CUE: 36 Apps Every Teacher Should Use

30 36 Apps Every Teacher Should Use

with Jessica Pack

App-stravaganza

• Instructional Apps
• Vocabulary Building Apps
• Management/Planning Apps
• Student-Centered Creation Apps

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iMovie

demo

Explain Everything

"Runaways"

Purpose: Digital Storytelling and academic movie-making. Also, you can use these apps to make flipped classroom videos.

Useful AND Cool

Educreations

demo

www.packwoman.com

Purpose: Whiteboard app from which you can also screencast. Use to produce flipped classroom videos or as a student assessment. Videos stored on www.educreations.com

Class Dojo

Pick Me!

demo

Purpose: Can be used as behavior management for whole groups or individual students. Works in conjunction with www.classdojo.com. There is an AppsInClass Jedi Master Blog post on this app!

Jumbo Stopwatch

Purpose: Create your own digital flashcards or choose from many sets that can be downloaded from Flashcardlet+.

Purpose: Time management for students and teacher

Toontastic

Teacher Essentials

Explain a Website

demo

Wifi Photo Transfer

Dropbox

Cam Scanner

Purpose: Cloud storage accessible from any device using the Internet. Includes public folder accessibility.

Purpose: Functions when a mobile device and computer are on the safe WiFi network. This app assigns a unique URL to the device's camera roll, and allows you to access it by the computer's Internet browser. Helpful for moving work off of iPads.

Too Loud

Purpose: Scans any image or document and creates a PDF in black and white, color, or grayscale. Useful for uploading files to your website for student download, or sending to absent students who email requesting work.

"How to Complete an Online Lesson"

Purpose: Records your voice and on-screen annotations, then packages it into a video. Useful for flipping your classroom, giving a website tutorial, and more.

Purpose: Write and animate stories in cartoon format. Exported as a movie stored on the Toontastic server.

Purpose: Measures volume decibels visually so kids can monitor their own noise level. Calibrates to accommodate white noise in any room.

QR Generator

Purpose: To generate QR codes to link to websites, text, or audio clips

demo

Common Core Look-fors

Purpose: A Common Core evaluative app that administrators could use during CCSS evaluations or teachers could use to CCSS plan.

Creation Apps

demo

Pages

Keynote

Dragon Dictation

Word Collage

Comic Life

Purpose: Part of the traditional iWork suite, useful for publishing writing and presentations

Purpose: Dictate writing, which is then transcribed into text. Great for reluctant writers, SpEd students, or just as a time saving measure.

Purpose: Create comic book pages to demonstrate mastery of content or skills

Purpose: Create collages of content vocabulary, parts of speech, or quotes.

Vocabulary Building

Visual Poet

Pic Frame

demo

Apps for

Management &

Planning

Purpose: Write definitions for words, give examples, and pair them with images from the camera roll.

Creative Book Builder

Edmodo

Purpose: Author interactive ePub documents that include text, video, images, and voice recordings. ePub format preserves the multimedia when exported to iBooks.

Purpose: Academic social networking platform. Great platform for writing prompts or group collaboration.

Wow! Engagement.

demo

iBrainstorm

Purpose: Sticky notes on corkboard that can be annotated. Also acts as a receiver for sticky notes sent from iBrainstorm Companion app.

Educreations

Flashcardlet+

Purpose: Screencasting for assessment or project-based learning. Screencasting to flip your content.

Purpose: Create your own digital flashcards or choose from many sets that can be downloaded from Flashcardlet+.

Note-Taking

Reference

demo

Notability

Skitch

Evernote

Purpose: Note-taking with easy interface and great interface with Keynote. Import Keynote presentations and annotate over them with ease as you present.

Purpose: Draw and create using Skitch, by the same developer as Evernote. Great for creating graphic organizers, Skitch notes are stored in the Evernote Cloud.

Purpose: Take notes with images and audio recordings, all of which are stored in the Evernote Cloud and are accessible from any device.

Qwiki

Purpose: Perform a search for a topic and Qwiki instantly conglomerates media from all over the Internet into a narrated slideshow.

Mindomo

Purpose: Create graphic organizers with ease

Dictionary.com

Purpose: Reference with the ability to look up words that are read aloud, integrated thesaurus, and pronunciation function

Interact

For the Teacher

demo

iCard Sort

QR Reader

Purpose: Creates digital note cards.

Purpose: Scan QR Codes to navigate to websites, reveal a text message, hear an audio clip, and more.

iAnnotate

Prezi Viewer

Purpose: Annotate and highlight on PDF documents

Purpose: An engaging alternative to Power Point; view prezi's you've created with their free online EDU package, or view prezi's others have made.

Sparklefish

Purpose: An audio-based version of Mad Libs, students record their word choices for various parts of speech

Apps for

Instruction