Overview In an effort to ‘simplify’ our busy lives with technology, it’s all too easy to end up swamped in a stressful world of logins, passwords, emails and notifications. IFTTT (If This Then That) is a beautifully simple […]
Category: Apps
Reinforce Positive Classroom Behaviour with ClassDojo
Overview Managing classroom behaviour and devising fresh new ways to motivate students is a big part of the teaching skill set. ClassDojo is an excellent free tool that (with the help of some very cute and friendly […]
Amazing Virtual Field Trip Ideas with Google Street Views
Overview We all know and love Google Maps. But did you know that the Street View Pegman has few more tricks up his sleeve? Google Street Views takes some of the most amazing Street View imagery, as well […]
Learning Code by Building Apps: TouchDevelop by Microsoft Research
Overview Created by Microsoft’s Research group, TouchDevelop is a touch-friendly app creation environment that allows students to build apps using their phone, tablet or desktop machine. The environment has been designed with a detailed focus on providing a safe and enjoyable space for students to […]
Launch your Class into Space with the NASA App
Overview While NASA is well known for its cutting edge space exploration and technology, the organization actually does an amazing job sharing their inspiring advances with educators and students through a huge number of STEM focused mobile apps and websites. Their flagship app, […]
Turn iPad Art into Joyous 3D Figures with the Foldify App
Overview It’s a beautiful thing when students can use digital tools to build real world creations. While 3D printing is still a little on the expensive side, the Foldify app does an amazing job allowing students to create […]
Creating Interactive Lessons and Games with TinyTap
Overview Interactivity is a key ingredient in involving students in the learning process, and the TinyTap app is a magnificent and free way to start building that interactivity into your lessons. TinyTap is a simple but immensely powerful concept […]
Introduce your Students to App Design with the POP App
Overview Programming may be one of the newest skills we are bringing into modern classrooms, but it can be a difficult topic to introduce. Lines of complex code can not only be quite intimidating but it can also […]
Have Some Serious Classroom Fun with the ChatterPix App
Overview ChatterPix may be a very simple app but I can guarantee it will have you and your students rolling around on the floor in hysterics. The tagline for the app is: Chatterpix can make anything talk […]
An Amazingly Interactive Whiteboard with Explain Everything
Overview Explain Everything is a hugely popular app for both students and educators (1.5 million according to the app maker) that can be used as an extremely versatile interactive whiteboard. With easy to manipulate gestures and media integration, […]
Carve A Pumpkin: App-tivities for Fall
Fall, and all the fun that goes with it, is here! In honor of the season, and my love of pumpkins, I wanted to share an app that my students really enjoy creating with. Have you […]
Using Aurasma to Bring Static Classrooms to Life
Overview Aurasma is one of those special tools that just blows students, teachers and parents away. Taking advantage of one of the most magical advances in mobile technology, Augmented Reality, Aurasma allows you to link video, audio and amazingly […]
Notability: Powerful Note Taking for Teachers and Students
Overview Notability is the note-taking tool for iPad, iPhone and Mac that continually gets rave reviews from educators in every discipline, grade and country around the globe. Partly its simple and ‘paper-like’ interface and partly its integration with […]
Using Book Creator to Design and Publish Student Books
Overview Book Creator is one of the most popular apps being used in schools for one simple reason. It makes writing and building a book fun. The app for both iPad and Android tablets allows students […]
Fun and Tactile Coding for Students with Hopscotch
Overview Hopscotch is a free app created specifically for the iPad that introduces students to programming using a visual touch interface and drag-n-drop code blocks. With bright colors, friendly characters and a library of different functions and programming […]
Using ThingLink to Connect Digital Learning Resources
Overview If a picture says a thousand words, then Thinglink is probably getting you closer to ten or twenty thousand. A hugely popular tool, ThingLink allows you to ‘tag’ all sorts of multimedia resources to specific points […]
Safe and Private Messaging for your School Community with Remind
Overview Remind (formerly Remind101) is a one-way messaging service created specifically to help teachers communicate with their school community as simply and safely as possible. Allowing students and parents to sign up via text, email or online using a unique class code, the […]
Collaborative Mind Mapping for Students with Popplet
Overview Popplet is a super simple Web, iPhone and iPad app that allows you to create collaborative mind maps with your students. Including the ability to add media from YouTube, Flickr and Vimeo, as well as the option to upload your own images, […]
Digital Storytelling and Flipped Instruction using Tellagami
Overview Tellagami is an app gaining more and more popularity in classrooms with a fun and interactive take on creating animated videos. The app lets students create their own virtual performances using 3D digital avatars that they […]
Six Second Schooling – Using Vine in the Classroom
Overview Vine is a hugely popular video creation app from Twitter that lets users build and share their own six second videos. While six seconds does not sound like much time to accomplish any meaningful learning or teaching, you […]