Templates for Newcomers

I’ve been pulling together a series of posts regarding Explain Everything as a format for creating templates. In that series I’ve attempted to expand on some methods to create templates, and established a space to share those templates with others. You can read those posts here: Let’s take that workflow, and apply it to an …

Creating Templates With Explain Everything

This is turning into a bit of a series of posts to properly cover templates in Explain Everything. I’ve just finished writing a post on how to share these types of resources in a centralized location. Once I had created that centralized space, I realized I needed to create a template to test out the …

Sharing Templates from Explain Everything

We refer to them as “templates”. Explain Everything refers to them as “projects” in the export page. You could refer to them as .xpl files. Regardless of the label, once you start to consider Explain Everything as an application with its own file format, rather than merely a vehicle to create screencasts, some additional super-powers …

Using a Protractor with Explain Everything

Here’s some brief instructions on how to add a Protractor to your Explain Everything screencast videos. I’m sure this probably works in other screencasting applications: the key is to use one that allows you to add multiple layers/images. If your layers get overlapped incorrectly in Explain Everything, you can hit the i button and rearrange …

You Don’t Need an App for That….

We’ve been exploring a new method of deploying apps in the board. All of the pertinent details will soon be available at http://ios.commons.hwdsb.on.ca. (Huge kudos need to be aimed at the iOS support team at WRDSB, from whom I have stolen and plagiarized a big chunk of this process: thanks for forging a path.) Anyone …

Exporting Video From you iPad to Google Drive

Open Safari and go to google.ca (this method does not include the use of the google Drive app)     Log in using your HWDSB google account Contact your 21st Century Learning Consultant if you need assistance with this.   Click on Drive (if you do not see Drive, click on the More tab)   …