Draw and Tell

Draw and Tell is a free app available through apple. With Draw and Tell students can easily create an animated screencast complete with voice, drawings, images, and objects. Students can draw, color, and insert stickers or stencils onto a scene. They can create on a blank scene or a formatted coloring scene. Students can even record themselves while they move objects on the screen which results in an animated screencast. Once done, they can save their screencast as a video file to I-pads. Using the app their is a variety of sticker options to choose from such a cartoon animals, vehicles, clothing, foods, household items, and cutouts, as well as numbers and letters. At the top of the scene is a microphone that allows students to record themselves. They can record their voice as they move an object on the scene and describe what is going on.  For example, students might draw their favorite animal and then record their explanation of what they are and why they drew it. They might describe a pattern they see or color patterns they create.  Each of these activities can help teachers better understand what students know, think, feel, and understand about a particular topic.