Friday, September 11, 2015

Toca Life: City Adds Screen Recording

Toca Boca, long one of my favorite developers of contextual digital toys, has added a powerful feature to one of their already very useful apps- Toca Life: City ($2.99 for iPad). The Toca "Life" apps allow you to move characters around interactive environments; in this app, that includes a loft apartment, theatre, food park, hair salon and mall. Characters can pick up and interact with objects in each setting and even move from place to place with objects as you act out dramatic play sequences. These features in Toca Life: City have been enhanced with the addition of screen recording-- this captures the movement and records audio as you and students speak in order to create an animation. The animation can be immediately replayed, but also saved to the camera roll for later review or even sharing!


After rehearsing or storyboarding a "scene" with your students (further emphasizing your language and social targets), just tap the film icon in the upper left corner and begin recording.

Though the Toca: Life apps (see also Toca Life: Town) provide great opportunities to target play skills, cooperation and social cognition, and language targets such as sentence formulation, microstructures such as verbs and pronouns, as well as overall narrative, the screen recording feature can make this work more salient, with auditory feedback on student performance.

That this feature was added recently again underscores the importance of running and reviewing the contents of your app updates, which can be done in the App Store app Updates tab which provides text descriptions of changes within apps.

29 comments:

  1. is there a recording button in toca life world?

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    1. I don’t know. 😡😡😡

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    2. I NEED IT SO I CAN MAKE OUCH VID!

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  2. Yea there is no recording button.

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  3. I found the record button but sometimes it would not pop up, its a problem.

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  4. This hair salon is so cute for Hair Wigs. Thanks!

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  5. How do we filme on moblie?

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  6. I don't have a recording icon anywhere,How can i get one.

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  7. Has anybody cracked how to get the recording button yet?

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  8. I do not want to be a Karen but there a in none

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  9. Why can’t I record inside a house ?!

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  10. How do I record and what am I looking for, I am confused, I couldn't get it!HELP...HELP...HELP...HELP...ext.

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  11. GIVE US THE BUTTON PLEASE
    thank you

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  12. I can’t get the screen recording button I only get it in the place where you can make your own characters

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    1. I can’t screen record on my Toca Life apps

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  13. Can you please help me find or get the toca boca recording so I can make a toca boca video

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  14. Thanks for taking time to create a helpful and informative article also for sharing us this unique article .

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