1. Awesome Apps
For K-5 Classrooms
Presented by J. Alfonso Champion

2. Awesome Apps Covered Today
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BrainPop
ClassDojo
Reflector
Nearpod
Fotopedia
Mad Libs
iMovie
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Sushi Monster
Wet Dry Try
Educreations
Dropbox
CloudOn
Google Translate

3. BrainPop & BrainPop Jr.
• Animated, curricular content.
• Supports traditional, blended, and
"flipped" learning settings.
• Supports individual, team, and wholeclass learning.
• Characters help introduce new topics
and illustrate complex concepts.

4. • Helps teachers improve behavior in
their classrooms quickly and easily.
• Captures and generates data on
behavior that teachers can share with
parents and administrators.

5. Reflector
• Replacement for Apple TV mirroring.
• Project your iPad onto any Mac or PC.
• Frees teacher from tethering.
• Allows iPad camera app to become a
document camera.
• https://www.reflectorapp.com/
o App located on your desktop

6. • Launch interactive presentations to
engage students.
• Students receive curricular content
and submit responses on their devices.
• Monitor classroom activity and
measure students’ results.

7. • Collaborative effort to create a photo
encyclopedia.
• Apps cover various topics, themes and
locations.
• Gives students an opportunity to learn about
unfamiliar places
• Exposes students to images from different
cultures.
• Great way to introduce units or topics.

8. • Fun way for students to review/apply
parts of speech.
• Use camera to add your own photo or
image to a story.
• One free Mad Libs collection book (21
stories).

9. iMovie
• Use the camera and microphone to record
student work and performances.
• Teacher/students can create movies using
text, transitions, visuals and music.
• Great tool for peer feedback and selfreflection.
• Create instructional videos.

10. Sushi Monster
• Keep the monster happy
by making target sums
and products.
• Helps students
strengthen reasoning
strategies for whole
number addition and
multiplication facts.
• Gives students
experience avoiding
distractions and
extraneous info.

11. Wet Dry Try
• Students master one
letter formation before
moving on to the next.
• It prevents and eliminates
reversals.
• It helps teach older
children size and
placement of lowercase
letters.
• Provides a multisensory
experience.

12. • Recordable interactive whiteboard that
captures your voice and handwriting.
• Produces video lessons that you can
share online.
• Students and colleagues can replay your
lessons in any web browser, or from within
the app on their iPads.

13. Productivity
Google Translate, Dropbox, and CloudOn