MOBILE APPS IN EDUCATION

1. Teachers

2. Collaboration for All

3. Animoto allows photos and videos to be combined into creative slide shows set to music. Educators have unlimited video access to export to their students.

4. TinyTap allows teachers to make personalized apps to teach material via games, interactive lessons, presentations, visual quizzes, music activities, and illustrated stories. These apps can be shared with everyone.

5. Socrative is a clicker-response system to allow students to respond to multiple choice, short answer, and quiz game questions. Results are displayed on graphs and can be exported as reports.

6. SuperDuper Data Tracker will monitor students' goal progress easily. Data can be added as well as notes about each session with the students.

7. EduBlogs has made blogging from mobile devices easy. This would enable teachers and students to interact easily through the class blog.

8. Understoodit takes the fear out of having to say "I'm Confused!" As a teacher lectures, students are allowed to submit information that is streamed to the teacher in real-time. The teacher is able to see whether the students understand the material or need more explanation. This is great for students in middle school up to college level.

9. Google Drive allows files to be shared and within your reach at all times. All files are safely stored so you can't lose them. Others can view, edit, or comment on files. This is great for collaboration between students and teachers.

10. AirBoard gives groups the ability to share work with live whiteboard messaging on iOS devices.

11. Administration

12. Students

13. PowerSchool app allows access to attendance and discipline on mobile devices. It also gives students' demographic information, grades, schedules, and even the buses they ride home.

14. Observation 360 is great for formal observations. Its template allows for written comments and check-off boxes. It also has a time-stamp feature to know at exactly what time different events happened during the observation. It allows information to be easily shared with the teacher after the observation as well.

15. iCal is a daily calendar to use for basic organization. This app will remind you of upcoming events for the day and can share your calendar with others.

16. Twitter is a fast, easy way for school administrators to get information out to teachers, students, and the community. It is great for promoting events in the school and encouraging community involvement and support.

17. Watchknowlearn provides free educational videos that are reviewed and approved by teachers for teachers and are placed in 3,000 different categories.

18. Dictionary.com app will read any word aloud, show the origin, find synonyms, and everything else you would need from a dictionary.

19. SuperDuper Story Maker app allows primary students to create their own stories using text, images, photos, sounds, and drawings. These stories can be saved, printed, and e-mailed to others.

20. Educreations app will record both writing and voice. This is great for students to explain their thinking while working a problem.