Technology Tuesday
01.21.14
Free Apps
Collins Big Cat: The Farmer's Lunch Story Creator
Collins Big Cat: The Farmer's Lunch contains:
•An animated, interactive book
•Opportunities to develop speaking and listening skills by recording your own narration and sound effects
•Collins Big Cat quiz to see what you can remember
•Transfer reading to writing using Story Creator: make your own book using pictures, characters and key vocabulary from the story, transforming readers into writers
Check out other Collins Big Cat apps:
eduTecher - Backpack
Let eduTecher Backback be your guide. Loved by teachers and students, this app puts the best web tools and reviews of educational websites in the palm of your hand, saving you time with lesson planning and making learning more enjoyable for your students.
Check out the eduTecher website for more information!
Rover - The Browser for Education
Rover is targeted towards enhancing the K-12 education experience, bringing the best online learning content to your iPad- including access to content ordinarily unavailable on the Apple tablet (e.g. Flash content). This app does contain in-app purchases.
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Rainbow Sentences
Students will learn how to recognize the parts of sentences such as nouns, verbs, and prepositions, improve their understanding of how combinations of these parts create basic sentence structure. Students have the opportunity to record their sentences in their own voice to improve their receptive and expressive language skills.
The Rainbow Sentences app can be purchased for $7.99 in the iTunes app store.
Teacher Web Tools
Nutmeg Education
Students can take the assessments from their mobile device with the Nutmeg for Students App.
Kidblog
Kidblog provides teachers with the tools to help students safely navigate the digital – and increasingly social – online landscape. Kidblog allows students to exercise digital citizenship within a secure, private classroom blogging space. Also available for free on the app store.
Education Resource Center
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Cannon-Clary College of Education
Harding University
Email: hrollins@harding.edu
Website: http://hardingeducationresourcecenter.weebly.com/
Phone: 501-279-4549