Apps & Enhancing Student Engagement

Web Apps vs. Mobile Apps

What's the difference?

Google Apps for Education

• Web-based
• Mobile Apps for Google Products on Android
• Mobile Apps for Google Products on iOS
• Using Mobile Apps to Engage Students in Learning

Resources for Finding Apps

• Top 50 iPhone Apps for Educators
• Apps for Higher Ed by Sue Ordinetz, Delaware State
• 17 Apps for Education by Higher Ed Tech Decisions
• 20 Apps for Academics in Higher Ed by the Marketing Prof

New Teaching Tools

• Create and provide more effective lectures
• One teacher's perspective
• Apps to use with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil in the Classroom

Tools for Enhancing Student Engagement

TodaysMeet

• https://todaysmeet.com/DTLWorkshop
• Remember to share your suggestions!!

Poll Everywhere

• www.polleverywhere.com
• Video demo: https://youtu.be/dT3aZ5Ph8e8
• Poll Everywhere adds live surveys

Remind

• www.remind.com/teachers
• Use the Remind app to send updates to students.
• PDF instructions: http://bit.ly/1L1uAjz

Pocket

• Pocket lets you save any Web content. It can be tagged and searched.
  • Saves webpages to be read offline.

Wordle

• www.wordle.net
• Create WORD CLOUDS based on frequency of word use in chunks of text.
• Example 1: Compare two political speeches by creating a Wordle of each speech's top 25 words.
• Example 2: Create a Wordle based on your syllabus to give students an idea of the focus of the course.
• 125 Ways and Counting to Use Wordle in the Classroom from 21st Century Ed Tech

Google Voice

• www.google.com/voice
• Using Google Voice

Google Duo

• https://duo.google.com

ShowMe

• www.showme.com
• iPad app for creating video tutorials through screen capture, voice, and still images.
• Instructor Sample

Explain Everything

• explaineverything.com
  • iPad app for creating video tutorials

Notability

• www.gingerlabs.com
• iOS/Mac app for note taking with handwriting, photos, and typed text using multiple colors and fonts.
• Zoom in and out; take notes on PDFs
• Share with Google Drive, AirDrop, Email, Dropbox
• AppChasers Review of Notability (18 minutes...but a good overview)

If This, Then That

• ifttt.com
• IFTTT tutorial https://youtu.be/CEAVFU3ELcI
• Android and iOS apps that allows you to create "RECIPES" to perform multiple actions (think Macros in Excel or Batch Processing in Photoshop)
• IF app recipes run automatically in the background
  • IF I post a photo to Instagram, THEN save the photo to Dropbox
• DO apps allow you to create recipes to connect the apps you love. Choose from DO Camera, DO Note, or Do Button
  • For example, DO Button could create a specialized button on your phone to create new events on your calendar