When it comes to exploring the building blocks of life, the folks at Avokiddo have an excellent mobile app. It can help you introduce genetics to students through play. If the idea of teaching genetics, or introducing students to the foundations of genetics isn’t on your list of topics this school year, you’re still in […]
Shadow Puppet is one of my favorite digital storytelling apps and they have big news related to the launch of iOS 8. Their iPad app, Shadow Puppet Edu is now compatible with iOS 8, iPhone 6, and 6 Plus. They’ve added a few new iOS 8 specific features like the ability to save to iCloud Drive […]
NoteLedge is a terrific app for PDF Notes on iPad. It will come in handy for both teachers and students. It lets users take notes on their iPad that includes video and audio recordings. You can even record audio of a lecture as you are typing notes on your screen. It has a varitey of options […]
Otus is a terrific management tool for teachers in one-to-one classrooms who want an easy way to keep track of student work, provide opportunities for collaboration, and so much more. I’ve had the opportunity to share Otus with my readers and webinar attendees and want to highlight one of the fantastic aspects of this powerful […]
Synopsis is the new iPad app for students allows you to read any PDF document and create notes by highlighting text. You can then modify these notes and add your own. This free app helps users summarize any text effortlessly so you won’t ever need to go back to the PDF document. Each individual note […]
Teaching coding skills is something lots of teachers are really excited about. If you’re just starting to teach code in your classrooms or looking for more free code teaching resources, I’ve shared some of my favorite apps for teaching coding skills to students. I wanted to pull together my top 6 coding apps for teachers into one place […]
Perfect for K-2 students, Teachley: Addimal Adventure is an engaging math app that addresses a variety of Common Core State Standards. This addition app provides models for students to use to solve each problem, and presents a handful of strategies for students to choose from. Early Elementary Math The high quality content combined with cartoon […]
You don’t have to be in a one to one iPad classroom to integrate this powerful tablet into your everyday routine. Not every classroom is 1:1 and many teachers find resources for one tablet classroom a bit frustrating as much of edTech focuses on 1:1 classrooms. If you’re not a 1:1 classroom, there are still a […]
If you are in a one-to-one iPad classroom Otus is a new app worth checking out. It combines some of the best classroom and behavior management features found in other apps – assessment, polling, split screen, web browser – into one place. Created by two middle school educators in Illinois, this app was designed to solve […]
I’m a big fan of apps that bring the world to your fingertips. So I’m very excited for the new FREE version of SkyView. With this app students can point their device towards the sky. Then they can see where stars, planets and constellations are located. Users can access extra information on each celestial body […]