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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 15 Great Apps for Teaching World History. ZoomNotes- Notetake, Sketch, PDF, Present on the App Store. Slow Motion Video FX. 1 Second Everyday. 14 ways to bring Pokemon Go to school.

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BeeLine Reader: BeeLine Reader adds a color gradient to text to help you read faster and more accurately. Top American History App a Great Teaching Tool. Tony Vincent Teaches Us How to Make Great Illustrations. Over the weekend my friend Tony Vincent sent me an email about a new video that he made about Adobe Illustrator Draw.

Tony Vincent Teaches Us How to Make Great Illustrations

Adobe Illustrator Draw is a free iPad app and Android app. It's the app that Tony uses to make the awesome illustrations that appear in his presentations, on his website, and in his Instagram feed. How to Create Screencasts on Your Android Device. How to Learn A New Classroom Tool Without Wasting Time - Learning Bird. 21 FREE Android Apps For Teachers. Gmail Print All Pro. Animate Me - Funny Movie Maker with Moving Pictures, Animated Face Masks and Quotes on the App Store. Millie Marotta’s Colouring Adventures on the App Store. Tablet Connectivity: Apps to Support Interdisciplinary Learning. For students to engage in rich knowledge building experiences, student learning should not happen through isolated curriculum subjects.

Tablet Connectivity: Apps to Support Interdisciplinary Learning

It is suggested that learning experiences are strongest when students are required to analyze, synthesize, and connect information between two or more disciplines. The Council of Ontario Directors of Education (CODE, 2015) stresses how differing disciplines naturally complement one another and provide students with rich perspectives that reflect the real world rather than focusing on a single discipline. When considering the demands of the modern workplace, it is unlikely that anyone would learn and practice one type of discipline at a time or just focus on one discipline throughout their whole career. Comprehend More with LiquidText. Global storytelling with a green screen and iPads. These 6th graders found a way to do some digital global storytelling with a green screen and their iPads.

Global storytelling with a green screen and iPads

They also managed to bust Tellagami’s animated personas out of the tablet, sending them around the world with a little green-screen magic. At Edmunds Middle School, two classes of 6th graders embarked on a new form of storytelling: Tellagami-smash! With a fleet of iPads at their disposal, along with the free green-screen app Veescope, students transported themselves or characters made with the Tellagami app to locations around the world.

WeLearnedIt. Hyperlapse from Instagram. Showbie - The paperless classroom made simple. Spritz. Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers. Michelle Luhtala/Edshelf With the thousands of educational apps vying for the attention of busy teachers, it can be hard to sift for the gold.

Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers

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. 10 Powerful iPad Apps For English And History. When I first started teaching English with 1:1 iPads, I was really jealous of the science and fine arts teachers.

10 Powerful iPad Apps For English And History

They had all of the most engaging apps, and I was left with a lowly word processor and an instant thesaurus. Fortunately, so much has changed. ChatterPix: Free App that Promotes Creativity. ChatterPix is a FREE iPhone and iPad app that is simple to use but endless in possibilities.

ChatterPix: Free App that Promotes Creativity

The app allows you to take any image, add a "mouth" and then record audio to allow the image to talk. In my class, I have used the app to describe the life cycle of a butterfly, practice skip counting, introduce vocabulary, announce special events and much more. The simplicity and creative nature of this app make it a sure hit in your classroom. In my kindergarten class, the kids use it as part of our animal research projects. After they have completed their animal research, they pick an image of their animal from Creative Commons and open it within the app (images below show the steps). - Videolicious – Video Creation App. 0 Comments May 31, 2014 By: Özge Karaoglu.

- Videolicious – Video Creation App

Photo Story for the Classroom. Shutterfly Photo Story for Classrooms Our award-winning iPad app motivates and empowers students to create self-published books that demonstrate their knowledge.

Photo Story for the Classroom

The program leverages your school's technology investment, supports project-based learning and provides lesson plans that align with Common Core or State Standards for each grade level. See how Photo Story helps students in the classroom. Hollywood in the Classroom with an iPad and Green Screen. 5 Tools For The Device Agnostic Classroom. Global Community Book Project. Ms.

Global Community Book Project

Wideen's Second Grade Class from Eastwood Public School in Windsor, Ontario, Canada invited schools around the country to participate in a Community Book Project. Our Technology Facilitator, Mrs. Thomasson told me all about it and I could not pass up the awesome opportunity! We have completed our part of the book about Bessemer City, and I am sharing the pages below.

It was a lot of work, but so much fun! We used the Trading Card app to highlight important information about our town. InstaCollage was a perfect way to showcase photos of our Mayor, the City Seal and the beautiful sign that is in the center of town.