Explain Everything

This is a really neat app that I'm just beginning to use. It combines white boarding with importing photos, PDFs, and websites to help you literally explain everything. Your presentations can be as simple as you talking while you draw on a whiteboard, PowerPoint, pdf, or photo, or they can be much more complex. Finished projects can be exported as movies to various locations including Google Drive. The user interface is fairly straightforward and very much like creating a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation.  There is is a learning curve, though. 

I recently had students make quick movies explaining key terms about pH for biology. I confess it took them longer than I expected, but I think it was worth having them do some independent study and learn a cool new tool. Check out some of their videos if you're interested, and I'd love to hear how others have used this with their classes. 

https://sites.google.com/a/iolani.org/dr-lee-s-biology/quest-1

Other ideas:

1. Use exported Explain Everything movies in Keynote presentations, Pages docs, or iMovie projects... Or anything else that accepts mp4 files.

2. Import many other files including PDFs, Keynote presentations, Excel spreadsheets, or web pages from within Explain Everything to explain your chosen content.

I also found quite a decent short tutorial I had them view the night before to get them started.

http://youtu.be/WdzTSeRYkwg

Note: Audio editing capabilities are supposed to be coming in a future update. At the moment, in order to delete all or part of an audio track, the only way to do it is to record over it.