Wednesday 20 July 2011

Useful Apps for iPAD

Having used the iPAD for teaching, learning and management over the last year at DMU here are my most used and most useful Apps:

Name

What does it do?

Task Task HD

Syncs your Outlook Tasks (Apple only do e-mail and calendar for DMU webmail.)

iGone

Syncs your Outlook Out of Office. (Apple only do e-mail and calendar for DMU webmail.)

Prezi Viewer

Viewer for Prezi Presentations

WebOut

Safari is not WYSIWYG. So if you use the Apple AV lead to connect to a LCD projector for a lecture the screen will be blank. This app allows internet content to be sent to a projector.

Mighty Meeting

Virtual cloud storage and AV out for ppt, pdf and doc presentations.

Penultimate

Incredible note book handwriting. AV out and ability to pdf and email handwritten notes.

Dropbox

Virtual Cloud Storage which links Apple platforms to desktop pc and internet

QuickVoice

Allows creation of email and doc files from spoken word

BlogPress

Allows creation and management of Google Blogger sites with link to Twitter for notifications.

TwitBird

Useful twitter app which shortens urls and shows previous tweets in the timeline

gDocuments

Access to, and management of, files in virtual Google Docs

AppShopper

Shows when apps are reduced for a short time

IdeaSketch

Bubble sketch app to visually show complex ideas

Pages

Apple’s version of word – accesses all doc, pdf and pages files, integrates with dropbox and email.

Keynote

Apple’s version of powerpoint – accesses all doc, pdf and ppt files, integrates with dropbox and email. Uses your iphone as a pointer and remote control.

Numbers

Apple’s version of excel – accesses all doc, pdf and xls files, integrates with dropbox and email.

Plain Text

Free version of pages, ok for basic text input

FileApp Pro

Views pfd files and doc files attached to emails if you don’t want or need Pages

LinkedIn

Linked In App

Tuesday 19 July 2011

Wonderful message from a student


cant believe i got a 1:1 in degree, but as they say hard work pays off.
just want to thankyou for your help with project and tutorship, as that gave me a real boost to achieve a first.
see you at graduation


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