30Hands

This week, we discussed about digital story and some applications that we can use in the classroom. In this post, I will give some basic information about a digital story application which is 30Hands.It is an application which is accessible for Ipad or Ios users.

30Hands offers people the opportunity to create their own stories supported by images, slides and recordings. By using this application, digital stories can be created like a movie or a slide show.
There are many opportunities of this app, now let's have a look at the process of creating a digital story by using this app.

First of all, when you start using the application you come across with such a screen as below.

As can be seen, firstly you should select a title for the story and then you are starting to add slides and for each slide you are selecting a background or image.

Having selected a background for the first slide, if you want, you can add a recording to the slide reckless of its length. For example, if you want to make it as a storytelling, you can set apart the stories into pieces and range it into slides.

When you finish creating as much as slides you prefer, and adding the recordings to the slides, you can finish your project. Besides adding recordings to the slides, there are some other functions that you might want to use with this app such as adding writings on the slides, changing the colour of the background, adding some special effects to the slides.After finishing your project, this application allows you to share your project, to publish it.

How about using this application in a learning activity? There are some advantages and disadvantages, of course. First of all, it is suitable for everyone at different ages, it is quite simple to use the app. Also the opportunity to publish projects is an advantage. And to talk about disadvantages of the app, I can mention about the poor design of the application and simplicity of it. There could be some other opportunities such as to be able to add videos, to include cartoon characters to add..

To sum up, I can recommend the use of this application in the classroom but there might be other, more-qualified applications.

 To download the application, please click here.