Creative Apps for Your Classroom!

Class Dojo is an online classroom manager that is meant to aid in fostering positive student behaviors. This proves effective because students are motivated to earn their 'Dojo Points' for appropriate or excellent behavior. In addition, this app is awesome because it includes the students parents as well so that they have a better understanding of what is going on with their child as well as the classroom. (https://www.classdojo.com/)

This app allows teachers to create personalized and interactive lessons. These lessons can be accessed on all smart phones and web players. There is another tool called TinyTap Insights that allows you to create assessments, homework and projects from the lessons you previously created for your students!
(http://http://www.tinytap.it/activities/)

This app allows students to play all kinds of fun, interactive and educational games without even realizing they are learning. The games are mostly for grades K-5 and has games for all subjects as well.
(http://www.abcya.com/)

This is a 3D augmented reality app that focuses on coloring while also supporting learning and fun. The app allows students to color in photos and afterwards they can use an iPhone or iPad to bring their coloring pages to life. (http://www.quivervision.com/)

This app is all about communicating, collaborating, citical thinking, and creativity. It allows you to test students formally or informally with prepared activities or even on-the-go questions in order to get immediate feedback of student progress and learning. (https://www.socrative.com/apps.html)

This is a digital storytelling app that gives students the freedom of creating their own story with their own pictures, videos, words and voice! Once a story has been created you have the option of sharing it with others as well. This is a great app to enhance students reading and English comprehension while also giving them the fun and creative aspect of learning as well. (https://littlebirdtales.com/)

This is an app that allows educators to teach through videos. Teachers have the option of selecting a video, crop it to what they need, insert audio notes, record over the video or stop the video to have questions as it plays out. This is engaging for students because it keeps them on their toes and they won't just tune out the video. (https://edpuzzle.com/)

Toontastic is a fun, interactie storytelling app that also has a junior version as well. The app empowers students to create, learn and share ideas through play. (https://toontastic.withgoogle.com/)

This app serves as a communication tool that helps teachers reach students and parents. Teachers can send out announcements to all student and parents at once without having to have everyone's cell phone numbers and without the hassle of a group
(https://www.remind.com/)chat.

Using this tool, teachers have a place where they can post assignments and then everyone can interact with each other as well. The app allows you to create groups, assign homework, schedule quizzes and manage progress. This tool also allows teachers to invite the parents to be able to see all of this. Inviting the parents to the app can create a better line of communication between parent and teacher and parent and student while also giving the parents and teacher a positive relationship. (https://www.edmodo.com/)