Thanks for a great meeting and discussion on April 15. Please post a comment introducing us to your favorite app for education (either for teaching or for students) as well as your favorite app you use in your everyday life. Post how you use both.
An app I used for one particular unit is the Audio Guide to "A Black Odyssey". I was doing a unit with fifth graders on an exhibition of Romare Bearden's work that was being shown as a traveling exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution. This app included an overview, biographical information and photos of various Bearden work and comments on each work. I think a lot of apps that are useful are ones that are particular to current exhibitions from various institutions. A lot of work is put into these, quite often, by people who are experts in the field. If there are exhibitions that cover curriculum we are doing they are an invaluable source.
In my everyday life my favorite app is my Twitter app. I tweet quite a bit on education policy and news and find that very valuable.
Victoria, LESP My #1 choice is eduClipper. It is perfect for classroom instruction if I use fragments from different files: a text saved in Microsoft Office, slides from Power Point or Smart Notebook, a sound track from a movie clip or a movie clip. Makes instruction intense, but smooth- no delays! Second best is Magisto. It’s very good for exercises in creative writing. Write a short story, and then film a fragment! Perfect for Middle School and ESL population who struggle to learn Characterization as a Literary Element in Regents Prep Program.
Thanks for a wonderful meeting. I loved discussing and learning about new apps. the one I use the most in my language classes in Quizlet. I like the quizes and games. the students can also add their own vocabulary lists and share with the rest of the classmates. The most important thing is that students who do not have smart phones, can use the website to do the same form any computer at school or at home. I also love podcasts for listening activities. they are free and we have lots of them. I enjoy Coffee Break Spanish
One app that I have used professionally is Google Sheets. Several of the Google applications have apps for your tablet as well. I like being able to access and edit my work in Google Drive anywhere. Therefore, when I do something at work using Google, I can view and edit it anywhere, including through my app when I'm not at work or at my home computer.
Personally, I've been using the meditation app buddhify lately. It has many different guided meditations for different types of activities, such as going to sleep or traveling. The meditations are anywhere from 4 to 15 minutes long, and the app is well worth the $4.99 price tag.
The app I use a lot is Google Slides, which is the google version of Powerpoint. I use it for both lessons and presentations to staff and parents. I’ve been having the K-2 families come to the school library on Tuesday afternoons, and every 2 weeks we have a read-aloud, activity, snack and a short presentation to the parents. Using Google Slides means I can work on those presentation at school or at home or wherever, using multiple devices, and not have to worry about a memory stick or where the file is.
In my personal life, I’m using Waze, a navigation app, almost every day now. I drive to my school in the Bronx from Long Island and this app tells me which way to go, depending on the traffic situation. It will even re-route me if there is a new traffic incident on the way. AND it alerts me to upcoming potholes, cars on the shoulder, police cars and other upcoming dangers. Driving takes up a chunk of my day so I’m a little obsessed with the traffic situation, but I’ve come to trust and rely on Waze. (We used it to drive to Florida during spring break and it was equally helpful on that interstate journey.)
The app that I use with my students is the EasyBib app. It provides students and teachers with a tool allowing them to create properly formatted MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations. Users can build, organize and manage their works cited by simply scanning the barcode on a book or typing in the title. My school is big on research and writing research papers with correctly written bibliography. Actually, my colleague and I introduced this app to the English and Social Studies Departments and we trained teachers and their students how to use it. Both teachers and students are thankful that this app exists and that creating citations can be that easy. In addition to the app, EasyBib can be used as a regular website. For my personal and professional life I use Evernote app. It helps me to stay organized by quickly adding notes, creating to-do lists, shopping lists, my favorite receipts, reminders, etc. The app also has the ability to capture photographs and voice recordings. Evernote is fully integrated with the most popular social media tools including Facebook, Dropbox, Pinterest, Skype and even Linkedin making sharing resources simple. Everything in Evernote instantly syncs across any computer or phone I use. I can start working on my smart phone and continue on iPad without ever missing anything. Basic option is free. I use Plus option for $24.99 per year. I get more room for my notes and have access to them wherever I go.
The app I use in the classroom is DuoLIngo. I teach many foreign students who are learning English. I love to share with them my struggles in learning Spanish and show them how I am using DuoLingo to help me learn Spanish. It makes learning fun and provides constant review and reinforcement. In my personal life I use the MyFitnessPal app. I am on a mission to improve my eating habits. This app tracks the food I eat and lets me know how many calories I've eaten and more important, the nutritional value of the food I eat. It also takes account of the exercise I am doing and the water I am drinking. I also read the NYT Now app to keep track of the news and love the Morning Briefing, which gives me a quick daily summary of the news and some other information which I find entertaining. I also read twitter and keep up to date by following edchat and other teachers and librarians who I find interesting.
An app I used for one particular unit is the Audio Guide to "A Black Odyssey". I was doing a unit with fifth graders on an exhibition of Romare Bearden's work that was being shown as a traveling exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution. This app included an overview, biographical information and photos of various Bearden work and comments on each work. I think a lot of apps that are useful are ones that are particular to current exhibitions from various institutions. A lot of work is put into these, quite often, by people who are experts in the field. If there are exhibitions that cover curriculum we are doing they are an invaluable source.
ReplyDeleteIn my everyday life my favorite app is my Twitter app. I tweet quite a bit on education policy and news and find that very valuable.
Brenda Shufelt
Victoria, LESP
ReplyDeleteMy #1 choice is eduClipper. It is perfect for classroom instruction if I use fragments from different files: a text saved in Microsoft Office, slides from Power Point or Smart Notebook, a sound track from a movie clip or a movie clip. Makes instruction intense, but smooth- no delays!
Second best is Magisto. It’s very good for exercises in creative writing. Write a short story, and then film a fragment! Perfect for Middle School and ESL population who struggle to learn Characterization as a Literary Element in Regents Prep Program.
Thanks for a wonderful meeting. I loved discussing and learning about new apps. the one I use the most in my language classes in Quizlet. I like the quizes and games. the students can also add their own vocabulary lists and share with the rest of the classmates.
ReplyDeleteThe most important thing is that students who do not have smart phones, can use the website to do the same form any computer at school or at home.
I also love podcasts for listening activities. they are free and we have lots of them. I enjoy Coffee Break Spanish
One app that I have used professionally is Google Sheets. Several of the Google applications have apps for your tablet as well. I like being able to access and edit my work in Google Drive anywhere. Therefore, when I do something at work using Google, I can view and edit it anywhere, including through my app when I'm not at work or at my home computer.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I've been using the meditation app buddhify lately. It has many different guided meditations for different types of activities, such as going to sleep or traveling. The meditations are anywhere from 4 to 15 minutes long, and the app is well worth the $4.99 price tag.
The app I use a lot is Google Slides, which is the google version of Powerpoint. I use it for both lessons and presentations to staff and parents. I’ve been having the K-2 families come to the school library on Tuesday afternoons, and every 2 weeks we have a read-aloud, activity, snack and a short presentation to the parents. Using Google Slides means I can work on those presentation at school or at home or wherever, using multiple devices, and not have to worry about a memory stick or where the file is.
ReplyDeleteIn my personal life, I’m using Waze, a navigation app, almost every day now. I drive to my school in the Bronx from Long Island and this app tells me which way to go, depending on the traffic situation. It will even re-route me if there is a new traffic incident on the way. AND it alerts me to upcoming potholes, cars on the shoulder, police cars and other upcoming dangers. Driving takes up a chunk of my day so I’m a little obsessed with the traffic situation, but I’ve come to trust and rely on Waze. (We used it to drive to Florida during spring break and it was equally helpful on that interstate journey.)
The app that I use with my students is the EasyBib app. It provides students and teachers with a tool allowing them to create properly formatted MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations. Users can build, organize and manage their works cited by simply scanning the barcode on a book or typing in the title. My school is big on research and writing research papers with correctly written bibliography. Actually, my colleague and I introduced this app to the English and Social Studies Departments and we trained teachers and their students how to use it. Both teachers and students are thankful that this app exists and that creating citations can be that easy. In addition to the app, EasyBib can be used as a regular website.
ReplyDeleteFor my personal and professional life I use Evernote app. It helps me to stay organized by quickly adding notes, creating to-do lists, shopping lists, my favorite receipts, reminders, etc. The app also has the ability to capture photographs and voice recordings. Evernote is fully integrated with the most popular social media tools including Facebook, Dropbox, Pinterest, Skype and even Linkedin making sharing resources simple. Everything in Evernote instantly syncs across any computer or phone I use. I can start working on my smart phone and continue on iPad without ever missing anything. Basic option is free. I use Plus option for $24.99 per year. I get more room for my notes and have access to them wherever I go.
The app I use in the classroom is DuoLIngo. I teach many foreign students who are learning English. I love to share with them my struggles in learning Spanish and show them how I am using DuoLingo to help me learn Spanish. It makes learning fun and provides constant review and reinforcement.
ReplyDeleteIn my personal life I use the MyFitnessPal app. I am on a mission to improve my eating habits. This app tracks the food I eat and lets me know how many calories I've eaten and more important, the nutritional value of the food I eat. It also takes account of the exercise I am doing and the water I am drinking. I also read the NYT Now app to keep track of the news and love the Morning Briefing, which gives me a quick daily summary of the news and some other information which I find entertaining. I also read twitter and keep up to date by following edchat and other teachers and librarians who I find interesting.