Best Educational Mobile Apps

Here are some of the best educational apps that you can try:

Organization - for making notes and to-do lists

• Evernote - keeps track of everything you want to remember. You can scan tickets, book notes and phone numbers and also enables you to type notes to yourself.
• 30Boxes -logs important appointments and days off of school.
• Voice Memos - the best voice recorder for notes, lectures and interviews
• Assignments -allows you to input and view your class assignments and notes
• Read It Later - lets you save interesting articles you want to read
• Stanza – this application is handy when you have a lot of reading to do. It has more than 100,000 free downloadable books. There is access to textbooks, how-to’s, manuals and classic and modern literature.

Communication - for keeping in touch with group mates, classmates, and teachers

• WordPress - an essential download especially if you are into blogging
• Blackboard - helps you collaborate, access grades, and put assignments and tests online

Reference - for looking facts up in a hurry

• Dictionary! - helps you find the spelling and meaning of over 200,000 words
• Google Earth - mobile version that can allow you to look at any place in the world
• Poptiq - enables you to watch all kinds of educational videos from anywhere
• QuoteBook -aids you in finding relevant quotes
• Roget’s New Thesaurus -shows synonyms for any word
• Where - shows what are the latest news and where are the closest stores, restaurants, landmarks, weather, and other information useful in research. It is available on all major smart phone platforms
• Google Mobile - offers instant information such as videos and scholarly articles
• BBC Reader -makes it easy to keep up with world news from the BBC

Topics

• This Day in History-find out what happened on any day of the year in the past
• Maps of the World-can help you look up any country and pass on the information
• VocabDaily Free-learn a new word each day or find new words
• Talking Phrasebooks-learn how to say basic phrases in almost any language
• Bookshelf-allows you to read e-books in your iPhone
• Margins- take notes as you read with this helpful tool
• Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms-to brush up on literary terms
• Starmap-track the progress of the stars through the sky with this application
• EleMints­- take the periodic table with you everywhere with this tool
• The Chemical Touch-a simple reference about the properties of the elements, the standard amino acids, and the nucleobases.
• Formul8­-get access to the most-used formulas for Algebra, Geometry, Calculus, Science, and Chemistry
• Math Ref Free-provides reference tools for geometry, algebra, trigonometry
• Animoto-make great animations you can use for reports and projects
• FlipBook Lite-make simple flip-book style animations with this tool

Source: http://smart.com.ph/SmartSchools/SmartTools

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