GarageBand to Camera Roll on the iPad

Workflow - Undisputed iOS Production King

I've blogged about Workflow before, but until Apple made it free last week, I didn't really feel it was a tool that others would pay $2.99 for.  Why?  Because it takes a little bit to understand it.

Basics Repeated input actions on your iPhone or iPad create desired output actions.

Since it is now free, I encourage educators to look at it and discover ways to utilize it in their personal or professional life.

Download Workflow: Powerful Automation Made Simple

Read "How to use Workflow" and the Sub Reddit

View How Workflow Helped Me in School and the Final Product

Watch How to Download A YouTube video - Mr. Foutty, teacher, has an incredible amount of videos describing how he uses Workflow in education. Search for his Workflow videos on Vimeo.

Collect Workflow Gallery [Get Ideas] Like Recording Audio to The Camera Roll

Use This: Send Individual Message to Group without Group Knowing Other Members

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Creating A PDF on iPad and iPhone in Safari

Because of Jonahan Wylie's written instructions on how to quickly do this, I learned two things.

• The four lines in the omni bar in Safari remove all advertisements on a web page
• Creating a PDF is really easy

I created a video that should compliment Mr. Wylie's fantastic written workflow!

Copyright Free Music (SoundzAbound) To iPad

We have access to hundreds of copyright free music through SoundzAbound.  I created a Google Drive Folder with all of the files that students can easily access via their iPads.  They will choose the song they want and import it into their iMovie (see image).

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One of Three Things Happens To All Educational Information Acquired In A Learning Environment

Lately, I've added a few more podcasts to my learning network.  Because of this, "The Sport of Business", especially episode 49, has provided me with some thinking material.

Matt Scanlon, Business Mentor and owner/operator of CrossFit Memorial Hill in Kansas City, MO recently stated in a podcast that three things happen to businesses.

• The Business Closes (goes out of business)
• The Business is Sold (or acquired)
• The Business Gets Passed On To Someone Else (as a legacy business)

Over the last week, I have been team teaching with Mr. Todd Rodal, allowing students to learn, comprehend, and present information based on four groups.  Students need to meet the objectives, but have choice in how they learn the information and in how they present the information.

Because of my recent team teaching experience and "The Sport of Business" podcast, I have added important information to designing lessons.  Of course, collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and creativity are always prevalent while designing learning opportunities.  However, combining that with one of three things that happens to all educational information acquired in a learning environment may drive designing a lesson to new levels.

• Students Disregard Content Closing It Out Of Their Brain
• Students Ask More Questions To Dig Deeper Into A Concept
• Students Pass On The "Amazing" Information That They Learned To Someone Else

Think about that!

Students take the information and disregard it!  They can't see how it relates to ANYTHING in their life.  To a greater degree, they start asking questions, because they are somewhat engaged and intrigued by the information that they would like to know more about it!  Finally, the information is so amazing, the students have asked so many questions to know more about it and feel motivated, compelled even, to tell someone else about how great the information is so that the information can be utilized by other people in a positive way.

The next time it's "lesson design" time, consider how the "three things that happen to all educational information acquired" will influence the educational experience for students.

Come to think of it, what are you going to do with the information in this blog post?

Google Docs Smashed With Explain Everything For Text.

We are in the middle of a project in Spanish II.

We are going to create a children's book using Explain Everything.


We wanted to have students write the text dialogue of the book in Google Docs so that it can be in a "story format".  We believe this will give the students a better visual flow of how the story will develop.  We will then "copy and paste" the text into Explain Everything.

Here's how:

800 Staff & Students Contributing To Community Service Movie

We needed a workflow for staff and students to contribute photos and movies taken during our Community Service.  Last year we had everyone email the images to us and then we sorted them out We made this video.

This year we are more organized with Google Drive Folders.
Here is our process:


I also created a GIF so that students can see how to "add the folder" to their Drive.  This GIF was created with my ever increasingly favorite app, Workflow.  You can get the workflow here and add it to your collections of Workflows.

While making the movie in iMovie, it's very helpful to have the "activity feed" up on the screen.  It notifies us of changes to the folder.

Choose Objects To Be Creative

Listicle Series: Why I Arrive At 5:13 AM

Student Learning Emphasizing iPad as a Learning Tool

As our district has a staff inservice to discuss/collaborate/move forward with student learning, I was asked to provide ideas that utilize the iPad.

Icebreaker Ideas:

• Have participants draw a self portrait in a certain time frame using
• Explain Everything
• Brushes 3
• Whiteboard
• Take a selfie and decorate it, share with group
• Have participants describe themselves using
• Chatterpix (take a picture of themselves or anything that they can put voice to)
• Have participants create a three image story that describes a joy in their life using
• PicCollage
• Play a "Game of Phones" or "Game of Chromes
• Use already made cards
• Create your own
• Participants use Smartphone or iPad

List of Creation Apps:

• Explain Everything
• Haiku Deck

Workflow apps are numerous, but some are better than others

• Google Drive is the best app for uploading images or documents to share with others
• Any creation app that can produce something, can be uploaded to Google Drive
• Be sure to save to the camera roll
• All Google apps for the iPad 

Age Of Reason Fantasy Draft in Social Studies

This is more than cool!


Our social studies teachers created a PRETTY cool video which introduced their "Age of Reason" content.

Mrs. Schartner, created a tremendous "digital workflow" to make this all happen!

• Used Google Draw to crop the pictures for the first and last "Draw" images. This allowed for editing of the NBA version.
• The entire group of images was placed into Google Slides on a computer.
• Screen Shots were taken of each of the slides while the Google Slides was open on an iPad.
• All images of people were saved on an iPad and everything was put into iMovie on the iPad
• The iPad was used because it had the music.  The Chicago Bulls theme song was added.
• Our football announcer, Mr. Nickerson (also a social studies teacher) was given a typed script.  His voice was recorded straight through.
• The audio of the announcer and the images was "matched up".
• Names and dates were added with the title options in iMovie
• The final product was exported to YouTube

I'm extremely proud of the workflow that Mrs. Schartner designed and implemented!

40 Seconds With Flex Mod Digital Workflow

As readers of iPaddiction know, Pulaski High School is transitioning to the flexible modular schedule so finally, "Time can serve students, instead of students serving time".  As a result, we are creating informational videos to answer questions.

WITHOUT the use of the iPad and all its apps, Google Drive and its collaboration capabilities, and the incredible creativity by our staff and students, these videos would NOT have been completed in LESS THAN 24 HOURS!

Making these videos required an efficient Digital Workflow.  The process included:

• Google form to gather questions from students after the introductory video
• Answering the questions in print form on a Google Spreadsheet
• Assigning multiple teachers to record videos via smartphones of students asking the questions 
• Uploading these videos to a Google Folder using the Google Drive app on smartphones
• Renaming the video questions by the question in the Google Drive app
• Assigning multiple teachers to record videos via smartphones of teachers answering the questions
• Importing a introduction "40 Seconds With Flex Mod" graphic created by our art teacher on an iMac in Photoshop into a single iPad using Google Drive
• Creating the original soundtrack by our band teacher using AudioTool in Chrome
• Converting the soundtrack from a MP3 file to an ACC file using Online Covert 
• Importing the soundtrack onto a single iPad using Google Drive
• Using "Open In" for all of the graphics, sound, and video into iMovie on the iPad
• A black background was placed for two seconds before and after the video to allow for the music track to work
• The audio track was cut at the time the student started asking the question and the teacher ended answering it.  The audio during the speaking was dropped to 30% of the original volume
• The video was renamed the question and produced to the camera roll.
• Google Drive allowed for all the videos to be uploaded into a shared Google Drive folder
• Our website designer placed them on our flex mod website's  FAQ page

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Digital Workflow in High School Photography

It took some time, but we were able to determine a "turn in" folder for our photography students that meets all the criteria for efficient digital workflow.  We are using iMacs and Google Drive.  Some items that needed to be considered

• Teacher able to view all pictures from students
• Students not able to view other student pictures online
• Method for students KNOWING the teacher received their picture
• Assignment organization
• Student organization
• Class organization

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