Kristin

Professional Apps

Pic Stitch -- Free This app allows you to create a collage of pictures. Students could show understanding of an idea by finding pictures to illustrate that understanding.

Instaframe -- Photo collage and picture caption editor -- Free This app allows you to group pictures and create captions about yourself on the pictures. It seems to do a bit more than the PicStitch can.

23000 Great Quotes -- Free This app has a multitude of quotes and you can search by person or by theme. We do an inspirational quotes activity at the beginning of the year, and this could be a nice resource.

Shakespeare -- Free This app has all of the Shakespearean plays with summaries and character biographies. It would be a good supplement to class and allow students extra information.

The Poetry App- Free You can read poetry, listen to poetry being recorded and write and record your own poetry. Students can explore poets and even write poems mimicking the formats.

Goodreads-- Free A social networking site for books. You can see what your friends are reading, rate books, and write reviews. Students will create accounts and create reviews about books they have read. They will also friend other students in the class and rate their reviews.

Comic Maker HD -- Free Make comics in the classroom. We use comics when we review our parts of speech and create comics about the various parts of speech.

Penzu -- Free This app is an online journal writing application. One is able to write privately and securely or a teacher could create classroom journals for students.

Diigo -- Free <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">This app will allow you to bookmark and annotate articles. Since we need to include more non-fiction articles in common core, this app would complement our non-fiction writing nicely.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Literary Analysis Guide --3.99 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">This app will define different literary terms. It has nice graphics that group the terms according to prose, poetry, and rhetoric. Any English student would find this as a nice resourse with guiding analytical questions.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Tiny Scan -- Free <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">This application allows you to scan and fax files from your device. It is a time-friendly device.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Personal Apps

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">BMO Banking -- Free <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">This app allows you to check your account balance, deposit a check, and transfer money.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Amazon -- Free <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">This app allows you to buy things with one click. . . too many things at your fingertips to buy!!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Relax and Rest -- Free <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">This app is a guided meditation app. It allows you guided meditations at different time increments with or without music.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Yelp - Free <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">This app will provide restaurant and business reviews, helps you find businesses nearby your location, and let you have directions.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Netflix -- Free <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">This app will let me watch on-demand movies with my account, change movies in my queue, and browse for new movies and tv shows to watch.