Thing
38: App-palooza!
This
time I was determined not to look at every single app to decide which ones I
liked. This was my usual method on almost all of the other "things."
It usually was with a good purpose in mind, like finding the best digital
storytelling site for a project I was doing.
For
this one, my needs were to find Apps that I could use to create work for use in
the library.
I
only have my own Ipad - not a class set so I cannot even have more than
one student on them at one time if I do bring it in. I also was not looking for
general reading and education ones, although there are certainly many good
ones. I have looked in to them before just to see what was out there but for this "thing" my purpose was to look for Apps for my Ipad to use as a management/lesson creator tool.
I
still managed to find many apps for my own use to create lessons, info etc or
make working with library "stuff" more productive.
I
will list some of them here.
The
first app mentioned in cool tools that I thought would be very useful was:
This
is a handy app that lets you see what is out there for free.
A
website on the Cool Tools "thing 38" I especially liked was: The Digital Dog Pound -
this website refers to several apps and has a page with TASK CHALLENGES which
picks an app and challenges you to use it in certain ways. I picked several of
them and downloaded the app to go with it. It gave me several lesson ideas.
There were
many great suggestions there also.
Some
of the challenges I looked at were: Adobe Voice - use your voice to record - story (about...yourself or?), APP Smash Challenge - Combine two programs to create a project ,
Tellagami - simple create a character add recording-share, Skitch- (one of my favorites - take a photo or a map and add text - share - very easy to work with,) and Liner- a highlighter tool.
While
exploring that website, I also found other pathfinders, including one about digital citizenship - a topic we had
just begun to look for resources on.
One
final thing - I found this great "wheel" listing Blooms taxonomy and
apps to go with it:
BLOOMS TAXONOMY WHEEL
AND APPS
