By Request - Five Ways to Create and Use QR Codes In Your Classroom

Recently, through the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page I was asked for suggestions for tools for creating QR codes. Here are five...

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...

Three Ways to Make Useful QR Codes for Your Students

This morning I did a very simple QR code activity at the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp . QR codes were distributed on the tables in the room...

Making Meaning With Mobile Apps

Yesterday afternoon my follow-up presentation to my keynote on collaborative learning with technology was titled Making Meaning With Mobile ...

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...

Use Duolingo to Learn a New Language on the Go

Duolingo is a free service that aims to help you learn Spanish, French, German, or Portuguese. Recently, Duolingo launched an iPhone app (i...

Get Kids Documenting Nature on Project Noah

As I mentioned in my previous post, this morning I gave a short presentation on mobile learning activities. One of the activities that I inc...

StudyBlue Launches a New Way to Find Self-Study Material

StudyBlue is an online and mobile flashcard service that I've covered in the past . Today, they launched a new way for students to disc...

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 ...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tracks - Make Stories On Your iPhone

Tracks is an iPhone app for creating short photo stories with your friends on the go. Using the app you can create a sequence of images you...

Class Parrot - Text Students and Parents for Free

Class Parrot is a new service that enables teachers to send text messages to groups of students and parents. Using Class Parrot teachers se...

SnaPanda - Scan a Word, Get a Definition

Update: As of February 2013 SnaPanda is no longer available. SnaPanda is a free Android app that could help students expand their vocabula...

dotEPUB - Convert Any Webpage into an ePub Document

dotEPUB is a free service that allows you to convert the content of a webpage into an ePub format to read on your tablet, phone, or other e...

Famigo - Find Family-Friendly Apps for Your Phone

If your child can't wait to grab the iPad or Android tablet out of your hands, Famigo is a website that you need to check out. Famigo ...