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Apps to Save Your Time and Sanity!
GHA Remote PD, Vol. 1, Issue 2
KHAN ACADEMY
Allows you to learn almost anything for free. Covers a large range of topics, including K-12.
EVERNOTE
Organize your personal and professional projects. Dive in: take notes, create to-do lists, and save things you find online into Evernote. We’ll sync everything between your phone, tablet, and computer automatically.
COMMON CORE
View Common Core state standards - a great reference to easily view and understand the standards (for our primary teachers).
Put articles, videos or pretty much anything into Pocket so you can read it later when you have time. If it's in Pocket, it's on your phone, tablet or computer. You don't even need an Internet connection.
SCANNABLE
Instantly recognizes business cards, receipts, and any other paper you point it at. Whiteboards, too. Scans are automatically cropped and enhanced, producing crystal clear digital documents.
PLICKERS
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.
EXPLAIN EVERYTHING
Explain Everything is one of the easy-to-use and best interactive whiteboard and screencasting app. Explain Everything can be used to present information to students in a visually engaging way. But an even more exciting part of this app is helping your students learn to create and present with it – individually or on group projects
NOTABILITY
Notability is one of the most versatile apps available for notes taking. You can type or write notes on notebooks and organize them into folders inside the app. It also lets you annotate PDFs, which can be great for grading student papers.
GRADEPROOF
This writing tool provides services for both students and teachers. For students, GradeProof uses artificial intelligence to provide instant feedback and editing to help improve writing. It also looks for grammatical issues, as well as wording and phrase structure, and even provides word counts. Students can import work through email attachments or cloud storage services. The service also checks written work for instances of plagiarism, helping students (and teachers) ensure that all work is original and/or properly cited.
EASYBIB
Create accurate MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations in seconds by scanning an ISBN or by typing in the name of a book. Build and manage your works cited page and then export it to a document.
EDX
The edX app pulls together lessons from some of the best universities in the world. It was founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012 as an online learning service and Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOC, provider. The service provides high-quality lessons to students from across the globe. edX offers lessons in science, English, electronics, engineering, marketing, psychology and more.
ANIMOTO
Combine still photos and video footage to make creative slide shows in minutes. The app includes easy-to-use templates and a large library of free music. Educators are given access to unlimited videos, which can be exported to e-mails, blogs, and more.