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
