NADE+-+apps+for+Academic+Success

||= **National Association for Developmental Education ** February 2015 Greenville, South Carolina
 * < [[image:teachlearn.jpg width="135" height="124" caption="lucystudy.wikispaces.com" link="lucystudy/home"]]

//Lucy MacDonald, M.A.,M.A. // lucy@lucyonline.com || #4
 * Apps for Academic Success **
 * < Where to find apps? ||< ==== **University of Redlands, CA.** [| Student Academic Support Website] ==== ||
 * Apps for Academic Success
 * Apps for Academic Success

PDF file listing apps ||< || ||< [|Name This Invention!](Contest closes March 14th)
 * < Model for listing Apps ||< [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-13 at 9.43.11 AM.png]] ||
 * <  ||< ==**Florida State University** Academic Center for Excellence== ||
 * <  ||< [[image:Screen Shot 2014-09-16 at 10.03.00 AM.png width="226" height="306" align="left"]] ||
 * < Apps and Web Apps:
 * <  ||< ==**Florida State University** Academic Center for Excellence== ||
 * <  ||< [[image:Screen Shot 2014-09-16 at 10.03.00 AM.png width="226" height="306" align="left"]] ||
 * < Apps and Web Apps:
 * < Apps and Web Apps:

The invention is an elegantly simple educational tool for people of all ages. Parents, grandparents, students, teachers, administrators...anyone wanting to transfer knowledge to someone else or receive knowledge from someone else can benefit from this tool.

What if you could talk online to another person and see them, while at the same time draw and illustrate what your are trying to communicate? What would you call this tool? Here's a sneak peek here with the one person in the upper right with video camera and mike and color pen options. Red dot indicates a laser pointer.

Go to Name this Invention and right click to get your tool wheel and try it out. Then Name This Invention - a free tool as soon as there's a winning name! || to a tutee or a group or posted online. Tutee can also use this to explain to the tutor where the difficulty is with the problem and get a response back.
 * [[image:lucystudy/Screen Shot 2015-02-10 at 3.44.02 AM.png width="78" height="77" align="center"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Icon shows that I have the mike and that I am speaking. ||
 * <  ||< <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Show me from App to Web ||
 * < [[image:ShowMe Interactive.png width="108" height="126" align="center"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">**Show Me** app - whiteboard with audio over writing or text that can be emailed
 * < [[image:ShowMe Interactive.png width="108" height="126" align="center"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">**Show Me** app - whiteboard with audio over writing or text that can be emailed

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Explore these ShowMe's by Math Professor, Lea Rosenberry, Kaplan.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Answer students questions on the go
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Sending encouraging/motivating messages[[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-25 at 8.31.45 AM.png width="189" height="132" link="@http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=zkqH4BE"]]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 1.5;">Virtual Student Success Center, University of South Carolina, Director, Eric Moschella <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">[|**Show me** Videos in Biology, Chemistry, Math and Philosophy] || || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">**Blogsy** - a blog that can be created off line complete with graphics and photos. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Then when you get back to a wifi connection can be uploaded to your web blog, like word press or blogger, etc. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">This means that students can write anywhere, on a geology lab trip, where they are taking pictures in the field and <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">making notes at the same time or at a intermission at a concert or while waiting for the bus. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Can drag and drop pictures and You Tube videos right into text. No more excuses for not writing.
 * < [[image:Screen Shot 2014-09-10 at 3.21.45 AM.png width="129" height="128" align="center" caption="Writing"]]
 * < [[image:Screen Shot 2014-09-10 at 3.21.45 AM.png width="129" height="128" align="center" caption="Writing"]]
 * < [[image:Screen Shot 2014-09-10 at 3.21.45 AM.png width="129" height="128" align="center" caption="Writing"]]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Comes with excellent online tutorials and technical support.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">See blog at http://walkabout2002.wordpress.com/ Scroll down to the 3rd entry. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Qantas and iPad Written on the plane from Brisbane to Perth, Australia and uploaded at my daughter's house 7 hours later in Bunbury, Western Australia.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Platform: iPad || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Color coded.Keeps track of assignments, projects. Schedule of classes, assignments and calendar all on one page. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">List view shows the due date and the priority. Can check off completed assignments. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Can also see when your final exams are on the same page as your classes and assignments. Can track GPA.
 * <  ||< [[image:iPad Qantas sm.png width="402" height="350"]] ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-19 at 10.23.53 PM.png align="center" caption="Time Management"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">**iStudiez Pro** - a planner designed for college students. Collates lab and lecture sections, SI and study groups.
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-19 at 10.23.53 PM.png align="center" caption="Time Management"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">**iStudiez Pro** - a planner designed for college students. Collates lab and lecture sections, SI and study groups.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Sends out alerts on mobile devices.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">IStudiez Lite: Free. Just one semester. English only. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">iStudiez Pro: $9.99 Pro version available in multiple language from Spanish, Russian, Hebrew and more.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Platform:Mac,Windows, iPad, optimized for iPhone 5, 6, 6+ || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Math || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">**iScript Calculator** - draw a square root and it translates it into a symbol - quick calculation <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> on the fly.It runs in autoanswer or calculate modes. You can also insert ? into an equation and <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> it will solve for unknowns. Handy little tool.
 * < [[image:calculator.jpg align="center"]]
 * < [[image:calculator.jpg align="center"]]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">No buttons to push. Fast and simple to use.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Platform: iPhone, iPad ||
 * < [[image:Book Creator.png align="center"]]
 * < [[image:Book Creator.png align="center"]]
 * < [[image:Book Creator.png align="center"]]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Reading, Writing, ESL || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">**Book Creator -** Simple, easy to use. Includes text, photos and audio. ESL students could practice their writing and oral skills and make audio books. Students could make study guides for exams, by explaining photos taken from their textbook and adding written notes. Would work well for classes that combine writing and reading.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Platform: iPad, $4.99 ||
 * < [[image:Inspiration Maps.png align="center"]]
 * < [[image:Inspiration Maps.png align="center"]]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Writing, Study Strategies || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Inspiration Maps **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Mind mapping made easy. Now you can just use your fingers to rearrange the thought bubbles and to connect them one to another. This app still follows Inspiration software's tool of instantly changing a mind map into an outline. Great for brainstorming for a paper and then putting together the outline.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Mind mapping is also a great tool for studying for mid term and final exams, because you can synthesize large amounts of material and see the connections between chapters. ||
 * [[image:notability.PNG width="118" height="112" align="center" caption="Notetaking"]] || **Notability** - Students like the flexibility of this tool, since they can move from handwriting to text to drawing to audio recording. They can also use the same tool to annotate pdf etextbooks or take notes on lecture Powerpoint slides. Text or audio notes can be shared with other students and across devices from iPad to iPhone to Mac.
 * [[image:notability.PNG width="118" height="112" align="center" caption="Notetaking"]] || **Notability** - Students like the flexibility of this tool, since they can move from handwriting to text to drawing to audio recording. They can also use the same tool to annotate pdf etextbooks or take notes on lecture Powerpoint slides. Text or audio notes can be shared with other students and across devices from iPad to iPhone to Mac.
 * [[image:notability.PNG width="118" height="112" align="center" caption="Notetaking"]] || **Notability** - Students like the flexibility of this tool, since they can move from handwriting to text to drawing to audio recording. They can also use the same tool to annotate pdf etextbooks or take notes on lecture Powerpoint slides. Text or audio notes can be shared with other students and across devices from iPad to iPhone to Mac.

Platform: iPad, iPhone, Mac ||
 * [[image:iProscratinate.png align="center" caption="Time Management"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">**iProcrastinate** - Can set priorities and small steps to track projects. Syncs wirelessly on Macs or on Internet through iCloud or Drop boxbox. Color coded. Can make folders for things due tomorrow. Set alerts for upcoming tutor appointments on iPhone and iPad. ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-22 at 2.59.34 AM.png width="116" height="119" align="center" caption="Reading Text"]] || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">neu.Annotate - **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Good tool to use to teach students how to annotate textbooks and analyze dense text. Affordable for students at $1.99.
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-22 at 2.59.34 AM.png width="116" height="119" align="center" caption="Reading Text"]] || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">neu.Annotate - **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Good tool to use to teach students how to annotate textbooks and analyze dense text. Affordable for students at $1.99.
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-22 at 2.59.34 AM.png width="116" height="119" align="center" caption="Reading Text"]] || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">neu.Annotate - **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Good tool to use to teach students how to annotate textbooks and analyze dense text. Affordable for students at $1.99.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">[|Using neu.Annotate to Model, Teach, and Assess Text Dependent Questions]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Platform: iPad, iPhone ||
 * [[image:MarginNote.jpg width="136" height="128" align="center" caption="Reading Writing"]] || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">MarginNote Pro ** - <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Annotate on page margins or organize into mind maps. This gives students another way of organizing textbook materials. Many learning disabled students do much better with mind maps, where they can create their own organization but still get the contextual meaning from the chapter
 * [[image:MarginNote.jpg width="136" height="128" align="center" caption="Reading Writing"]] || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">MarginNote Pro ** - <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Annotate on page margins or organize into mind maps. This gives students another way of organizing textbook materials. Many learning disabled students do much better with mind maps, where they can create their own organization but still get the contextual meaning from the chapter

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Platform: iPad ||
 * [[image:Screen shot 2013-03-24 at 5.39.50 AM.png width="179" height="48" align="center" caption="Research Notes"]] || **Evernote** is an excellent //notekeeper// and an essential for students writing term papers and research papers. It is a powerful tool, but that being said it must be used extensively to reap the benefits of its powers. The Web Clipper allows for taking notes on the articles found on the web. These notes can be organized into notebooks or stacks. Photos of the classsroom whiteboard can be stored with other class resources, so everything is in one place and searchable. ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-20 at 12.05.35 AM.png width="146" height="81" align="center" caption="Communication"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">**Skype** - Two way video communication. Be sure to get the Free version. Free communication anywhere in the world. One device to one device. I have used this for office hours with students. Gretchen Starks Martin at St. Cloud State has used Skype for textbook author interviews, where her students can ask questions directly to the author of their textbook. My daughter in Australia uses the iPad app exclusively and can give guided tours wherever she is at.
 * [[image:Screen shot 2013-03-24 at 5.39.50 AM.png width="179" height="48" align="center" caption="Research Notes"]] || **Evernote** is an excellent //notekeeper// and an essential for students writing term papers and research papers. It is a powerful tool, but that being said it must be used extensively to reap the benefits of its powers. The Web Clipper allows for taking notes on the articles found on the web. These notes can be organized into notebooks or stacks. Photos of the classsroom whiteboard can be stored with other class resources, so everything is in one place and searchable. ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-20 at 12.05.35 AM.png width="146" height="81" align="center" caption="Communication"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">**Skype** - Two way video communication. Be sure to get the Free version. Free communication anywhere in the world. One device to one device. I have used this for office hours with students. Gretchen Starks Martin at St. Cloud State has used Skype for textbook author interviews, where her students can ask questions directly to the author of their textbook. My daughter in Australia uses the iPad app exclusively and can give guided tours wherever she is at.
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-20 at 12.05.35 AM.png width="146" height="81" align="center" caption="Communication"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">**Skype** - Two way video communication. Be sure to get the Free version. Free communication anywhere in the world. One device to one device. I have used this for office hours with students. Gretchen Starks Martin at St. Cloud State has used Skype for textbook author interviews, where her students can ask questions directly to the author of their textbook. My daughter in Australia uses the iPad app exclusively and can give guided tours wherever she is at.
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-20 at 12.05.35 AM.png width="146" height="81" align="center" caption="Communication"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">**Skype** - Two way video communication. Be sure to get the Free version. Free communication anywhere in the world. One device to one device. I have used this for office hours with students. Gretchen Starks Martin at St. Cloud State has used Skype for textbook author interviews, where her students can ask questions directly to the author of their textbook. My daughter in Australia uses the iPad app exclusively and can give guided tours wherever she is at.
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-20 at 12.05.35 AM.png width="146" height="81" align="center" caption="Communication"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">**Skype** - Two way video communication. Be sure to get the Free version. Free communication anywhere in the world. One device to one device. I have used this for office hours with students. Gretchen Starks Martin at St. Cloud State has used Skype for textbook author interviews, where her students can ask questions directly to the author of their textbook. My daughter in Australia uses the iPad app exclusively and can give guided tours wherever she is at.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Platform: iPad, iPhone, Android phone, Android tablet, Windows, Mac ||
 * [[image:lucystudy/Screen Shot 2014-10-26 at 6.57.10 AM.png width="106" height="145" align="center"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Searchable database for apps. Need to add search term for academic success. Great idea, but not enough apps listed or coded for our field as of yet. Web page says that it is currently inactive, but will be open 2/23/2015.
 * [[image:lucystudy/Screen Shot 2014-10-26 at 6.57.10 AM.png width="106" height="145" align="center"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Searchable database for apps. Need to add search term for academic success. Great idea, but not enough apps listed or coded for our field as of yet. Web page says that it is currently inactive, but will be open 2/23/2015.
 * [[image:lucystudy/Screen Shot 2014-10-26 at 6.57.10 AM.png width="106" height="145" align="center"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Searchable database for apps. Need to add search term for academic success. Great idea, but not enough apps listed or coded for our field as of yet. Web page says that it is currently inactive, but will be open 2/23/2015.
 * [[image:lucystudy/Screen Shot 2014-10-26 at 6.57.10 AM.png width="106" height="145" align="center"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Searchable database for apps. Need to add search term for academic success. Great idea, but not enough apps listed or coded for our field as of yet. Web page says that it is currently inactive, but will be open 2/23/2015.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">[|Appapedia] || || # <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">This presentation uses a wiki called wikispaces.com free for Higher Ed.
 * <span style="color: #3241f6; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Colophon
 * <span style="color: #3241f6; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Colophon
 * <span style="color: #3241f6; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Colophon
 * <span style="color: #3241f6; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Colophon
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">The presentation tool is the iPad used wirelessly.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">This is accomplished through a $13.00 software program called[| Reflector,] which works on PC, Android, and Mac. It is an AirPlay receiver that allows you to wirelessly display your iPad or iPhone on a number of devices. []

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 1.5;">To see this in action in a classroom watch the video [|"First Glimpse]" I hope that you are ready for this next generation coming up!!! ||