Class Dojo App Review by Landon

Class Dojo is an app teaches use to relay what they’re doing in class to parents at home so

parents can help their children in school. Although it is directed towards elementary students it can

be used in middle and even high school!

While in Class dojo teachers can send messages to parents and post photos for everyone in

the class to see. This definitely helps teachers for if they need to talk to parents because without it

they either have to hunt them down or wait until parent teacher conferences. With how much

teachers work this isn’t ideal.

There is also a reward system that allows teachers to either takeaway or give points. This is a

good way to track how well a kid is behaving in class and relay that information to the parents so

they can solve the problem. Although one negative point, some might use this for how good

someone did on class work or a test but as anyone in the class can see others points so if someone

is struggling it may be embarrassing.

You can also take away or give points as a class of groups. When a class is being loud or

generally rowdy you can take away points as a class so you don’t have to go through every one

who was talking and take away one point at a time. Another option for one is it put students in groups so if one table group is being naughty the teacher can take away points or if they’re working

hard they get points.

Class dojo is great for teachers who have trouble communicating with parents and keeping

track of the trouble makers in class. Although class dojo has so many other amazing features such

as a timer, random group maker, noise meter, etc so I encourage any teacher out there to give to a

try!

Google Translate App Review by Melaina Y.

   Do you want to know what some people are saying in a different language? Then download Google Translate, because it can translate from tons of different languages into whatever other language that you want! You can speak and it will translate it, you can write it, or simply just type it. You can use this if you want to say something in a different language, but don’t know how to say it. This is a simple little app, but very easy to learn how to use.

   When you first open up the app, it brings you right to the homepage. At the top, you can choose what language you want to translate, and what you want it to come out as. For example, if I want to say ‘hello’ in Spanish, then one (box) that is selected will be English, because I am going from English to Spanish. And the second one will be Spanish. Once I type in what I want to say in the first box, it will translate that into the other language. So if I typed ‘hello’ in English in the first box, then the Spanish version, ‘hola’, will appear just underneath that.

   Just below the boxes, you see a camera icon. This lets you take a picture of text, and then you can translate it. Next to that is the handwriting icon. This allows you to write something, and it will translate what you wrote into that other language. The third icon is conversation. You can talk back and forth between languages, and it will translate in both of them, so that way each person can understand what the other is saying. The last one at the end is the voice icon. This is similar to the conversation icon, but it is just one way. You speak into it and it translates that into the other one.

   At the bottom of your screen, there is the home button, which is what you are first on, then there is the saved and the settings button. The saved button allows you to view your saved translations. If you wanted to save it, star it and it will be in your saved tab. The settings button allows you to edit different things. Being able to translate offline is very useful in most cases. All you have to do is download that language, and it will work without being connected to the internet. When you go back to your home page, you can see all of your previous translations underneath the icons that I first explained. This allows you to ‘star’ them and look back at them.

   There are so many things that you can do with this app. You can memorize different phrases in so many languages. You can connect with other people by understanding what they are saying with many different tools on this app. I hope that you enjoyed this and explore many things with Google apps.