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Digital scavenger hunts for building class community

by Mendi Benigni | Mar 14, 2019 | Assessment, Collaboration, Mobile

Scavenger hunts are a great way to get your students working together for a common goal. This is a wonderful way for them to bond as a class or to gel as a group project team. These types of hunts can be used for assessment as well but I want to focus mainly on...

Kahoot! Now Has A New Out-of-Class Feature!

by Mendi Benigni | Oct 19, 2017 | Classrooms, Distance Ed, instructional technology, iPad, Mobile, Pedagogy

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that, up until now, could really only be used face-to-face. But great news, it now has an out-of-class feature as well that can be used for homework or for online courses. I know many of you teaching online has wanted to use...

Ditch the Scantron, Use ZipGrade

by Mendi Benigni | Aug 21, 2017 | Assessment, Mobile, Productivity, TLT

Are you tired of walking to Bell or the Library to use the Scantron machine? Try ZipGrade. Last year at the ISTE Conference I was introduced to ZipGrade but am just getting around to looking at in depth. ZipGrade “turns your phone or tablet into an optical grading...

#OneNewThing – Padlet

by Mendi Benigni | Dec 13, 2016 | Collaboration, discussion, instructional technology, iPad, Mobile, Portfolio, Presentation, Research

“Padlet is a virtual wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any...

App Recommendation: 1Password

by leea5 | Nov 15, 2016 | Accessibility, Accounts, Mobile, social networking

Are you tired of trying to remember every password you have or worried about using the same one over and over? Try 1Password! 1Password is an app that stores all of your passwords in one area, locked securely by one main password. You enter this one password and it...

App recommendation: Prizmo – Scanning, OCR and Speech

by Laura Plotts | Oct 25, 2016 | Accessibility, iPad, Mobile, TLT

What is ? Take a photo of a document then Prizmo converts it to text and then allows you to hear it read aloud or save/export as a searchable PDF. Price: $ 9.99 Platform: iOS also for Mac supporting OS X 10.10 or higher for $49.99 Android users – see the...