Best of the Best Lists

Are you looking for blended/flipped learning apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Brightspace Schools –The Brightspace platform combines the features and support you need to reimagine blended learning at K-12 grade levels. The tools in Brightspace help teachers create an engaging learning experience for students of all ages.

FlinnPREP– Using a blended learning approach, The FlinnPREP allows science teachers to personalize learning and empower students to learn critical concepts and skills. Each course features content that is easy to understand, curated OER, videos, games, formative and summative assessments as well as full-length practice exams aligned with the learning objectives. Students also have access to practice and review exercises, and they can prepare for AP exams without anyone’s help and at their pace.

Fuse Universal – This is a cloud-based learning solution designed to support continuous, social, mobile, and blended learning. This system helps put learning into the core of the business; it makes mobile-first learning solutions accessible to all retail colleagues, with recent expansion to customer operations and field engineers.

GnosisConnect – GnosisConnect is a user-friendly LMS built to manage a truly blended learning environment, which can be delivered on all devices. GnosisConnect has been deployed on Amazon’s cloud environment to improve reliability, speed, and security while decreasing the cost of ownership by 40 percent.

iCohere Unified Learning System – iCohere Unified Learning System is a feature-rich, all-in-one platform for webinars, courses, conferences, and communities. This system provides self-paced and instructor-led courses, plus blended learning, webinars, classes, a member portal, and more.

Lumesse Learning Gateway – Using the cloud-based learning management system provided by Lumesse Learning Gateway, organizations can manage blended learning programs that are fully customized for their organization and their employees. The platform’s interface is easy to configure and activate; the platform is available for use for compliance training, employee training, and workforce development. It is deployed as a Software as a Service/cloud service.

MaxScholar – MaxScholar is a learning platform designed for students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, ADHD, processing problems, and general difficulty reading. The platform is built as a digitally blended learning environment for developing reading, writing, and comprehension skills. It also teaches math skills with the use of customized software and engaging materials.

WebMentor LMS – This is a web-based learning management system that supports blended learning, certificate management, credits, e-commerce, and many self-service features. It also manages course offerings and lessons, uploads content to courses and lessons, and much more. Using this tool, your employees can build their skillsets quickly to maximize the potential of your workforce.

PlayPosit– PlayPosit allows you to create interactive videos for your flipped classroom. It has revolutionary features that let instructors assess learning in real time and increase student participation. The admin dashboard helps to monitor success stats and provides content-specific, personalized professional development. Responsive videos fast-track learning by enhancing memory, making classes flow better and more efficiently.

Smart Sparrow – Need help building a simulation, a few lessons, or even an entire course? Smart Sparrow’s team of learning designers will work with you to make your classroom vision become a reality. They will help you to establish clear, complete learning objectives; identify knowledge gaps and areas of common student misconception; build a proven pedagogical foundation for your lessons; and work with you to build active, learning-by-doing experiences for your students. Smart Sparrow’s tools work effectively for teachers in fully online, blended, or flipped classrooms.

iTeach.world – This is a cloud-based LMS, which helps schools with content creation, course management, and collaboration. This software provides a virtual learning environment best suited for live online, personalized, mixed courses with up to eight learners. It is useful for traditional, online, and blended classroom settings. It helps to deliver classes anywhere, anytime from your Internet-enabled device, and it provides an unlimited data storage service.

Genius SIS for Virtual Schools – Genesis is a web-based student information system designed for K-12 schools, districts, states, and higher education institutions, especially online/virtual and blended schools. Genius was designed from scratch to support the needs of online learning environments, such as rolling enrollments and integration with multiple language management systems. On this platform, users can create reports, dashboards, email templates, and even fields. Genius centralizes registration and management for all tools needed to deliver training.

EZ LCMS – This learning management system enables you to build, import, assemble, deliver, and track training content and events, all in one easy-to-use system. It supports the use of most types of content to create blended training products and can be used to deliver limitless training.

Eduflex – Eduflex is an educational ERP for managing campuses for nurseries, kindergartens, schools, colleges, or universities. Eduflex is a specialist e-learning company that offers expertise in instructional design and the digital delivery of e-learning and e-assessment in self-study and blended scenarios. It provides online assessment, skill surveys, and exams.

Edbrix – Edbrix provides an integrated e-learning platform for blended education using robust scholastic tools to facilitate storage, management, and sharing of knowledge for comprehensive learning through innovative delivery of instruction and assessment. Edbrix collaborates, communicates, and manages content based on Google and Microsoft productivity tools.

Are you looking for Astronomy apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Spacecraft 3D– Spacecraft 3-D is an augmented reality app that uses the camera on a phone or tablet to allow students to interact with and explore NASA’s spacecraft. Students can see how the spacecraft move, view them from all angles, and learn about the engineering used to create them. Spacecraft are organized into categories based on the location of their mission, so for classes studying specific planets, it is simple to find only the spacecraft associated with that planet. This app would be a valuable addition to the science or astronomy classroom or as an at-home extension for students fascinated by space.

Solar System Explorer – This app provides detailed 3-D images of the celestial bodies in our solar system. Every planet can be viewed in detail by zooming in on it. The moons and spacecraft associated with each planet are displayed at the bottom of the screen, and more information can be displayed by clicking the “I” button. The calendar at the top of the screen also allows users to see the planetary alignment on any date they choose.

Universe Sandbox – This is a practical approach to studying the solar system. It provides 3-D simulations of our universe, galaxies, star systems, planets, moons, and comets. Users can select any of these items to check their properties and even change them. The game also provides a simulation of how the changes affect the celestial body and others around it.

CK-12– Helps students and teachers to improve elementary learning worldwide by making personal education tools available. Learn more than 5,000 math and science topics at a speed that suits you. Math topics include arithmetic, measurement, algebra, geometry, probability, statistics, trigonometry, analysis, and calculus. Science subjects include geography, life science, physical science, biology, chemistry, and physics. Other subjects include SAT exam prep, engineering, technology, astronomy, English, and history.

Legends of Learning– Legends of Learning has over 500 games about earth science, astronomy, life science, and physical science. With over 300 game developers and collaboration with Vanderbilt University, this is the hub for educational science games for middle school children. Many children get bored with cookie-cutter classes, especially when they have fun video games waiting for them at home. Bringing video games into education can help children learn because they can have fun while doing so. Academic ability, performance, and engagement have been increased by playing games such as these.

Mobile Observatory –- Mobile Observatory is a complete astronomy app available for Android devices; it is designed for anyone interested in the sky’s wonders—whether the user is an occasional sky gazer or a passionate amateur astronomer. This app contains numerous features that provide kids with in-depth knowledge of extraterrestrial activities.

Sky Guide – This app makes stargazing simple. Just hold it overhead to automatically find stars, constellations, planets, satellites, and more. With so many fun and powerful features, there is something for all ages and experience levels. Sky Guide also has detailed information on extraterrestrial life, objects, and locations.

Are you looking for apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students who have Asperger’s syndrome? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Voice Dream Reader– Voice Dream Reader, has two main functions: to turn text into speech and to assist writers with proofreading their texts. For readers that struggle with dyslexia, vision challenges, or simply those that comprehend better auditorily, Voice Dream Reader can read any text aloud in 30 languages and 186 voices. Words are auto highlighted on the screen to improve comprehension and retention. The user can change the reading speed, highlight or take notes, and change the font size, color, or spacing. To assist writers with proofreading their texts, Voice Dream Reader can help writers find the right words through phonetic and meaning searches (“enuf” brings up the word “enough” and “giant water mammal” brings up “whale”). It automatically creates an outline to help writers structure their documents—reordering sections is as easy as dragging and dropping. And proofreading is as easy as listening. Writers hear their work read aloud and can more easily spot grammar errors, typos, and awkward wording.

Voice4u– Voice4u is an app designed to assist people with communication challenges due to strokes, autism, language barriers, or traumatic brain injuries. It consists of fun and memorable images that can be used to help bridge the communication app and communicate wants and needs. Voice4u comes with 180 icons that can be sorted alphabetically or put into categories such as foods, activities, and greetings. The user can also create individualized icons to suit their needs. This app is useful for families, special education teachers, and speech therapists.

Autism Xpress– Created to help young people with autism assess their mental state using a feeling seeker. The app includes fun games to help lighten the mood.

First-Then– The First-Then app is created with most autistic children in mind. Most children with autism expect order and certainty in their day to day routine, which is what the First-Then app does. It helps children to select their preferred formats of customizing their daily schedules.

Grace– Grace is a non-speaking exchange system created for people with autism to make their needs known independently. Users of this app can choose pictures to form a semantic sentence and share it by tilting the iPhone or iPod touch to get a full-screen view and then pointing at every card and watching as the listener read each word. 

iPrompts– IPrompts is an organizational app that makes use of timers and visual prompts to provide children with autism spectrum disorders a way of knowing and seeing their daily schedule. This app is used by many caregivers around the globe to develop and present visual schedules, timers, and choices to people with autism spectrum disorders. iPrompts is available for iPhone, iPod Touch, IPad, Amazon Kindle Fire, and the Barnes and Noble Nook tablet.

iReward– This app is a motivational tool that can be used on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. IReward helps you create a token board to reinforce positive behaviors using visual rewards. This app is particularly great for parents of children with disorders such as autism, ADHD, anxiety, and developmental delays because it serves as a form of motivation to them. The app is customizable and supports multiple users.

Orange Neurosciences– Orange neurosciences has developed a new product, ReadON, which is designed to provide a better, scalable solution for people with reading difficulties, AD, autism and associated stress, anxiety, depression, and other conditions. ReadON works exceptionally well for children with problems relating to dyslexia, ADHD, ASD, or other learning disorders. These conditions usually affect their ability to retain information leading to poor working memory and reduced executive functioning skills. The app helps adults dealing with stress, anxiety, and depression resulting from lifelong struggles with literacy. It is also useful for those with poor information retention and eye movement control limitations.

Pictello– Children with autism have language difficulties across the spectrum; some can express themselves using words, while others are nonverbal. Pictello has a solution, no matter the level of language disability. It enables these children to use photos, videos, and audio to share their opinions, views, and stories.

Read to Learn– Children and adults with developmental disabilities such as autism require special attention and teaching methods. Read to Learn focuses on comprehensive literacy and life skills to help kids and adults with developmental disabilities learn. The app uses heavily illustrated and interactive books with age-appropriate concepts to teach skills such as safety, life, and feelings. Up to 85 stories are available to the user with graded comprehension tests, texts spoken by professional narrators, and a text highlighting system. The meaning and pronunciation of every word can be heard when the user touches it.

See.Touch.Learn– This app assists teachers and parents of children with Autism and other special needs. It gives access to speech therapists, teachers, and parents to edit and modify the lessons according to each child’s level. This app is certified by TeachersWithApps, graded an A+ in educational value; it has also received awards and been endorsed as one of the top apps for special needs.

Special Words– Special Words is a speech and language development app that is adaptable to individual student’s abilities and needs. This app was specifically created for children and adults with learning disabilities and/or those with autism. There are five areas of targeted development covered by the app: communication and language skills, sight-word vocabulary, listening and speaking skills, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. Teachers and parents can import text, photos, music, and record messages to personalize the app and target student’s specific interests. Adjustable animation speeds are also included to accommodate different abilities and concentration levels.

Speech Blubs– A voice-controlled speech therapy app, Speech Blubs makes learning new sounds and words fun. Created for children with speech delays, apraxia of speech, autism, down syndrome, ADHD, and sensory processing disorders, Speech Blubs has over 1,500 activities. Included in the app are 14 fun sections such as Yummy Time, Sing Along, and This is My Body. To encourage student engagement, Speech Blubs uses facial detection so students can wear funny hats and sunglasses, lets students collect and fill virtual sticker books, and uses candy-shaped rewards so students can unlock humorous content.

Story Builder– Story Builder is designed to be a fun way to improve students’ ability to create narratives. The app’s goal is to improve paragraph formation, idea integration, and higher-level abstractions. These goals are accomplished through three levels of play with an easy-to-use recorder to record student narratives. Later, the app merges the student’s recorded answers into a larger narrative. With over 50 storylines and 500 questions to guide the narrative, students can create lots of different stories. Story Builder is particularly useful for special needs students with sensory processing disorders or those on the autism spectrum, as it includes extensive use of audio clips.

Are you looking for artificial intelligence apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

C-Factor – C-Factor provides gamified assessments that are neuroscience-based and driven by artificial intelligence for pre-screening of candidates. It lets employers run in-depth insights into prospective employees using ability and aptitude tests. It uses gamified simulations of real-life work scenarios to assess candidates; C-Factor is a cost-effective and time-efficient alternative to the recruitment process.

CoderZ by Intelitek– This platform enables schools to make artificial intelligence and computer technology readily accessible to students. It is a cost-effective, communicative, and captivating online platform that drills, prepares, and provides a simulation environment for students in grades 6 to 12. It prepares them for the rigors that they might experience in real life.

JoeZoo– JoeZoo is a grading and feedback app that helps teachers to make their feedback and grading to be more effective and hassle-free. It also guides students in developing 21st-century skills in all assignments without any hassle. JoeZoo is an AI (Artificial Intelligence) powered assessment app that was nominated for the 2015 Digital Innovation in Learning award.

MATHiaU– MATHiaU is a math learning software is offered by Carnegie Learning. It provides college-level math assistance, including one-on-one tutoring. With this app, students take thorough assessments and are given feedback that includes a personalized learning path. MATHiaU provides affordable, easy-to-use artificial intelligence-based tutoring.

MobyMax – MobyMax is a free web-based learning tool that uses artificial intelligence to create a complete K-8 differentiated and adaptive curriculum for Math, Language, Vocab, and Fact Fluency. With the help of machine learning algorithms, MobyMax provides personalized lessons for each student based on their individual needs. Machine learning helps MobyMax to pinpoint and fix learning gaps with adaptive, differentiated learning materials for all K-8 subjects. Students can learn at their own pace with lesson plans and practice sheets that are automatically generated for them. MobyMax goes one step further and includes contests, certificates, badges, games, and daily smiles to motivate students and keep them engaged. The multi-award-winning platform is the most widely adopted edtech platform in the U.S.

M-Shule – Based in Nairobi, is an award-winning eLearning platform. It was the runner up at the 2017 Global Edtech Startup Awards in London. The M-Shule platform makes use of artificial intelligence and SMS to deliver personalized education to primary school students across Africa. M-Shule also works without an internet connection, an outstanding plus point for an Edtech startup in Africa where only 10% of schools have internet access.

PLAiTO – This platform makes use of artificial intelligence to improve the learning process. PLAiTO creates a unique learning path for each learner based on the strengths, weaknesses, and characteristics of that learner. It can be used to create quality content.

Querium Corporation – Querium uses AI in their company to help students with STEM skills so they can be ready for further studies at high schools, colleges, and universities. The Querium platform delivers personalized bite-sized lessons and step-by-step tutoring assistance. Its personalized program is called StepWise, and it works on smartphones and computers. The company uses artificial intelligence for STEM (math, engineering, technology, and science education) applications. The app’s cognitive assistant helps students as they come across obstacles.

Slidebean – Slidebean is the world’s first slide design platform powered by Artificial Intelligence. The system analyzes your content and arranges it in a beautiful template tailored to your needs. With each click, Slidebean evaluates thousands of possible slide designs to find the perfect one for your content. It even recognizes important elements in your images to align them correctly for you. Slidebean lets you concentrate on your content, and it takes care of the rest! It can be used across a variety of subjects to assist with presentations and is particularly effective for storytelling.

Thinkster Math – A K-8 math tutoring program, Thinkster Math strives to improve students’ math performance, engagement, confidence, and critical thinking skills. What makes Thinkster Math unique is its three-prong approach: a unique curriculum, personalized treatment from certified teachers, and artificial intelligence that focuses on tracking the student’s thinking and determining how they arrived at an answer. Thinkster Math is available on desktops, laptops, and tablets.

Udacity – Udacity is an online learning environment for university-level classes at a fraction of the cost of a traditional university. With a focus on Artificial Intelligence, technology, and business, all Udacity classes are hands-on and interactive. To help graduates succeed in their chosen careers, class projects are designed to mimic real-world activities and can be easily included in portfolios for future job searches. Udacity also provides career assistance to graduates, including resume reviews and interview prep.

Zoomi – With Zoomi, the one-size-fits-all corporate training is thrown out the window to make room for each individual learner’s style. Using its proprietary Artificial Intelligence for Learning®, Zoomi maximizes a company’s training efforts through increased learner engagement, lower training costs, and improved course effectiveness. Zoomi’s unique learning solution is based around three cones: learning intelligence, learning analytics, and personalized learning. Learning intelligence lets companies know if their training is having the intended outcome with their employees. Learning analytics collects real-time behavioral data to ensure individualized training solutions. And personalized learning uses an artificial intelligence system that customizes learning in real time by diagnosing learners’ weaknesses or points of misunderstanding.

Are you looking for apps, tools, and resources that you can use with students who have articulation disorders? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Articulate it! Assistive Technologies– A multiplayer app created to help children with their pronunciation. The app contains over 1,000 images selected by a top language pathologist to enhance phonology at the word and phrase levels. Articulate it! is available on various iOS devices, making it convenient for mobile language pathologists, teachers, or parents.

Articulation Games Assistive Technologies– This app includes four entertaining games with a dynamic way of teaching sound production. The games were assembled by professional speech pathologists, and they contain over 40 phenomes arranged in order of sound placement. The app comes with flashcards and professional sound recordings. Children get rewarded for making progress on the game.

Are you looking for adaptive behavior apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

The Great Behavior Game – A website-based classroom management game, The Great Behavior Game allows teachers to monitor student behavior during lessons by awarding points or placing students into timeout status with a single click. Designed for students in Kindergarten through 5^th grade, teachers start the game each morning, and it runs throughout the school day with students earning points and stars for positive behavior and being put in time out or a freeze when their behavior requires a consequence. While in time out or a freeze, students cannot earn points or stars. When removed from time out or freeze status, their points are reset at zero. The Behavior Game keeps track of student scores and provides reports to help teachers troubleshoot student behavior and communicate more effectively with parents and other teachers about both positive and negative student behavior.

Calm Myself Down– This is an iOS app that trains autistic children to control their emotional responses to challenges and situations. Developed by an ABA consultant, it uses Applied Behavior Analysis techniques to help children manage tasks in smaller parts with rewards for a proper response. Children choose activities that help them relax; making these choices helps them to maintain control when the situation arises.

Kickboard– Kickboard is designed to suit your school’s existing systems by streamlining and automating it for improved consistency. Any incentive program for student behaviors such as stars, merits, demerits, color charts, or scholar dollars that your school uses will become better with the Kickboard.

ClassDojo– Keep parents informed about their children’s behavior and academic progress using this app. Record student behavior and development; upload photos that were taken throughout the school day to this platform. Students can also add assignments to their portfolio with just one click. You can also send visually aesthetic reports to parents and staff members. 

Classroom Carrots– This free app helps teachers maintain good behavior, encourage student participation, and much more. Student behaviors can be measured instantly on this app, and proper behavior is rewarded. Teachers can record attendance and achievements using the reporting tool, and the rewards book module allows them to interact with parents, build up their classrooms, and distribute stickers around the school.

iReward– This app is a motivational tool that can be used on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. IReward helps you create a token board to reinforce positive behaviors using visual rewards. This app is particularly great for parents of children with disorders such as autism, ADHD, anxiety, and developmental delays because it serves as a form of motivation to them. The app is customizable and supports multiple users.

Hero K12– This a student behavior management app for K-12 schools and districts. It builds the concept of student behavior analytics, accountability, responsibility, and it urges students to do what’s right. These are the life skills and abilities that can be taught in school with tools that improve student behavior and tools that promote student growth in a positive climate. It also helps educators to effect a positive change.

Are you looking for ACT preparation apps, tools, and resources that will help you ace the ACT? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

7 Speed Reading– This app can help you become a proficient reader in the English language while eliminating old habits that hold you back. With 7 Speed Reading, students can learn to recognize large clusters of words and read without first vocalizing in their heads

PrepMe– Academic success requires more than just working hard; it involves working smart. Improve your test scores by consistently practicing test questions specially designed for you. Use PrepMe to provide a unique approach to ACT^®, SAT^®, and PSAT^® test preparation, using customized tests tailored to shore up your weaknesses while considering the amount of time you have before your exam date arrives.

Magoosh– Testing, quizzing, and cramming are all difficult parts of any student’s life in school. Magoosh helps students prepare for tests by offering practice questions, video explanations, and lesson videos. Teachers will be able to understand where students make mistakes so they can help them learn. Students will also get feedback and be able to determine which topics and questions they should spend most of their time studying. With helpful support, Magoosh will get you to get the best test scores you have ever gotten in topics from math to language.

Vocabulary.com – A combination dictionary and adaptive learning game, Vocabulary.com, will help students master new words. The website doesn’t use flashcards or rote memorization. Instead, it exposes students to a variety of questions and activities to help them understand the meaning of the word. Vocabulary.com has over 500 ready-to-learn vocabulary lists for things like the SAT or TOEFL, or a user can enter their own list of words to master. Teachers can also automatically create a learning activity based on the content they will be teaching in a class by simply pasting the content onto the Vocabulary.com website.

Khan Academy– Khan Academy has more than 40,000 interactive Common Core-aligned practice questions and above 10,000 videos and explanations in economics, history, math, and more. This is the best study app and tutoring app for students of all ages who are struggling in science and other subjects. You can easily bookmark your best content to “Your List,” which can be used offline when you’re not connected to the Internet.

Are you looking for audio content apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Discovery Education – Discovery Education is a big player in EdTech. The company has established itself as the leading provider of digital curriculum resources, digital content, and professional development for K-12 classrooms. Around 5.6 million students across all 50 states and Canada are currently using Discovery Education. Discovery Education Streaming Plus, the comprehensive digital service supplementing instruction across all K-12 curricular areas, was recently the winner of the EdTech Digest’s Cool Tool Award in the Content Provider Solution category. Discovery Education Streaming Plus supplements instruction materials for all K–12 curricular areas. The supplemental materials include lesson plans, instructional strategies, and other content. Every possible source of content is available to students, including primary source documents, books, tapes, audio files, videos, podcasts, interviews, images, and more.

Kytabu – A textbook subscription app developed in Kenya. The app provides access to digitalized versions of all Kenyan textbooks from Standard 1 to Form 4 at rates that are affordable for African families. Kytabu uses machine learning to help provide personalized learning for learners. The learners can access educational content that includes books, videos, audios, tests, as well as exams. A great advantage of the app is that it can be used offline. This is a crucial issue in Africa where internet access is limited and often unreliable.

Learning Ally– Learning Ally contains hundreds of audiobooks for children and teenagers. With a monthly subscription, you will have unlimited access. This app is designed to appeal to dyslexic and disabled learners who often have difficulty reading conventional books. Learning Ally allows for easy adjusting of text and fonts to accommodate any child’s needs.

LibroVox Audio Books– LibroVox Audio Books gives access to over 50,000 downloadable audiobooks. Audiobooks are the reading of the future. They create an easy way to consume knowledge while running, driving, working out, gardening, or doing anything while anywhere. It also allows you to have more space in your home. Instead of having stacks of books, magazines, and papers everywhere, they are all stored on your phone that you always carry with you anyway. This app also helps us save countless trees.

Macaulay Library– Macaulay Library compiles all the audio and video available for many different animal species from all over the globe. By tracking their behavior and history, this information can be used for research, education, conservation, and more. Anyone can access this database, whether it be a student for a school project or a professional conducting serious research. Individuals can submit their clips to be added via the eBird/Macaulay media upload tool. Because it permits civilian uploads, Macaulay Library has the widest and best collection of media. 

Fun Phonics for your Little Genius– Teaching kids aged 4 to 6 with this iBook and eBook app will show them how to use their letter sounds to read and write. The student will learn the sounds of the alphabet and how they are used to read and spell words.

LibroVox Audio Books– LibroVox Audio Books gives access to over 50,000 downloadable audiobooks. Audiobooks are the reading of the future. They create an easy way to consume knowledge while running, driving, working out, gardening, or doing anything while anywhere. It also allows you to have more space in your home. Instead of having stacks of books, magazines, and papers everywhere, they are all stored on your phone that you always carry with you anyway. This app also helps us save countless trees.

Are you looking for augmentative & alternative communication apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Claro Assistive Technologies– ClaroCom is an iOS app for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). It uses text as a proxy for speech for people who have speech production difficulties. It can be used by children learning to read and adults with problems reading. Text-to-speech conversion is also available.

Proloquo2Go– Proloquo2Go is an augmentative and alternative communication app that uses signs and symbols to give a voice to people with communication disabilities. It uses images to help users pick the words that match their specific state of mind and thoughts. A grown-up can help a child to personalize the app to fit his or her individual needs, creating a better experience.

Are you looking for audio creation apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Blabberize– Create talking animations from still photos using this tool. You can choose from the available blabbers or create a new one. Choose a photo from your computer, pick a mouth area, and create a voice recording or upload an MP4 from your computer. It takes as little as 30 seconds to make an audio narration, and you can classify your work as private or mature.

NodeBeat– This is a responsive and fun visual app available for all ages used to produce music. With this app, no one is too old or too young to become an elite producer. You can create music from scratch in just minutes or watch NodeBeat as it generates its own. This app helps you unlock the musical maestro within you, save your productions, and share them with your friends. It offers Audiobus support so that you can stream live audio directly to Audiobus-compatible devices. Visit http://audiob.us to learn more.

Noteflight– This app lets you create, edit, view, share, and listen to professionally annotated music on your computer, tablet, and smartphone. Noteflight Basic allows you to keep your scores, share them with other users securely, or add them to your web pages. Noteflight Premium has additional features that enable you to create infinitely more scores, compose and listen using over 85 instruments in premiere conditions, record and score audios in real time, and print parts or entire score transcriptions. Scores can be transcribed using a MIDI device. With Noteflight, you can create score collections and share them with friends.

Superhero Comic Book Maker – Superhero Comic Book Maker lets students create animated comic books using engaging characters such as monsters and superheroes. Students can choose from 27 background options, including skyscrapers, spaceships, and the Moon. The app can be used by students with different ages and academic abilities thanks to the option to write text or narrate your story verbally with an audio recording feature. To further customize their comic books, students have access to over 170 stickers with sound effects and crayons and colored pencils to add sketches and drawings. Great to use as a reward or to encourage literacy skills, Superhero Comic Book Maker is a valuable creative expression app.

Curious About Me – This is an interactive app that features George, a curious monkey, as he leads children on a journey to create their art. It has two options: “Curious About Me with Curious George” or “A Day at the Zoo with Curious George.” With these stories, children are given verbal directions to take pictures and record audio and videos of themselves, their family, friends, and pets.

Imagistory: Schools Edition – A Storytelling App – This app lets children channel the audiobook narrator within them while it triggers their imagination. Kids can first preview the book or start recording when they are ready. They take a photo to be used with their author name to create their writing persona. Children can listen or share their story after completion. Teachers and parents can access the saved stories from the “listen” section.

Easy Stop Motion Studio – Introduction to Animation –This app exposes children to animation at an early age. It starts with a video tutorial (without audio or text) that lets children get to work immediately. They can record their voice and add it to the video as voice-overs. Text direction and orientation can be adjusted for children whose native language is not English.

Write About – This website provides a classroom writing community and publishing platform; it allows young writers and teachers to respond to writing prompts created by others. Writers can respond to prompts in writing or by recording audio. Privacy settings can be adjusted to get writing to the appropriate audience. Teachers and students can leave comments and give feedback to the writer. Students can join writing communities, either from their class or other groups.

LumieLabs – is Britannica’s K-12 digital storytelling and video-creation platform that shapes a new future for classroom learning. LumieLabs combines curriculum-relevant, project-based video lessons with millions of royalty-free, rights-cleared, fair-use multimedia clips and thousands of audio clips from best-in-class producers and artists for professional-quality content creation. It is the only video product on the market specifically designed to meet K-12 learning objectives, allowing students to become media-savvy creators. LumieLabs allows students to create stories, share them, and engage with their peers’ videos in a safe, controlled environment.