This video provides a brief introduction to making great instructional videos using the Explain Everything app on iPad. The video covers the basics of managi. Explain EDU was designed for schools with iOS-only deployments. It is also intended for those who may need to exclusively purchase it via Apple's Volume Purchase Program (VPP), those with internet access challenges, or both. If you have purchased your subscription in the app on an iPad or iPhone, please follow the steps described in Cancel renewals for Explain Everything subscription in iTunes. Android or Chromebook user?

This page was originally authored by Megan Dodsworth, March 2014

• 2History
• 3Features
• 5Explain Everything & Education
  • 5.3Examples of student sharing their learning with Explain Everything

Introduction

An app to explain anything and everything!

Explain Everything is an interactive whiteboard and screen casting application available on the iPad and Android tablets. It allows users to write and move objects on a whiteboard style screen with the added bonus of making a real time audio and video recording. Explain Everything enables users to create, annotate, animate and narrate design projects by capturing what is happening on the screen and share their final project it via email or cloud based Web 2.0 services. This formidable tool has been said to be a superhero version of PowerPoint.

History

Developers

MorrisCooke is a mobile app development studio responsible for the creation of the Explain Everything app. The company was founded in April 2010 by co-founders Bartosz Gonczarek and Piotr Sliwinski. Both creators describe themselves as technology enthusiasts with a backgrounds in corporate software development and entrepreneurship. The headquarters of MorrisCooke are located in Wroclaw, Poland. They work cooperatively with partners in the United States in the development and progress of their product. MorrisCooke’s objective is to create innovative educational, productivity and creativity.

Release

Explain Everything™ first hit the market in August 2011, and soon took the educational world by storm. Explain Everything 2.0 came a year and a half later with a refined user interface and updated menus and functions. Explain Everything™ is available:

• iOS version on the App Store for $2.99: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/explain-everything/id431493086?mt=8 (It can be purchased at a lower cost in in bulk: https://volume.itunes.apple.com/)
• Android version on Google Play Store for $2.99: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.morriscooke.explaineverything

Features

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Import & Insert

Explain Everything allows you to import or insert any document, picture or video onto a slide. Documents can be in PDF, DOC, PPT or Keynote format. In addition to documents, pictures, videos, audio files and web browser windows can all be added into projects.

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Animate & Move

To put your ideas into motion, the app allows for objects (drawings, notes, text, shapes, video, pictures and web browsers etc.) to move freely around the screen. Objects can also be grouped with other elements of the slide, locked in place, and moved forward and backwards in relation to other object on a slide.

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Draw & Annotate

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On the whiteboard screen user can use a pen or laser pointer, mark, highlight text and add shapes in a variety of colours and transparency. You are able to draw on top of any object, picture, video and imported document. Notes written on documents stick and move with them.

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Zoom & Expand

Within each slide, users have access to expandable and endless whiteboard space that allows you to magnify and showcase everything needed.

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Record & Play

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One of the neatest features of Explain Everything is that the app allows you to record the happens on your screen as a / screencast . Once recorded user can navigate their recordings using a timeline, enabling users to delete and redo specific sections.

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Export & Share

Once your project is complete, Explain Everything enables you to share your project via email or connect to cloud services such as Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, WebDAV, Box, SkyDrive, YouTube, Vimeo just to name a few.

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Theoretical Framework

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The utilization of the Explain Everything app in students learning and assessment ties nicely into / Constructivism (philosophy of education) . Reshan Richards, a co-creator of Explain Everything, considers new ideas in education, technology and self-assessment in support of a constructivist learning framework. Through the ongoing development of Explain Everything, Richards explores how emerging technologies can be used to capture and mediate discourse, in ways that