Great Apps for the Classroom
TCEA - Unleashed
TCEA 2014 Conference
Each year I have the privilege of attending a conference in Austin - Texas Computer Education Association which is attended by many educators from around the Nation. At the end of the conference I marvel at the information I have gained and wonder how the following year can top its greatness. This year was no exception. As a bonus SSISD took several educators and administrators. What a great time was had by all.
Apps for Teaching - Presenting
Near Pod
LOVE this app!! NearPod allows your student to see exactly what you want them to see on their devise. You can show them a Power Point, PDF, Webpage, picture, video, take a poll, test and it will even let you know when the student has left the "class". The teacher has complete control. Most features are available in their FREE version!!!!
Educreation
This is an interactive whiteboard that captures your voice as you are writing. You can write on images that are imported. This is a great tool for the students to demonstrate their knowledge, review skills and even share it at home. The lessons can be created and viewed in an app or through a web browser. Create your own.
Stick Around - by Tony Vincent
You can create a lesson with "stickers" to create puzzles activities. Assign points or dotes to an image and the student can drag in the answers. View a tutorial.
Apps for Turning in Assignments
My Big Campus
My Big Campus is an hub between the students, teachers and the web. This program provides a safe way for posting assignments, calendars, reports, lessons, and collaboration between all students and the teacher. Take a tour.
Edmodo
Social media and education come together to create this wonderfully designed program. Students and teachers collaborate together. Everything is in a neat package -lessons, assignments, assessments and more. Watch a demo.
Showbie
Showbie helps educators move to a paperless classroom. This app allows you to assign, collect and grade assignments. Students can also collaborate with their peers and the teacher in a safe and controlled environment. Learn more.
High Quality Apps
Apps Gone Free
This app gives you apps that are free for the day. Not all apps are educational.
Skitch
Skitch allows you to annotate over photos. This is great for vocabulary, showing fractions, demonstrating landforms and much more. This allows students to picture the concept.
Sock Puppet
This adorable app allows the user to choose the setting and characters then record the voice. When the project plays the puppet moves to the sound of the words creating a puppet show.
Recap
TCEA did not disappoint me this year. I have more apps and websites to share with you after Spring Break. If you need more before then, please grab me!
One thing that I do want to share that I heard over and over during the week. When we give a child a device, don't use the word "play" use words like explore, discover, create, teach, learn, and invent. You can have a device that is just for educational games, but not the one the students use for the learning process. I thought that was worth sharing!