Ed Tech Apps

Desktop Video Production

• Screencastify (Chrome extension, super intuitive and fun to use)
• Camtasia (excellent editor and a top choice for educators)
• ScreenFlow (Mac only, but another top choice for educators)
• Final Cut Pro X (Mac, serious editor for serious projects)
• Adobe Premiere Pro (Mac or PC, incredible video editing power)
• Adobe Premier Rush (simple and stunning)
• Audacity (free audio editing)

Mobile Video Production

• For screen capture, I use Explain Everything
• Filmic Pro is the best app for video on your mobile devices
• Adobe Spark makes quick videos easy
• Adobe Premier Rush is astoundingly powerful (web and mobile)
• TouchCast is another video option

Effective Contact / Engagement

• Padlet (I'm a Padlet addict and use it for face-to-face as well as online classes EVERY DAY.)
• Google Slides, Docs and Sheets for student collaborative work.  If you've never used cloud-based apps for student collaborations, check out this article
• Notability for drawing in class, during office hours and for my own notes for meetings, etc.
• Outliner Pro for easy outlines / mindmaps
• Blrt allows you to talk, point and draw over just about anything
• BaiBoard HD is a virtual whiteboard
• Classroomscreen is a great F2F or online virtual whiteboard with some great features
• VoiceThread is an amazing communication option in an online environment
• Stage 
• Check out Doceri as well for presentations 
• I use Air Camera if I don't have an Apple TV for live streaming from my iPhone or iPad camera to the screen
• Socrative is great for engagement and on-the-fly assessments
• Quizlet​ is my choice for live or asynchronous quizzes or student practice

Misc. Apps

• Ultralingua (my favorite foreign language dictionaries)
• For anatomy I use Complete Anatomy and basically all the apps by 3D4Medical.
  
• ChemDraw is excellent for Biology and Chemistry
• There are SO MANY USES for a scanner in your class - I use ScannerPro to scan student work for immediate projection on screen for example
• Castro is the best podcast app I've found​

Organize Your Digital Life

• Notion has got to be the BEST relational database EVER.  I use the P.A.R.A. system to organize my digital life and everything I need is in Notion.  Plus it's FREE.  
• Evernote is my digital file cabinet and I've been a user since 2009.  I do have the Premium version so I can download notebooks for offline use (I travel a lot).