Puppet Pals is a fantastic app for any age level to create a show (a video) for almost any topic. While I have purchased the Director's Pass upgraded version, the app itself is free. The Director's Pass has 13 actor sets (each with 5 to 11 characters) with 3 backdrops for each actor set.
Puppet Pals HD is a highly regarded animation / storytelling app for iPad, which is suitable for K-10 students, and has a variety of educational applications. To use Puppet Pals, students select characters, settings, and a title; and then narrate a story while animating the characters and props using their fingers.
A collection of inspiring ideas for Puppet Pals in your classroom - if you don't have it on your ipad... you should :) Sarah Anne :)
I can't believe it's Friday already! Only one more Friday left of summer:(and I'm sure I will be spending it in my classroom:) I'm so excited to get into my room, so I can get my creative juices flowing. Right now I have about a million ideas, and I am having a hard time deciding on this and that.
One of my 2nd grade teachers asked me for a fun way to showcase her students' persuasive writing about trees and Arbor Day. I showed her the Puppet Pals App ($2.99 upgrade to the Director's Pass) and she was hooked!
Years ago, I used a piece of software called Hollywood, from a company called Theatrix, with my middle school ESL students. The software provided sets and characters to choose from and the students wrote the dialogs and stage directions that made the cartoon characters move around on screen.
Cost: Free or $2.99 for the Director's Pass Subject Area: ELA/Writing/Digital Storytelling Puppet Pals is a really fun app that allows users to create animated stories on the ipad. In app terms, it's an "oldie" but a goodie. If you haven't tried this app with your kiddos- it's well worth a download!
I have always been a fan of the Puppet Pals and it was one of the first apps I came across when my journey with iPad began. At BETT 2013 I worked with Ian Wilson ADE again and we had a lot of time to chat about new apps.
