Last year I had attempted to use Movenote with students. Actually I probably tried it the year before even. In any case the old windows laptops we had were not up to the task. I was surprised to see that there is an iPad app. I tested it out. If you click the link you can view it. Know that I did not record on all the slides because there were 11 in the presentation. I just did enough to test out the app.
The only tricky part of the entire process was figuring out how to get the presentation into Movenote from Google Drive. Here are the steps.
- Open Google Drive.
- Locate the presentation. Open it.
- In the top right corner of the screen, tap the More menu. It looks like 3 dots.
- Tap the Share & export menu.
- Select Send a copy.
- Choose PDF as the format and select OK.
- Swipe until you see Open in Movenote.
- Wait while the file opens in Movenote. When it is fully loaded, you can start recording.
- Swipe from right to left to advance to the next slide.
I am not certain how to use this app with students. The entire recording must be done straight through. That is a challenging task for anyone, especially a child. One use could be as a poetry performance. They could record themselves performing the poem.
Another application could be for reflecting on their art. In this case, students would take a photo of their art. Then they would start a new Movenote, import the photo, and then record their annotation.
A final idea I had was that we want students to use some degree of Presentation Zen instead of having all their speech on their presentation. However, then there is less of a useful artifact to add to their digital portfolio. With Movenote we could see the slides and see/hear them give the presentation.