apps+for+Academic+Success

Lunch with a Mentor Lucy MacDonald, M.A.,M.A. lucy@lucyonline.com || What are you app to use for math, writing, reading, studying? Lucy MacDonald http://lucystudy.wikispaces.com/Workshops ||
 * CRLA 2015
 * Where to find apps? ||  ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2014-09-13 at 12.34.59 AM.png]] || ==Apps for Academic Success==


 * University of Redlands, CA. [| Student Academic Support Website]**

Note: The tips for Academic Success are separate from the list of Apps for Academic Success, making it easier to get directly to the list or just to the tips.

===** //An excellent model, because it includes the ap//p's //icon as well as the platforms available and reviews by tutors.// **=== ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2014-09-16 at 10.03.00 AM.png width="318" height="284"]] || ==Mobile Apps==


 * Florida State University** Academic Center for Excellence

This site is in two parts. Trident Technical College, Charleston, S.C. || Longwood University, Virginia ||
 * 1) Study Skills and Habits page includes recommended apps for each section, but just the icons are shown, no description.
 * 2) Mobile Apps is a 4 page pdf list of Apps and Websites for College Success, which are described. ||
 * || **[|Apps for Student Success]**
 * || **[|Helpful Apps for College Students]**
 * || **[|Student Success at Purdue - Apps]** ||
 * Math ||  ||
 * [[image:ShowMe Interactive.png align="center"]] || **Show Me** app - whiteboard with audio over writing or text that can be emailed to a tutee or a group. Tutee can also use this to explain to the tutor where the difficulty is with the problem and get a response back.
 * [[image:ShowMe Interactive.png align="center"]] || **Show Me** app - whiteboard with audio over writing or text that can be emailed to a tutee or a group. Tutee can also use this to explain to the tutor where the difficulty is with the problem and get a response back.

Explore these ShowMe's by Math Professor, Lea Rosenberry, Kaplan.


 * Answer students questions on the go
 * Sending encouraging/motivating messages

Virtual Student Success Center, University of South Carolina, Director, Eric Moschella

[|*Show me** Videos in Biology, Chemistry, Math and Philosophy]

[|The Heart - Blood Flow] ||
 * [[image:calculator.jpg align="center"]] || **My Script Calculator** app - draw a square root and it translates it into a symbol - quick calculation on the fly.

It runs in autoanswer or calculate modes. You can also insert ? into an equation and it will solve for unknowns. Handy little tool. ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2014-09-14 at 10.14.56 AM.png]] || [|Wolfram Alpha]- wonderful rich math resource which shows how a math problem is solved or gives random math, physics, or biology jokes. as in "tell me a math joke." ||
 * Writing ||  ||
 * [[image:lucystudy/Screen Shot 2014-09-10 at 3.21.45 AM.png width="110" height="104" align="center" caption="Screen Shot 2014-09-10 at 3.21.45 AM.png"]] || **Blogsy** app- Can blog offline and then upload to the blog when you are on wifi. **So wrrite anywhere.** Comes with great video tutorials and superb technical support in timely fashion. Integrates with Word Press.

See **Qantas and iPad** at http://walkabout2002.wordpress.com/ Scroll down to the 3rd entry. Written on the plane from Brisbane to Perth, Australia and uploaded at my daughter's house 7 hours later in Bunbury, Western Australia. || By the same company that produces Inspiration software and Webspiration. MInd mapping app for brainstorming, organizing, visualizing. Extensive resources. Will create an outline from a mind map. Free version only allows you to make 5 maps. || //N//ever miss a tutoring appointment again - colorful calendar. Can set alerts on your phone. //**iPhone**// || Planner designed for college students, so they can combine lectures and labs, keep track of their assignments and grades, and add extracurricular activities like dates at a coffee shop - no invites! And also track GPA.
 * [[image:Inspiration Maps.png width="88" height="118" align="center"]] || **Inspiration Maps**
 * Study Strategies ||  ||
 * [[image:iProscratinate.png width="104" height="103" align="center"]] || **iProscratinate**
 * [[image:iProscratinate.png width="104" height="103" align="center"]] || **iProscratinate**
 * [[image:iStudiez Pro.PNG width="320" height="392" align="center"]] || **iStudiez Pro**

Comes in 16 different languages.

Platforms: Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch

Cost: $9.99 Mac ?? Apple Watch


 * iStudiez Lite:** Free for one semester - limited feature Would be good for First Year Experience

IStudiez Pro now supports Apple Watch August 11, 2015 For pictures and explanations, check out the blog at

[] || Students like this all in one tool, which lets them take notes (written or typed) and draw or doodle as well as record lectures. For an added benefit they also use it to annotate their etextbooks or pdf handdouts from the professor. Through the cloud it syncs from the iPad to iPhone, so students can review their notes on their phone on the go!
 * [[image:notability.PNG width="74" height="76" align="center"]] || **Notability**
 * [[image:notability.PNG width="74" height="76" align="center"]] || **Notability**

iPad/iPhone $2.99 || Easy to create ebooks with audio and photos. This can be saved as ibooks or epub as well as being able to post online. Great for ESL and /or foreign languages so students can practice speaking either about what they are writing or about the photos or reading what they wrote. My 5 year old grandson made an ebook about his trip to America with this. He took the pictures and we both uploaded them to the iPad and then he was on his own. He chose his favorite pictures and resized them and then used the "Easy Audio button" to say what he wanted about the picture! ||
 * Reading ||  ||
 * [[image:Book Creator.png width="108" height="129" align="center"]] || **Book Creator**
 * [[image:Book Creator.png width="108" height="129" align="center"]] || **Book Creator**
 * [[image:Book Creator.png width="108" height="129" align="center"]] || **Book Creator**
 * || [[image:Screen Shot 2015-06-29 at 11.03.16 PM.png width="448" height="176"]] ||
 * FREE iBook. Available through iTunes.
 * FREE iBook. Available through iTunes.


 * Efficient
 * Effective
 * Engaging || Created by 4th grader with Book Creator!

[] || [|The Periodic Table in 3 D]! Students can rotate the elements, get scientific information as well as cultural backstories of the elements and even get the current price of gold! iPad !3.00 || All of Eliot's notes plus edits by his wife and Ezra Pound. Students can hear his voice or the voice of Alec Guiness. But most of all students like the video of Fiona Shaw performing The Wasteland, especially since they can watch it in split screen with her above and the actual words below, when they turn the iPad vertically. Pad !3.00 || ||  ||
 * Learning / Writing Center ||  ||
 * [[image:The Elements.png align="center"]] || **Periodic Table. Touch Press.**
 * [[image:The Waste Land.png width="86" height="93" align="center"]] || **T.S.Eliot. The Wasteland. Touch Press**
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