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Android 4 Schools

Apps and Devices for Schools

GradeDroid – Two Student Android Apps in One

GradeDroid is a free app that is one part flashcard generator and one part GPA calculator.

The flashcard aspect of GradeDroid allows you to create and study flashcards directly on your phone or tablet without the need to sync your device to an external website. You can easily add or delete flashcards from the menu. When you study your cards you can specify which cards you want to appear more or less frequently than others in your set.

The GPA calculator in GradeDroid gives students tools to keep track of their course grades and calculate their rolling grade point averages. The GPA calculator isn’t anything fancy, but it could be handy for some students.

Try Mindjet for Mind Mapping on Android Devices

Mindjet for Android is a free app for creating mind maps on your Android phone or Android tablet. I have to admit that at first some of the utilities of Mindjet were a little tricky to figure out, I’m still not sure what the purpose of one of them is, but the more I explored Mindjet the more I liked it.

At the most basic level you can use Mindjet for Android to create a simple diagram using boxes and text. You can connect the boxes in a number of ways, change the colors of anything in your mind map, and quickly undo any mistakes that you make. Your Mindjet mind maps can include images that you upload from your device or from an online gallery like Picassa. You can also include links to external references in each aspect of your Mindjet mind maps. When you’ve completed your mind map you can export it as an image to save on your device or send it to any number of online storage services like Dropbox and Evernote.

The video below provides a good overview of the features of Mindjet for Android.

Mindjet for Android could be a good tool for middle school, high school, and college students to create outlines of topics they’re studying and or writing about. Mindjet for Android is probably a bit too complicated for elementary school students.

Painless Pre-Algebra from Barron’s Educational Apps

Barron’s Educational Apps offers seven free Android apps for practicing mathematics, science, grammar, and spelling skills. These apps are designed to correspond to Barron’s series of Painless books like Painless Pre-Algebra. While Barron’s would love for you to buy their books, you can use these apps without buying the books.

I tried two of Barron’s Educational Android apps; Painless Grammar and Painless Pre-Algebra. Both of the apps offer three games and three quizzes. In order to access the games students have to score 80% or better on the practice quiz.

The other apps available from Barron’s cover Algebra, Earth Science, Chemistry, Spanish, and Spelling. According to Barron’s these apps are intended for middle school and high school students.

Everstudent – A Student Planner Within Evernote

Everstudent is a student planner that integrates with Evernote. Using Everstudent, students can keep track of assignments and due dates for all of their courses.

To use Everstudent, a student must have an Evernote account. Once they have signed into their accounts students can use Everstudent to create a semester or year schedule of their courses. Then whenever they receive an assignment they can enter that assignment into Everstudent.

The video below provides an overview of Everstudent (warning, the background music is annoying).

If you have students that are already using Evernote for bookmarks and file management, Everstudent could be a good tool for keeping track of their academic assignments.

Microsoft OneNote Comes to the Android Market

If you’re a fan of using Microsoft’s OneNote to take notes, you’ll be happy to learn that OneNote is now available for Android devices. You can create notes, including notes with pictures using the OneNote Android app and sync them to your desktop or laptop through Microsoft’s SkyDrive service.

If you’re already using OneNote and SkyDrive on your desktop or laptop, you should already have a Microsoft Live ID. If this is your first try with OneNote, you will need to create a Microsoft Live ID to sync your notes.

If you work in a school that is using Microsoft SkyDrive services and Android devices, using OneNote for Android should be a natural fit.

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