This week, Beth Skibinski, one of our first grade teachers asked me to check out an app called Tiny Scanner. I instantly fell in love with this app! This is an easy to use scanner for your smartphone. Of course, a scanner for your phone is an awesome idea for so many non-school reasons, but as a classroom tool it can potentially eliminate your need to visit the copy room. What teacher can't appreciate that? With this app, you can scan non-digital content wherever you are and share it with your students digitally. Don't redo all of those old pre-digital units that you spent so much time to build! If you are using Google Classroom, as our district does, just attach your scanned pdf to your assignment. Your students can access the document, open and complete it using an annotation tool such as Notability. After previewing the lite version of this tool, I almost immediately upgraded to the pro version so that I would have more sharing options (Google Drive, Dropbox etc.). Thank you Beth for sharing.
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| Tiny Scanner Pro |
Kristen Woodling, one of our Special Ed. teachers, shared another easy-to-use tech integration idea. She and her team are using the Chirp app to help students who have difficulty transferring information from the board. During morning routine, students are asked to edit a sentence from the board. One student takes a photo of the sentence on his or her iPad, then "chirps" it to all of the other students in the class. Learners then have the sentence on their own device, right in front of them to reference. Thank you Kristen for a simple and thoughtful solution to a long-time classroom challenge.
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| Chirp app for iPhone |
If you use a smartphone scanner that you like, please share it with us in the comments below. I would also love to hear about additional pdf annotation tools that our students with laptops can take advantage of. Thanks for reading! Thanks for sharing!
I like using Scholastic Book Wizard app. You can scan the bar code on a book and bring up the Guided Reading Level of a book. It does not have everything, but it is great to use "on the go."
ReplyDeleteThanks Jessica for sharing. I wish I had had that app a few years back when I was attempting to level my ENTIRE first grade classroom library!
ReplyDeleteA shout out to Kristen. I never thought about chirping out the music the students would be singing in class until I read her post. Now I just take a picture of the song and chirp it out to them (no more book to flip through). Thanks Kristen!
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