Android 4 Schools

Tellagami is a digital storytelling app that first launched on iOS and has become quite popular with elementary school teachers. Last week, I learned that Tellagami is now available for Android too. I quickly installed it on my Nexus 7 and found it to be just as good on that tablet as it is on […]

Writing teachers looking for a set of prompts to give to their students would do well to install the free Writing Prompts app on their Android devices. Writing Prompts provides exactly what the name implies, writing prompts. There are more than 500 free prompts organized into nine categories in the app. You can select a category […]

When I give students time to work on individual or group tasks during a lesson I often struggle to keep track of the time. One of the tactics that I’ve used to remedy that over the years is to use some type of timer that sounds an alarm when time has expired. Kitchen Timer is […]

Last year my school’s administration put on a big school-wide push for helping students develop their vocabulary skills. I was asked to put together a list of websites that students could use for that purpose. I published that list here. To complement that list, here are three Android apps that students can use to learn […]

AndroMedia is a free app for creating and editing videos on your Android tablet or Android phone. I initially tried AndroMedia about a month ago and ran into an annoying bug that prevented me from writing about it. The app has since been updated and that bug is gone so now I’m very happy with […]