Thursday, September 12, 2013

These are my apps that I have downloaded because I thought that they would be the easiest to use in a lesson or used to create a lesson in a fun way. English Space Invaders, Easy Essays, English Vocabulary, Thesaurus and Typing Club. All these apps can be used to help with writing essays and understanding the English language.

 1. English Space Invaders is fun because it gives you a goal and a score as you type you keep the enemy alien ships away. This game focuses on typing skill and it also throws words at you on various levels.

2. The Typing app is a competitive app that times you type the words out. It's great for going back to the basics and increasing typing speed. It reads a page off to you at a pace that you select and it allows for growth in challenging speeds and different words.

3. Easy Essay is an app that shows you step by step instructions to writing an effective essay. It is a good way if you need pointers on how to brainstorm or how to start with a bubble chart.

4. English Vocabulary is primarily just a dictionary reference app. Not a whole lot of bells and whistles, you just type in your word that your needing to understand and it allows you to get a good definition, what art of speech it is and how to use it in a sentence.

5.The Thesaurus app is a good reference for typing up a paper and using good jargon. Its great for keeping you from sounding redundant and is a great tool for mixing it up as far as word choice goes.

 The goal from using these apps would be to increase your ability to type papers and also the quality of your papers will increase.

3 comments:

  1. The easy essay seems like a great tool for junior high and high schoolers to use!

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  2. Easy Essay is a good tool that I would have enjoyed having when I was in junior high.!

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  3. ENGLISH SPACE INVADERS was a lot of fun to interact with. If it was fun for me, I can only imagine how it would be in the classroom with children. Great app!

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