I can't remember what the app is called, but a talking scientific calculator was posted to AppleVis. The app looked quite useful.
Thanks, Ari > On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:30 PM, Eric Caron <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Nimit, > > I'm a High School Guidance Counselor in VT. > > I think these suggestions are right on. I would add a few to the list. > > List Recorder is great for organizing recordings or brief written notes. It > is one of my most used apps at work and home. I would have loved it as a > student. It can serve in many ways from a to do list to recording entire > classes. It can also be used if the student needs to do a presentation and > needs talking points. It is great for studying languages as you can keep > lists of words to study. The uses go on and on. > > > Pear notes lets a student record something such as a class or meeting and > also take written notes. The recording and the notes match up so the student > can hear again the parts of the class that their notes don't cover > adequately. Again I would have loved this as a student! > > iBooks can be used to read PDFs pretty well. And some text books are > becoming available on it. > > In addition to book share the student could use the BARD mobile app to find > many books for English and other classes. This assumes it is a US student. > Depending on math needs I'd look into calculator options to have ready to go. > > If the student is planning on doing lots of in class note taking they might > want a bluetooth keyboard, and to work quietly a bluetooth ear piece. > > Depending on the class other apps will be very helpful. Apps to read current > news for example. > > > > Let me know if I can be of additional help. > > Eric Caron > > On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:55 PM, Nimit <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hello, everybody, >> Well, I am asking this for a student, that I know, who has to use iPad for >> educational purposes. Note, for my friend... Anyways, this person is is in >> a regular High School Environment. This person has to do regular school >> tasks such as, writing papers, doing homework, reading and finding >> textbooks, communicating with teachers by email and such. I have >> recommended the following apps for specific tasks for her. I was asking if >> you guys have any suggestions for apps you can suggest for her? Apps that >> you think may benefit a student? >> I told her to use Pages for word processing, but if you have any other >> suggestions for word processing, please advice as Pages accessibility has >> been going down and down. >> I told her Keynote for Powerpoint which seems accessible for viewing >> presentations. She has not had to create one yet so she can not comment on >> that but she usually needs help in making powerpoints for the visual stuff. >> She tries avoiding it and just writes what she wants each slide to be and >> then somebody actually does it for her. >> I told her Read2Go for bookshare for her textbooks. >> Native Mail app is good for her to email people. >> I told her to use reminders for homework reminder. I taught her how to >> create a list, homework in reminders, and then add stuff in it. It seems to >> work for her. >> Now, can you guys suggest anything? Please? Here are the following we are >> having troubles in helping her. >> We can not find a cheap reliable scanning solutions for her iPad. >> We can not find a good PDF reader but we have considered the Adobe Acrobat >> Reader for her. >> I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter in helping my friend. >> Thank you, >> >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> >> Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. >> >> Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> >> Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing >> [email protected]. >> >> Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing >> [email protected]. >> >> More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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