Heather let me know that Hope over at
Second Grade Shenanigans was having an App Happy Linky Party.
I have had my iPhone for 3 years and I am pretty much addicted to it. The things that we can do with these machines is absolutely mind blowing. My husband has a Droid and we are always comparing our phones. I must admit that when he first got his phone I liked a lot of the things that it could do. Some, even, that I couldn't do with my iPhone. But as time has progressed, we joke that my phone remains amazing and his phone is slowly becoming inferior to mine. :-) I have been looking at the other posts that people have added to the linky party and I have almost all of them. And I would admit that they are all amazing Apps to have! Hope spoke of the book retriever app that she has purchased. It looks like a great tool! I found an app on Pinterest that is very similar to the book retriever. It is called
Class Book Organizer made by Booksource.
I initially posted about this resource earlier this summer HERE. I have been attached to this app and website for a good portion of the summer. Early in the morning, sadly, I will sit in my bed and take a basket of books and scan the barcodes before I even get out of bed. That is a sad statement!!! As of today, I have 797 books in my classroom library and I still have 13 baskets to go! YIKES!!! That's a lot of books! What I do like about the program is that I can add my students. They can use my iPhone or iPad to check the books out. I can track the books that they are checking out and see the levels and genres of the books that my students are consistently choosing.
The best thing about it, the app is FREE. It is called Classroom Organizer and it is available for iPhone and Android.
I am so excited to see what everyone else is using out there on their phones to impact their classroom.
What makes you App Happy!?!?
Juli
I started using this same app but was having trouble with lots of my books not being in the app.(maybe some are to old) I also have lots of books without barcodes. I talked to the support at the app (very helpful) and they said they were going to work on it. Wondering if you had any books that would work? Maybe they fixed the bugs. They also said they would always be free which I loved.
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Thanks for your comment! I have only had some books that weren't included in the program but I was able to add the them plus add books that were without a ISBN number so that it kept track of it in the system. I have also been having trouble with lots of those Scholastic books not having barcodes. The ISBN numbers are listed on the back, so I have just been typing the numbers into the website version and adding it that way. Since they have the option to add books without an ISBN number on the website, I have been able to add all of my books so far. I hope that helps. Good luck as you are organizing your library this summer. I am hoping that this will be ending soon for me, but it seems like it could be the project that NEVER ends!!!
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I bought the book retriever app and have had to manually enter books on that one. I am bummed because the book retriever app doesn't have an online tool as well to track your books. I found this app and have been tempted to use it and start all over.
ReplyDeleteI also found that a lot of my books don't have barcodes, so I made barcodes for them through Avery labels. It works really well. I just need to figure out if I want to start over. I like the app your talking about because of the other features.
-Abby
Mrs. Saunders' Lovelies
What a great idea about printing your bar codes! If I have time, I may have to go back and do that!!!!!
DeleteWell, my curiosity got the better of me! I started printing ISBN barcodes today!! Thanks for the tip!
DeleteCan't wait to check this app out! Thanks so much for linking up! :) Have a great year!!
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Thanks for hosting it, Hope! We are looking forward to meeting everyone at the Carolina meet up in September!
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I have seen several other blogger share about this app and I have yet to get it. I love reading about others having it and the real life experiences of using it. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI have a huge favor to ask you sweet ladies, I am having trouble with Blogger dropping me from following several blogs and then dropping me from other blogs. I think it dropped me from your list of followers because I don't see me in the list on your profile page. I also had to follow you again...which I was happy to do. =)
If you get the chance, I would love for you to come and try to follow me again. It is no biggie if you don't but this is frustrating me and I am trying to figure out what is happening.
Blessings to you both!
Heather
Heather's Heart
Heather,
DeleteThanks for your sweet comment! I just went and re-followed your blog. Hope you get that figured out with Blogger! That can be frustrating, I imagine!
Juli
You made my night.....was looking for iPad compatible app... This is awesome and totally solves my tracking dilemma...the kids will do anything to use this iPad I'm sure! We just got them and so I am just learning their capabilities! Thanks and I will now follow you closely hehe.....
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