Unleashing Creativity with App Smashing with Greg Kulowiec - from Kate Wilson. Hi everyone! My name is Kate Wilson and I am the newest member of the EdTechTeacher team as the Web Coordinator. This is my first attempt at Live Blogging so bear with me but I have gotten some great tips from Beth Holland and Jennifer Carey. I have also only heard great things about Greg Kulowiec so I am excited to start off the EdTechTeacher iPad Summit in San Diego in his session “Unleashing Creativity with App Smashing.”
Greg opens his talk with “I don’t like to focus on the Apps themselves but the concept of Unleashing Creativity.” He uses a great analogy to compare apps with the jet engine. What is app smashing? Its simple following of a few basic steps: 1. 2. 3. 4. Why AppSmashing? Ruben Puentedura said at the last iPad Summit in Boston, “iPad is a curiosity amplifier.” What does App Smashing look like? Carl Hooker created a great Fight Club like logo for App Smashing. If you open an app and there is something there then its not great for Smashing. App Fluency vs App Smashing Related. App smashing the storytelling process. This 4th grade teacher combined old-school storytelling techniques with new technology to get her students writing masterpieces! Hayley Sample is 4th grade Language Arts and Social Studies teacher at Sendera Ranch Elementary school in Northwest ISD located in Haslet, Texas.
Hayley’s goal is to find ways to incorporate technology into the curriculum that will motivate and encourage her students to meet learning objectives. My sister introduced me to Book Creator when her 5th grade students were using the app to make similar books to what my students had created. Her students are 1:1 with their iPads, so with our campus only having three iPad carts we had to get a little more creative with management! My students had been writing narrative and expository pieces all year. This time was going to be different and we all were excited to integrate technology into the mix. I believe that Book Creator awakened creativity and critical thinking within my students. Plotting the story elements.