Looking for ways to inspire and publish student writing? Come explore how to use the amazing Book Creator For iPad app in combination with a handful of other free apps to app smash a superhero buddy book to publish student writing and build a relationship between upper and lower grade elementary students. Follow the epic journey of book buddy superheroes as you walk through the features of the easy-to-use Book Creator app, explore image editing and drawing apps and app smash your own book. Export options allow the book to be shared and read on a variety of devices.
Alternative Mobile Learning Apps
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Come experience quick online and app-based formative assessment
and quizzing options on your iPad, Chromebook, or other mobile
devices and learn how to engage your students and gauge their
understanding of your lesson or class material. Session participants
will learn about specific apps and online tools and how to repurpose
other apps and online interactive tools to create collaborative
learning opportunities that will allow you to gauge student learning
on the spur of the moment or designed in advance and incorporated
in a learning management system.
Traditional Quizzes Kahoot
Create a game or copy one shared on the Kahoot site to check your students' knowledge and understanding in a fast-paced competitive manner.
Google Forms
Build a quiz from scratch or tap into the new Google Forms templates available on Google Apps For Education accounts to quickly design a quiz that can be sent to students, linked from a website, or embedded.
Socrative
Use Socrative to build a quiz from scratch or import quizzes from colleagues.
Plickers Plickers is a simple but powerful tool for collecting real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices. Free card sets
Poll Everywhere Poll Everywhere allows you to turn any internet-enabled devices into a student response system.
Other Ways To Check For Understanding Voxer Voxer combines voice, text, photo and video sharing for real-time or asynchronous conversations.
Padlet Padlet makes collaboration and idea sharing easy by allowing you to post text, links, images, and video.
Flipgrid Flipgrid allows you to easily promote discussion and collaboration in and outside of the classroom walls.
DocentEDU
DocentEDU helps you to turn the internet into your lesson by helping you to add vocabulary support, questions, open-ended response, videos, and much more to webpages that complement and supplement the content of the courses you teach - all with just a few clicks!
VoiceThread VoiceThread allows your students to join the conversation from anywhere and add their voice, thoughts, reflections, and doodles to the discussion.
EdPuzzle EdPuzzle can be used to tap into the wealth of video content available on YouTube or created by you with the addition of questions and stops for reflection to ensure that students are tuned in and not missing out due to distractions.
Camera App - video
Don't forget that the camera app on mobile devices is a great way for students to capture a spur-of-the-moment or well-planned video reflection that can be easily submitted and give you insight into their understanding of your course content.
