BoardTabla – Quickly Capture Presentations on Your Android Device. This Is What Happens When You Deploy Android Tablets In A Classroom. We’re constantly hearing chatter about deploying iPads in classrooms. For good reason, as iPads represent the vast majority of tablets in the market today. However, schools can’t always afford these premium devices and instead opt for lower priced Android tablets. That’s exactly what the Learning Untethered project did for a 5th grade classroom during the past academic year. They’ve just released a must-read report that details every aspect of how it went. The report offers a high-level step-by-step guide to deploying Android tablets (or really any tablet like an iPad is also applicable to an extent) that would be helpful to anyone considering a deployment.
Key Takeaways Here are the bullet points if you’re in a time crunch. How It Worked: An entire 5th grade class of 27 students was given a set of 7″ Samsung Galaxy Tabs running Android 2.2. Your Next Steps Again, these are just the key takeaways from the study. Have you deployed technology and found different results? Rmbyrne: Try Mind Jet for Mind Mapp... Try WeVideo’s Camera App for Collaborative Video Creation. Three Free Apps to Help You Pace Your Presentations. Android Apps For Literacy. I love my tablets. I carry 2 pretty much where ever I go, especially when I travel. Now, I love my iPad. I can get lots of work done on it, but mostly play some great games. However, I recently got a 10.1 Galaxy Tab and it is quickly becoming my go-to tablet for everything. From writing this blog post to checking my tweets to watching Netflix, I use it more than my laptop some days.
But I am finding more and more that I pick it up before I pick up my Kindle. There are lots of apps for books and reference for the Android user, some of which you might not find for you iPad. Kindle-Like I mentioned, this is my primary app for reading books. Google Books-This is another app I use for reading a lot. Audible-Sometimes I just like to be read too. Wikipedia- While I can get to Wikipedia from my tablet browser, I find the app much more friendly and easier to navigate. Wattpad-This is a unique reading app. Marriam-Webster Dictionary-Because sometimes you just need a definition.