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I suspect that most teachers already know about this, but it occurred to me recently that I don’t think I’ve ever blogged about a mobile app that has been critical to my teaching over the past several years.
Genius Scan was one of the first mobile scanners, and now there are many to choose from (though I’ve stuck with Genius Scan).
An app like this is essential to educators like me who began teaching before everything went online.
I have many binders of paper hand-outs, and continue to be paper-based in most of my ELL instruction for a variety of reasons (research shows students tend to learn more by handwriting, students get tired after so much time on screens, it makes it a bit more difficult to use Google Translate all the time).
One option I have is to use my time to go to the copy room and wait in line to make copies (assuming the machines are working).
A better option is to use Genius Scan (which will automatically create borders of the sheet before it takes a picture) to snap an image of the student hand-out, turn it into a PDF, and, next, email it to me (all within seconds). Then, while I’m doing other work on my desktop, I can just print students copies out.
Again, I assume most teachers know about this, but it will be a godsend to the one educator who might not…..
I suspect that most teachers already know about this, but it occurred to me recently that I don’t think I’ve ever blogged about a mobile app that has been critical to my teaching over the past several years. Genius Scan was one of the first mobile scanners, and now there are many to choose ESL Web Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
