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Voxer gives you instant voice on smartphones that is live like two-way radios. It is saved so that you never miss any information. Text, pictures, and location sharing available.

Cost: Free
Platforms: iOS, Android

Cost: Free
Platforms: Web, iOS, Android, Chrome

ClassDojo is a classroom tool that helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators. Better learning behaviors, smoother lessons and hassle-free data - and its free!

Cost: $1.99
Platform: iOS, iPad
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Welcome to Notability, a powerful note-taker on iPad and iPhone: sketch ideas, annotate documents, sign contracts, complete worksheets, keep a journal, record a lecture, jot travel notes, or teach a class. With iCloud support, your notes always travel with you!

Write, illustrate and annotate using gorgeous ink. Notability's zoom window helps you quickly and clearly draw every detail, while the palm rest protects your notes from unwanted marks. Choose the right pen and paper for any project.

Import forms, contracts, worksheets, documents, presentations, and even books; then use the same tools that help you take beautiful notes in Notability to mark up PDFs. Do you have files in other formats such as doc or ppt? Notability can import these too thanks to Google Drive.

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS, Android, Web
The easiest way to capture qualitative evidence of student learning.

Three Ring allows teachers and students to document anything, organize it in seconds, and have it seamlessly available at school and at home, both in the app AND on the website: www.threering.com.

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS, iPad
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Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your photos... Diagram a sports play...

With voice recording, realistic digital ink, photos and text, and simple sharing through email, Facebook or Twitter, now you can broadcast your ideas from anywhere.

TEACH ANYTHING
• Help students with homework by working through an example problem.
• Put your lessons on the web so students can watch them before and after class.
• Tutor someone from afar.
• Showcase your video tutorials on educreations.com and share your knowledge with the world.
• Add your commentary to famous works of art.
• Diagram football plays, John Madden style.

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS, Android, Chrome, Web Based
Kahoot! is a classroom response system which creates an engaging learning space, through a game-based digital pedagogy. Kahoot! is an easy-to-use blended learning platform which works on any device, making the classroom interactive, encouraging both educators and learners to ask great questions.

Cost: Free
Platform: Web
Mentimeter is an easy-to-use & beautiful online tool, enabling you to get your point across and convert others' opinion into sophisticated and distinct data, in real-time.

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS
The Geoboard is a tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics introduced in the elementary and middle grades. Learners stretch bands around pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more.

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS
Number Math App is for practicing basic elementary number facts. Its an easy to use and customizable application to enable focused learning.

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS, iPad
Designed to promote kindergarteners' mastery of number order. This app replicates a simple classroom activity in which children place number tiles in order from least to greatest. Options include using 10, 15, or 20 number tiles and designating a range of beginning numbers. Designed as part of the NumberSense Project at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL.

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS, iPad
Meet Sushi Monster! Scholastic’s new game to practice, reinforce, and extend math fact fluency is completely engaging and appropriately challenging.

Strengthen reasoning strategies for whole number addition and multiplication by helping monsters make a target sum or product. Earn points with each correct answer… but watch out for distractions! To be successful, plan ahead and strategically select numbers from the sushi counter.

Cost: .99
Platform: iOS, iPad
A fun simple matching game to learn to count and recognize coins
Approved by parents, teachers, and kids the world over.
Little Matchups is an exciting interactive matching game that helps your child rapidly learn how to recognize and identify important concepts such as uppercase and lowercase letters.

Cost: Free
Platforms: iOS, iPad
Number Pieces Basic helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computation skills with multi-digit numbers. Students can use the number pieces to represent multi-digit numbers, count, regroup, add, and subtract. The drawing tools allow students to label representations and show their understanding.

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS
"10 Frame Fill" provides children practice with recognizing additive "10 Families" (e.g., 1 and 9, 2 and 8, etc.). Set the 10 Frame to fill in sequence or randomly. Use contrasting color chips to fill the 10 frame as you determine the answer. Select to show a corresponding number sentence.

Designed as part of the NumberSense Project at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL.

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS, iPad
"A great way to give parents a break and let your kid have fun and learn at the same time." - Jen, Kindergarten teacher and mom of three.

Cost: 1.99
Platform: iOS, iPad
From the creators of the #1 Preschool App “Monkey Preschool Lunchbox”! Join your child’s favorite monkey in math games and activities in a playfully designed beach-themed world.

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS, iPad
Winner of Apple Design Award 2014
Editor's Choice - Children's Technology Review
Addimal Adventure, optimized for schools, allows teachers to create classroom accounts, adapts to each child, and is CC-aligned.
A special grouping feature lets teachers easily share iPads with other classrooms.
Most addition apps focus on drill with digital worksheets and flashcards. In contrast, our app teaches effective math strategies and scaffolds learning to promote conceptual understanding and fact fluency.

“Mt. Multiplis is not just focused on getting the answer, but also understanding the process of multiplication and the strategies that kids need to develop. I love how this app supports my students’ thinking in a way no other app does.” - Alana S., K-5 Special Education Teacher

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS, iPad
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QR Code Reader is the fastest and most user-friendly QR code scanner available. If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod came with a built-in scanner, this would be it. Here is what our reviewers are saying:

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS, iPad
Create and manage Kidblog accounts from your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. Teachers can monitor blog activity and moderate comments and posts. Students can easily upload photos and videos directly from their iOS device - with no embed codes or HTML. Happy blogging!

Cost: $3.99
Platform: iOS, iPad
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Easy Blog Jr is the easiest blog uploader available. Designed by teachers for early childhood and elementary classes, its simple interface ensures that children as young as 4 are able to easily post photos, video and voice-over-photos to a Wordpress or Edublogs blog. Older users can also publish text based posts. For Blogger users, check out our Easy Blogger Jr app - we will even create your Blogger blog for you - free!

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS, Web
Experience for yourself this magical educational app that has more than 5.000.000 engaged students around the world.
Nearpod is a must have application for teachers and schools that have access to a set of iPads, iPods, iPhones or Macs for their classes.

What's Nearpod?
The Nearpod platform enables teachers to use their iPads to manage content on students' iPads, iPhones, iPods or Macs. It combines presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution.

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS, iPhone (works on iPad)
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Chirp is a magical new way to share your stuff – using sound. Chirp 'sings' information from one iPhone to another. Share photos, links, notes and more: all from your built-in iPhone speaker. What will you chirp?

Cost: Free
Platform: iOS, iPad
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Doodle Buddy for iPad – Paint, Draw, Scribble, Sketch – It’s Addictive!

Doodle Buddy for iPad is the most fun you can have with your finger--heck, it’s the most fun you can have with all your fingers! Finger paint with thousands of colors and drop in playful stamps.

Cost: $3.99 (free version)
Platform: iOS, iPad
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Write About This is a visual writing prompt & creation platform perfect for classrooms and families! With endless ways to respond and the ability to craft custom photo prompts, it will kick-start any writing activity. 125 categorized images & 375 text+voice prompts included!