Pace Recorder Helps Students Pace Speeches

PaceRecorder is a simple Android app that records your voice and gives you instant feedback about the pace with which you are speaking. The...

29 Days of Android Apps for Teachers and Students

As you may know, in December I started a blog about Android apps for schools . Today, because it is February 1st I decided to put together a...

Math Practice Flashcards for Android Phones

Math Practice Flash Cards is a free Android App from TeachersParadise.com. The app designed for elementary school students. As the name imp...

Any.DO - Make Things Happen With Collaborative Task Management

Any.DO is a free Android App (iPhone version coming soon) for creating to-do lists and sharing them with your friends and colleagues. On An...

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...

Famigo Sandbox - Create a 'Kids-only" Section on Your Android Phone

Famigo is a service offering reviews of and recommendations of apps for kids to use on Android phones and iPhones. I wrote a review of it ...

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...

Android Apps to Watch TED on the Go

The more time I spend traveling the more time I spend consuming content on my Android devices. Two days ago, thanks to David Andrade I disc...

Does Cell Phone Use Lead to More Time Spent Studying?

StudyBlue , a mobile flashcard/ studying app that I've reviewed in the past , has released an infographic based on data about student u...

Tag My Doc - Assign QR Codes to Your Documents

One of the things that I really like about QR codes is that they make it very easy to put useful information on your phone or tablet. Rather...

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...

iStoryBooks - A Great Storybook App for Tablets

iStoryBooks is a free iPad, iPhone, and Android app that offers two dozen free digital storybooks for kids ages two through eight. Most of t...

Catch - Capture and Share Notes Anywhere

Catch  is a service that allows you to create bookmarks, text notes, voice notes, and images anytime you're on the web.  Catch  offers b...

Math Workout - A Great App for Keeping Your Math Skills Sharp

Math Workout is a free Android app for practicing your basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills. You can choose fro...

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...

Android Parental Control

Android Parental Control is a free app that limits access by others to your Android device's applications. With Android Parental Contro...

Week in Review - Here Comes the Snow

Good morning from Greenwood, Maine where we're getting ready for the first snow storm of the year. Before I went searching for a snow sh...

Add Custom Maps to Your Android Phone

Here's a neat application that I stumbled upon this afternoon. Custom Maps for Android allows you to use .jpeg and .png images of any ...

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...