As explained earlier, the point of using a mobile app in your classroom or in your lesson plans is to streamline the overall experience for you and your students. It can be as easy as an app that automatically grades daily quizes or as complex as an app that allows parents to check in on thier children during the day with having to disturb you, your class, or them.
A site this small cannot give you all the information that, say, a site like Common Sense Media; but, there are recommendations that can be made for apps that might fall a little below the radar or might be need to be clarified upon due to a lack of access for those who are not already a part of the platform.
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Allows the user to create a character bio and development chart. It makes it easier to keep track of characters motivations, effecting events, and personality changes throughout a story. Also can keep a detailed list of locations and physical attributes. |
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| Writeometer | |
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A useful tool for both beginning and veteran writers to keep track of thier time writing and motivate them to write more. Has daily alarms, customizable times, a thesaurus, word clouds, and inspirational quotes. Also has a reward system that can be customized for student motivation by equating wither individual or class points earned with much-desired prize. |
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| Edmodo | |
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An isolated social media network for students and teachers that is focused around education. The platform is similar to Facebook in many ways, making for an ease of use by most students and many facilitators. There are integrated tools that allow facilitators to post assignments, answer questions, make corrections, and grade assignments. Students are able to speak to one another with the knowledge that they are being monitored for "bad" behavoir, creating an online environment that is virtual free from bullying. |
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| History Timeline | |
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A simple app that shows users a visual timeline of important historical events from the social to the artistic to the scientific. Since the app is user curated (users can add information), one has to be careful about the accuracy about the information given, this is a useful tool for those who need to find a starting point for research or coensiding events. |
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| anWriter text editor | |
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For students who are doing assignments in HTML, Java, CSS, and other types of web-based programming languages, this useful app allows them to work on thier coding from thier phones or tablets. The app is optimized to work with touchscreen phones in that it offers its own autocompletion for tags and attribues as well as has an immediately available on-screen bar for frequently used punctuation that can be hard to find on a typical touchscreen keyboard. |
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| Sololearn | |
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For those learning how to code in web-based progam languages and either wish to improve thier skills or test themselves about what they have already learned, Sololearn provides a structured environment with pre-planned goals, activities, tests, and an award system that is meant to help learners improve. With a community message board that can be used to ask for help, tricks and ideas fpr site implementation, this can be an extremely useful tool for the inexperienced and experienced alike. |
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| Quizlet | |
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A useful app that allows students and teachers to create thier own study tools and quizes. The app focuses on learning games and tests based around the information entered by the user (teacher or student). That information can be on any subject and can include pictures, sounds, and weblinks. |
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