Android 4 Schools

Today is President’s Day in the United States so I thought I’d highlight a free Android app about the U.S. Presidents. U.S. Presidents, developed by Socratica, features quizzes and flashcards of information about all of the U.S. Presidents. Through the app students can learn things like length of time in office, party affiliation, and who […]

Storyboarder is a free Android app for creating storyboards. The app allows you to pull pictures from your Android phone’s picture gallery, add captions to them, and arrange them into a storyboard. When you’ve completed your storyboard you can save it as a PDF and email it or save it to Dropbox. Beyond using it […]

What’s the Idiom? is a free Android app that offers challenging word puzzles designed to help players practice identifying idioms. On each screen of the app players see a definition and or an example of an idiom used in context. The players then have to drag letters into place to correctly spell the idiom. What’s […]

Tell Me Stories is a free Android app for creating short picture stories. Using the app you can create simple booklets from pictures that are stored on your Android device. After inserting a picture you can type text to accompany it or you can speak text. Either way, the text that you enter can be […]

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 […]