Apps recommended by teachers and Instructional Technology Specialists from Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools.
This weeks App of the Week discuss managing your class using the app Class Dojo. This tool is great for monitoring and reporting behaviors of our students. Learn more about how Class Dojo can aid teachers in managing their class.
This video is about App of the Week - Board Cam
In this video, we demonstrate a few of the useful features in Blendspace. We go over how to create lesson and pull content from various resources (both personal and open). In addition, we also review how to create and manage classes, and how to access lessons that others have created on Blendspace.
In this weeks video, Donna demostrates how teachers and parents can find the best age-appreciate media for their children using the app Kids Media.
In this weeks video, Jill explains how students can create an avatar with the app Tellagami.
In this video, Jake demonstrates how to use the app Feedly to save news arrticles from the internet into one location.
This video is to assist Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools with Guided Access for MAP administration using the iPad.
Watch as David Casavecchia and Bill Bode discuss the TED iOS app.
This video is about the SimpleTransfer app and how you can download pictures and videos off an iPad from a computer or other iOS device.
Watch the 33rd episode of CMS App of the Week as David Casavecchia and Debbie DeLong discuss the SyncPad app.
This app allows for musical creations using a variety of virtual instruments.
Math Mage is an iOS game that challenges students across grades 3-8 with fast paced math problems in all operations that must be solved as they defeat monsters. FUN!
In this week's App of the Week, Jenny showcases the iTunes U app!
In this week's App of the Week, Jenny showcases the iCab Mobile web browser app!
Edmodo is an easy way for classes to connect, share and collaborate.
Filtered student email, digital storage, YouTube video, blogs, and more.
Toontastic is an App that allows users to create cartoons/animations on the iPad. The App provides a variety of characters and backgrounds to choose from also the option to create your own or edit the existing options. Toontastic also allows for voice-over narration as well as provides a variety of musical selections to set the mood for your animation. Finally Toontastic allows you to share your creations on ToonTube as well as store them locally on the ipad.
Skitch is an easy and fun app for annotating over images and web sites.
In this week's App of the Week, Jill discusses Khan Academy.
Mobile access to an online subscription to video tutorials on a variety of software applications and mobile devices such as iPods and iPads.
The CMS APP of the week Paperport notes allows you to have a paperless classroom using a FREE app; record audio, dictate, type, handwrite, and annotate PDFs.
This week Lynn Keith and Lindsey Sipe discuss the app - Leafsnap!