Three Ways to Create Your Own Mobile App
I’m taking the week off to do a bunch of fun things with my kids. While I’m away the most popular posts of the year so far will reappear. 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 […]
Why You Should Clean Your Phone
When was the last time you looked at your phone? According to my site analytics there’s at least a 55% chance that the answer to that question is “right now.” But when was the last time you looked at all the stuff that’s on your phone? How many files do have you that downloaded (knowingly […]
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 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 […]
Nine Tutorials for Making Your Own Mobile App
Glide is a service that anyone can use to create a mobile app without doing any coding. Glide lets you take one of your Google Sheets and have the information become a mobile app. It’s easy to use and you can get started in minutes. Last month I published this five minute tutorial on how […]
Four Free Tools for Creating Your Own Mobile Apps
Creating a mobile app can be a great way to get students interested in learning programming concepts and to get them to dive into researching a topic so that they can build the best apps they can. For example, if a student wanted to create an app that serves as a fun review game, he […]
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 […]
How to Make Your Own Mobile App
On Tuesday morning I published a post about great service called Glide that enables anyone who can make a Google Sheet to make his or her own mobile app. Judging by the volume of emails and Twitter DMs that I received, a lot of people are interested in using Glide. I made the following video […]
Now You and Your Students Can Create Quizzes in Kahoot’s Mobile App
Kahoot has released a major update to their free mobile apps. As of this morning you can now create a Kahoot game within the free app. The app also lets you distribute games to be played in your classroom or as “challenges” for students to play at home. More importantly, now students can create games […]
5 Quick Key Features That Can Save You Tons of Time
Quick Key is a powerful and popular grading tool developed by a teacher for teachers. The service utilizes the camera on your Android phone or iPhone to help you quickly grade a series of quizzes. When it initially launched a few years ago Quick Key only worked for multiple choice or true/false questions and was […]
Quizlet’s Practice Mode Now Works on Mobile Devices
The popular flashcard and test-prep service, Quizlet, has added a much-requested feature to their mobile app. You’ve long been able to review flashcards on Quizlet’s mobile apps. Now you can take practice tests on the Quizlet mobile app. According to Quizlet’s corporate blog, the practice test mode is available now on iOS and will be […]