Show Notes and links:--------------------------------------Poplet -- mind/idea mapping solution http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popplet/id374151636Dropbox -- file storage and synchronizationhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropbox/id327630330PDF Reader Pro -- PDF reading and annotation toolhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pdf-reader-pro-edition-for/id364502063Doc Scan HD -- document scanning http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doc-scan-hd-pdf-scanner/id467016332QuickOffice Pro HD -- office suite with Google Doc/Dropbox supporthttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quickoffice-pro-hd-edit-office/id376212724Pleco -- free Chinese dictionary with additional featureshttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pleco-chinese-dictionary/id341922306Human Japanese HD -- Multimedia solution for learning Japanesehttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/human-japanese-hd/id419031017Flipboard -- newsreader magazinehttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard/id358801284Google Currents -- newsreader made by Googlehttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-currents/id459182288Notes Plus -- note taking software with many featureshttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notes-plus/id374211477Dragon Dictation -- powerful voice dictation toolhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dragon-dictation/id341446764Paper by FiftyThree -- sketching apphttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-by-fiftythree/id506003812iBooks - free book readerhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193Google Search - Google docs, goggles and search all in onehttp://itunes.apple.com/app/google-mobile-app/id284815942
Not for students but was the only thing I could come up with for "remembering". I use the hotlist feature to keep track of things I've ordered in the past...since I can't ever "remember" :)
and thanks for a wonderful year to the 2010-2011 fellows! Marc recently read one of his new works with an assist from the iPad. Way to go, Marc! Take a look at the latest Chronicle article, "iPads Could Hinder Teaching, Professors Say: Rival tablet PC's foster more interactivity, studies suggest.
Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. I want to do this with each days prezi posts as a visual way of seeing what themes emerged from the group of posts.
The vast majority of faculty and students, for example, now use notebooks and netbooks as classroom learning tools (75 percent of students and 72 percent of faculty overall), as well as digital content (69 percent of students and 73 percent of faculty). Learning management systems were in use by a smaller majority, with 56 percent of students and 58 percent of faculty members reporting they use an LMS in the classroom.
Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2012 are:
Time to adoption: One Year or Less
Mobile Apps
Tablet Computing
Time to adoption: Two to Three Years
Game-based Learning
Learning Analytics
Time to adoption: Four to Five Years
Gesture-based Computing
Internet of Things