4 Important Apps for A Paperless Classroom. Planning a paperless classroom?
Here are four important apps you should definitely consider. Using these apps will enable you to create and distribute assignments to your students, provide feedback on your students work, organize your classroom materials, conduct quick formative assessments via quizzes, polls or exit tickets, track grades, record attendance, create seating charts and many more. 1- Showbie- Paperless Classroom “With Showbie, you can quickly and easily assign, collect and review student work on your iPad, then provide rich feedback to your students by adding annotations, text notes and voice notes directly onto their documents. Teachers Guide to Using QR Codes in Classroom. To use QR Codes in your classroom you need the following: Mobile devices with QR code readers/scanners installed QR code generators to create QR codes to share with students.
Based on our previous reviews of numerous QR Code generators and readers, the ones below are what we would highly recommend for teachers. They are simple, free and easy to use. QR Generators: QR Code generators for the web: QR Stuff is one of the best QR Code generators out there. Connect Your Classroom Through SeeSaw Connected Blogs. On Tuesday morning at the ISTE 2016 conference I sat down with the founder of the popular digital portfolio tool, SeeSaw.
He showed me some of updated features of SeeSaw's free product as well as the new analytics options within SeeSaw Plus (a subscription service). One of the best features of SeeSaw's free service is the classroom blogging component. SeeSaw added the blogging feature in January in response to requests from users. The Periodic Table of Educational iPad Apps. June 19, 2016 This is a quick post to share with you this interesting find from ICTEvangelist.
Mark Anderson has recently published the second version of his popular periodic table of iPad apps. The table contains a wide variety of educational apps organized into four main categories: creativity, teaching, demonstrating, collaboration, learning, numeracy, workflow, and literacy. Connected Mind - A Mind Mapping App in Chrome. Connected Mind is a free mind mapping tool that you can find in the Google Chrome Web Store.
Using Connected Mind you can create free-form mind maps or use a template. A lot of mind mapping tools lock you into using straight lines between elements, but Connected Mind is not one of them. Connected Minds allows you to create mind maps in any configuration that you like. 25 ideas for using WhatsApp with English language students. Philip Haines is the Senior Consultant for Oxford University Press, Mexico.
As well as being a teacher and teacher trainer, he is also the co-author of several series, many of which are published by OUP. Today he joins us to provide 25 engaging and useful classroom activities for language learners using WhatsApp. There are three main obstacles to the use of technology in ELT. First is the availability of technology and internet connection in the classroom. Second is teacher techno-phobia. WhatsApp or similar messaging services can help overcome these obstacles. Many self-confessed, techno-phobic teachers that I know use WhatsApp on a regular basis in their private lives, so already feel quite comfortable with it. Here are 25 ideas of how to make good use of WhatsApp for language learning. Like this: Like Loading... LearnEnglish Apps. 10 Awesome iPad Writing Apps. 5 Useful iPad Apps For ESL Students. Getting the hang of a new language is tough.
As someone attempting to re-learn French, I can say this without absolute certainty. 16 Incredible iPad Apps for ESL Learners. ESL Apps - iPad in the ESL classroom. TEDICT - Learn English with TED. Evaluation of iPad apps - Google Presentationer. 4 of The Smartest Workarounds in Google Apps. Just because it isn’t a built in feature, doesn’t mean it isn’t possible.
With a little ingenuity, you can find a way to do almost anything you want in Google Apps. This is the art of the workaround. Whether you want a linked table of contents for your Google Sheets or need to personalize your Docs with a custom watermark, where there is a will, there is a way. These are 4 of our favorite Google Apps workarounds that allow you to tackle the (seemingly) impossible. 1. Best Apps for English Teachers. If you’re a teacher with an iPad, you’ve probably already discovered lots of fun apps, as well as a few that can boost your productivity.
But did you know that several apps that can help you teach English language skills, reading and composition are also available? Here are some of the best apps for English teachers that we’ve found: Stanza This free app allows you to read digital books on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Choose from 50,000 free classic and contemporary works available from Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks and other sources or purchase popular new books from partner stores. Alphabytes.
iPad Apps for English teaching and learning. In our prospective iPad project in our English and Media faculty we are currently trailing the best apps to use in the teaching of English and Media Studies.
Here is a useful top ten list (with a few extras with honourable mentions!) : Pages: The basic word processing package that is really essential for any and all types of writing. Easily transportable by email to Dropbox etc. with the capacity to convert to Microsoft Word if required. The 9 Best Mobile Apps for Your ESL Students. 25 awesome apps for teachers, recommended by teachers. What are the best apps for teachers? We asked TED-Ed Innovative Educators and the TED-Ed community. Below, 25 awesome apps recommended for teachers, by teachers. For teaching students how to present, create and code TED-Ed More than 250,000 teachers use TED education tools to spark student curiosity and explore presentation literacy skills.
“TED-Ed is an outstanding resource in my classroom,” says TED-Ed Innovative Educator Jennifer Hesseltine. Haikudeck Students can create beautiful presentations with this app. Duolingo If the benefits of a bilingual brain motivate your students, try this app. Draw and Tell This app can increase creative confidence in kids of all ages. Animoto Students can easily create and share their own beautiful videos with Animoto. iMovie This popular app is another teacher-recommended choice for student video creation. Instructables From science experiments to merit badges, this app offers instructions for more than 100,000 DIY projects.
25 awesome apps for teachers, recommended by teachers. 5 Essential iPad Apps for Creating Digital Scrapbooks in Class. March , 2016 Traditional scrapbooking as we have known it is loosing ground for digital scrapbooking. There are now several web tools and mobile apps that make it easy for anyone to create and share beautiful multimedia photo albums. In the collection below, we have particularly focused on apps you can use on iOS-powered devices to easily create digital scrapbooks. We invite you to check them out and share with us your feedback. ‘PicCollage is THE coolest collage-maker in town! Join over 100 million people who use PicCollage to combine photos, Youtube videos, funky fonts, sassy stickers and cute cutouts to create the prettiest collages you'll ever see on a mobile device. Cambridge Apps for English Learning. TEDICT - Learn English with TED. 6 Apps For Learning Languages, Ranked By How You Like To Study.
Almost 1 in 5 Americans speak a language other than English at home — but the thirst for a second, or third, language is still a huge one. And why not? Being bilingual will help your career and be awesome for your neurons: learning a new language, according to a 2014 study, is "built-in exercise" for the brain, keeping it active and improving mental function. (Plus, you can look utterly smug and sophisticated on your foreign vacations.) ESL Robot. Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers.
With the thousands of educational apps vying for the attention of busy teachers, it can be hard to sift for the gold. Michelle Luhtala, a savvy librarian from New Canaan High School in Connecticut has crowd-sourced the best, most extensive list of apps voted on by educators around the country. “I wanted to make sure we had some flexibility because there’s no one app that’s better than all the others,” Luhtala said. Some apps are best for younger students, others are more complicated, better suited for high school students.
Many apps do one thing really well, but aren’t great at everything. Still others are bought, redesigned or just disappear — so it’s always good to know about an array of tools to suit the need at hand. 30Hands allows a user to make pictures, annotate them, record a voice explainer and then packages it all into a video. LearnEnglish Apps. MyWordBook 2 – Applications Android sur Google Play. Cambridge Apps for English Learning. 10 Best, Shockingly Good Apps for ESL Teachers. As technology continues to get more and more popular, classroom attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. Times are changing quickly and ESL teachers have to hop on board before the train leaves.
Keeping the attention of a student while you’re teaching may seem difficult at times, but fear not!