App of the Day: Socrative

What is Socrative?
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

Applications for Education:
Socrative is a great tool for collecting immediate feedback from students via mobile apps or the internet on laptops or tablets. With Socrative teachers gather assessments via short answer, multiple choice and/or true or false questions. Socrative auto-grades multiple choice quizzes. All quizzes can be exported to Excel or viewed online in a Google spreadsheet. One of my favorite features is the exit quiz. Exit quizzes quickly check a student's understanding before the end of class.

Benefits of Using Socrative:
☆ Engages students through the use of technology
☆ Quick response from formative assessments
☆ Exit tickets to check student understanding
☆ Games to track performance while playing
☆ Multiple choice quizzes auto-graded
☆ Quizzes can be exported
☆ Up to 50 students logged in at one time per room
☆ Accessible from multiple devices (iOS/Android app, smartphone, laptop, tablet)

App of the Day: Flashcard [+]

What is Flashcard [+]?
Looking for a new way to study? Flashcard [+] is the answer. Flashcard [+] is a FREE app that allows you to create rich text formatted flashcards and download millions of flashcards on hundreds of subjects created by both experts and novices.

Applications for Education:
Flashcard [+] is a great way to study for exams no matter the subject area. The most unique part of this flashcard app is that you can not only create your own flashcards but import directly from Quizlet. Quizlet has thousands of flashcards. Just type in a key word and the app will search the Quizlet site for you.

Benefits of Using Flashcard [+]:
☆ Create your own cards with rich text formatting and images
☆ Download millions of flashcards made by other users from Quizlet
☆ Organize your cards into folders
☆ Share your decks with friends through iTunes or email
☆ Keep track of your progress for each deck and each card
☆ Manual and Slide show modes
☆ Combine or split decks
☆ Sorting flashcards
☆ New added feature: Text-To-Speech (more than 40 voices)

NOTE: The free version has the same functionality as the full version but is limited to 7 decks with 100 flashcards each. Also available is the Student Version for $.99 (up to 10 decks, up to 500 flashcards per deck) or the Ultimate Edition for $2.99 (unlimited decks and flashcards).

App of the Day: Snapguide

What is Snapguide?
Snapguide is a free iOS app and web service for those that want to create and share step-by-step "how to guides." The service provides easy to understand instructions for a wide array of topics including cooking, gardening, crafts, repairs, do-it-yourself projects, fashion tips, entertaining and more. Snapguide is free on the iPhone and iPad.

Applications for Education:
The purpose of expository writing is to inform, describe, explain, or define the author's subject to the reader.  Snapguide would serve as a creative way to introduce expository writing at the elementary level, especially to describe or explain a subject. Teachers can embed student snapguides on their webpage to showcase student work. 

Benefits of Using Snapguide:
☆ Snapguide if FREE!
☆ Your content is owned by YOU!
☆ In the Snapguide community one can search for other "how-to guides".
☆ Snapguides can be embedded on webpages (not blog sites).