Diigo and other bookmarking apps

Keeping track of resources found online can be challenging for students conducting research. Creating a personal learning space is one way to keep resources organized and to make research less stressful. Websites and their iPad apps like Diigo.com can be used to create libraries full of links to articles, pictures, websites, and notes that will help a student keep track of web sources.

Try Diigo or Scoopi.it on the web or on the iPad to create a space to save information, read, annotate, and share! Teachers can use these great tools to gather information for their students in one place – just curate your library of info in advance and send the URL to your students when they need it!

Are you using any other bookingmarking tools on your iPad or online? Let us know in the comments section!

Requested Review: Broadcasting Apps

A teacher asked if I could find any apps that would help make broadcasting morning announcement videos easier, and I think UStream Broadcaster or Veetle are your best bets. I’m not going to say a great deal about UStream Broadcaster because I don’t like that they require you to login and broadcast strictly via social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

The Veetle app, on the other hand, allows you to record or live-broadcast videos and does not require you use social networking sites to link to your videos. It is a very basic recording tool – it allows you to record from the front or back camera on your iPad, but it only allows you to record in landscape mode, so no portrait views for your broadcasts if you are going to use Veetle. If you choose to pre-record your broadcast, you can easily email a link to people in your contacts after you’ve finished recording. If you want to schedule a broadcast (8:45 a.m. morning announcements, for example), you can log onto the Veetle web-based site and do so, and then send a link to the scheduled event via email.

An app like Veetle could also be used to record lessons and send links to students who missed a day of class, record meetings for later use, or record student presentations in class. Access your recorded broadcasts later via wifi – no need to take up memory on your iPad by saving the videos to your device!

If you know of any other broadcasting apps that work well in the classroom, please leave a note in the comments!

Time- Sensitive Sale at the App Store

Now is the time to get good deals on paid apps in the app store! On the Featured page in the app store, click the Education apps button and then the Apps for College button to find some great discounted apps. I’m going to download Art Authority, The Civil War Today, and iStudiez Pro, all for for 50% off! Which apps will you get for cheap?

Molecules App

The Molecules app by Sunset Lake Software is a fun, easy way to teach students about moleclue structures.

This free app comes loaded with simple molecules and you can download other molecules from the RCSB Protein Data Bank or from PubChem, also free. You can spin and zoom into each molecule, and each molecule comes with detailed information about each molecule.

For more information about the app and its developers, please click here.