Beneficial Applications for Teachers in the Modern Classroom

Quiver is an augmented reality coloring application. This platform allows students to bring their illustrations to life on an ipad or tablet. This application will promote visual learning within the classroom. Quiver is aimed to target students in the elementary grade levels.

Little Bird Tales is a digital storytelling platform that allows teachers to bring lessons to life and keeps their students interactive throughout the lesson. This application brings a reality factor to the classroom. Available on both IOS and Android devices this application will be useful for teachers throughout elementary and middle grades education.

Plickers is an application that allows teachers to communicate with their students via smartphone. A class roster is created with phone numbers of students and parents, teachers are able to send texts via the application so no teacher phone number is required. This application will promote critical thinking in the classroom and allows students and teachers to communicate effectively.

Naiku is an assessment learning to that allows students to submit work and teachers to grade this work within the application. Students upload files directly within application and can also take exams, answer questions, and elaborate their though process by writing it out.

Socrative is a modern quizzing technology source for teachers. The app allows teachers to quiz their students and have immediate feedback on student comprehension. This piece of technology replaces Pen and Paper quizzes or any other traditional assessment methods.

Moxtra is application that acts as a digital binder, within the app you can communicate with students and students can communicate with other students. This application is very useful within group project assignments, students can easily interact with their project partners. This application allows for constant communication between all teachers and students.

Poll Everywhere is an interactive application that allows teachers to assess student comprehension immediately within the classroom. This application can be used on a web base or via text message. Instant feedback allows teachers to understand their students comprehension which makes for a more progressive classroom environment.

Telligami is a digital storytelling application. This application allows teachers to create avatars and create videos using these avatars, teachers can add speech to the avatars to communicate to their students orally. Telligami expresses creativity and communication within the classroom.

Seesaw is an interactive application that is teacher run. This application promotes communication within the classroom, teachers can communicate with students and students can communicate with teachers via "seesaw." Parents can also communicate with teachers through the applications dashboard.

Remind 101 is an application that has a user dashboard that allows teachers, parents, and students to all upload documents. These documents could consist of permission slips that need to be signed by parents, student work submissions, or assignments being assigned from the teacher. Remind 101 is a communication driven application that allows the modern classroom to run smoothly.