15 Options for Creating Screen Capture Images and Videos - Including on Chromebooks

For the next few days I'm taking some time off to relax, play with my dogs, and ski with friends. Rather than leave the blog dormant for...

Updated 90 Page Guide to Using Blogger In School

Last week I updated my free guide to using Blogger in school to include directions for using the Blogger iPad app. This afternoon I updated...

Register to be One Of the First To Know When Google Play for Education Goes Live

Earlier this week Google announced that they will be launching Google Play for Education this summer. Google Play for Education promises to...

Google Play for Education Promises What Teachers Have Wanted from Android

Cross-posted from Android 4 Schools .  While I was busy leading a day of learning about iPad apps at Bridgton Academy Google announced a new...

10 Awesome Android Uses and Apps in Education

This week I'm taking a few days off to ski, play with my dogs, visit with friends and family, and generally recharge my batteries. If yo...

Keeping Up With Google Apps - My "Secret" Method

One of the questions that I am frequently asked is, "how do you keep up with all of this stuff?" 98% of the time I don't have ...

Google Books for Android Gets Handy Updates

Google Books for Android has become my go-to reading app on my Nexus 7 and on my Galaxy Tablets over the last year. The wealth of free publi...

Make Videos On Animoto for Android

I'm not sure how I missed the news earlier, but today I discovered that Animoto now has an Android app . The Android app, like the iOS ...

10 Awesome Android Uses and Apps for Education

This morning I gave a short presentation on Android apps for education. The slides for that presentation are embedded below. 10 awesome andr...

Google Puts a Search App in the Windows Phone Marketplace

While Android and Apple devices dominate the smartphone market, there are other smartphones that our students are carrying. The last time I ...

Where Are My Apps, Books, and Music? In Google Play!

The big Google news that I missed this afternoon while I was flying to the NCTIES conference is that Google announced the rebranding of th...

Year in Review - My Favorite Posts

Morrison says, "what is your New Year's resolution?" All week I re-posted the 25 most popular posts of the year. That list was...

Awesome Apps to Try on Your New Android Device

If you received a new Android device this holiday season. Here are eleven apps that you should try. All of these apps are free so there is n...

Android 4 Schools - My New Blog

From the shameless promotion department: As some of you know, I have started a second blog titled Android 4 Schools .   I started it because...

Playing With Skitch for Android

Did you know that Skitch , the popular Mac application for screen captures and drawings, has an Android app too? I recently learned about it...

Get a Paid Android App for Free Everyday

With a price point that is much more manageable than the iPad's and the marketing machine that Amazon is, there is sure to be a lot of t...

123s ABCs - A Handwriting Practice App for Android Devices

123s ABCs is a free Android app for handwriting practice. The app allows students to practice drawing uppercase and lowercase letters by tr...

Simple Drawing Lessons on Your Android Device

Here's a nice little app for the aspiring artist in your life. How to Draw Cartoons Animals is a free Android app that offers seventy s...

StudyBlue Mobile - Create Flashcards on Your Phone or Computer

StudyBlue , a free service for creating flashcards and sharing them,  recently released a new free mobile app for creating flashcards on th...

Three Vocabulary Apps for Android That I'm Testing

This morning I had the opportunity to run a couple of short workshops at my own school. Other than the initial oddness of being "the co...