Booktrack - Create and Listen to Soundtracks for Books

Booktrack is an interesting service that I recently tried after reading about it on Larry Ferlazzo's blog. Booktrack allows you to add...

Create Virtual Chemical Reactions on Your iPad or Android Tablet

goREACT is a free iPad and Android app from the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. This free iPad app allows students to virtually c...

5 Free iPad Apps Students Can Use to Take Notes

Cross-posted from iPadApps4School.com One of the things that I love about the start of the new school year is that so many students have go...

MasteryConnect Releases a New Science Standards App and Resource Pins

MasteryConnect, a popular Common Core standards assessment tracking service, recently released a couple of helpful new tools. First, the new...

5 Resources to Help Students Make Healthy Food Choices

The school district neighboring mine recently announced a new health and fitness curriculum that emphasizes "lifetime" fitness. On...

Learn a Language On the Go With Duolingo Mobile Apps

On the first day of the year I reviewed the free language learning service Duolingo . To learn a new language on Duolingo you read, listen ...

Watch Pandas and More on the National Zoo App

For the last two weeks I've been trying to use Windows 8 as much as possible. I'm using a Lenovo Yoga 13 to try a bunch of Windows 8...

Monosnap - A Screen Capture Tool for Mac, Windows, iOS and Chrome

Last summer I started using a new, free screen capture tool called Monosnap . At that time Monosnap was only available for Mac users. Monosn...

Vyclone - A Social Video Editing Service

Vyclone is a free service for collaboratively editing videos on your iPhone, on your Android phone, or on the web (does not work in Firefox...

Surface Languages - Learn 38 Languages

Surface Languages is a free service offering flashcards and practice activities to help students learn the basics of a new language. Surfac...

Connect and Collaborate With NASA

It's not a secret that I enjoy many of the educational resources that NASA offers to teachers and students. I enjoy visiting the NASA we...

The land of the free apps...and the home of the confused? - Guest Post

So many apps, so little time to go through them and see if they’re useful. We’re busy writing lesson plans that connect to and support the ...

Taking the Penultimate Notes

A couple of weeks ago Evernote released Penultimate as a free iPad app . Since then it has become my favorite app for taking notes and sket...

Timer Pop - A Handy Classroom Timer

I've written about a bunch of timer websites and apps in the past ( here's a list of five ). Today, I found another nice timer tool ...

Quipper - Build & Take Quizzes on Android and iOS

Quipper is a free tool for creating quizzes to be taken on iPhones, on Android tablets, and on Android phones. Quipper quizzes are multiple...

Transfer Files With Just a Bump

Bump is a free app for Android and iOS devices that makes it very easy to transfer pictures and contacts between devices. Bump can also b...

Weebly Gets an iOS App

Weebly has been one of my favorite tools for creating websites for a long time. Weebly for Education makes it very easy for teachers and st...

Hot Apps for Higher Order Thinking

Hot Apps 4 HOTS  (link opens to iTunes) is a free ebook about iOS apps that can be used to help students practice and develop higher order t...

Video Game Dealers - Be Careful With In-app Purchases

Here's a clip from last Thursday's Daily Show about games that offer in-app or in-game purchases through iTunes or other online mar...

Make Use Of Highlights the 100 Best Android Apps - Here are my picks to try

I have to admit that browsing the Android Market can be a little overwhelming for me. (The same is true for Apple's App Store). There ar...