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Scan to PDF – A Handy App for Scanning Documents
Scan To PDF is an Android app that makes it easy to take a picture of a document and upload to Google Drive as a PDF. To use Scan to PDF start by taking a picture of the document, crop it, and click...
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Use the Kitchen Timer App to Keep Yourself and Your Students on Track
When I give students time to work on individual or group tasks during a lesson I often struggle to keep track of the time. One of the tactics that I’ve used to remedy that over the years is to use...
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A Short Guide to Buying Android Devices This Holiday Season
One question that I am often asked about Android devices is, “which ones do you like?” I’m asked this because there are so many Android devices on the market it’s hard to know where to start your...
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Mapsaurus – Find Android Apps Based on Your Interests
Mapsaurus is a free Android app designed to help you find new apps based on your interests and the apps that you already have installed on your Android devices. The app suggestions come in the form of...
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ClassDojo Launches an Android App
The popular student behavior tracking service ClassDojo has just released a new Android application. The new ClassDojo Android app brings the utility of the ClassDojo website to your phone or tablet....
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This afternoon I gave a presentation about Android at NCTIES. According to David Warlick’s analysis of the conference program it was the only presentation devoted to Android applications. Below you...
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Chrome for Android is Updated Enabling Easier Form Completion
This afternoon Google released a new stable version of Chrome for Android. The latest version supports accessing the usernames and passwords that you have saved in Chrome on your desktop. This means...
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Astrid – Group Task Management on Android, Web, and iOS
Astrid is a to-do list management service that functions on the web, on Android devices, and on iOS devices. Astrid is a collaborative tool that allows you to share tasks and assign tasks to people in...
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Use Weebly? Use Android? Try Weebly for Android
Last week Weebly released a new Android app. The app doesn’t allow you to create new sites or edit the look of your site, but you can use it to create new blog posts. The free app also allows you to...
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Create Your Own Digital Magazines on Flipboard for Android
Last month the popular digital magazine app Flipboard added an option for iPad users to create their own digital magazines to share through the app. Today, Flipboard brought that same option to...
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Writing Prompts – An App to Help You Start a Story
Writing teachers looking for a set of prompts to give to their students would do well to install the free Writing Prompts app on their Android devices. Writing Prompts provides exactly what the name...
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Try NoteLedge for Note-taking On Android Tablets
NoteLedge is a multimedia note-taking app for Android tablets. The app allows you to draw, type, speak, and video record notes. You can use all forms of those notes on one page or use a different...
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AndrOpen Office Puts Open Office on Your Android Device
Before I became a devoted Google Documents user, Open Office was my office suite of choice. I liked Open Office because of the wide range of file format types that it supported. In fact, I still have...
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View Your Desktop or Chromebook On Your Android Device
Chrome Remote Desktop launched as a Chrome App a couple of years ago. An Android version of the app is now available too. The Chrome Remote Desktop Android app allows you to access your laptop or...
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Add Narration and Drawings to Your Pictures With Clarisketch
Clarisketch is a free Android app that has great potential for classroom use. The app allows you to take a picture or pull one from your device’s camera roll then add your voice to it. While you are...
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Three Android Apps for Creating Flipped Video Lessons
There is no shortage of iPad apps for creating flipped video lessons. Android users aren’t as lucky. Finding good Android apps to use for creating instructional videos can be difficult. Here are three...
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The 5 Most Frequently Used Apps On My Android Phone
A couple of weeks ago I published posts about the apps that I use the most on my iPad and on my laptop. Those posts proved to be popular so I thought that I should create a similar post about my...
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Helpful Features Added to Google Slides and Docs for Android
Cross-posted from my other blog, FreeTech4Teachers.com The Android apps for Google Slides, Docs, and Spreadsheets recently received updates. The Slides app now supports supports inserting, moving,...
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Google Docs for Android Gets an Update – Improved Copy & Paste and More
If you are using your Google Docs on your Android device, you might have noticed that it updated today. If you don’t have automatic updates turned on, you’ll want to go into your settings and update...
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iAnnotate for Android – Annotate & Share PDFs
iAnnotate is a free Android app for drawing, highlighting, and typing on top of PDFs that you access on your Android tablet or phone. In a classroom setting iAnnotate could be used by students to...
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