Chatterpix

A colleague who came to the iii2015 conference with me picked up this very entertaining little photo-to-animation app, which she spoke about during our PD round up this evening. It's called Chatterpix, by the developer group Duck Duck Moose, and it's vastly entertaining.

Chatterpix in a nutshell

Take a photo, draw a mouth, record your message, add accessories, share it. Sounds like a frivolous, purely-for-entertainment app on the surface, right? But the implementations for flipped learning with younger readers are awesome. Using characters from school-wide curricula, such as the You Can Do It program, or the Kimochis, or school-specific mascots, can help you create presentations for students to watch from home in preparation for workshops or lessons the next day.

Meet Ricky Resilience

Follow-up to this is a brainstorm session (collaborative creation of a KWL chart using the stickynotes widget and the touchscreen) used as a pre-assessment of students' intrapersonal learning.