Now and then, I come across an app and think this is the experience tablets were made for. A tool in that hand of someone with a limitless imagination and Adobe Voice—Show Your Story is an app worthy of such a tool. You can combine icons, pictures, text, and your voice to create compelling videos. And, you’ll always have images to use.
Studying endless lists isn’t always the best way to learn and use them effectively. Phrasal verbs are, more than anything, action. And action must be visual. The more visually stimulating learning is, the better we will understand and assimilate the phrasal verbs. Which is the very idea surround what the Phrasal Verbs Machine was built to do
Regardless of whether your kids love or hate Spanish, apps like Compact English-Spanish Dictionary make much easier to complete the course with flying colors. It features pronunciation in multiple regional voices, the ability to translate between both languages and take advantage of definitions and synonyms for better understanding.
Apps like Science360 gives the type of immersive experience the iPad was made for. It feel like you’re taking a deep long dive into a multimedia world of endless knowledge which the National Science Foundation (NSF) provides through this app. It’s a plethora of engaging science and engineering images and videos from around the globe.
I wholeheartedly suggest encouraging kids, students, and peers to attend hackathons or makeathons, or community innovation days. Better yet, host one in your community! Let me tell you about my experience, and why I feel that being part of a group of people, making something together, is an invaluable experience.
Now that Microsoft has released its suite of apps for the iPad, consumers and critics alike weighing in on just how useful these apps are on the iPad’s platform. This week we take a look at the Pros & Cons of Microsoft Excel for iPad. As with Word, and PowerPoint, Excel requires an Office 365 subscription of $99.00 annually.
Some critics are hailing them as the final key the iPad needed to be considered a true content creation device, which according the some drives the final death nail in Microsoft’s own tablet the surface. Does that mean they are absolutely perfect? This week, we’ll take a look at the Pros & Cons of Microsoft PowerPoint for iPad.
It has been well reported in that last few weeks that Microsoft would release its suite of apps for the iPad. Now they are all available to the masses. Some critiques are hailing them as the final key the iPad needed to be considered a true content creation device, which according the some drives the final death nail in Microsoft’s own tablet, the Surface.
They feature multiple-choice questions and practice tests. At the end, students can view their results and how much time they spent on each question. All this information is displayed on a bar chart so they can see their strengths and focus on weak areas. The questions cover everything from adjectives, verbs, and pronouns to adverbs, tenses, and transitions.
Brainscape is based on the simple premise: When you study, each concept should be repeated with in the amount of time that is just long enough for your maximum memory encoding. Repeating an easy concept to soon risks wasting your time, while repeating a difficult concept to late risks your having to learn it all over again.
