Astrid is a to-do list management service that functions on the web, on Android devices, and on iOS devices. Astrid is a collaborative tool that allows you to share tasks and assign tasks to people in the groups that you create. The Astrid Android app recently received some nice updates including the option to add […]
GoClass – Remotely Deliver Quizzes and Lessons to Students’ Android Tablets

GoClass is a free application for creating short lessons and delivering them to your students. The lessons can include annotated images, free hand sketches, text, and video. GoClass gives teachers tools for creating class rosters that they can use to keep track of which students are using the lessons when. Teachers also have the option […]
Discover Poets and Poems on The Poetry App

The Josephine Hart Poetry App is a free Android app that students can use to discover and read works of sixteen famous poets including Yeats, Byron, and Frost. Students can browse through the app to find a poet. When they find a poet students can click on that poet’s portrait to open a small biography […]
Chrome for Android is Updated Enabling Easier Form Completion

This afternoon Google released a new stable version of Chrome for Android. The latest version supports accessing the usernames and passwords that you have saved in Chrome on your desktop. This means that all of the auto-fill features in Chrome on your desktop work in Chrome on your Android device too. I know that I […]
For Better or Worse Google Translate Now Works Offline

Google Translate is known for occasionally producing some unintentionally hilarious translations (I’ve experienced this many times when translating Icelandic into English). Last week Google announced that those translations can now be made offline on your Android device. The Google Translate Android app supports fifty languages. To use the app offline you do have to download […]

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