Three Ways to Create Your Own Mobile App
Since the start of the year I’ve answered about a dozen emails from readers who are interested in creating mobiles apps either by themselves or with their students. In most cases I’ve recommended one of the following three tools. Glide Apps Glide Apps enables anyone who can make a spreadsheet in Google Sheets to create […]
Five Ideas for Classroom Apps
On Wednesday I published a post about how to create your own mobile apps for classroom use. If you read that post and wondered why teachers would ever want to take on the task of making their own apps or having students do it, here are five ideas for classroom apps. 1. Create a mobile […]
Two Ways to Make Your Own Classroom App This Summer
Summer is here in the northern hemisphere and for many of us it’s a time to work on things that we’d like to use in our classrooms when school resumes in the fall. One of those things could be developing a mobile app specifically for your classroom or courses you teach. It might sound like […]
Two Easy Ways to Make Your Own Mobile App
On Monday morning I answered a question from a reader of my newsletter who wanted to know if there was a way for someone who wasn’t “techy” to create her own iPhone app. My immediate response was to say yes and suggest giving Glide Apps a try. I’ve been using Glide Apps for almost three […]
Glide 2.0 – New Layouts, Actions, and Sound Effects
Glide is a great tool for quickly creating your own mobile apps from Google Sheets. I’ve been using it and recommending it for the last couple of years. In fact, I featured it in the last session of the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp. Recently, Glide introduced version 2.0. The latest version of Glide […]
Glide Now Lets You Publish App Templates
Glide is probably my favorite new tool of 2019. The free service lets you take a Google Sheet and quickly turn it into a mobile app. It can be used to create all kinds of apps including staff directories, study guides, scavenger hunts, and local tourism guides. My tutorial on how to use Glide can […]
Create a Directory App for Your School
Last week’s most popular post was Dozens of Apps for Physical Education. In that post I highlighted the work that Kevin Shephard at Support REAL Teachers has done to develop apps through the free Glide service. Glide enables anyone who can create a Google Sheet to create a mobile app. You can start building an […]
Dozens of Apps for Physical Education
Glide is in my top five favorite new tools in 2019. Glide makes it incredibly easy for anyone who can make a spreadsheet to make a mobile app. We had fun using at the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp and many other people have shared their apps with me over the last few months. Perhaps […]
5 Ideas for Using Glide to Create Your Own Mobile Apps in Your School
The most popular video on my YouTube channel last week was this one about how to make your own mobile apps through a free service called Glide. Glide is a free tool that anyone can use to create a mobile app by simply creating a spreadsheet in Google Sheets. Since I published that video I […]
Glide – Make Your Own App by Just Making a Spreadsheet
Glide is an amazing free tool that I featured in a presentation during yesterday’s TLA Tech Glamp. Glide enables anyone who can make a spreadsheet in Google Sheets to create his or her own mobile app. If that sounds simple, that’s because it is just that simple. The headers that you put into your spreadsheet […]
