With the advent of smartphones, new applications (apps) are being designed everyday to meet every imaginable interest or need. Students can benefit from a wide variety of these tools that can help them communicate with others, reinforce content material and organize their school work. Currently, I am a doctoral student at Boston College. One of the benefits of my schooling is that I am experiencing first hand the many ways technology is hitting colleges and universities. Here are some apps that I feel could really help out our students.
- Homework Organization: inClass or myHomework Visit the Apps Store on your iPhone. Studious is the Android version.
- Collaboration Tools: Google apps allows students to store and work on documents, presentations and spreadsheets at the same time from their own home and computer. What is really powerful about this application is that students can also see and talk to each other while writing papers and completing presentation by using to Google +. Go to Google.com and sign up for a free account to take advantage of this.
- Storage Tool: Say goodbye to thumb drives with Dropbox. This allows students to store and access their documents anywhere. Visit www.dropbox.com
- Notes Tools: Goodreader and iannotate allow students to scan or download documents and then highlighter and annotate. This is great for students who struggle with reading and want to keep track of their notes in class. Evernote allows them to take notes from their phone and organize them.
- Studying Tools: gFlash+Flashcards & Tests- allows for studying on the go with the use of flashcards
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