Evergreen Apps: Apps You Can Use in Any Classroom
Socrative (iOS, Computer, and Android)
Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzNrXd5Xpu4
User Guide: http://www.socrative.com/materials/SocrativeUserGuide.pdf
Educreations (iOS & Computer, not Android)
Overview: https://www.educreations.com/features/
Examples: https://www.educreations.com/ (Click Examples on top right & scroll down)
FaceTalker (iOS phones & tablets)
iMovie (iOS phones 5 & 6 and tablets)
Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTQjmsCZRk
Google Drive (any Apple or Android device, any mac/PC)
Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y4bh1qwTJw
Want to learn more about apps you can use in the classroom? This video is great!
http://www.appitic.com/index.php/webcasts/jason-kathman-apps-for-every-classroom
Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzNrXd5Xpu4
User Guide: http://www.socrative.com/materials/SocrativeUserGuide.pdf
- Perfect for BYOD
- Create quizzes, games, exit tickets, run reports
- Up to 50 students at a time
- There’s a student version & a teacher version
- Can run PDFs for non-tech students
- Mult. choice, T/F, short answer (can incorporate images in all types)
- Generates reports automatically (via Excel, Google Drive, Email, or saved)
- Can use quizzes already created or build your own
- Can disable the “name” function for an anonymous survey
- App works from apple devices (phones and tablets) and from PCs
Educreations (iOS & Computer, not Android)
Overview: https://www.educreations.com/features/
Examples: https://www.educreations.com/ (Click Examples on top right & scroll down)
- Interactive whiteboard app that lets you record what you’re doing and saying at the same time
- Can upload to your account or share them
- Can create on blank white, lined, graph, or coordinate grid backgrounds
- Can insert images, links, videos (from your photos, dropbox, or an internet search within the app)
- Add as many pages as you need to get through the lesson or presentation
- Awesome for flipped classroom, student presentations, demonstrations, processes, editing student work, etc.
FaceTalker (iOS phones & tablets)
- Make any image (from your camera or the internet) talk using your voice.
- Very fun to the students, very simple to use
- Download to your camera roll (then sync with your computer if you want to download the file)
- Uses: Oral exams, student or teacher intros, presentations, digital storytelling, retelling (social studies, step by step processes, ELA, how an equation works, etc.)
iMovie (iOS phones 5 & 6 and tablets)
Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTQjmsCZRk
- Create videos, photo slideshows, use voice over or music, and incorporate special effects
- Hitting many standards (creating, evaluating, analyzing, applying, understanding, remembering)
- Easily integrate direct quotes/material with new ideas that support the concept
- Ideas: Newscast, persuasive piece, evaluate results of an experiment, document objects that show mathematical concepts, video essays, dramatizations, illustrate concepts in SS, Math, and Science in everyday ads, vids, and pics.
- OPTIONS ARE ENDLESS WITH THIS APP! :)
Google Drive (any Apple or Android device, any mac/PC)
Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y4bh1qwTJw
- Access any files anytime, anywhere, with any device
- Create documents, presentations, forms, spreadsheets
- Use the Google Apps incorporated in Drive to do even more (graphing calculators, photo editing, simultaneously interactive lessons -Pear Deck, use EasyBib, & so much more!)
- Collaborate simultaneously
- Share with specific people or with the world
- Calendar - Organize your teaching schedule and share it with your kids (everything can be color coded and linked)
- There’s SO much you can do with Google Drive and it’s great because anyone can access it no matter what device or computer they use.
Want to learn more about apps you can use in the classroom? This video is great!
http://www.appitic.com/index.php/webcasts/jason-kathman-apps-for-every-classroom