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Barbara Greenstone

Barbara Greenstone, Technology Integrator for MLTI (Maine Learning Technology Institute) recently shared with me some work she was doing for her masters program. I am often impressed and interested in Barbara’s work because she incorporates her sons work into hers.

In Barbara’s words…

The assignment was to use our word processors to write a “fractured fairy tale” and illustrate it with clip art or word art. She said it was okay if I used Comic Life. Andrew* happened to be home that night so I handed him my iPad. I described each scene and he quickly drew it with his finger and emailed it to me from the Art Studio App. I then put the pictures into Comic Life to make the original comic for my assignment.

Then, a couple days ago I was looking at iPad apps in the app store and decided to buy Strip Designer (to make comics) and Reel Director (video editing). I wanted to see if I could create a video entirely on the iPad. I took the original pictures Andrew made in Art Studio and put them in Strip Designer to add the text. Then I put the pictures in Reel Director with a simple transition between each, added the music, and rendered it as a movie. This gives me hope that the iPad can be a creative tool as well as a tool for consuming media.

Title page created by Barb's son Andrew

*Andrew is Barbara’s son