Android #5: How to delete an Android App from your tablet
If your Android tablet is starting to fill up with unwanted apps, or if you have tried out an app and you don’t like it, it’s a good time to learn how to uninstall unused apps. Here’s how you do it. Note: If the app you want to uninstall is a system app that came with you Android tablet you won’t be able to uninstall it!
1. In the menu tap on Settings
2. Select ‘Apps’
Tap on Apps and then find the app you are wanting to uninstall
3. Tap on Uninstall...Read more
Teachers are busy people and they have to remember a myriad of different things all day long. Everyone needs a good reminder system on their device, and for my Android I have downloaded a little app called ColorNote – it has saved my life quite a few times!
What is ColorNote?
ColorNote is a simple notepad app. It gives you a quick and simple notepad editing experience when you write notes, memo, email, message, shopping lists and to do lists. It has checklists and text notes. All the not...
The first thing I looked around for when I obtained my Android tablet was a good, free office suite, preferably something that could be used offline as well as online. In my thinking it needed to be compatible with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint and Microsoft Excel. This post brings four productivity apps options – three that I that I have downloaded to try out and a fourth that I aspire to download in the near future.
Offline use (as well as online use)
Kingsoft Office
Kingsoft Offic...
QR codes are gaining momentum in today’s technology. Many teachers and classrooms are using them very successfully. This post aims to show how QR codes can be used on an Android, both for reading QR codes and for Creating them as well.
1. How to scan or read a QR code on an Android device
You will need the following to get started:
A tablet with a camera
A program/application that lets you scan the QR code .
You must have access to internet when you are to scan a QR code.
a) Google Goggles
Go...
I have found that you can learn just about anything these days using the Internet. This holds true when you acquire a new device such as an Android tablet and you want to get the most out of it. Android tablets are becoming extremely popular in education and the Internet is full of helpful ideas.
With my device, after familiarising myself with its various functions, I was keen to know more about its operating OS. What version of Android is it running on and what are the implications of this? Di...
