Using Shadow Puppet in the Classroom

Last Tuesday, I was very fortunate to help two different resource teachers use Shadow Puppet with their students. Shadow Puppet is a great app to use with all students. Shadow Puppet brings out the creativeness of students as they make videos, slideshows and presentations. Students are able to use their own pictures from a camera roll/album or they can search for pictures or clip art within the app. A cool feature that students can do with their videos, slideshows, and presentations is that they can add music, narrate their project, add text to their slides. To me the most exciting feature of Shadow Puppet is how easy it is to share the student's project with friends, family members, and staff by the having many options of sending it. This includes a link, email, Facebook, Twitter, and so much more! 

The first hour I worked with Susan and her students (2nd graders!) who were working on their animal research projects. Before using Shadow Puppet the students had their project written out on paper and then pictures to go along with each slide. The students could choose to add their picture they drew or find pictures on the app. Once we had the pictures ready to go the students narrated their project for each slide. Each student had a cover slide, habitat slide, description of animal, what the animal eats, interesting facts, and then a closing slide. Students read from their paper for each slide. The projects turned out amazing. The best part of using Shadow Puppet is how excited the students were to use it and how proud they were of their project!! 


The next hour I worked with Paula, a student teacher, and the students (4th Grade!) who were working on their persuasion essays. Each student had a different topic. The student who I worked with had the topic of "Why Don't Teachers Let Us Use More Technology in the Classroom." These students had the same concept of having a layout already made of their topic and reasons. Student had to find pictures within the app to connect to their topic. Students would be using less pictures for their presentation but doing more talking to persuade the audience. The students did a fantastic job finding pictures to connect to their topic to make their audience engaged! 

I definitely can see myself using Shadow Puppet in the future and hopefully in my future classroom!!