Useful iPad and iPhone Apps for School Please note that as we have not tried out all of these applications, many of which have been recommended by students, we can't guarantee their effectiveness or quality. Always read the reviews and any information available about the app before purchase. A GREAT ACCESSORY IF YOU TYPE A LOT ON THE IPAD: You can get an iPad case that also functions as a keyboard. Check it out at: http://www.zagg.com/accessories/zaggfolio‐ipad‐2‐keyboard‐case and this one: http://www.zagg.com/accessories/logitech‐ipad‐2‐keyboard‐case ELES GOAL SETTING APP GOAL TRAKKA: This is our first app so we hope you like it! It helps you manage your goals and makes it easy to review them on a daily basis. Timetables / Planning WEEK CALENDAR: See all your appointments for the week in one neatly organised overview. Week Calendar is all new, better, awesome iCal‐style calendar. iSTUDIEZ PRO: Take charge of your schedule and put iStudiez Pro to work for you! Take advantage of iStudiez Pro easy navigation and track tasks and deadlines, plan homework, arrange assignments and much more! BBTIMETABLE: BBTimeTable is a time table app. User Interface is very neat and direct. Repeated week schedule can be managed with ease. SCHOOLBOOK: SchoolBook puts your plain old high school timetable onto your iPhone or iPod touch. It tells you what classes you have, and that's it; it's the ultimate no‐frills approach to a digital timetable. MyHOMEWORK: myHomework is a simple and easy to use application that allows you to keep track of your homework, classes, projects and tests while interacting with a really cool design with sections are separated by colourful “sticky pads” that marks the page. CLASSES: Classes is a smart timetable for school. Immediately after starting the app, the next class is displayed with all relevant information. On rotating the device, you are presented with the complete timetable in landscape mode. From: www.studyskillshandbook.com.au – only for use by schools who are current subscribers
Copyright © Enhanced Learning Educational Services 2011 www.enhanced-learning.net 1 TIMETABLE: TimeTable is a simple application to manage your lessons. For every day the application has a dayview (Monday‐Sunday, customizable to 5‐7 weekdays) with its courses. iHOMEWORK: iHomework provides a great and simple app to keep your school work and life organised. Track your assignments and homework, keep your class and teacher information, and keep reminders for anything and everything you need to do. To Do Lists TODO FOR IPAD: Dominate your to‐do list by using TodoTask Manager, available on the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and the Mac. Keep your tasks up‐to‐date on all your devices by choosing one of Todo's versatile sync options, now including Dropbox and iCloud! WUNDERLIST: Wunderlist makes it downright simple to organize your daily life. Just create a list and start filling it with things that need to be completed. Keep track of your more important tasks with reminders and notifications. Note‐making PAGES: Pages lets you create beautiful documents, letters, reports, flyers and more, on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It has templates, powerful graphics / design tools and simplified formatting. iCloud can also sync Pages documents across Apple devices. PENULTIMATE: This is a great app that allows you to make freehand notes, draw diagrams and stores your work in handy ‘notebooks’ that you can rename to keep your work organised. One of the great parts of this app is the ‘ink’ that it uses, the developers have created a realistic flow to the pen that makes it feel very fluid and realistic in its movement. COURSENOTES: CourseNotes lets you take notes during classes, keep them organised by subject, and print them or share them with friends! Review your notes later and search through multiple class meetings and notes all at once. You can also keep ToDo lists and track assignments, and sync them with your iPad's calendar. EVERNOTE: Evernote is an easy‐to‐use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organised, save your ideas and improve productivity. You can take notes, capture photos, create to‐do lists, record voice reminders, and search. STUDENT PAD: Described as an office suite contained in a single app, you can read PDFs and annotate them, manage your schedule and add notes and sketches to the notebook. You can store your notes, timetables and documents. NOTABILITY: Notability supports all of your note‐taking needs, handwriting, PDF annotation, word processing, and more work together allowing you to create comprehensive, beautiful notes, quickly and simply. You can record a lecture, make notes at the same time and the audio is synched to the text. SCREEN CHOMP: A simple doodling board, markers, and one‐click sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know‐how easy and fun! Just ‐ Record It. Sketch It. Share It. ‐ to create a sharable, replay‐able video that tells your story clearly. For iPad only. From: www.studyskillshandbook.com.au – only for use by schools who are current subscribers
Copyright © Enhanced Learning Educational Services 2011 www.enhanced-learning.net 2 QUICK VOICE RECORDER: Record ideas, voice memos, voice email, dictation, lists, meetings, entire classes and lectures. It has dozens of features to make it simple and effective to use and can multi‐task so you can use other apps while recording. inCLASS: inClass will even help you take notes way more efficiently than ever before. Video notes, audio notes, photo notes! Just take out your iPhone or iPod Touch and start taking notes. inClass will even know which class you are in and associate that note to your class! DRAGON DICTATION: Dragon Dictation is an easy‐to‐use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard. OCR TOOL PRO: This allows you to take photos or scans of the pages in your textbook and basically types it up for you. You could take a photo of the page with your iPhone or iPad, then use OCRtoolpro to extract the text you need, highlight essential sentences. SENTE REFERENCE MANAGER: Sente is a bibliography producer and you can also use it to search through hundreds of online reference databases and import the articles directly into I your Sente library. Sente will automatically find the citation info and save the full text. Brainstorming CORKULOUS: Corkulous is an idea board for the iPad. It allows you to collect, organise and share ideas using a virtual corkboard. You can place, arrange and rearrange notes, labels, photos, contacts, tasks, ideas, etc. The ideal tool for brainstorming activities. IDEA SKETCH: Idea Sketch lets you draw Mind Maps, concept maps and flow charts, and convert these into text outlines (and vice versa). The ideal app for brainstorming ideas, illustrating concepts, making lists and outlines, planning presentations and more. Studying STUDY FLASH: Studying for an exam? Study flash can help! Create multiple card sets and fill them with flash cards. Quiz yourself with one or all of your card sets from wherever you are, whenever you have a free minute. CRAMBERRY FLASH CARDS: Cramberry helps you study with flash cards on your iPhone. Make flash cards with Cramberry, or choose from over a million free public flash cards. Cramberry tracks your progress on each card and presents cards you need to study. STUDYKIT PRO: Exams, Assignments, Interviews, Improving your Skills etc. StudyKit Pro has the solutions to help you achieve excellent results. STUDY COACH PRO!: The Study Coach Pro has used cutting edge psychological techniques to show you how to maximise your brain power and get the best exam results first time round. GRADEPRO: Grade Pro is a simple but powerful grade management utility for students. Grade Pro for iPad allows you to keep track of your marks for any number of assignments, quizzes and exams. From: www.studyskillshandbook.com.au – only for use by schools who are current subscribers
Copyright © Enhanced Learning Educational Services 2011 www.enhanced-learning.net 3 Presentations KEYNOTE: Keynote helps you to create stunning slideshow presentations. Keynote can read and edit PowerPoint files, and slides can be exported as PDF files for printing. iMOVIE: iMovie for IOS is an HD video editor designed for iPad and iPhone. You can record an consolidate video, record and edit soundtracks, choose form pre‐configured themes and create Trailers. ACTION MOVIE FX: ACTION MOVIE FX lets you add Hollywood FX to iPhone movies YOU shoot! VIDEO STAR: Packed with tons of real‐time effects, which you can add before or during recording. Select a song from your music library and start shooting. TED: The TED conference has gained a reputation for staging thought‐provoking presentations by some of the world’s most renowned thinkers, leaders and artists. This free app collects more than 700 of those talks into one well‐designed video app. CUE CARDS: Carry your next great speech in your pocket! Cue Cards is the perfect app to help you give your next presentation or speech. STRIP DESIGNER: This app allows you to make your own comic strip or even your own graphic novel. It has many templates, graphics and fonts to give your strip the right look and you can paint on your photos or draw your own sketches. General Information WIKIPANION FOR IPAD: Accessing Wikipedia has never been faster and easier than with Wikipanion, designed for easy, search, navigation and display of Wikipedia entries. Streamline your browsing with history grouped by visit date, and bookmarking that not only bookmarks individual entries, but individual sections within an entry. QWIKI: Curious? Explore 3,000,000 topics and learn about what's near you and across the world. Qwiki combines thousands of sources to present concise, interactive summaries of millions of people, places and things. Search topics or browse a worldwide map. WORLD FACTBOOK: The complete CIA World Factbook at your fingertips. Extensive information on more than 250 countries around the world. Includes maps and geographical information, population statistics, economic data, and so on. HOW STUFF WORKS: Articles and podcasts about pretty much anything you could think of. From: www.studyskillshandbook.com.au – only for use by schools who are current subscribers
Copyright © Enhanced Learning Educational Services 2011 www.enhanced-learning.net 4 English THE NIGHT BEFORE ESSAY PLANNER: Some of us plan and some of us cram. This app gives the planners among us a new tool to better organise our essays, and the crammers among us a better chance to create quality written work, even if it's the night before the essay is due. Also suitable for other subjects apart from English ‐ anything that requires an essay! FREE EXAM VOCABULARY BUILDER: Using AccelaStudy's intuitive flashcard‐like approach, you can quickly expand your English vocabulary. Many commonly tested vocabulary words from college and graduate school entrance exams are included with definitions, synonyms, and example sentences. DICTIONARY: The Dictionary.com app contains a fully featured dictionary and thesaurus, as well as a random word of the day. GRAMMAR UP: Grammar Up is a multiple choice quiz system for English which provides over 50 questions across 10 grammar categories. Grammar Up can help learners to improve their grammar, word selection and vocabulary. Custom timer setting can assist learners to improve response times under exam time constraints. SPEL IT RITE: This game has been designed to help you train your ability to recognize misspelled words. The user's objective is to identify typos as fast as possible. For each error, a penalty of 5 seconds is added to the total time. This version contains over 700 of the most difficult to spell words. GRAMMAR EXPRESS TENSES RIGHT: A course in mastering English grammatical tenses. You can learn the grammar rules, study the examples and then test their understanding by taking quiz. At the end of each quiz the user views a test summary and explanation. SHAKESPEARE IN BITS: Shakespeare in Bits takes the idea of a traditional study guide further by supplementing the study notes with a three‐hour animation of the play and audio featuring actors Michael Sheen and Kate Beckinsale. BOOKS: Like reading? Fire up Books by Classicly and download as many of our 23,469 classic book as you want, free of charge! All with reviews, handcrafted collections, and gorgeous high resolution covers. PDHPE FOOD TRACKER PRO: Allows you to track what you eat throughout the day to ensure a healthy diet. From: www.studyskillshandbook.com.au – only for use by schools who are current subscribers
Copyright © Enhanced Learning Educational Services 2011 www.enhanced-learning.net 5 Maths NUMBERS: Allows you to build spreadsheets in a flexible way. Move tables, charts, graphics, and text anywhere you want. It also has advanced formula guides, graphics tools, alignment guides, etc and can open Excel files and save as Excel or PDF. MENTAL MATHS: With Mental Maths you can playfully improve your mental calculation skills through various exercises. Image puzzles are an incentive to carry on practising. MATHEMAGICS MENTAL MATH TRICKS: Activate and challenge your brain to expand its ability to think efficiently and have fun at the same time. Train yourself to break problems down in to smaller more manageable pieces in order to reach solutions more quickly. LIVE MATHLETICS: Mathletics has brought their world renowned maths game to iTunes! For the first time you can play Live Mathletics from your iPhone or iPod Touch just the same as you do at home or school. Choose from 5 levels of difficulty ranging from simple addition to 10 to a combination of patterns, multiplication, division and subtraction. SYMBOLIC CALCULATOR: With full‐featured algebra capabilities on par with high‐end scientific calculators this applications lets you perform all kind of different operations from the simplest multiplications to computing the integrals of the most complicated functions. MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS: Mathematical Formulas is the perfect app for you who likes mathematics and easily forgets formulas which you need in certain situation. EQUATION SOLVER FREE: By using MHS you will get solvers to dozens of problems in various topics. MATHS TOOL: Over 250 Maths equations reference. PI CUBED LIGHT: Pi Cubed is a visual math application designed from the ground up for a touch‐based interface. Unlike traditional calculators, Pi Cubed lets you construct mathematical expressions, using an interactive menu system. MATH REF: Math Ref is a math reference application that includes over 1,300 helpful formulas, figures, tips and examples of the equations and concepts. iFORMULAS: iFormulas is a clean, simple, easy to use mathematical formula application. Provides basics to survive your Algebra, Calculus, Geometry or Trigonometry class. It does not give you answers but provides an easy navigational guide. iMATHEMATICS!: iMathematics! has over 120 topics covering more than 700 formulas for Arithmetic, Algebra, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry, Analytic Geometry, Goniometry, Analysis, Trigonometry and Probability. VIDEO CALCULUS: Video Calculus covers everything from limits and derivatives to differential equations and vector calculus. Access to over 15 Featured Lessons for FREE and From: www.studyskillshandbook.com.au – only for use by schools who are current subscribers
Copyright © Enhanced Learning Educational Services 2011 www.enhanced-learning.net 6 you’ll be able to preview any of the 250+ different lessons included in the app. FREE GRAPHING SYMBOLIC CALCULATOR: PocketCAS is a powerful computer algebra system. It gives you the power to solve complicated mathematical problems within seconds, anytime, anywhere! It also serves as a great scientific or programmer's calculator. GRAPHING CALCULATOR: Graphing Calculator turns your phone or iPod into an intuitive high‐resolution function plotter and scientific calculator. CONVERT UNITS: Convert Units is a flexible application that offers hundreds of standard conversions like area, time, energy, mass and pressure as well as allowing you to customise your own units of conversion for any specific purpose. General Science SCIENCE GLOSSARY: An extensive glossary of scientific terms and short biographies of key scientists. Formatted specifically for the iPhone and provided by Visionlearning, Inc. All definitions link to related terms and detailed science learning modules. STAR WALK: AStudying astronomy? Star Walk is one of the most amazing, high‐quality, dynamic and realistic stargazing guide. Hold your iPad up to the night sky and the internal accelerometer and compass will show you the names of the constellations and planets. VIDEO SCIENCE: Science Class Experiments brought to you by Science House and featuring Science Teacher Dan Menelly, winner of the NSF Einstein Fellowship in Cyberinfrastructure! These 2‐3 minute videos demonstrate the steps of simple science experiments. Chemistry THE CHEMICAL TOUCH LITE EDITION: The free version is a sample of the system. The Chemical Touch: Lite Edition is a free and easy to use periodic table for your iPhone or iPod touch. MOLECULES: Molecules is an application for viewing three‐dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulating them using your fingers. GENETIC CODE: GeneticCode is a handy reference tool for students and researches. The application visualizes standard genetic code as well as provides information about 20 amino acids and their abbreviations. THE ELEMENTS: If you think you've seen the periodic table, think again. The Elements: A Visual Exploration lets you experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you've never seen before. Biology 3D BRAIN: Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures. Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research. From: www.studyskillshandbook.com.au – only for use by schools who are current subscribers
Copyright © Enhanced Learning Educational Services 2011 www.enhanced-learning.net 7 SPEED ANATOMY LITE: How fast can you point to your liver or gall bladder? Do you know the difference between, the sacrum and the manubrium? Speed Anatomy is an addictive game that tests your speed and challenges your knowledge of human anatomy! BRAIN TUTOR 3D: Explore the brain from the palm of your hand! Learn about the structure and function of the human brain by interacting with rotatable 3D models in real‐time like you've never seen it before! Brain Tutor 3D uses rendered head and brain models that were created from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MITOSIS: How do cells divide to grow new hair, repair your skin, or strengthen your bones? Mitosis walks you through the process of cell division, and explains everything that happens along the way. You can also look at images of actual cells dividing under a microscope and see the actual structures you've studied. FROG DISSECTION: Frog Dissection is a greener alternative for teaching dissection in the classroom. Students can try dissecting a virtual specimen with all the trappings that come with the real procedure‐minus the mess of course! VIDEO BIOLOGY: Thinkwell's Video Biology is the perfect companion for anyone learning or studying Biology. Taught by award‐winning teacher, George Wolfe, these richly illustrated lectures cover everything in a standard Biology course. Physics PHYSICS: Physics is a great reference for High School physics exams. Physics can be used as a study guide for Physics Q&A. Each of the 10 units includes common formulas, a brief description of each formula, and examples. PHYSICS FORMULAS: This application can provide every possible formulas for anyone who study in Physics. It can be used to build your own formulas reference in Physics. Geography WORLD WIDE CAPITALS: World Wide Capitals is a great application where kids to learn the Capitals of all the different countries in the world. This application will definitely help with their Geography knowledge and the challenging Quizzes will keep them engaged. FLAGS WORLD: See which flags you can match with which countries. Test your knowledge and find out what you don’t know. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WORLD ATLAS: The National Geographic World Atlas enables you to browse, search, and zoom detailed maps of the globe. GEOMASTER: Have fun by putting your geography knowledge at test with GeoMaster. For any age, GeoMaster allows you to learn and improve your skills and knowledge. From: www.studyskillshandbook.com.au – only for use by schools who are current subscribers
Copyright © Enhanced Learning Educational Services 2011 www.enhanced-learning.net 8 History SMITHSONIAN: Smithsonian Channel explores the history of our planet, life and culture, with 100% original programming. From the origins of the universe to the deaths of civilizations, we tackle subjects as diverse and limitless as the landscape we cover. HISTORY MAPS: History: Maps of the World is a collection of educational collection of high resolution historical maps. BRITISH LIBRARY TREASURES: Explore more than 100 highlights from the British Museum’s collections in this vast app. There are scientific documents, musical scores and plenty of multimedia. If you can’t visit the museum itself, then this is a good alternative. VIRTUAL HISTORY ROMA: Travel to ancient Rome with this virtual history app that contains interactive 3D recreations of buildings and monuments. There are also models of Roman soldiers and weapons as well as maps and plenty of info about Roman culture. Languages ‐
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