Showbie is a free educational app for teachers and students that makes creating and completing assignments, providing assessments, and storing grades easy.
Source: Showbie – The Heart of Your Paperless Classroom
If you are in an iPad classroom, Showbie may be a site you’ll want to check out. As a teacher, you can assign tasks to students, collect the assignment, and then provide feedback, all in the app. Feedback can be given by text or by voice.
Over the past few weeks we have been taking an ever increasing look at web resources that we can share regarding Internet safety. Here are some of the best ones and a brief description of the contents of each link: Source: Welcome to Chris Hamady .com – Journal – Internet Safety Resources A great collection of safety…
Source: Pixilart – Free Online Art Community and Pixel Art Tool Here’s a very cool drawing tool that students can use without creating an account. That doesn’t mean they can’t create account, Pixilart supports creating accounts with Facebook, Twitter, or Google logins in addition to allowing accounts to be created with only an email. Pixilart…
Minecraft is one of the most popular computer games, having sold more than 100 million copies since its release in 2011. Claims that it boosts creativity have been circulating for several years, and now there’s a bit of scientific evidence to back up that claim, according to the results of a new study published in Creativity Research Journal….
Today, we are excited to announce we’re bringing the magic of Minecraft: Education Edition to iPad. Now, students can tap into the power of iPad to build historic monuments, swim through coral reefs with the Update Aquatic, bring creative stories to life, experiment with chemistry, and document their learning with the camera and portfolio features….
This feature is an interactive visualisation of the East India Company’s trade between 1760 and 1834. Use the map, line graph and sparklines to select markets, commodities and date ranges to explore. Source: East India Company A powerful visualization and animation of the dominance of the world’s most powerful company from 1760 to 1834.
Source: Pressto Pressto is a journalism web app for K-12 students. The goal is to teach writing and critical thinking skills. The app is currently being piloted in schools in the US and Canada. You can contact them to get more information and to express interest in joining the pilot.
