A Handful of Apps to Add to Your New iPad (even if you don’t take it to school)
Every year at this time I publish a short list of the apps that I recommend installing if you received a new iPad during this holiday season. Even if you don’t take your new iPad to school, t…
WhatsDue - Schedule and Send Reminders to Students
WhatsDue is a free service (available for Android and iOS) that enables teachers to create and send due date reminders to their students. Students receive the reminders as push notifications on their iOS and or Android devices. Here's how WhatsDue works. First, the teacher registers for a free account on the WhatsDue website and creates a class or classes. Each class is assigned its own unique join code. Teachers then invite students and parents to join the class through the join code. Once…
Create Simple Whiteboard Videos on ScreenChomp
ScreenChomp has been around for a few years now. In fact, I think it was one of the first apps of its kind. While other whiteboard apps have come along and offered more features, ScreenChomp remain…
Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – How to Create Your Own iPad Games
TinyTap is a fantastic free iPad app and Android app through which you can create educational games. To create a game on TinyTap you upload pictures or take new pictures and arrange them into a set…
Sharalike – Quickly Create Audio Slideshows on Your iPad
Sharalike is a free iPad app that makes it easy to create audio slideshow videos. To create an audio slideshow video with Sharalike simply open the app, select pictures from your camera roll, drag …
TinyTap Gets a Facelift – Create Your Own iPad Games for Older Students
TinyTap is a great iPad app for developing your own educational games. I’ve been a big supporter of the app since it launched a couple of years ago. TinyTap has always been targeted toward th…
PicCollage for Kids – Create Multimedia Collages
PicCollage is one of my favorite apps for creating multimedia collages on my iPad. Creating those collages is a great way to visually summarize a trip, to tell a story, or showcase the highlights o…
Ripped Apart – An iPad App About the Civil War
Ripped Apart is a free iPad app from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. The app is a game in which students play the role of a Smithsonian intern tasked with examining documents a…
Students Can Build Digital Portfolios with Seesaw for iPad
Cross-posted from my other blog, FreeTech4Teachers.com From the developers of the popular iPad app Shadow Puppet Edu comes a nice new app called Seesaw. Seesaw is a free iPad app through which stud…
Paper – A Sketching App Now Free for Everyone
Paper is an iPad app for sketching and creating free-hand outlines. I’ve seen a lot of people use it over the last year, but I couldn’t get myself to pay for it when there were other go…
Math Vocabulary Cards – A Math Review App in English and Spanish
Math Vocabulary Cards is a free iPad app designed for elementary school students. The app offers exactly what its name implies, a series of flashcards of mathematics vocabulary terms. Each card con…
HelloTalk - Language exchange (comedy-old logo)
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Penguin Jump Maths – A Fun Game for Practicing Basic Math Skills
Penguin Jump Maths is a free iPad app that offers a fun game for students to play to practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills. Students play the game in the role of…
2/3 of These iPad Apps for Learning About Fractions are Free
I generally don’t get too excited about skill drill apps, but some of the cute and fun ones pull me in anyway. If you’re looking for some apps for your students to use to learn and prac…
Rugged Rovers – Design and Test Space Rovers
Rugged Rovers is a free iPad app in which students can create simple designs for space rovers. Students draw a design for their rovers then add up eight wheels to it before taking it for a virtual …