Evaluation 1 and 2

Name: _Luis Espinoza_____________________ Date:_3/9/17_______

CRITICAL EVALUATION OF AN CONTENT-BASED IPAD/IPOD APP
2011-2014 Kathleen Schrock (kathy@kathyschrock.net)
iPads for Teaching site: http://ipads4teaching.net

What is the title of the app? ____https://bubbl.us/__________________________ Cost: __Free____

Creator of the app __ LKCollab, LLC__________________ iTunes URL or location_________________________
Content area(s): __English______________________________________ Grade level(s): __K-12___

Level(s) of Blooms Taxonomy addressed with this app- highlight those that apply

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Content and components of the app: Answer yes, no, or N/A

1. Curriculum connection: Are the skills reinforced connected to targeted skill/concept?

Yes
2. Authenticity: Are skills practiced in an authentic format/problem-based environment?
Yes
3. Feedback: Is feedback specific and result in improved student performance?
No
4. Differentiation: Does the app offers flexibility to alter settings to meet student needs?
Yes
5. User friendliness: Can students launch and navigate within the app independently?
Yes
6. Student motivation: Are students motivated to use the app and select it to use often?
Yes
7. Reporting: Is assessment/summary data available electronically to the student/teacher?
No
8. Sound: Does the music/sound in the app add to the educational aspects of the content?
No
9. Instructions: Are the instructions included within the app helpful to the student?
Yes
10. Support page: Does the apps supporting Web page provide additional useful information?
No

Summary of the app 6-8 sentences

Using the data you have collected above, explain why you would or would not recommend this
application for use in the classroom. Include any specific ideas you have for its use.

I would recommend bubble.us for use in a classroom. This is a website that can be accessed
from any internet device. Bubble.us is a visual thinking tool for brainstorming, structuring
information, helping you to better understand, remember and generate new ideas. By
sorting different ideas, you find what column everything belongs in. For example, when
building an essay in an English class, you can make a bubble map. Once having an outline of
 a bubble map, each bubble could represent a paragraph you plan to have in your essay.
Once sorting each paragraph with bubbles, you can expand those paragraphs by adding
ideas to those bubbles. At the end, you would have multiple ideas for paragraphs and ideas
within those paragraphs.

Standard:
ISTE Standard; Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas,
testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
Evaluation 3

Name: _Luis Espinoza_____________________ Date:_3/9/17_______

CRITICAL EVALUATION OF AN CONTENT-BASED IPAD/IPOD APP
2011-2014 Kathleen Schrock (kathy@kathyschrock.net)
iPads for Teaching site: http://ipads4teaching.net

What is the title of the app? _____Any.do: To-do list & reminders________ Cost: ___free_
Creator of the app __Omar Perchik___________ iTunes URL or location_________________________
Content area(s): _____all core classes___________________________ Grade level(s): __k-12___

Level(s) of Blooms Taxonomy addressed with this app- highlight those that apply

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Content and components of the app: Answer yes, no, or N/A

11. Curriculum connection: Are the skills reinforced connected to targeted skill/concept?
No
12. Authenticity: Are skills practiced in an authentic format/problem-based environment?
Yes
13. Feedback: Is feedback specific and result in improved student performance?
No
14. Differentiation: Does the app offers flexibility to alter settings to meet student needs?
Yes
15. User friendliness: Can students launch and navigate within the app independently?
Yes
16. Student motivation: Are students motivated to use the app and select it to use often?
Yes
17. Reporting: Is assessment/summary data available electronically to the student/teacher?
Yes
18. Sound: Does the music/sound in the app add to the educational aspects of the content?
No
19. Instructions: Are the instructions included within the app helpful to the student?
Yes
20. Support page: Does the apps supporting Web page provide additional useful information?
Yes

Summary of the app 6-8 sentences

I would recommend Any.do for use in a classroom. This app is rated 4.5 stars. This app can
be downloaded or accessed through Android, IOS, Google Chrome App, Web browser. This
app allows you to add to-do list to your day, week, even month. You can set a calendar with
a to do list for each day. The app will send you a notification as a reminder when there is
something to be done in that particular time or day. You can also share your to-do list with
others. This can be helpful in school. Teachers can build a weekly to-do list for the students
or the students can just list their assignment for the week on the app.
Standard:
ISTE standard; Students understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a
sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.
Evaluation 4
Name: _Luis Espinoza_____________________ Date:_3/9/17_______
CRITICAL EVALUATION OF AN CONTENT-BASED IPAD/IPOD APP
2011-2014 Kathleen Schrock (kathy@kathyschrock.net)
iPads for Teaching site: http://ipads4teaching.net

What is the title of the app? _____Smart Thhinking ________ Cost: ___$32_+
Creator of the app __Pearson Education___________ iTunes URL or location_________________________
Content area(s): _____Writing Grade level(s): __college ___

Level(s) of Blooms Taxonomy addressed with this app- highlight those that apply

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Content and components of the app: Answer yes, no, or N/A

21. Curriculum connection: Are the skills reinforced connected to targeted skill/concept?
Yes
22. Authenticity: Are skills practiced in an authentic format/problem-based environment?
Yes
23. Feedback: Is feedback specific and result in improved student performance?
Yes
24. Differentiation: Does the app offers flexibility to alter settings to meet student needs?
Yes
25. User friendliness: Can students launch and navigate within the app independently?
Yes
26. Student motivation: Are students motivated to use the app and select it to use often?
Yes
27. Reporting: Is assessment/summary data available electronically to the student/teacher?
Yes
28. Sound: Does the music/sound in the app add to the educational aspects of the content?
No
29. Instructions: Are the instructions included within the app helpful to the student?
Yes
30. Support page: Does the apps supporting Web page provide additional useful information?
Yes

Summary of the app 6-8 sentences

I would highly recommend Smart Thinking. Most colleges and universities provide Smart
Thinking for free for their students. Smart Thinking is a website that can be accessed from
any internet device (smartthinking.com). This application allows you to submit a writing
assignment to a tutor online. They will then evaluate your paper and send you feed back.
This would help the student correct errors in their papers. Also, the feedback will give
information on how to become a better writer.
Standrdard:
ISTE Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice
and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Evaluation 5
Name: _Luis Espinoza_____________________ Date:_3/9/17_______
CRITICAL EVALUATION OF AN CONTENT-BASED IPAD/IPOD APP
2011-2014 Kathleen Schrock (kathy@kathyschrock.net)
iPads for Teaching site: http://ipads4teaching.net

What is the title of the app? ____ABCMouse.com_ ____ Cost: _$7.95 per month__
Creator of the app ____Glendale_________ iTunes URL or location_________________________
Content area(s): ____ Reading, Math, Science, Art, Music Grade level(s): __ages 2-8 ___

Level(s) of Blooms Taxonomy addressed with this app- highlight those that apply

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Content and components of the app: Answer yes, no, or N/A

31. Curriculum connection: Are the skills reinforced connected to targeted skill/concept?
Yes
32. Authenticity: Are skills practiced in an authentic format/problem-based environment?
Yes
33. Feedback: Is feedback specific and result in improved student performance?
Yes
34. Differentiation: Does the app offers flexibility to alter settings to meet student needs?
Yes
35. User friendliness: Can students launch and navigate within the app independently?
Yes
36. Student motivation: Are students motivated to use the app and select it to use often?
Yes
37. Reporting: Is assessment/summary data available electronically to the student/teacher?
No
38. Sound: Does the music/sound in the app add to the educational aspects of the content?
Yes
39. Instructions: Are the instructions included within the app helpful to the student?
Yes
40. Support page: Does the apps supporting Web page provide additional useful information?
Yes

Summary of the app 6-8 sentences

I would recommend ABCMouse.com for early childhood learning classes. This can be
accessed in any internet device through the web or can be downloaded on androids and
apple products. The first month is free and the rest will be $7.95. This app would help
children from ages 2-8 to learn reading, math, science, art, and music. The learning will be
fun because this application is based on games and videos. Kids would pass a mission by
answering the correct answers in a game and they will then move to the next level. The
next level would always get more challenging. Therefore, the kids will enhance their
learning.
Standard:

National standards; are experts at providing children with developmentally appropriate

experiences aimed at helping them meet these expectations. They work to enhance their own
assessment practices and at the same time advocate for appropriate limits on the types and uses
of mandated or standardized testing. They work to inform and influence policy makers with
respect to such topics as licensing requirements and providing reasonable funding.
Evaluation 6

Name: _Luis Espinoza_____________________ Date:_3/9/17_______

CRITICAL EVALUATION OF AN CONTENT-BASED IPAD/IPOD APP
2011-2014 Kathleen Schrock (kathy@kathyschrock.net)
iPads for Teaching site: http://ipads4teaching.net

What is the title of the app? ____Grammarly_ ________ Cost: ___free_

Creator of the app _____Bill Winterberg________ iTunes URL or location_________________________
Content area(s): ______Writing___________________ Grade level(s): __K-12___

Level(s) of Blooms Taxonomy addressed with this app- highlight those that apply

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Content and components of the app: Answer yes, no, or N/A

41. Curriculum connection: Are the skills reinforced connected to targeted skill/concept?
Yes
42. Authenticity: Are skills practiced in an authentic format/problem-based environment?
Yes
43. Feedback: Is feedback specific and result in improved student performance?
Yes
44. Differentiation: Does the app offers flexibility to alter settings to meet student needs?
Yes
45. User friendliness: Can students launch and navigate within the app independently?
No
46. Student motivation: Are students motivated to use the app and select it to use often?
Yes
47. Reporting: Is assessment/summary data available electronically to the student/teacher?
No
48. Sound: Does the music/sound in the app add to the educational aspects of the content?
No
49. Instructions: Are the instructions included within the app helpful to the student?
Yes
50. Support page: Does the apps supporting Web page provide additional useful information?
Yes

Summary of the app 6-8 sentences

I recommend Grammarly for a classroom setting. Grammarly can be accessed through any internet device
(Grammarly.com). You will add it to your device as a software. This application will enhance a students
writing by pointing out the errors in their writing. This application can be added to any of your writing
done on your computer. Whether youre writing emails, essays, or in social media, Grammarly would
correct your grammar.
Standard:

National standard; All students must have the opportunities and resources to develop the language
skills they need to pursue life's goals and to participate fully as informed, productive members of
society.