Power Note is a free Android app that you can use to add bookmarks, text notes, and pictures to your Diigo account. The app syncs with your Diigo account so that you can access all of your notes and bookmarks from your computer, phone, or tablet.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Minus – Simple File Sharing Through Your Android Device
With a Minus account (free for up to 50mb of storage) you can share and access your files from an Android device, an iOS device, and through your desktop/ laptop computer. In fact, adding files to Minus on a desktop is a very simple drag and drop procedure. When you upload a file to Minus, you are provided an HTML code that you can use to embed your file into a blog post or website.
The video below offers a short overview of Minus.
Minus could be useful for students working on collaborative projects to quickly swap files that they need to share with each other. Minus also makes it easy for teachers to post documents online that they would like their students to read and discuss.
Quixey an App Search Tool
Browsing the Android Market for apps that perform the functions you want can be a time-consuming process. Recently, through Paul Hamilton’s excellent blog, I learned about a search tool that aims to help you find apps in less time than you can by searching or browsing the Android Market.
Quixey is a search engine for mobile apps. Using Quixey you can search for apps according to their functions and purposes. In the screen capture below you can see the results of my search for “build websites.” Quixey can be used to search for Android apps, iOS apps, Blackberry apps, Windows apps, and Chrome web apps. Your search results can be filtered according to device platform and price.
The next time you’re looking for an app for your use or your students’ use and you can’t find it on Android 4 Schools (shameless plug, I know), give Quixey a try.
PaceRecorder Helps You Pace Your Speech
PaceRecorder is a simple app that records your voice and gives you instant feedback about the pace with which you are speaking. The feedback comes in the form of three simple symbols; a turtle, a rabbit, and a thumbs-up. If the turtle appears while you’re speaking it indicates that you’re relaxed or perhaps a bit too slow. The rabbit indicates excitement and perhaps that you’re speaking a bit too quickly. And, of course, the thumbs-up means you’re right on track.
Here is a demo of PaceRecorder.
Students giving a talk to an audience could use this app both when they’re practicing and when they’re actually presenting. Students could lay their phones or tablets on podium or table in front of them to check their pacing as they move through their presentations.
Find the Common Core Standards on Your Android Device
The Mastery Connect Common Core app currently covers math and language arts standards.
(Dislosure: Mastery Connect is an advertiser on my other blog, Free Technology for Teachers).
