Tots and Technology App Smackdown
Janet, Chris, Joan, Karen & Brian
What are your favorite apps?
Janet Corder, J2 Training
@corderj
Prisma (free) - Turn your photos into cool artworks with a variety of photo filters.
Chatterpix (free) - Make your photos, friends, pets or drawings talk. Take a photo, draw a line to make a mouth and record your voice and then share with your friends and family. Very creative way for students to introduce themselves.
Word Clouds (free) - Create and share word clouds with this easy-to-use app!
Tinycards (free) - Flashcards over tons of topics or you can create your own.
Adobe Spark (free) - Turn your next newsletter, report, invitation or travel adventure into a gorgeous story. Your Spark web story gets its own URL and can be shared via text message, email, posted on social media accounts or embedded on blogs or personal websites.
Also available as a website. Adobe Spark Student Example
Chris Pombonyo (Famous in First & now Famous in Fourth)
SnapChat - Watch what Chris does with this fun app! (Google Play Store)
Plickers - Plickers lets you poll your class for free, without the need for student devices. Just give each student a card (a "paper clicker"), and use your iPhone to scan them to do instant checks-for-understanding, exit tickets, and impromptu polls. (Google Play Store)
Chwazi - Want to take the luck randomly? Touch your iPhone or iPad screen and the choice will be made. (Google Play Store)
Word Swag ($4.99) - It's like magic! Quickly add text to your photos with this awesome app. (Google Play Store)
Periscope -This app lets you broadcast live video to the world. (Google Play Store)
Joan Gore, J2 Training
@joangore
j2training.org
Instagrok (free) - This app is an educational (re)search engine that lets students research any topic in an engaging, visual way. InstaGrok finds the best information on the topic and presents it as interactive concept map ("grok"), showing key facts, concepts and relationships. (Google Play Store)
StoryCorps - (free) - Use to record interviews. Excellent tips and interview questions. (Google Play Store)
Dreamscope - (free) - Turn your pictures into paintings. Give your selfie the brush strokes and coloring of a Picasso or Van Gogh!
Magic Puzzles (free with in-app purchases) - Enjoy the fun of a jigsaw puzzle whenever you want! With Magic Jigsaw Puzzles, there's no cleanup or risk of losing pieces! (Google Play Store)
ShutterFly Share Sites - (free) - Share and view photos and stay connected while on the go. (Google Play Store)
Karen Wright-Balbier, El Paso ISD (Moving to Korea in July)
@kbalbier
SnapChat - Watch what Karen does with this fun app! (Google Play Store)
Touchcast (free) - Annotate, explain and present anything easily and quickly with this video creation tool. (Google Play Store)
Peep and the Big Wide World - 9 Free Science and Math Apps are available from this site (links to App Store and Google Play Store). Includes Spanish!
Math Duel ($2.99) - Math Duel is a split screen game that pits two players against each other on the same device! Change settings for each player to level the playing field. Also available in single player mode. (Google Play - $4.99)
Collins Big Cat Book Apps (free)- Build reading and writing skills with these 8 free book apps.
Carrot Fitn ($2.99) - She's not Siri- but she sure makes working out fun!
Brian Grenier, El Paso ISD
@briangrenier
Vivino (Free) - The name says it all! (Google Play Store)
Adobe Spark Video (formerly Adobe Voice) - Easily Create Videos in Minutes
Charades! Guess Words with Kids - Play this fun game with your kids! Add your own cards that are content-related. (Google Play Store)
Numbler ($0.99) -Do you love Scrabble or Words with Friends? Try your hand at Numbler, a math game that uses numbers to form equations!
Google Translate - Translate between 103 languages (Google Play Store)
Tunity (free) - Allows you to hear any muted, live TV’s audio directly on your mobile device. Simply scan the TV, let Tunity locate the channel and stream the audio through your headphones or bluetooth speaker. (Google Play Store)