This Week’s Paid Learning Apps Gone Free Learning Apps Gone Free: Night Sky 4: A powerful astronomy app that enables you to identify constellations by holding up your iPad. Cardify: A very simple way to make flashcards. No bells and whistles. It’s essentially the digital version of index cards. PhotoPhix: Edit photos with this feature-packed app. All… Read more
Free Halloween Music, Images, Videos, and Clipart for School Projects From Monster Math activities to reading The Telltale Heart, teachers have a number of ways to incorporate a little Halloween into their lessons. Whether you’re creating a lesson or need resources for students to use in multimedia projects, you’ll want to check out this collection… Read more
Take Collaborative Brainstorming and Sticky Dot Voting Online with Dotstorming Dotstorming.com Dotmocracy Teachers love having students vote with stickers. Dotmocracy – that strategy of giving students little dot stickers to place next to choices they prefer is a quick, visual way for classes to collaboratively make decisions. Several EdCamps that I’ve attended have started with… Read more
This Week’s Paid Learning Apps Gone Free Learning Apps Gone Free: iSchool – School Diary: a student planner / study organizer. Outland – Space Journey: explore space with 20 stunning time-lapse videos Read4Kids – Kids Learn to Read in 20 Easy Lessons: a combination of phonics and whole language to teach kids how to read. All apps… Read more
Highlight a Video, Add Notes, and Combine Video Clips with Vibby Vibby.com Vibby is a game changer for more effectively using video as an educational tool. With just a few clicks you can focus students on just the most important parts of a video. Basically you copy and paste the link to a YouTube video, highlight the… Read more
OpenMultiple Tabs with One URL and One Click – URL Extender urlext.net It’s easy to save and share links, but I prefer the idea of sharing one URL that will open multiple links with one click. URL Extender allows me to do exactly that. I previously shared BridgeURL as a way to share multiple links with… Read more
Three Ways to Search for Copyright-Friendly Images 1. Creative Commons Search http://search.creativecommons.org/ 2. Google Images Usage Rights Filter images.google.com Noncommercial choices will return more results. This is typically what you will use unless you’re using the images in a format that you will earn money from, or use in advertising. Noncommercial Reuse with Modification – If… Read more
The Only File Converter You Need Convert Files with CloudConvert CloudConvert.Com Convert Nearly Any Type of File CloudConvert has become my go-to method to convert files. It works with more than 200 file formats. Nearly any type of file can be converted: audio, video, documents, ebooks, images, spreadsheets, and more. Best of all, it’s free, easy… Read more
Give Your Students a Voice with Flipgrid We’ve all had them: that one student who just won’t contribute to class discussions (I’ve even taught some classes where half the class included students who were shy and unwilling to talk). Even when you know that they have something awesome to contribute… you’re met with silence. … Read more
iOS 10 Features Teachers Need to Know About Guest Post by Bill Pratt As students update to iOS 10, a few major changes might make them think their iPad isn’t working properly. Here’s a heads-up on three features to keep you ahead of the panic. No More Slide to Unlock To sign in/log in, you no longer swipe…. Read more
