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  • Institutional Apps With Limited Resources - What Are Your Options

    • Posted by Jim Nilson
    • March 21
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    In higher education, we are constantly battling for state dollars. Budget cuts loom, and ultimately resources are scarce - especially for new initiatives and technologies. So what happens when your audience wants more than you are able to provide? Do w...

  • Education and Workforce Mobile App Resource Center

    • Posted by Robbie Melton
    • October 26, 2011
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    Article by
    Robbie K. Melton
    Associate Vice Chancellor
    Tennessee Board of Regents eLearning...  more

  • iPads in Medical School: The Student Perspective

    • Posted by David Wicks
    • October 25, 2011
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    Over a year has passed since incoming medical students at UC Irvine were each given a white coat and an iPad. In that time, students have integrated the iPad as their primary device in the lecture hall, hospital wards, and sometimes even for a bit of f...

  • NotesPlus

    • Posted by Marilyn Pahr
    • October 13, 2011
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    Notes Plus is a note-taking tool that supports handwriting, typing and audio recording. It offers close-up writing mode for small text, shape auto-detection, palm handling, folder structure, PDF exporting, emailing, Google Docs uploading and more.
    The...

  • WritePad

    • Posted by Allan Platt
    • October 13, 2011
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    WritePad lets you take notes in your own handwriting with an iPad stylus or even your finger. The state-of-the-art handwriting recognition software will adapt and learn your style of writing. You can use simple gestures to select text, cut, copy, ...

  • Instapaper

    Instapaper is self-described as, “a simple tool to save web pages for reading later.” There, in a pithy statement, are both its pros and its cons.
    The good: Instapaper does what it claims to do and it does it quickly, simply, and cleanly. ...

  • Medical apps for classroom teaching

    • Posted by Allan Platt
    • September 12, 2011
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    Just three years ago, BIP (Before iPhone), Palm was the leader of medical personal digital assistant (PDA) applications and was integrating the PDA with cell technology to market the smartphone. We have seen the demise of the PDA and the rise of t...

  • AppsLab @ Emory: GoodReader

    • Posted by Brian Croxall
    • July 7, 2011
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    Among many other things, GoodReader is a PDF reader for iOS devices. What's more, GoodReader allows you to mark up the PDFs that you read, making it useful for research and teaching.
     
    The good: GoodReader allows you to view a lot of different f...

  • Evaluating iOS Applications: Apps Lab at Emory University

    A recent cover story in Wired suggests that the "Web is dead" and that the future lies with "simpler, sleeker services" such as apps. As apps become more critical for the general populace they also become so for faculty and students. Yet it can be di...

  • Listen to Your Campus with Augmented Reality

    • Posted by Jim Nilson
    • July 7, 2011
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    I’ve seen the future of social media and it goes by the moniker of augmented reality. Augmented reality allows you to combine a real-world view with computer generated graphics, providing reality-based context to data. 
     
    In iPhone te...