One of our favorite educators, Lisa Johnson (AKA @TechChef4U), shared a really cool video of students creating a project on plate tectonics using Explain Everything and Keynote. It's really great to see all the different tools and animation approaches being used by the students. In one example you can see two continents drifting apart from each other. The student is taking advantage of the fact that you can animate multiple objects on the stage at the same time.

Here is what Lisa had to say about the project:

"Our students used Explain Everything to teach plate tectonics. It was an app-tastic blending and showcase of the C's of technology integration:

• Collate & Curate: students located images, animated gifs, and research online to assemble a resource that would teach the chosen skill or concept.
• Create and Communicate: students created a multimedia resources with graphics and layouts that were visually pleasing and enhanced and contributed to the overall understanding of the concepts.
• Curious, Comment, Collaborate: Students collaborated and taught each other the technology skills they needed to achieve the content portion of the task in real time. Many were very curious as to how students added different features. I heard questions like, “How do you animate the continent images to show drift?” and “Show me how you embedded an animated gif in Explain Everything?” which prompted multiple collaborations.

I was truly impressed with how the tool served as much more than a substitution for paper and pencil tasks, it redefined how students explained and consumed content. Not being science-minded myself, I found that many of these concepts were much easier to understand using Explain Everything than with using other presentation apps."

Lisa has also shared the rubric below which was used to assess the project. Visit Lisa's blog to learn more: http://www.techchef4u.com/?p=4169