Very handy guide to tools for formative assessment -- get some variety in your testing. Many of these use digital hand-held devices.
EdTechTeacher is a site with many free parts. The mobile apps page can be searched by type of device or by type of learning activity. The team also offers webinars and other apparatus to help teachers.
"Seesaw empowers students of any age to independently document what they are learning at school.
"Students capture learning with photos and videos of physical work, or by adding digital creations. Everything is uploaded and kept organized for teachers.
"Teachers can invite families to Seesaw so parents get an immediate, personalized window into their child's learning."
A mobile app to help create student portfolios Part of the maker-spaces movement.
This looks like a fascinating game system that includes physics (Newton), drawing (Masterpiece), increasingly difficult puzzles (Tangram), and words and numbers for game practice. It uses both physical and digital elements -- e.g., drawing on paper, and moving letters and numbers around.
I haven't had a chance to try it out, but it's one of "TIME's [popular news magazine] best inventions of 2014." The only catch is the $99 to buy the app. You will then need to spend a little more for some of the apps. For 9+.
R. Stannard teacher training video on Padlet (formerly WallWisher), which is useful for collaboration and group work, as well as mobile work from home.
"Applications for Education
I encourage you to read Larry Ferlazzo's post about how he is using Clyp.it with his ELL students. In that post he explains how his students are using Clyp.it to post audio comments on a classroom blog. "
T/H R. Byrne
"With the Cicret Bracelet, you can make your skin your new touchscreen. Read your mails, play your favorite games, answer your calls, check the weather, find your way…Do whatever you want on your arm."
Looks like a great tool, and you can even use it in the bathtub.
"In this intriguing TEDx talk, author of Screen Time: How Electronic Media Affects Your Young Child and Director of the New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative, Lisa Guernsey, discusses the research she has been involved with, as well as some the practical outcomes of her work exploring learning and screen media."
Cleverly presented in a slideshow at the head of R. Byrne's blog.
"On iPadApps4School.com you can sort app reviews according to grade level category. Simply click on the grade level category in the sidebar to find apps appropriate for the age of your students. You can find elementary school apps here, middle school apps here, and high school apps here. I also have a category for pre-K students. If you want to be notified when a new app is reviewed, you can subsc"
Take a look at this great resource for mobile learning for a wide variety of levels/grades/ages.
5 neat apps -- there are probably comparable apps for Android and other mobile devices. Whether you have an artistic bent or prefer hand-written notes, one of these might suit you and could be linked into Evernote or OneNote, most likely.
T/H to R Byrne.
R. Byrne suggests some ways to help students practice speaking in front of their class: "I answered some questions from teachers worried about students discovering more about technology than they could discover. The solution that I proposed is to have your students practice their presentation skills by showing off a "hidden feature" of their iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, or Android devices."
These are divided by subject matter, and each has a short description, so it's not as daunting a list as appears at first glance. Take some time to explore the content areas, many of which are useful for language learners, such as Daily Haiku. There will be many apps with comparable features/functions for Droid-based smartphones and tablets also.
"While we’ve witnessed many effective approaches to incorporating iPads successfully in the classroom, we’re struck by the common mistakes many schools are making with iPads, mistakes that are in some cases crippling the success of these initiatives. We’re sharing these common challenges with you, so your school doesn’t have to make them."
Common sense, but good common sense.
Start your presentation, type a few words and then search for a copyright free creative commons-licensed image to illustrate, add charts or graphs, and select theme, layout, and filters. Share and view on any web-enabled device or embed in your website or blog. Help your students create beautiful presentations on the iPads. Free.
Great notes to help you get more from your iPad: create folders, use a split screen, search your apps, have a text read to your students, mirror content on an HD TV or connected to a projector, save a Web page to read later, find some good content creating apps.
You probably know about most of these apps already, but a few are interesting, including mind-mapping, and book creator apps. For iPad, bu other smart tablets may have similar apps.
You can create a Chrome app in about 5 minutes, so this blog article claims. The article also explains in detail how to do this and how to add a Chrome extension to your chrome toolbar.
This is to be the first of a series of articles exploring the purposes and pedagogy of various smart technology apps. The "Padagogy Wheel" looks like a good start, as is the tool known as "iPad As..." by edtechteacher.org.
A good review of both LMS tools. Winning for me is Schoology's iPad connections and, especially, it's good was to create and thread discussions (with embedded media). Teachers can also see which students participate by using a filter, and share discussions across classes/courses.
Excellent explanatory article covering various options, including Cloud storage and how to get around its problems with an app or QR, creating a bookmarked Landing Page, and using features of a CMS, such as Edmodo or Schoology. Guest post from Beth Holland of EdTechTeacher.org. Comparable work-arounds would be available for non-Apple smart tablets as well.