iPads, MakerEd and More in Education

Last night I answered an email from a reader who was looking for a free alternative to Tellagami. Tellagami hasn't been updated to work with iOS 11 so if you've updated your iPad, the app won't work. Tellagami says that an update is coming, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for that. They said the same thing about the Android app and eventually just removed the Android app from Google Play. So if you're looking for a free iPad app to use to create animated videos, try one of the following three options.

Genial.ly is a good web tool you can use to create engaging visual content. It is somewhat similar to Thinglink we reviewed before. You can use Genial.ly to create interactive  presentations, educational posters, infographics, microsites, images and enrich them with a wide variety of multimedia content. The interactivity part is what gives your visual content dynamism and makes it engaging, For instance, you can create a classroom poster or an animated infographic where you embed interactive content such as  audio files, video clips, documents..etc which students can access with a single click. ‘You can even enrich your content with hundreds of external providers like Spotify, Google Maps, social media, Amazon, YouTube, the News, and more!’