Hint: find the little gear

12. Educreations Interviews
Everyone sketch an avatar
of themselves on paper
4 minutes!

13. Educreations Interviews
Open the Educreations App
Use your school Google info to
make an account
First: Find out what the buttons do!
(3 minutes)

14. Make three slides using

15. Take a picture of 3 classmates’ paper avatars
One picture per slide

16. Educreations Interviews
Ask each classmate that you have an
avatar for these questions:
What’s your favorite kind of shoe?
What’s your favorite song?
Two questions per person =)

17. Educreations Interviews
Hit the RECORD button in Educreations
Say each classmate’s name and
say what their two favorite items were,
while you write with your finger!
HINT: You can pause on each slide!

18. Educreations Interviews
Select DONE
PICK PRIVATE Email it to your teacher

19. Open Safari or Chrome
Find pictures of four items (or more)
THAT ARE
LIKELY TO BE IN YOUR!
REFRIGERATOR
RIGHT NOW
Screen shot them one at a time.
*Screen shots are taken with the HOME
and POWER button - they save to your camera roll
Keynote Collage

20. Open Keynote
Hit the “+” to make a new presentation
Keynote Collage

21. Back into Keynote!
Add the pictures
from your camera roll
Add all four…or more
You can put a frame around them if you want
Keynote Collage

22. Keynote Collage
Add a title with your name
Add the title by
clicking here:

23. Keynote Collage
Present with Airplay!
click here:
May not work at
all schools - yet

24. Keynote Collage
COOL TRICK! While presenting, you can
DRAW on your slides, find the magic button

25. iPad App Mixers