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
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.
