Elthorne guide to learning apps
What do I use for....?
Writing notes
This could be for personal reminders or for writing notes in lessons. There are a number of different ways you could take notes too.
Evernote
Type, record audio and add pictures to your notes.
Penultimate
From the same family of apps as Evernote but this time you can actually write or even draw!
Dragon Dictation
For when you're just too lazy to type.
Sharing documents and backing up my work
This area could be instead of a USB or a place to collaborate on work.
Google Drive
An online storage area- all students already have this- their eduapps account. Use Google Drive to share work online or to mark. The teacher needs to set up a 'Submit' folder and a 'Marked' folder. To have an online record of all work submitted could be a really powerful AfL tool.
Creating a presentation
Explain Everything
Would like to make a slide show, similar to Powerpoint, but could record yourself talking too?! Try this.
Mindmapping
Popplet
Link your ideas together to plan for an essay.
Teaching tools
Socrative
This is an app which helps with AfL. You will need the teacher version and your students will need the student version. You can create exit quizzes, starters or even games to test they have understood key concepts. It also allows you to store their results and export to an Excel spreadsheet for analysis.
Compatible with Windows...?
Cloudon
This app allows you to edit Word and Excel documents. Note: These documents must be from Dropbox or Google Drive initially.
Making posters and displays
Wordfoto
This is a fun way to present word clouds. Good for displays and summarising topics attractively.