By Amanda Hammond and Owen Flowers

1. Best of Apps -- Top 10
Amanda Hammond & Owen Flowers

2. Quizlet is a free website that allows teachers and
students to create digital flashcards and generate
interactive games for standards-based studying.
Quizlet has wonderful resources available to help first-
time flashcard creators.
Quizlet
*reads the word and definition to the student out loud
*provides targeted spelling feedback
*provides adaptive training to help students focus on
the items most difficult for them
*generates customized and randomized tests
*generates paper handouts, flashcards, and game
materials
*exports different card sets together to create a
personalized deck
*creates a class for students and for the teacher to
track progress
*uses millions of other user-created flashcards
*exports card set and uses with other programs.

3. Symbaloo
Symbaloo is a visual bookmarking tool for
teachers and students, making it simple and fun
to organize the best of the web. Teachers can
design webtiles for standards-based lessons or
webquests, with favorite websites at the
students’ fingertips without the students having
to type in lengthy web addresses--a great
organizational and time-saving tool for quick
and easy access for the teacher and students.
With a free account, teachers and students can
access preferred bookmarks from everywhere
with any device and share online resources
through created webtiles with others.
Personal webmixes can be created for the web
and connect with social media, read RSS feeds,
and use widgets like Search, Weather, and
more.

4. This is a great app that provides teachers,
students, and parents valuable communication
and feedback tools. Through this app, the
teacher can create a class with each student
having a monster avatar (that they LOVE)
where they can take attendance, post student
portfolios online, communicate with parents
individually or as a class whole, and give both
the students and parents both positive and
negative feedback about behavior.
Class Dojo

5. This provides students and teachers
with a great resource for text that
might not be in the library. It also
reduces the amount of books that a
person has to carry and makes sure
that all of your books are in one
place.

6. “A major factor in creativity is education: not
whether you had a ‘good’ or ‘expensive’ or ‘public’
education, but whether you were encouraged to
develop your creativity starting at an early age…” -
Adobe Study (2012).
PowToon is the most user-friendly animation
software for teacher and student use--a free app for
creating engaging and animated videos with a
professional look and feel, incorporating all three
major learning modes. PowToon uses a storyboard
builder format with ready-made templates and drag-
and-drop features that allow high-quality creations
in 20 minutes.

7. Online Stopwatch Visual timers can play a vital role in the lives of
students and teachers, making participation in
classroom events and activities more meaningful
and productive.
Visual timers are ideal in assisting with transitions,
staying on-task, time-out for younger students,
promote interdependence with individual
students, and in group work or cooperative
learning. The app also allows students to self-time
and self-pace their own work time or group work.
The online stopwatch app includes countdowns
that include rockets launching, an hourglass, a
burning candle, a walking robot, runners at the
starting line of a race, and a number of other
theme-related timers.

8. Students LOVE this math app because it is a
game that makes them not even feel like they
are doing math. In the game, students will get
to create a character as their avatar, and go to
different worlds to battle their friends. To win a
battle and receive the prize, they have to
answer a series of math questions that the
teacher can specifically pick out based on the
skill that the class is on, or what the individual
student needs.

9. This app provides students with extra practice
in math, reading, science, and social studies
from kindergarten to 12th grade. When
students are completing a lesson, it will notify
the teacher if the student is struggling with that
concept or if they are stuck on a question (or
also just not working on the skill like they are
supposed to be). The best thing about this app
is the diagnostic test that students can take for
reading and math. When students complete the
diagnostic test, it will tell them what skills and
on what grade level they should be practicing
so that it is easy to know how to differentiate
instruction or provide students with extra help
that is catered to them.

10. This app makes communicating
both faster and easier when wanting
to get messages to the teacher or
vice versa. Messages can be sent
individually or as a whole group and
tends to get to the intended person
faster than an email would after
regular school hours.

11. MEDtube
MEDtube is an online, free video-centric education
and communication platform for healthcare
professionals including athletic trainers. It is now the
world’s largest online repository for eTools for
education and communication.
Teachers and students can use MEDtube for
education and communication because the app
includes a video library, discussion groups, eLearning
platforms, eBook platforms, mobile applications,
webinar applications, an event calendar and a virtual
studio.
The information is presented in an easy-to-understand
way, so teachers can use as a resource for instruction
and students can search by term, injury, symptoms,
etc. A useful app when needing to narrow down an
injury and ways to treat the injury.

12. Best of Apps -- Top 10
Amanda Hammond & Owen Flowers

13. Quizlet is a free website that allows teachers and
students to create digital flashcards and generate
interactive games for standards-based studying.
Quizlet has wonderful resources available to help first-
time flashcard creators.
Quizlet
*reads the word and definition to the student out loud
*provides targeted spelling feedback
*provides adaptive training to help students focus on
the items most difficult for them
*generates customized and randomized tests
*generates paper handouts, flashcards, and game
materials
*exports different card sets together to create a
personalized deck
*creates a class for students and for the teacher to
track progress
*uses millions of other user-created flashcards
*exports card set and uses with other programs.

14. Symbaloo
Symbaloo is a visual bookmarking tool for
teachers and students, making it simple and fun
to organize the best of the web. Teachers can
design webtiles for standards-based lessons or
webquests, with favorite websites at the
students’ fingertips without the students having
to type in lengthy web addresses--a great
organizational and time-saving tool for quick
and easy access for the teacher and students.
With a free account, teachers and students can
access preferred bookmarks from everywhere
with any device and share online resources
through created webtiles with others.
Personal webmixes can be created for the web
and connect with social media, read RSS feeds,
and use widgets like Search, Weather, and
more.

15. This is a great app that provides teachers,
students, and parents valuable communication
and feedback tools. Through this app, the
teacher can create a class with each student
having a monster avatar (that they LOVE)
where they can take attendance, post student
portfolios online, communicate with parents
individually or as a class whole, and give both
the students and parents both positive and
negative feedback about behavior.
Class Dojo

16. This provides students and teachers
with a great resource for text that
might not be in the library. It also
reduces the amount of books that a
person has to carry and makes sure
that all of your books are in one
place.

17. “A major factor in creativity is education: not
whether you had a ‘good’ or ‘expensive’ or ‘public’
education, but whether you were encouraged to
develop your creativity starting at an early age…” -
Adobe Study (2012).
PowToon is the most user-friendly animation
software for teacher and student use--a free app for
creating engaging and animated videos with a
professional look and feel, incorporating all three
major learning modes. PowToon uses a storyboard
builder format with ready-made templates and drag-
and-drop features that allow high-quality creations
in 20 minutes.

18. Online Stopwatch Visual timers can play a vital role in the lives of
students and teachers, making participation in
classroom events and activities more meaningful
and productive.
Visual timers are ideal in assisting with transitions,
staying on-task, time-out for younger students,
promote interdependence with individual
students, and in group work or cooperative
learning. The app also allows students to self-time
and self-pace their own work time or group work.
The online stopwatch app includes countdowns
that include rockets launching, an hourglass, a
burning candle, a walking robot, runners at the
starting line of a race, and a number of other
theme-related timers.

19. Students LOVE this math app because it is a
game that makes them not even feel like they
are doing math. In the game, students will get
to create a character as their avatar, and go to
different worlds to battle their friends. To win a
battle and receive the prize, they have to
answer a series of math questions that the
teacher can specifically pick out based on the
skill that the class is on, or what the individual
student needs.

20. This app provides students with extra practice
in math, reading, science, and social studies
from kindergarten to 12th grade. When
students are completing a lesson, it will notify
the teacher if the student is struggling with that
concept or if they are stuck on a question (or
also just not working on the skill like they are
supposed to be). The best thing about this app
is the diagnostic test that students can take for
reading and math. When students complete the
diagnostic test, it will tell them what skills and
on what grade level they should be practicing
so that it is easy to know how to differentiate
instruction or provide students with extra help
that is catered to them.

21. This app makes communicating
both faster and easier when wanting
to get messages to the teacher or
vice versa. Messages can be sent
individually or as a whole group and
tends to get to the intended person
faster than an email would after
regular school hours.

22. MEDtube
MEDtube is an online, free video-centric education
and communication platform for healthcare
professionals including athletic trainers. It is now the
world’s largest online repository for eTools for
education and communication.
Teachers and students can use MEDtube for
education and communication because the app
includes a video library, discussion groups, eLearning
platforms, eBook platforms, mobile applications,
webinar applications, an event calendar and a virtual
studio.
The information is presented in an easy-to-understand
way, so teachers can use as a resource for instruction
and students can search by term, injury, symptoms,
etc. A useful app when needing to narrow down an
injury and ways to treat the injury.