Apps and Web 2.0 for the Elementary Toolbox

Fun Adjective lesson, activity and online quiz

30 minute Fitness videos that have an educational message. Perfect for those days that recess is rained out.

Make your Album interactive with particle effects and animations. Add a snow storm to your ski shots. Release balloons at your birthday party. Shower the bride with confetti. Enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Create dazzling custom-designed postcards showcasing your own photos or Bill Atkinson's nature photos. Iphone or iPad, Lite version available.

Confer is a note taking app for teachers that lets you record and keep track of the notes you take on your students; both individually and in small groups. Whether you teach Reading and Writing Workshop or simply want to take notes on your students, Confer enables you to take notes quicker and it lets you sort, group, and view your students in ways you just can’t do with paper and pencil. Confer also lets you export and import you data via email, or upload it as a spreadsheet, so you can access your notes anytime, anywhere.

Make a free instant website, choose a theme, name it, and begin to share your experiences. Make as many as you want. Each with a unique style.

Pic Collage (free), is one of my favorite apps to use on my iPad.  It creates great looking Scrapbook pages of multiple images in no time. Today, as I was planning with our first grade Hebrew teacher, how to upgrade a traditionally taught vocabulary project (creating a dictionary of their ...

Classroom Library system for Mac.

Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard.