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Explain Everything is another useful iPad app to create lessons/lectures for your students. Use fingers to draw, add images or video, record what you do on the screen as a movie with audio, and export the resulting video to, i.e., YouTube. In this YouTube tutorial, a teacher explains how students can use the app for their projects.

You can create a Chrome app in about 5 minutes, so this blog article claims. The article also explains in detail how to do this and how to add a Chrome extension to your chrome toolbar.

" I'm building up a collection of instructional posts to help you to use the apps." Instructional guide to using the many different elements in Google Apps (GSuite), such as Sheets, Drive, Docs, and Slides. Good for teachers and upper level students.

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"Description: A breathtaking array of 'learn to code' Apple, Android and Windows phone apps. Learn C++, Python C#, HTML, SQL, JavaScript, Java, CSS, php and Swift via the site or apps. These are 'must try' tools for anyone starting out with coding. The site even has a 'Code Playground' to experiment with your code." I haven't had a chance to try out any of these, but this should be an interesting starting point to get students coding.

While these are mostly translation tools, there are a number of interesting apps on culture as well: French and Italian cuisine, world customs and cultures in gestures and pesonal space, flash cards and tutoring, and "addictive gaming."

This looks like a great project, with pages to help you design your own apps, step-by-step guides, a library for App Inventor (the tool), curriculum and resources for teachers, and a community forum to get answers. Now if only we had time . . .

" I rarely say that any site or app is "the best" because what's best for my students may not be the best for another teacher's students. That said, I'm putting together a response to the question in the form of four lists of sites and apps for elementary school. There will be a list for math, science, social studies, and language arts." Visit this blog page to link to the subject areas you wish. T/H R. Byrne

This Google docs page aligns the apps that can be used to address various aspects of Bloom's Taxonomy. The list is regularly updated by the curates. The "How Do You Use It?" column has lots of ideas for teaching, with an emphasis on creativity and content-based learning. Rich resource. A similar spreadsheet for apps to use with Common Core goals would be very helpful. T/H to A. Burns

EdTechTeacher is a site with many free parts. The mobile apps page can be searched by type of device or by type of learning activity. The team also offers webinars and other apparatus to help teachers.

"I first wrote about word clouds in 2010, but six years later I'm updating the topic with updated apps, tools, and ideas. Below discover activities and web tools and apps to create word clouds. Get your students to create their own word clouds to express themselves. " This blog entry offers 35+ activities to do with word clouds, including vocabulary buiding and poetry.

A very handy app for adding titles/captions directly on a photo, either plain text or in color, rotated, fancy font, etc. Thi is iPhone and iPad, but check out what might be available for other smart mobile devices. Use for vocabulary self-quizzes shared on social media or among classmates, and for project-based learning.

A list by Gary Toews on useful education apps recommended by the U.S. STaRT Education Dept. K-9 + Teacher. Includes the usual, such as Google Earth, Calculator, etc., but also some imaginative ones, such as the National Film Board and Image Searcher.

A search engine for apps, organized first by the type of interface you are using: mobile, desktop, browser, or web (or all). May create some good short-cuts in the elusive quest for the perfect app.

These are divided by subject matter, and each has a short description, so it's not as daunting a list as appears at first glance. Take some time to explore the content areas, many of which are useful for language learners, such as Daily Haiku. There will be many apps with comparable features/functions for Droid-based smartphones and tablets also.

Great notes to help you get more from your iPad: create folders, use a split screen, search your apps, have a text read to your students, mirror content on an HD TV or connected to a projector, save a Web page to read later, find some good content creating apps.

The links include ManLabs Physics Simulations and the Academic Word List with crossword puzzles by Oxford Univ Press. You must log in to see the apps.

Among these errors are focusing on content apps instead of tools like Voicethread; lack of teacher guidance/management in using devices for learning; treating iPad as if it were a laptop instead of using its apps to enhance computer-assisted learning; teaching iPads as a multi-user device shared on carts across classrooms (remember the computers in closets?); and failing to communicate with parents and teachers about why iPads might be good for class.

At last the answer to my wishes: A free video converter that transforms the Mac .mov format into almost any desired other format, including Mpeg4, FLV, and AVI. Despite the goofy name, QTAmateur.app, this little gem will make it easy to convert your Powerpoint movies into video that can be uploaded to YouTube and viewed on mobile phones, etc. Thank you Anvsoft, Inc. It also supports English, French, German, and Japanese.

"Blogging apps make it possible for students to record their observations and those of others from almost anywhere (click here for the mobile apps for the most popular blog platforms). Here are three mobile blogging activities that you might have students try on your next field trip." R. Byrne suggests 3 lessons using Animoto for mobile, podcasting with Audioboo or Sound Cloud, and picture enhancement with ThingLink or PicCollage. More ideas in the links below the entry.

"Apple is upping its bid for its hot-selling iPad to be a teaching device, with an update today to its iTunes U app that allows any teacher to create a private course. "The new features, aimed at K-12 teachers who use iPads in the classroom, allow teachers to create up to 12 private courses. Within each course, teachers can point students to curriculum across lots of different (mostly Apple-powered) media such as iBooks, textbooks, apps, videos and Pages and Keynote documents." But there is no student information system or gradebook included, and you can't converse with students. Might be useful for mini-lectures.