Apps to Assist in Everyday Literacy Tasks
These are useful for communicating, collaborating, note-taking and annotating.
Pocket helps manage your readings. If you get numerous online reading suggestions per day or week, this is a great tool to manage them and keep them all in one place. It has a "night" function that dims the screen.
GroupMe allows you set up a private group for text messaging. A class could have its own GroupMe discussion space, and then students can send each other reminders, ask each other questions, etc. This tool allows the class to communicate with each other inside and outside of classroom hours, and the students can go to each other for help. Works on phones, mobile devices like iPads or iPods, and computers, so students don't need a smart phone.
Remind101 allows you to send texts to students without seeing each other's phone numbers. Several teachers use this one to send reminders like "First draft due tomorrow, and don't forget the Works Cited page."
Evernote is more of a "one-stop-shopping" app. It lets you manage notes, images, readings, and more all in one place. It has a free level and then for pay you get additional capabilities.
Subtext Subtext is a digital reading program built for K12 classrooms. Read and collaborate with your classroom for free by creating private groups, embedding discussion, finding content, researching, annotating and more.
*Thanks to RCWP teachers and Chelsea Writing Collaborative teachers for sharing!
