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RefMe

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RefMe   RefMe Ltd Free Available on iOS, Android A perfect student tool to support student's ability to easily reference literature sources, including those text books purchased or burrowed from the University Library.  The app is the perfect study tool for capturing literature sources into a reference format; the app can accommodate books, journal articles, web pages, videos, newspapers, artwork, legislation and images.   In the case of hard-copy of books, newspapers and journals the app uses the mobile device camera to enable students to capture a sources bar-code and converts the information into a reference format. The app supports 7,500 different reference styles, including Harvard, APA and MLA.   The app could not be simpler, a valuable study tool as ensures and assists students in preparing their citations and referencing in the correct format in their coursework. The tool also supports exporting into numerous popular reference management too...
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Wikiweb

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Wikiweb Friends of The Web, LLC Free Available on iOS This tool shows the web link connections between Wikipedia articles.  Enables the user to gain an understanding of information is interconnected.  The user can see visual array of how pages and how each subject are interconnected to the original search, as well as the original Wikipedia page for the original searched topic.  Users can click on connections to reveal next layer of interconnections to sub-topics, see figure 1. Figure 1: Example Wikiweb search results on iPad Wikiweb is very similar to another concept mapping tool C-links developed by University of Braford, [1-2].  C-links is another concept linkage search tool of Wikipedia accessible from a web browser.   This is tool similar to Wikiweb in that shows interconnections in Wikipedia, but user specifies two subjects to be searched for the interconnections, but output only Wikipedia definitions not the original wiki page.   Therefore t...
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CloudOn

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CloudOn CloudOn Inc Free Available on iOS and Android Another Office tool however it fills the gap of providing MSOffice like functionality (particularly the toolbar which very similar to MS Office applications) onto your mobile device in the absence of MS Office app.   Plus you can sync the device with Google Drive, SkyDrive, Box and DropBox, open, edit and save to the drives documents.  The MS Office like functionality is much welcomed; it reduces the learning curve for users increases the user   ability to produces documents with polish on mobile devices increase the user ability to polish Google docs stored on Google Drive In addition the app opens Open Office documents, a preferred application for word processing by tech' students, but consequently cannot be opened and read by their tutor when digitally submitted on the Institutional desktop or typically on their mobile devices.   Resulting in a delay in providing feedback as; the tutor bounces t...
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Summly

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Summly Summly (but just been bought by Yahoo, [1]) Free Available on iPhone An app I have used for quite some time, the look and feel is beautiful, one can understand Yahoo buying this app out for several thousand, [1].   However it has meant the android app has been shelved.   The app deliveries summaries of the news from leading on-line official news sources, for example The Guardian,etc.  The news articles are summarised down to typically to 140 words, so the news is easier to digest on your iPhone.   The app enables you to scan the news and gain an appreciation of the key world news. This is a useful app if you are an academic that uses news articles in your lecture to assist in making your subject area more current. However unlike Flipboard and twitter news stream with an embedded web link, when you click on the summarised article in Summly it will not take you to the full article.  Just occasionally users may wish to read more and in more de...
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MailBox

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MailBox Orchestra Free Available on iPhone The popular email management system for Gmail launched this year , ideal for students at out institution as the student email account is Gmail.   The app enables the user to quickly swipe through your emails to ·          bin junk mail, ·          file as done into archive (i.e. when read and acted upon) ·          reset to be read or act upon from later evening, tomorrow, next week, month, someday ·          set to buy, read and watch ·          see whole email conversation Suddenly you can easily manage your inbox efficiently never lose the important emails in the sea of emails in the inbox, enabling you to organise them to be acted upon later when one has time to address appropriately and correctly.   Feedback from one studen...
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Vintagio

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Vintagio By MacPhun LLC £1.49 Available iPhone and iPad One the assessment tasks I like to set my students at second year, rather than presentation or pitch, is a standalone presentation.   This can use standalone functionality in Prezi or Powerpoint.    However I like to encourage my students to actually make a video, challenge themselves technically to communicate effectively to the audience.    My assessment brief state the presentation can be any genre. Vintagio enables students to easily make a silent video, provides the functionality to record, edit and publish the films in formats from 20’s, sepia to 70’s yellow tinged footage.    The app equally supplies appropriate and a choice of period soundtracks for each film effect.    The pro editing facility is excellent you can: ·         add footage film, photos, to the timeline ·         add text cards (however you cannot...
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Mobiletag

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Mobiletag By MobileTag Free Available for Blackberry, Android, Kindle Fire HD, Windows 8 mobile OS and iOS mobile platforms Reported to be the first mobile QRCode reader, admittedly I have had this app on my iPhone since 2009, when there was choice of two QRCode reading apps.    The advantage of this Mobile code reader is that it can scan QRCodes, Barcodes and Matrix codes, 3 in 1 app. For learning purposes why would I recommend anyone ensuring they have QRCode app on their mobile device.    In reality it is now common place for magazines, newspaper, books and posters to have QRcodes.    QRCodes present publishers with the opportunity to provide additional copy on the web without the print and ddistribution cost or dynamic web based information for example a video, podcast, animation, live data stream or changing data resource.    Practical learning examples; ·        QRCodes could be used in a Maths text book to enab...
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