Tag Archives: Apps
TinyTap App for the iPad
Create interactive games on your iPad with ease!
As you may know, we are always looking for useful iPad apps to use in the classroom. Recently we came across TinyTap—an iPad app that allows teachers and students to create, share, and play interactive learning games on their own iPads. Tiny Tap’s easy-to-use interface makes … Read more
ThingLink App Now on the Web and iPad
Images are powerful ways of displaying information. The concept of visual communication is becoming increasingly important for anyone whose job it is to present and convey that information . That’s where tools like ThingLink come in. Until recently, you could only find ThingLink on the web, but now it’s available as a free app for … Read more
Gathering Evidence for Learning…There’s an App for That!
When teachers can gather information about student learning during the instructional process, they can provide better feedback to the student and make better plans for further supporting the learning. The Evidence for Learning app for iPhone and iPad from theTeacherCloud makes the process of gathering evidence easy and seamless.
In the app, you’ll begin with … Read more
Posted in Apps, Assessment, Classroom Tools, Common Core
Tagged Apps, Evidence for Learning, iPad, theTeacherCloud
1 Comment |
Flip Your Classroom with Educreations
Educreations is a very popular screen casting whiteboard app. From its easy to use interface and robust collection of teacher-created screencasts, Educreations is one of the best iPad apps for your classroom. Because Educreations is a blank whiteboard, it can be used in any subject to explain concepts, review topics and give a teacher a … Read more
Digital Storytelling with Toontastic
Continuing our look back at Teq’s Top 5 iPad Apps webinar from last fall, today we are highlighting a free iPad app that enables students to make fun and exciting cartoons while teaching them the importance of a story arc or plot diagram. Toontastic allows students to design, animate, and share cartoons using a variety … Read more
Posted in Apps, Classroom Tools
Tagged Apps, Digital Storytelling, iPad, Toontastic
Leave a comment |
Snapguide
In preparation for our upcoming webinar Teq’s iPad Appy Hour on May 15, 2013, we wanted to review the apps that we covered in our last iPad webinar.
The first app we covered was Snapguide, which allows a teacher or student to create easy how-to guides on their iPhone or iPad and make them … Read more
5 Great Apps for Assessing with Quizzes
Socrative, Edmodo, and InfuseLearning are all part of our 5 Great Apps for Assessing with Quizzes eBook!
Assessing student learning is one of the most important but challenging things for a teacher to do. Assessment reports and online grading tools take away the tedious task of collecting and grading quizzes, as well as provide educators … Read more
Posted in Apps, Assessment, Classroom Tools
Tagged Apps, Assessment, Edmodo, Flubaroo, Google Forms, infuselearning, iPad, Nearpod, Socrative
4 Comments |
Robots App for iPad Features NAO
Robots for iPad is a beautiful app created by IEEE Spectrum Magazine. And who — you ask — is the handsome humanoid cover model that graces the front the app’s icon? That’s our friend NAO, who’s featured among more than 100 of his robotic counterparts. The app allows you to explore the history … Read more
Posted in STEM
Tagged Aldebaran Robotics, Apps, IEEE Spectrum Magazine, iPad, NAO, robotics
Leave a comment |
iPad App Update Lets You “Open in Edmodo”
Edmodo recently released an update to their iPad app. This update added Edmodo to the list of apps that you can send files to when you’re in another app.
Let’s say your student has an essay due that was assigned on Edmodo. If you create that document on your iPad in Pages, when you’re done … Read more
Improve Feedback with Voice Comments in Google Docs
As a former teacher of writing, I understand (and greatly value) the importance of feedback in the writing process. With the emphasis that the Common Core Standards place on students using evidence from sources and engaging in rich and rigorous evidence-based conversations about text, we, as educators, need to find more ways to provide frequent, … Read more