What Is It? Puppet Pals is an app that takes your stories and brings them to life through animations and audio in real time. It works through simply choosing actors and backdrops, dragging them onto the stage, and recording your story. During recording time, Puppet Pals allows you to add movements and animations to your characters which can be viewed during playback. The Puppet Pals app brings out creativity in everyone! With features such as using customized characters, using your own photo backdrop, and zooming, rotating, and flipping your characters, you are sure to create a story that is appealing to all ages. With this app, you have the option of downloading the Director's Pass, which allows you access to a wide variety of characters as well as all of the current and future content that becomes available.
Can It Be Trusted? Much like any other app, Puppet Pals does many great things, but from time to time, may experience a glitch or two. For the most part, however, you can trust that Puppet Pals will allow you to create, watch, and share your movie. Puppet Pals is a highly reliable app to use in the classroom. It can take your students' thoughts and transform them into something magical. And, with the big shift on the Common Core, integrating technology is huge. So when your students are able to use Puppet Pals to finalize the final step of the writing process, the possibilities are endless.
Is It Easy To Use? If you can click a button, you're good. Installing Puppet Pals is simple. As long as your iPad or iPhone is operating on iOS 6.1 or later, you can start creating your shows in no time. Once the app is downloaded to your device, it doesn't take much to get started. In fact, give your device to a child, and the finished product will be here quicker than you know. Best part is, if you're hesitant to try out the app, there's lots of tutorials that will walk you through the program. But no worries! If you make a mistake, you can always go back and fix it - just have some fun, and see how easy it is to create an eye appealing, entertaining, and fun movie.
Do Students Like It? Of course they do. In fact, students get very excited when they are given the opportunity to bring their stories to life through the use of Puppet Pals. Allowing students the chance to use Puppet Pals brings out their sense of creativity. With the many options that students can choose from, the possibilities of what they create are endless.
And The Teacher? If the teacher is lucky enough to have access to one, or even better - a class set, of iPads, her job is really very simple. Once the app is downloaded to the iPads, all the teacher has to do is give her students a quick introduction to using the app, and viola - off they go. Chances are, students have already used this app, or one very similar. And we all know, kids aren't afraid to try something new, so once they get the chance to start exploring the app, there's no limit to what they will create.
So...Would I Recommend It? This is one app that I would absolutely recommend to be used in the classroom. It's easy to find and even easier to use. The amount of time and effort put into learning how to use the app is very minimal, and once you bring one story to life, it's hard to stop. Overall, I would rate this app a 9/10. The only reason for not giving it a perfect score is because it can be hard to go back to correct a mistake - basically your only option is to re-record that part of your story. But the possibilities are endless. The amount of time that students put into writing a story can very quickly be transformed into a work of art with the Puppet Pals app.
No comments:
Post a Comment