App Review of Adobe Slate

Adobe Slate is a free story telling app for the iPad. The Good:  I found Adobe Slate to be very intuitive. The app contains great projects to explore and get ideas from. The app allows users to insert pictures and text to tell a story about any topic imaginable. Since the app is very easy to…

Bring Science to Life with Your iPad

Editor’s Note: this post originally appeared on Jyhmon Moodie’s blog Science teachers have many great options for teaching different science concepts using the iPad. There are apps which allow teachers and students to create presentations, complete labs, work on projects, and lots more! Over the past several weeks I have been researching different apps and…

We’re Not Monkeying Around: Banana Boom Available Now!

I’m SUPER excited and proud to share that Manas Purohit and Michael Seleman, both seniors and first year members of the BHS Help Desk, have successfully developed an iOS application that is available for download TODAY for the iPad and iPhone. Banana Boom puts “your reflexes to the test” while users “tap to dodge explosive…

Google Classroom Mobile App Has Arrived!

Note: Currently, the Classroom iOS app is a bit tricky to find in the App Store, but my tech savvy students found it! Here’s how they did it: students launched the Google search app (in the App Store) then clicked on “related.” From there, they scrolled to the end of the second row of Google…

Engaging Learners Beyond the Screen with Osmo

This post originally appeared on TJ Horgan’s blog Osmo, a unique gaming accessory for the iPad, was created by Tangible Play, Inc. in 2014, and that is exactly what Osmo is. Osmo uses groundbreaking reflective artificial intelligence technology and is the epitome of tangible play, as it introduces kinesthetic learning opportunities for developing minds and closes…

Flipping the Classroom with Movenote

TECH TOOLS WITH A PURPOSE As I get ready to finish my first year as the Instructional Technology Specialist at Burlington High School, I can’t help but reflect on one of the very first technology tools I promoted and shared with my colleagues. That tool was Movenote. What excited me about Movenote was that it was free,…