Mobile Apps for Teaching
Engaging your Students using Mobile Devices
Please feel free to access and review the slides with the included video demonstrations: Engaging your Students using Mobile Devices Slideshow (available on Slideshare.net) Document Scanning App - TurboScan TurboScan turns your mobile device into a full-featured and powerful scanner for documents, receipts, books, photos, whiteboards, and other text. Using just your mobile device, you can quickly scan multi-page documents in high quality, and edit, store and send them as PDFs or JPEGs. To refresh your memory I am linking to the TurboScan Video demonstration (Youtube) Resources: TurboScan Free (Apple iOs) TurboScan Free (Android) Polling App - Plickers I demoed Plickers https://plickers.com/ it works for iOS (available in the App Store) and Android (Available in the Google Apps Store). This was the version that used "paper clickers" (special card shapes) and the instructor scans the room with the app to collect the responses. To refresh your memory I am linking to the Plickers Video demonstration (Youtube) Plicker Resources: Plickers.com Plickers (Apple iOs) Plickers (Android) Augmented Reality App - Aurasma Augmented Reality is a digitally enhanced view of the real world. Turn any object, image, or place into an opportunity for AR. Aurasma is changing the way we interact with the world. Turn everyday objects, images, and places into new opportunities for engagement through striking augmented reality experiences. To refresh your memory, I am linking to the Aurasma Business Card Example (Youtube) and the Aurasma Harry Potter Example (Youtube). Aurasma Resources: Aurasma.com Aurasma (Apple iOs) Aurasma (Android) Engage and Assess - Nearpod I also demoed Nearpod https://nearpod.com/ which was the tool where you can push a presentation and embed some assessment type questions for the students to answer as a pop up on their devices, this involves all the students to be logged into Nearpod on their devices to view your "Nearpod" content that you push out to them. To refresh your memory, I am linking to the Nearpod demonstration - Student Perspective (Youtube) and the Nearpod demonstration - Instructor Perspective (Youtube). Nearpod Resources: Nearpod.com Nearpod (Apple iOs) Nearpod (Android) Online Magazine – Flipboard Flipboard is an online magazine app that you can curate and add anything to. You can make Custom Magazines, create a personal or group magazine where you add all your resources, weblinks, articles, videos, social media feeds. To refresh your memory, I am linking to the Flipboard demonstration (Youtube). Flipboard Resources: Flipboard.com Flipboard (Apple iOs) Flipboard (Android) Annotate the Web - Touchcast TouchCast allows educators and students around the world to easily create comprehensive and engaging interactive videos. TouchCast is a great content creation tool for instructors. TouchCast is not just a static video, it offers a simple way for the instructors to include a wealth of related content and interactivity inside the video. The educator is able to not only convey the subject matter in a compelling manner (in the form of video), but can also include supplemental information. By including these interactive elements—from web pages and pictures, quotes, quizzes and polls—the educator significantly increases student engagement. To refresh your memory, I am linking to a TouchCast Example. Feel free to use this example to explore and navigate the interactivity and experience it from the student perspective. Touchcast Resources: Touchcast.com Touchcast Educators Guide (pdf) Touchcast (Apple iOs) Touchcast (Android) |