Welcome to the Burlington Public Schools EdTech Team Apps site. This site contains links to apps that have been reviewed and tested in Burlington classrooms by BPS teachers and students.
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Please visit the BPS EdTech Team blog for more reviews, guides, and information.
The Overdrive app provides access to the popular ebook console system. Users can access ebooks and audiobooks from larger institution libraries. Users can check out content from within the app. Content is available through a regular lending period and users can request holds on unavailable content.
Cost: Free
Puppet Pals provides a simple user interface for creating digital stories and animated movies. Puppet Pals can be used in many grade levels and curriculum areas. Digital storytelling is one of the most powerful uses of an iPad in a 1:1 classroom. Puppet Pals allows students to create digital stories that explain literary works and concepts.
Cost: Free
Spanish Dictionary Pro is a free language translation tool. The app includes vocabulary builder games and review questions.
Cost: Free
Flipboard is news reader built in a magazine style. Flipboard is a Burlington App Essential. The app organizes content by category so users can personalize their news experience. This app also works with Google Reader. The app can provide students with a great introduction to using online articles and web stories in a news aggregator.
Cost: Free
Follett Digital Reader is a great app for schools that use Follett Destiny as their library management system. The Digital Reader app provides access to FollettShelf and ebook content purchased through Follett. Students can check out books and read on or offline. Students need Destiny accounts enabled to use some features. Burlington uses Follett Destiny and students in elementary, middle, and high school have access to digital content with the Digital Reader app.
Cost: Free
Subtext is a powerful app for using ebooks as a digital content solutions for 1:1 classrooms. Subtext allows the user to engage in a social reading experience. Subtexts allows students to engage in conversation about literary devices and terminology right in the margin of etexts. Teachers can follow the discussion and assess student participation. Although the app is free, ebook content may need to be purchased.
Cost: Free
Nearpod is great collaborative presentation and review app. Teachers can create presentations with embedded digital content and assessment questions. These presentations can be easily shared to student devices. Students can view presentations and answer questions providing teachers with instant data. Nearpod has been reviewed by Burlington teachers and is being used for several curriculum areas.
Check out a full review of Nearpod on the BHS Student HelpDesk blog.
Cost: Free
Your World is a fun app for learning about countries and states. The app provides a visual search like Google Earth and has some built in assessment and review. Screenshots can be saved for use with presentations and projects.
Cost: Free
