Last summer, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced their Best Apps for Teaching and Learning 2017. The apps encourage qualities such as creativity and collaboration, and encourage discovery and curiosity.

The app MeisterTask is a way to manage tasks and projects in a visual way that allows easy collaboration. Students and teachers can make project boards for group tasks, where the group members can see tasks in progress and also ones that have been finished. Members of the group are able to assign tasks, get notifications when tasks are finished or edited, and use widgets to see active tasks. Plus, if your school uses Chromebooks, you can use the Chrome extension to access your dashboard. In addition, “if a school has purchased the mind mapping tool MindMeister, maps can be exported directly into MeisterTask to create a connected project with task synchronization. MeisterTask is an intuitive tool to help streamline collaborative projects, keeping groups organized and on task.”

Level: Middle School +
Platform: iOS and Android
Cost: FREE

Looking for reviews of this app? Finances Online has this favorable review, and this post from GetApp includes testimonials from real-life users.  And if you are interested in using MindMeister in your classroom, here’s an article from the Focus blog that has some useful suggestions!

Watch this video to learn how to use MindMeister and MeisterTask!