EDU-558 Mobile Apps

Voice thread adds audio recordings to images with a commenting feature allowing educators to engage in an asynchronous conversation.

This app can be used on your iPhone or iPad. It can be used for making podcasts. You can publish to wordpress using this app.

YouTube is the world's largest and most popular video sharing service and can be leveraged as a powerful teaching tool.

Canvas is a fun, easy to use, free image tool that allows users to create new or edit existing images in a variety of sizes.

Pixlr is a photo editor that lets you crop, resize, and fine-tune any picture, all in a completely ad-free experience. There are also free effects, overlays, and borders.

Collaborate with a small group in one place. The app is free for up to 10 people.

Padlet is an app to increase student participation. This app allows you to collaborate with others around the globe. The ability to allow others to edit or comment on work. It has the ability to embed other tools within it.

Mikogo provides free screen sharing and video conferencing.

Zoom is possibly the world's easiest to use video conference service. With screenshare, record, and control features, this tool can replace webconferencing and remote helpdesk tools for half the price of either!

Prezi tool creates presentations. It is similar to an interactive white board. It has the feature to let you to import your existing PowerPoint presentations to change to a Prezi presentation.Viewer is available as a mobile app.

Animoto tool generates videos by selecting a theme, background, music, pictures, and texts. It is an easy tool to use.

Sliderocket is a web-based application to create presentations by adding text, images, and videos. There is a free version and the upgraded version cost. Great tool to used for group collaboration and presentation.

Glogster helps create multimedia interactive posters using audio, videos, images, and text.

One of the leading LMS's on the market, the Canvas SAAS is backed by the power of Amazon Web Services so students always have access and IT resources are not diverted to maintenance. Popular with K12 institutions, the easy to use platform is quickly outpacing competitors like Blackboard.

Edmodo is a digital classroom where homework can be assigned, communitcate with parents and students, and much more. It supports Google and Microsoft.

Kahoot is used to create interactive quizzes, discussions, and surveys.

Teachers create quiz questions and students have a card to turn to correct answer that the teacher scans. Then teacher gets instant feedback.

Quizlet is a great tool for vocabulary or other skill and drill studying. Student can design their own study experience, flashcard, quiz, or matching.

NOVA provides learners with an in depth look at the human body through images, text, videos, and interactives accessible online. Apps are available for many but not all activities.

This is a periodic table of the elements that has all the elements and most of their respective properties collected and stored in one easy to use and simple to find location. Contained within this periodic table is a unit converter that will convert some of the scientific dimensions. Also, containing links to wikipedia for further literature on that element that you wish to know. Great for students because of the elements quiz contained within.

App includes labeled diagrams, slicing, and animations. Quizzes and puzzle games are also included in the app.

This tool has a selection of foreign language to learn. You can select how much time each day you want to spend learning the language.

This app provides customized lessons based on student level. The lessons are broken down in 10 to 15 minute lessons. This app teaches phrases that you have to say, spell, and use phrases in sentences.

This versatile math tools is both a sharing platform for educators and interactive tool for students providing visual illustrations of complex math concepts.

This online graphing calculator generates a graph for any function entered into it's simple interface.

IXL provides real world problems and engaging activities in Math. Students master one level before advancing to the next level. IXL can be used for English, Science, and Social Studies.

This apps provide a 3D view of the Egyptian pyramids and a tour through them. The app lets you see ancient artifacts from the Ancient Egyptian time.

The an e-textbook app that takes students through a tour of our universe. Learning about important events that occurred in history with interesting facts, images, and timelines. Recommended for ages 10 and up. This app has won several awards.

Read Write Think provides interactives and videos at different grades levels. There are different language arts skills to choose from.Not all but many of the interactive are available as mobile apps. Searching for App in the search bar will narrow the selection.

This app is for K-5. It teaches correct grammar and mechanics with catchy songs.