The 2019 AASL Best Apps and Websites Are Here...Check Them Out, Friends!

This summer, at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington DC, the AASL Best Apps and Best Websites were announced.  This is always one of my favorite events of the year. 

The apps and websites that were announced as winners today were incredible.  Congrats to all of the winners and the people who create, support and show us how to use them.  

For the last several years, I have served on the AASL Best Websites and Apps Committees.  The last two years, I have been part of the amazing Best Apps Committee, along with our chair, Mary Morgan Ryan and other awesome friends listed above.

As shared on this slide, Our charge is to develop an annual list of top apps that AASL will recognize as being the best of the best for teaching and learning. 

When making our selections we connected them to the AASL Shared Foundations which I find so helpful in not only evaluating the apps, but thinking of ways I will use them in my practice as a teacher and librarian.

Let's get right to the point!

Here are the....

2019 AASL 20 Best Apps For Teaching and Learning, friends!

I also put together a few places you can go to and find all fo the AASL Best Apps curated together in one spot.  These are terrific to share in the fall with teachers and students as you share the apps and websites with them too.

There is the AASL 2019 Best Apps Collection by Destiny, 

AASL 2019 Best Apps Symbaloo and...

AASL 2019 Best Apps Wakelet Collection, which by the way...Wakelet was one of our winners this year!

You will find the Google Slides presentation that we put together for todays celebration here.

I also created a Collection by Destiny for the AASL 2019 Best Websites that you will find here. 

The new 2019 Best Apps will join the ones on the AASL site here and...

....2019 Best Websites can be found here. 

Again, congrats to all of the winners!  

Thank you for creating such special places for our students and teachers to explore, create, inquire, curate, collaborate and engage in learning and teaching.  You are all making a difference in libraries, education and within the lives of our kids.