TouchCast Studio

TouchCast is a must have media creation app if your students enjoy using green screen! It offers basic green screening options with built in news studio or talk show backgrounds, but you do have the option to use your own images and videos. What sets TouchCast apart from other green screen apps is that your videos can be interactive. Your audience can click on links, see a live Twitter feed, or even answer a poll question. Students are able to annotate maps, websites, images, or variety of other vApps (video apps). It even has a teleprompter and sound effects!

What's So Great About It?

• Creates high-quality interactive videos
• News studio, talk show, and other default studio backgrounds included
• Annotate websites, images, videos, and maps
• Various features include whiteboard, teleprompter and sound effects 
• Editing features are built in to the app

How Can I Use It?

• Bring the writing forms to life with video. Students can report on a current event to demonstrate their understanding or create an opinion segment for news show
• Create instructional videos for science and math
• Take viewers on a virtual tour of a country, city or town
• Produce school news videos to share with the school community
• Role play a character from a story and bring it to life with video

Where Do I Start?

The TouchCast website has good tutorials, a quick reference guide and an Educator's Guide you can download to iBooks. It is full of ideas on how to engage students using TouchCast in the classroom.