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Ohio State University's medical school has joined the ranks of colleges replacing cumbersome textbooks with the handheld Apple iPod touch this fall.

Every couple of years, a hot new electronic device comes along that promises to transform education, if not life in general, and a few colleges give one to every new student. In the 90s, it was laptops. Three years ago, Duke University tried an iPod giveaway. And last month, Abilene Christian University announced that it would give every new student an iPhone (or an iPod Touch, which can connect to the Internet via a campus or other wireless network).

Kanji LS Touch is a program for iPhone/iPod Touch for learning Kanji. LS stands for Learning Software. It utilizes the unique touch interface to intuitively teach you how to draw the Kanji by displaying strokeorder guidelines.

Vocabulary study program for SAT or GRE. VerbaLearn's patent pending system will automatically remove words as you master them so you don't waste time studying like you used to. You can learn your words by listening to customized mp3 files or practicing examples online, track your progress, and even review all your words from your homepage whenever you need a brush-up. Free mp3 Vocabulary Lessons: All you need is iTunes or any other podcast aggregator and VerbaLearn will instantly download your new mp3 Studylists to your computer. From there, the podcast is automatically transfered to your iPod or mp3 player. Try our new motivational program VerbaLearn2Earn that helps students stay motivated by earning cash rewards (donated by a friend or family member) on a pre-paid debit card as they study! It's free, just like VerbaLearn.

iPhone/iPod app that connects with computer and allows user to draw characters on phone for input on computer.

Air Scanner. Turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a wireless document camera! Air Projector. Leave the VGA dongle at home! Project PDFs and photos directly over WiFi. Air Sketch. Turn your iPad into a wireless whiteboard! Annotate PDF documents and images live. Stickyboard. Imagine a giant whiteboard with a never-ending stack of sticky notes.

"The VideoBoard module can be used to upload video to a shared video board within a Moodle course. Students and instructors can view and assess uploaded video and add comments. The VideoBoard App is a app that can be used to record video on an iPhone or iPad which is then sent directly to a Moodle course. The video is shared within a Moodle course via the VideoBoard module. The VideoBoard app is available at the Apple App Store. Requirements: Moodle 1.9 or Moodle 2.X and Flash Media Server/player OR Java runtime engine"

"When typing in Japanese, your iPhone uses names and readings from your address book as a kind of second dictionary for its text auto-complete. This was a very smart way to program the iPhone since the most common reason to use non-standard kanji/words to begin with is because they're used that way in a proper name (which, if it's someone/someplace/somewhere you know, would probably be in your address book anyway)."

Blog post suggesting iPhone apps for living in Japan and/or studying Japanese.

"not every iPhone application can "learn" words. Notes seems to be brain-dead in that regard. At the same time, using Safari's Google text entry field worked every time, expanding the database and adding new items to my keyboard dictionary. "

"I previously wrote about an iPhone app called 辞書登録Lite (Jisho Tōroku) which allowed you to add words to the iPhone's Japanese dictionary and determine what yomigana input would trigger the kanji conversion. "