Mobile Learning Apps
Mindomo
The Mindomo app is free and can be found on any Apple device as well as Androids, Chromebooks, and laptops. Students can create an unlimited amount of mind maps that can incorporate links, pictures, and more that can be presented or shared as PDFs, images, or sent by email.
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Desmos
The Desmos app is free and found in the Apple store, on Chromebooks, and on laptops. This graphing calculator app has a full math keyboard and allows students to graph multiple equations at a time and even print them off.
Evernote
This app is free and can be accessed on any device. It performs the same role as any basic word processor but has the addition of images, notes, attachments, and reminders. Students and teachers can share their notes to other users or make them public for everyone to see.
Blendspace
This free app can be found on all devices and allows teachers to gather a multitude of resources from the web, Google Drive, Youtube and more and put them all in one space for students. They then go through the content and can even take quizzes that teachers post and add comments.
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Skitch
This free app is found in the Apple app store as well as Android's Google Play and on a lap top. Students can create and draw on images from their camera, maps, the web, blank pages and even Google Drive or a screen capture if they are using a laptop. This is best to use on a computer as students can then work through Google Drive synchronously or asynchronously. The pictures can be exported on email, the camera roll, shared through a link or embedded as code.
Kahoot!
This tool for polling can be found in the Apple store, on Google play and on laptops and Chromebooks. Teachers are able to engage their students in a game-show like manner where students join by using the number provided by the teacher. Using sounds and timers keeps students engaged and it's easy for teachers to use as other teachers share their quizzes for you to sift through. More on Kahoot! can be found below.