Web & Mobile Apps

Web Apps vs. Mobile Apps

What's the difference?

• Web-based (Google Apps for Education)
• 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

• Teachthought.com: Top 50 iPhone Apps for Educators (2016 list)
• 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
• 25 Apps You'll Need to Survive College
• Kathy Schrock's Bloomin Apps

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

LiquidText

• LiquidText Features

• LiquidText Has Special Powers with Pencil

MyScript Nebo

• Nebo - Handwriting Recognition and More

• MyScript Nebo Features

Trello

• Ideas to Use in the Digital Classroom
• Project Based Learning Example
• Lesson Planning Example

Color Splash

• App Store Hall of Fame

Adobe Spark Images, Pages, and Video

• Adobe Spark

Canva Graphic Design

• Canva

The Prezenter (Infographic tool) by Prezi

• Prezenter Infographics

Tools for Enhancing Student Engagement

TodaysMeet

• TodaysMeet for this session
  • Remember to share your suggestions!!
  • Background channel tool for teaching
  • No account required

Poll Everywhere

• multiple choice, open-ended, word cloud answers
• www.polleverywhere.com
• Video demo: https://youtu.be/dT3aZ5Ph8e8
• Poll Everywhere adds live surveys
  • 40 students free when you register for an Educator's account
• Chrome/Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Keynote PollEverywhere app

Socrative

• www.socrative.com
  • Teacher thorough review of Socrative
  • 50 students free

Quiz In-class results Report

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 web pages 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.
• Example 3: Gain insights into corporate culture by creating Wordle word clouds of the "About Us" section of company web sites (e.g. Starbucks and McDonald's):

Starbucks:

McDonald's:

125 Ways and Counting to Use Wordle in the Classroom from 21st Century Ed Tech

Apps with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil

The following apps are even better with the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.

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
• CHE example

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
• Use to create sketch notes
• Share with Google Drive, AirDrop, Email, Dropbox
• AppChasers Review of Notability (18 minutes...but a good overview)
• Can sync to Mac

iAnnotate

• https://www.iannotate.com/
  • iPad app for marking up and sharing PDFs
  • Will also convert Word docs and Web pages into PDFs & allow to markup.
  • Integrates with Cloud storage e.g. Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, etc.