iPad App (Ask3)
By Carlo Daniels, Instructional Development Services Graduate Assistant
Ask3 for iPad by TechSmith Corporation is a very dynamic and interactive free screen recording app that allows teachers and students to collaborate through video postings. All ofthe interaction and collaboration occurs entirely within the app. Thus, there is no need for logging into external sites or additional setup. All that is needed by students is for them to provide their name, a pin number that they create to serve as a password, and a class code for their class. Teachers are given a class code during their own sign up process to provide to their students.
The app offers a plethora of practical tools that allow teachers to create and post videos that students can interact with. These include drawing tools with various colors, photo capturing and importing, voice recording, etc. To learn more about this process, please refer to the tech tip below. Teachers can create practical lessons with these tools and post them for their class for all their students to see. Students then have the ability to respond to teacher videos through either text or by creating their own video responses. What is nice about this feature is that students’ text and/or video responses are tabbed on the timeline of the original video posted by the teacher, which makes for easy spotting as to which part of the teachers’ video that students are posting a response for. Moreover, students also have the ability to post text and video responses to other students’ posts, which makes for a very collaborative learning environment.
One disadvantage of the app; however, is that teachers can only create one class for posting videos. For more information about Ask3 refer to the following link as well as the tech tip further below.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ask3/id572042047?mt=8
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Techtip Ask3
By Amanda Richards, Instructional Development Services Lab Assistant
The following tutorial describes the tools in the Create portion of Ask 3:
The first button on the left can be used to insert a picture into your recording. The options are to choose an existing photo or take a photo.
Insert Picture
The next tool is a free hand tool that allows you to write or draw freely.
Free Hand Tool
The third tool from the left is a free hand arrrow tool that creates a free form line with an arrow at the end.
Free Hand Arrow
The next tool can be used to create perfectly straight lines.
Straight line tool
The circle icon can be used to create perfect circles of all sizes.
Circle Tool
The square icon can be used to create rectangles and squares of all shapes and sizes.
Rectangle Tool
The last tool can be used to change the color of any of the tools you choose to use.
change the color of your tool
In order to undo or redo a step you can click the arrows in the top right corner.
To trash the project click on the trash can in the top left.
To clear the page click clear on the bottom right.
undo, redo, trash, clear