Last week on iPad Apps for School I shared a nice app for creating infographics. That app is iVisual Info Touch. Shortly after that post went live Kathy Schrock informed me that it is also available for Android users. iVisual Info Touch makes it easy to create infographics. It is not necessary to create an […]
How to Create and Narrate Animations on Your Android Tablet

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 Prompts – An App to Help You Start a Story

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 […]
Use the Kitchen Timer App to Keep Yourself and Your Students on Track

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 […]
Three Good Android Apps for Vocabulary Practice
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 […]

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