Category: iDevice

Social Media Highlight – Instagram

Instagram Overview Instagram is an app first released in 2012. According to its website, Instagram is a “free photo and video sharing app”. Although the company doesn’t use those words, it is… Read more »

Newsela in the Classroom

Overview Welcome Back, Teachers. from Newsela on Vimeo. Newsela is primarily an online news site that provides access to high-quality news articles, each of which is written at five different… Read more »

Epic! Tool for Reading and Literacy

Epic is an online library for children 12 years old and younger. It is free for use by teachers, and cost $4.99 per month for home use. Tools available Search… Read more »

Use Tinycards to Memorize Content

Tinycards is a flashcard app that lets you learn anything. It is an extension of Duolingo’s service. It lets you follow Duolingo (to learn German, French, Spanish or Portugese), as well as… Read more »

Unglue Parental Control

Unglue is a new tool that allows parents to set controls on children’s use of devices. The idea is that parents set limits on social media and entertainment sites and… Read more »

9 Common Problems and Solutions when using iPads

I used these cases with teaching assistants at my school in August, 2016. I hope that you find it useful. If you have any examples or questions, please post a comment…. Read more »

VoiceThread for Publishing and Collaboration

Voicethread is a great tool for collaboration and sharing. You can combine images, documents and video in a slideshow format. Then other users can add voice, text, audio file or… Read more »

Spice up Your Google Slides with Slides Carnival

If you’re creating a slideshow in Google Slides, you can find some more interesting templates than those built into Slides. To do so, go to Slides Carnival. Once you find… Read more »