The Week in Review - The Best of the Web

Doing my best "Ellen impersonation." Good evening from Maine where I'm home after a great week in North Carolina for the NCTIE...

Educators App Turns Your Blog Into an iOS and Android App for Free

Educators App is a new service that will turn your classroom blog or website into an Android and iOS app. The service is available to anyon...

Stipple - Create and Search for Interactive Images

Stipple  is a new service that allows you to create interactive images. The service launched in closed beta during the summer. Since the sum...

A Glossary of Poetry Terms for Students

The Poetry Foundation offers some helpful resources for teachers and students. One of the resources that immediately jumped out at me when ...

Augmented Reality Comes to Sesame Street

This week Qualcomm and Sesame Street Workshop unveiled an augmented reality application called Big Bird's Words. The app will prompt s...

Create & Edit Documents in Google Drive for iPad

It was rumored last week on TechCrunch and today it is confirmed by Google , you can now create and edit Google Documents using the Google D...

Poll Everywhere Offers New Mobile Presenter Tools

In the EdTech Teacher workshops that I teach in the summer one of the tools that we always use for feedback is Poll Everywhere . Poll Every...

Mobile Formative Assessment; A One Device Solution

This week I am away on an offline vacation. Rather than let the blog be dormant or rerunning old posts I decided to give some other people a...

Try Aviary's Awesome New Mobile Image Editor

Last night I received an email from Aviary announcing their new mobile image editing tool. Aviary's new mobile image editor is availabl...

7 Great Note-taking Tools for Teachers and Students

This is another post that was prompted by a reader's email. The email was looking for a list of recommended note-taking tools. I've ...

An Excellent Set of Mobile Learning Activities

I shared this on my Android 4 Schools blog earlier, but because it encompasses more than just Android devices, I'm sharing it here too....

Explore the Windows Phone Apps Marketplace

I don't own a Windows phone so it was news to me when I learned a few days ago that there is a Windows Phone Apps Marketplace . I spent ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

VoiceThread Mobile for iOS

A few weeks ago I ran a workshop in which participants explored some tools for digital storytelling. One of those tools was VoiceThread . I...

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 ...