{"id":5258,"date":"2018-09-18T12:05:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T16:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2018-09-14T12:08:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T16:08:38","slug":"a-few-minutes-to-learn-something-cool-explain-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2018\/09\/18\/a-few-minutes-to-learn-something-cool-explain-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"A few minutes to learn something cool &#8230; Explain Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>A few minutes to learn something cool &#8230; Explain Everything<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ambitious idea &#8230; what does this app do? \u00a0Explain Everything is an easy to use platform for capturing presentations, annotating documents and creating flipped classroom materials. \u00a0The basis of the work could be an image, a PowerPoint, PDF, media file, or you could start from a blank canvas. Anything you do can be annotated and narrated. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You could use the app to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">create materials for students to review before class<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">address problems students might be having with class, or homework assignments<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">capture parts of what you do in class to post for students.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explain Everything is available for iPads, Android tablets, Chromebooks, and the Microsoft Surface. Curious? Take a look at some of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.explaineverything.com\/discover\/tutorials\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tutorials and examples<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on their website. If you&#8217;d like to try things out we&#8217;re happy to lend you a device to play with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe you\u2019re interested in creating instructional or tutorial materials for your classes, but Explain Everything isn\u2019t the right vehicle for you. Get in touch with one of the Academic Technologists or someone from the Language and Media Centers. We\u2019re glad to help you find a tool that works better for your needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Advice for videos of this sort:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep things short. Generally choose multiple short videos over a longer one. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create some notes or bullet points to keep yourself on track while recording. \u00a0You\u2019ll avoid unnecessary edits and save time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For future edits\/additions to materials you create, keep the original project file as well as the file you distribute to students.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes to learn something cool &#8230; Explain Everything Ambitious idea &#8230; what does this app do? \u00a0Explain Everything is an easy to use platform for capturing presentations, annotating documents and creating flipped classroom materials. \u00a0The basis of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2018\/09\/18\/a-few-minutes-to-learn-something-cool-explain-everything\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A few minutes to learn something cool &#8230; Explain Everything<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":5312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,207,223],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"category-active-learning","9":"category-mobile-learning","11":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ExplainEverything.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-1mO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions\/5314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}