In exploring the heaping amounts of apps available to use for education I stumbled upon a couple that I found to be interesting. One of these is called Hootsuite. With this app you can publish and schedule posts to multiple social media sites all at once. For educators who communicate with their students or have followers looking for their posts, this could be a very effective way to organize and keep track of each of the sites that need attention. I have to admit that since starting this course and becoming more of a “techy” than ever before I have felt a little overwhelmed at times trying to remember to follow up with each and every media site that we’ve joined. In that respect, I think that an app such as Hootsuite would be useful.
Another app that I thought may be quite useful in education is called VoiceThread. This app could be helpful in education particularly when a group of people are working together, on a project for example. The app allows several people to share conversation with documents or pictures and videos and has a feature that allows the individual to draw on the screen. If a group were to use this app it may make it easier to explain and share ideas and documents when they cannot get together, or in our case when the students may be thousands of miles apart.
There are several apps that can assist in education and it is fascinating to see the options out there that smart phones have that computers do not. It can also be very user friendly when an educational app is available on both a laptop and a smart phone so that a student has versatility in how and when they use such technological tools and in searching for these it reminds me of how much is out there and available to me and how I have barely scratched the surface.
Another app that I thought may be quite useful in education is called VoiceThread. This app could be helpful in education particularly when a group of people are working together, on a project for example. The app allows several people to share conversation with documents or pictures and videos and has a feature that allows the individual to draw on the screen. If a group were to use this app it may make it easier to explain and share ideas and documents when they cannot get together, or in our case when the students may be thousands of miles apart.
There are several apps that can assist in education and it is fascinating to see the options out there that smart phones have that computers do not. It can also be very user friendly when an educational app is available on both a laptop and a smart phone so that a student has versatility in how and when they use such technological tools and in searching for these it reminds me of how much is out there and available to me and how I have barely scratched the surface.