I recently downloaded the iPhone graphing calculator to check out after reading about it in the Ormiston text. I was surprised on it's capabilities for $1.99. As a math teacher I do not think it could replace a TI-84 plus calculator for upper level math classes, but can do a lot more than I could have imagined. I was so impressed with this application I wanted to see what other kind of apps are out there for our students to work with.
The iPhone has many great applications for students to download and some are free. I was reading the Time magazine article "Top 10 Back-to-School iPhone Applications". I found a few to be very useful for students I teach and for us graduate students as well. The Evernote application allows for students to record lectures and make notes directly into the iPhone and they are linked to the web. You can then search your notes and tag notes and photos. This is a great place to keep all of your notes to be accessed anywhere you need, no more notebooks and pens needed. This application is free. Another application that sticks out for me is the gFlashPro app. This costs $4.99 to use ad free but seems well worth it. You can create flashcards in Excel or Google Spreadsheets and view them with video and pictures on your iPhone. What a great way to get rid of index cards and have an interactive learning tool your students can make and share with each other via the web. Lastly, the MyHomework application is a great one for our students to use. It is a free app that keeps track of all of there homework and can use color coding due date system. This is a great tool to get student's organized.
Here is a link to the Time Article "Top 10 Back-to-School iPhone Applications"
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