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Mobile Apps For Education

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Mobile Apps for Education

 

Showcase

 

 

Mobile Apps for Education Showcase

 

Thursday, April 7, 2016, 1:00 - 2:45 pm EST.

Room Holiday 4, Hilton Baltimore

To join the webcast, click here. Instructions on how to join the webcast are at the bottom of this page.

 

Time  Presentation Summary Presenter(s)
  A Better Communication Strategy with ESL Students via a Mobile App
This presentation is to demonstrate how this free app “Remind” can create a safe, an effective, and an efficient platform for oral and written communications among teachers, students, and parents outside the classroom. After the presentation, attendees will be able to use “Remind” to communicate with students instantly and effectively 

 

Jason (Hoi Yuen) Chan, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA (sunsun2477@gmail.com)

 
 

Using "Explain Everything" in the Classroom

Presenter will demonstrate Explain Everything, an easy-to-use interactive whiteboard app designed to allow the annotation, animation, and narration of teacher and student explanations and presentations. Specifications will be discussed. 

 

Lia Kamhi-Stein, California State University, Los Angeles, USA (lkamhis@calstatela.edu)

 
 

Notability as an instructional tool in reading and writing classes

Notability is a note-taking app that appeals to multiple intelligences and learning styles. This app can be used in various academic settings and content areas. This session will provide participants with techniques and strategies to guide English learners in reading and writing instruction. 

 

Dilafruz Vosieva, University of Central Missouri, USA (vosieva@ucmo.edu)

  Genius: How to Turn a Popular Hip Hop App to Your Teaching Advantage 
Genius is a crowd-sourced (and artist/producer-sourced) annotation tool dedicated to the enjoyment of rap lyrics, but which can be applied to the language analysis of any text. In both website and app form, it is easy for multiple learners to collaboratively annotate text with video, images, and other texts. 

Christine Rosalia, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA (crosalia@hunter.cuny.edu)
Phillip Chapman, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA (philchapmn@gmail.com)
Rocio Montero, Hunter College, Bronx Academy of Promise, USA (rocio.montero28@myhunter.cuny.edu)

 

Todaysmeet.com: Zero-Prep, Engaging Grammar Competitions

Do you have a grammar class that’s becoming a bit stale? NO TIME to put together inter-personal, exciting grammar activities? Students ALWAYS on their phones? Create zero-prep competitions with todaysmeet.com! Many grammar textbooks have repetitive exercises that can be turned into games in no time! Students and teachers love it! 

 

Brian Bennitt, California State University, Los Angeles, USA (bkbennitt@gmail.com)

 
 

TOEFL® test prep on the go: Unleashing the power of ETS's new official TOEFL® Go!™ mobile app

This session provides educators with practical, easy-to-implement classroom and homework exercises that will improve students' understanding of the TOEFL® test using the new TOEFL® Go!™ app. This free official app (with in-app purchases) was designed by Educational Testing Service (ETS), the maker of the TOEFL® test 

 

Elizabeth Jenner, Educational Testing Service, USA (ejenner@ets.org)

 

"Shadow Puppet": A Digital Storytelling Tool

The "Shadow Puppet" app allows students to create fun, multimodal digital stories using text, audio recording, images, gifs, and video clips. Participants will be walked through use of the app as well as shown examples from K-12 literacy classrooms. We will share sample rubrics aligned to language and content standards. 

 

Rachel Gorman, Hunter College, USA (racgorman@gmail.com)
Christine Rosalia, Hunter College, USA (crosalia@hunter.cuny.edu)
  Enhancing the Learning of Second of Language Learners Using Seesaw: the Digital Learning Journal 

Seesaw is a digital learning journal that lets students show their learning through the use of drawing, video, text, photo, and links. Second language learners can show what they know without having to worry about not fully grasping the English language.

 

Teresa Fields, Arlington Public Schools, USA (teresa.fields@apsva.us)

 

Chalkup—Student Engagement Platform for Mobile Learning

The presenter will demonstrate how Chalkup, this mobile Student Engagement Platform, fosters personalized and collaborative learning. Participants will learn how to create a class, share materials and add such collaborative tools as discussions, annotated assignment markups, and collaborative projects to make students active learners in this next generation learning platform 

 

Maria Tomeho-Palermino, CELOP, Boston University, USA (mrplrmn154@gmail.com) 

 

Using Groupchat Apps To Motivate More Writing In and Out of Class

With groupchat apps we can get even the most resistant students to write of their own volition. Attendees will see how using groupchat, both in AND out of class, leads to students writing more, more often and more willingly while overcoming errors more efficiently and with far less reluctance. 

 

David Winet, Cal State East Bay, USA (david.winet@csueastbay.edu) 

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