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Save Yourself from Weiner-Caliber Online Embarrassment with Internet Shame Insurance. Apps for the iPad - iPad - How-To Guides - Help Center - Learning Technologies - UW Bothell. With thousands of iPad apps available on the App Store, it can be hard to decide which ones to download.

Apps for the iPad - iPad - How-To Guides - Help Center - Learning Technologies - UW Bothell

The quality of each app can vary drastically since apps are made by individual developers, not by Apple. The cost of apps will vary, although many are free. Learning Technologies has explored some of the following apps and has found them to be of potential interest to the academic world: Reference/Research Tools Papers: An app that allows you to search, download, and organize millions of articles from several scholarly sources, including JSTOR, Google Scholar, and Web of Science, among others. Instapaper: An app that allows you to save internet articles to your iPad for later use. The World Factbook: An app that stores information from the CIA World Factbook so that the user can access it any time, regardless of internet connection. iSSRN: An app from the Social Science Research Network in which the user can access over 260,000 social science papers written by those in the field.

Simple Online Collaboration: Online File Storage, FTP Replacement, Team Workspaces. File Sync & Online Backup - Access and File Sharing from Any Device. LILAC 2012 · LucyLuCarroll. Simplify your life. Paper Camera. Paper Camera – iPhone App of the Week This is a regular feature of the blog looking at various Apps available.

Paper Camera

Some of the apps will be useful for those involved in learning technologies, others will be useful in improving the way in which you work, whilst a few will be just plain fun! Some will be free, others will cost a little and one or two will be what some will think is quite expensive. This week’s App is Paper Camera. Real time cartoon and painting effects painted on your camera video feed!! This really nice image manipulation app creates cartoon or sketch like images from either your photographs, or applies the filter in real time so you can see what your image will look like through the live image from the camera. You can through the interface convert live camera footage into a sketch, cartoon or pencil drawing image in real time, use the camera button to capture the image through the live filter.

iPad App of the Week – Skitch for iPad. Apps to Use as Student ePortfolios. I have yet to find the perfect Digital Portfolio app that I think I would use exclusively in a Visual Arts class.

Apps to Use as Student ePortfolios

Some apps can be used as graphic portfolios or as beautiful sketchbooks, others are great at sharing. Not all of the apps available are great at all of these things. I have spent a heap of time trying to find one and would be more than happy for someone to send me the name of one they are using successfully. Having said that the following are apps that I would consider using; Evernote: FREE Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Paper: FREE Paper is an easy and beautiful way to create on iPad. Three Ring: FREE Three Ring is a fast, flexible, and simple way to organize and present your students' real world work, from handwritten assignments to classroom presentations. iPad App of the Week – MindGenius for iPad.

MindGenius – iPad App of the Week This is a regular feature of the blog looking at various Apps available.

iPad App of the Week – MindGenius for iPad

Some of the apps will be useful for those involved in learning technologies, others will be useful in improving the way in which you work, whilst a few will be just plain fun! Some will be free, others will cost a little and one or two will be what some will think is quite expensive. This week’s App is MindGenius for iPad. MindGenius for iPad is the perfect tool for capturing information on the go.Use it for taking notes in meetings and seminars, creating quick to do lists, and anywhere else you require a fast, intuitive method to collect ideas and information and think things through.MindGenius for iPad can help you improve your personal productivity and can be used in conjunction with MindGenius for PC.

Free Within my college the standard mind mapping application on the desktop is MindGenius. I was disappointed that I couldn’t change the default colours of the different branches. Choosing social media/web 2.0 tools for use in teaching and learning. Connecting formal education to social media/web 2.0 tools is a relatively new area.

Choosing social media/web 2.0 tools for use in teaching and learning

Educational institutions hope that by purchasing a virtual learning environment (VLE) all of their learning technology needs will be met. However, the world moves fast, and some educators find that our suite of communication and collaboration tools doesn’t cater to our teaching and learning needs as well as they might. Interestingly, VLEs are usually more suited to managing rather than learning (but that’s for another day). So there is an argument for looking outside of the VLE to expand and enhance our options for engaging students in learning activities using technology. When it comes to thinking about social media or web 2.0 tools, we are looking at tapping into the affordances such tools have towards communication and collaboration.

Usually the stimulus for such a process comes from seeing or hearing about a particular tools used in a particular context.