A is for Awesome App

Just a quick post to share a useful app I recently learned about. My school is lucky enough to have a lot of technology and we got new iPad minis before Christmas break. We had a sharing session where we shared some apps that we use in our classrooms.

My tech specialist shared Apps Gone Free with us.

This is a free app that tells you about more FREE apps. As I like to say...FREE is for ME!

This app is is by AppAdvice.com. {This is my favorite AppAdvice page because it has categories and I love categories.}

So you download this app and it tells you PAID apps that have gone FREE temporarily. Here is an example of one from Thursday:

I recommend checking it daily or every other day because it sure is a bummer when you find an app you like but it expired before you could get it free.

Check it out and let me know if you love it like I do. =)

Happy app-ing!

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T is for TurboScan

My sister gets the credit for this great find. I needed to scan something for a blogger friend of mine and my printer's scanner was frustrating me. My little sister (in college to be a teacher) whipped out her iPhone and said, "I have this cool app!"

The app is called TurboScan and I'm in love.

On iTunes for $1.99. Worth every penny!

 This app turns your phone into a portable scanner. You simply take a picture of your document while in the app, adjust the frame, and it's turned into a PDF.

Weekly intervention test results (S=Satisfactory)

You know those times you need just ONE copy of something, your school's copy machine is like 10 miles away, and you forget to take the paper with you when you are at that end of the school? Yeah, that's why I'm loving this app.

I can take a picture of any student work, like the test results for my reading intervention group, and I've got a digital copy of the page. This app lets you create a document with multiple pages and you can always go back and add more pages to any document later. Pages can also be reordered before you create the PDF.

 
I can also take a picture of a student's work and email it straight to his mother so she can see what's up. Might come in handy for those little darlings who like to "get rid of the evidence" before their parents get to see the graded work.

There are multiple options to send it. You can also open the document in iBooks or Dropbox.

You can search also search for a particular document.

The "Morning Message" document above was from a picture taken off my whiteboard. I'm excited that I can take a picture of the things we write on the board and turn them into a document.

Maybe I am behind the times in finding out about this app, but I am so glad my sister old me about it. There are so many ways to use it.

If you already have this app, please leave a comment telling how you use it in your classroom. If you don't have it yet, I highly recommend it.

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