Explain Everything

Activities Options

A. App in the Classroom Explain Everything iBook On that note also ADE are publishing more of this series here.

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/book/explain-everything-lesson/id939801330?mt=11

B. Below are some practice templates made in Explain Everything. You can use these directly or personalise them for your own use.

You can view them directly on your laptop if you have the Explain Everything Viewer installed but they will need to be opened on your iPad to edit.

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/explain-everything-player/id548333668?mt=12

C. Create your own Explain Everything Digital Learning Objects, upload it to the added Explain Everything Folder that you added to your Google Drive and so that share it can be with the rest of the team via the embedded folder below..

Open this folder and add it to your Google Drive. Make sure you are signed in to your Google Account so you will be able to find things later.

SAVE YOUR EXAMPLES WITH NEW NAMES TO THE FOLDER AS PROJECT .XPL FILES.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-LVktfCysnEaEVyY284NmtBbWs/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-LVktfCysnEaEVyY284NmtBbWs/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-LVktfCysnETU1oTmloZjU0aFU/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-LVktfCysnEM2tTOUZvaDNzMUE/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-LVktfCysnERUNzdjhPcVYxUWs/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-LVktfCysnEdDBXTzhTcmZDQ0E/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B-LVktfCysnEflRCX0tfSm5jTU01SGlhVzJ0ajVZOFVpOEZhUzl3RG1NZmZNRXFJWXpVZGs
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-LVktfCysnEVFI1SnNjamNMVUE/view?usp=sharing
  • Little Tips Along the Way
    • You can change to the simple interface to a more complex on in the settings- cogwheel top right of the home screen.
    • Tutorial Videos from Explain Everything great videos to show you how to do it- basics and more advanced included.
    • Press and hold does different things than tap.
    • Select actions from the sidebar- then tap the screen to see its effect.
    • Triple tap to group objects, same to ungroup.
    • Reduce the frame size to what you need so objects don't overlap.
    • Explain Everything is also available on Chromebooks, not Chrome- link.
    • Allanah's Explain Everything Diigo Resources.
    • Upload projects in .xpl format to your Google Drive for sharing across devices. Explain Everything is having issues as at 23.8.2015 with downloading from Google Drive and the .xpl project files not being recognised as an Explain Everything file. You can however save the projects to Dropbox and they will download and 'open in' as they should. Alternatively to open on your iPad from Google Drive do this.....