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Core Apps for Teaching and Learning

Bellevue Public Schools, Bellevue, NE

Core Apps for Teachingand LearningBellevue Public Schools, Bellevue, NE
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Book Creator

Book Creator lets you easily create interactive books and share them with others. You can add text, images, video, and more. It is a robust app that is intuitive for students to learn and allows them unlimited creation possibilities. Download from the app store here.
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Canva

Create amazing graphics to use for app smashing. A wonderful creation tool with numerous professionally designed layouts or create your own. You can create cards, posters, menus, announcements, infographics and more. Download from the app store here.
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Chatterpix

Want to make a picture talk? Chatterpix can do that for you.
Take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then share your pictures with teachers, friends, and family. Download from the app store here.
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ClassKick

Students work assignments on their iPad and get help from teachers and peers. Teachers create assignments, see all their students’ work in real-time, and give students feedback WHILE they work. Download from the app store here.
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Clips

Clips is a video creation app that allows students to add live titles, graphics, and text their videos. Clips is a great way for students to share book talks, self reflections, share a science experiment, demonstrate mastery of a concept and more.
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Green Screen by Do Ink

Use Green Screen by Do Ink to easily create amazing green screen videos and photos. This app is known for it's ease-of-use and simplicity. You can tell a story, explain a concept, create a commercial or perform a play all with Green Screen by Do Ink. Download from the app store here.
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Epic!

Epic! is a wonderful e-book library offering unlimited access to over 10,000 high-quality children's books. It also includes thousands of read-to-me and audio books. Download from the app store here.
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Explain Everything

Explain Everything is a fantastic app that allows students and teachers to annotate, animate, narrate, import and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. It offers an easy-to-use design, screen-casting capabilities and an interactive whiteboard. The options are endless with EE. Download from the app store here.

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Google Apps

Google Apps are free for students and teachers to use and offer a lot of great options. Apps include gmail, calendar, docs, slides, sheets, sites and more.
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iMovie

Create movies or movie trailers easily with iMovie. It pulls in photos and video from your camera roll and with it's easy to use interface students can quickly add titles, transitions and music. Download from the app store here.
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Keynote

Keynote makes it easy to create stunning presentations with the ability to easily app images, animated charts and fun transitions simply by touching and tapping. Download from the app store here.
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Nearpod

Nearpod is a great way for teachers to deliver content and gather formative data at the same time. It enables teachers to use their iPads/computers to manage content on students' iPads, iPhones, iPods or Computers. The teacher is in control of the delivery and can check for understanding through the lesson. Download from the app store here.
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Notability

This is a great app for annotating, drawing, audio recordings, and more. Use this app to annotate a PDF, sketch a visual to go with a story, record a writing conference, write, and record an audio in English or any language.
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Pages

Pages allows you to create stunning documents. It puts all the right tools in all the right places, so it’s easy to choose a look, customize fonts, personalize text styles, and add beautiful graphics.
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Popplet

Popplet is a great tool for creating timelines, organizational charts, graphic organizers, mind maps and any other form of visual organization. It helps students think and see things visually while creating relationships among the material. Download from the app store here.
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Quizizz

Create or use pre-made quizzes to gather baseline data, review concepts and more for every subject. Students answer multiple choice questions in a game format.

Classroom Applications


  • Background knowledge pre-assessment

  • Post instruction formative assessment

  • Review for assessment
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Quizlet

Students or teachers make flashcards to review key terms and vocabulary. Independent and class review games are easy to set up. Students can create their own sets of cards, or can use teacher created cards.

Classroom Applications

  • Practice and review vocabulary terms for all content areas

  • Practice spelling words by having students type their words

  • Review games and activities to practice key learnings can be done independently (i.e. Matching, Gravity) or cooperatively with auto-assigned teams
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Schoology

Learning management system connecting people, content, and systems.

Classroom Applications

  • Excellent way to push content to the iPad

  • Download course content and have the material available offline

  • Create personalized learning environments for students

  • Increase collaboration with discussions

  • Private way to differentiate
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Seesaw

Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students to independently document and share what they are learning at school. There are many options on how teachers and students can use Seesaw in the classroom.


Classroom Applications

  • Upload student work that is completed in other apps to share with parents and peers (Book Creator, Pic Collage, etc.)

  • Browse/assign activities from the Seesaw Activity Library that directly correlate to your teaching objectives

  • Reflect/demonstrate understanding of learning through various journal posting modes--videos, images, drawings, notes, and file sharing
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Socrative

Create formative assessments both multiple choice and short answer.

Classroom Applications

  • Use as a daily bell ringer to get a pulse on student understanding

  • Use as formative assessments

  • Create exit tickets

  • Place Space Race for some friendly competition