Helpful New Poll Everywhere Features

Poll Everywhere is one of the services that I often recommend to use to gather feedback from students. This week some helpful new features...

Draw On Your Phone or Tablet to Search Google

This afternoon Google released a new way to search on your iPad, iPhone, Android tablet, and Android phone. Now instead of typing your quer...

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 ...

Glassboard - Private, Mobile Group Messaging

Glassboard is an app for Android, Windows, and iOS phones that enables you to create and participate in private groups. Using the app you c...

Soap Box - A Backchanneling Tool for Tablets, Phones, and Laptops

Soap Box is a new service that enables teachers to gather instant feedback from students through their cell phones, tablets, or laptops. So...

Ten Common Challenges We'll Face This Fall - Challenge #6: Cell Phones

Image Credit: mstephens7 One of my most popular presentations, the one that I'm most frequently asked to give , is 10 Common Challeng...

The Time for Mobile is Now - 7 Ways to Make It Happen

Image Credit: Editor B I've written about cell phones in schools a number of times in the past ( here's a summary post ). I'm fo...

Juice Defender - A Battery Preservation App

Between yesterday and today I spent nineteen hours in airplanes and airports (that's why no new blog posts appeared yesterday). During t...

Best of 2011 So Far - Daqri Augmented Reality

Now that my school year is over I'm taking a short fly fishing vacation. The posts for the rest of the week highlight my favorite resour...

Best of 2011 So Far - Study Boost

Now that my school year is over I'm taking a short fly fishing vacation. The posts for the rest of the week highlight my favorite resour...

HeyTell---Instant Voice Messenger

My name is Beth Still and I am a Social Studies teacher. I usually blog on Nebraska Change Agent , but I volunteered to write a guest post f...

Google Docs for Android

Last week Google announced the launch of a new Google Docs for Android App . Because of the way that I work I don't have a lot of times...

iPad - Yes or No?

When Apple introduced the iPad, I sat back and watched as people lined-up to buy what appeared to me to be an over-sized iPod Touch. Despite...

QR Codes in the Classroom

If you haven’t noticed, there has been an influx of strange black-and-white codes showing up all over the place. Restaur...

Power Vocab - An iPhone App for Vocabulary Study

Power Vocab is a free iPhone App for learning and studying vocabulary commonly found on the GMAT and GRE. The app uses artificial intellige...

Sugar Sync - File Sync and Backup for All Your Devices

Last month I sent out a friendly reminder to back-up your important files. I sent out that reminder after watching one of my colleagues pan...

Zapd - Create Websites from Your iPhone

Zapd is a new free iPhone application for creating websites on the go. Zapd is designed to allow you to create a mobile-optimized website f...

Catch - Capture Notes from Almost 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 br...

Study Boost - Study Through IM and Text

Students use instant messaging and text messaging to communicate with each other all day long. Study Boost knows this and is trying to leve...

Daqri - Build Your Own Augmented Reality

Daqri is a new service for creating augmented reality layers for your mobile devices. Daqri will enable users to create augmented reality p...