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
The Google Blogger app is an App Essential for Burlington students and teachers. Blogger is used as our student digital portfolio platform. Students in grades PreK-12 will be using Blogger to journal their academic career in Burlington. The Blogger app provides students with quick access to postings and content on their portfolio.
Cost: Free
Google Drive is an App Essential for Burlington students and teachers. Google Drive provides 5Gb of free data storage and access to anything saved in your Google Drive account. Google Apps for Education users can use the app as creation app, storage solution, and digital portfolio. Students and teachers can access Drive content through the app or by logging into Google from any web enabled device. Drive has become one of the most used apps in Burlington Public Schools and allows our district to use their Google accounts much more effectively.
Cost: Free
Haiku Deck is a Burlington App Essential. Haiku Deck is a simple and powerful app for creating great presentations. Students and teachers can use Haiku Deck as a modern replacement for PowerPoint. Haiku Deck presentations are built around using images and less text. Students can use Haiku Deck to create presentations and for digital storytelling. Presentations can be shared and the app does offer additional content through in-app purchases.
Check out a great Haiku Deck review from Andy Marcinek on the BPS EdTech Team blog.
Cost: Free
Genius Scan is a Burlington Public Schools App Essential. Genius Scan is an iPhone and iPad app designed to make scanning very simple. Genius Scan allows you to scan important documents and school work or projects in matter of seconds. The scan images can be saved as JPEG or PDF. These images can then be shared.
Reviewed and used by many BPS teachers and students – Genius Scan is one of the best scanning apps available in the App Store. This app is useful for any grade level and all students.
Genius Scan is part of the BPS Student Digital Portfolio Tool Kit. Burlington teachers and students can use Genius Scan to take a digital image of student work and share for uploading to Google Blogger and the BPS Student Digital Portfolios.
Skitch is one of highly recommended App Essentials. Skitch is a simple yet powerful interactive whiteboard style app that allows users to take notes or create content that can easily be saved to their Evernote accounts. While Evernote is one of most important apps in Burlington, it does not have the ability to use hand writing for annotation. Skitch provides this missing feature and ties everything together well for users who rely on Evernote for notes and content organization. Skitch is also a great tool for creating how to guides and presentation materials.
Skitch is great for nearly all grade levels and curriculum areas. Skitch provides a perfect platform for math practice, hand written notes, and science labs.
Cost: Free
JoinMe is an App Essential for Burlington Public Schools. With the join.me viewer app, you can join an online meeting or presentation on your iPad. After you download the app, go to http://join.me to log in or start the presentation. View someone’s screen, share ideas and collaborate in real time, for free! The app requires an Internet connection to join a presentation. Great for teacher computer screen mirroring on student iPads
Cost: Free
The Net Texts app allows students to use multimedia courses customized by their own teachers. With this app teachers can design their course materials by selecting existing courses (www.net-texts.com) or create new courses by mixing and matching items from the Net Texts library and their own educational materials. Students use the app to download and view these courses, filled with videos, slideshows, ebooks, PDFs, text, audiobooks, and Web links.
Cost : Free
