The Class Nerd

In the first episode of a new semester, Robby and Craig discuss their new iPad Pros and then how they use their Apple Watches in the classroom.

Robby Blog Post about iPads

Semester 1 Health Episode

Apple Watch Complication

Semester 1 Drafts Episode

Modular

Infograph Face

In this bonus episode, Craig and Robby talk a bit (ok, a lot) about the products Apple is releasing in September, and then move on to their favorite features and apps of watchOS 5 and iOS 12.

MacStories watchOS 5

Semester 1 Exit Ticket

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This week The Class Nerd talks about apps they use to gather, process, manage, and reflect on student data.

Bear

Drafts

Workflow

Drafts/Workflow Action to Append a Bear Note Drafts Action, Workflow Action

OmniGraffle

Notability

Dropbox

Canvas

forScore

Airtable

Craig’s Airtable Notes Script

Agenda

FileMaker Pro

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This week The Class Nerd talks about the apps they use to make letters, posters, worksheets, documents, and other classroom related documents. Robby says the word “artifact” in this one.

Pages

Microsoft Word

Keynote

OmniGraffle

Craig’s Classroom in OmniGraffle

Adobe Apps

Affinity Designer

Affinity Photo

Pixelmator - iOS, Mac

Sketchnoting

Linea Sketch

Paper

This week, The Class Nerd breaks down their paperless process. In this one, we cover scanning apps, file organization, PDF annotation apps, and handwritten note apps.

Scannable

Scanner Pro

Scanbot

PDF Expert

PDF Viewer

Notability

Goodnotes

The Class Nerd breaks down five of their favorite apps for lesson planning.

OmniOutliner - Mac, iOS

forScore

Keynote - Mac - iOS

Bear

The Class Nerd Podcast Episode 3 - Note Taking

Drafts Episode with Markdown Discussion

Agenda - Mac, iOS

MailTags

FileMaker

Excel

Numbers - Mac, iOS

This week The Class Nerd takes a moment to reflect on the importance of maintaining good physical and mental health in the teaching profession. This episode isn’t as focused on productivity, but it is still 100 percent nerdy! Every app we discuss is perfect for fostering self care, but also tracking data in charts, chaining apps together, and monitoring your every movement.

Apple Health Website

Though we spent the first two episodes of this semester discussing tools to manage email, there is a better way! In this week’s episode, Robby and Craig discuss tools that can take you beyond email to better collaborate and communicate with your teams at school.

Apple Pay

Square Cash

Venmo

Slack

Songshare Workflow

Slack Pricing

Todoist

Todoist Education Pricing

Semester 1 Episode 4: Drafts

Trello

Kanban

In our nerdiest episode yet, we do a deep dive into our most used iOS app, Drafts 5. We share how we use this app in the classroom, and how it can save you time and mental energy.

Drafts 5

API

Evernote

X-callback-url

OmniFocus

Markdown

David Sparks Markdown Field Guide

Episode 3: Notes

Bear

Robby’s Repertoire Idea Action

Note/Omnifocus/Mail Action

Bear Task Reference Action

Airtable

Airtable Drafts Action - Scroll Down to the readme area for instructions on where to download the Airtable template and how to install this action.

Code Academy

Swift Playgrounds

Drafts Episode of Robby Burns and Friends

Automation Episode of Robbie Burns and Friends

MacStories Review of Drafts 5

In this week’s episode, Robby and Craig share (and debate) about their favorite note taking apps.

Evernote - macOS, iOS

API

Drafts 5

OCR

TaskClone

Skitch

Penultimate

Scannable

Bear - macOS, iOS

Workflow

Siri Shortcuts

Scanbot

GoodNotes

Linea Sketch