iPads and Puppet Pals

Puppet Pals is really easy to use and there is a free edition for students to download. Most recently I have used this in Biology where students had to explain why each stage of testing a new drug was needed.
My group have targets C-E but were able to give higher level explanations. Even the free edition has several characters to choose from so for a task like this each character assumes a role of either question asker of information giver. The best ones included higher level questions looking at the ethics involved.
Again, having a small class made the use of this App more practical; for recording, a quiet space is needed and I would struggle in my much larger year 8 class, for example, if all groups were to use this method to present. I was able to show a couple of the videos as a plenary to the lesson and the rest were uploaded to our Edmodo group for feedback.
With a larger class, I set a presentation task where they had to either explain why space exploration costs were justified or why they were not; they had several methods of presentation to choose from and one group chose to use Puppet Pals to present their work. They had never used it before and produced their animated puppet show, including research, in about 25 minutes.