There's an App for That!

With the upcoming iPad initiative and the ever present use of personal iPads and other notebooks and mobile devices in our daily lives and the daily lives of our students, I am going to spend a great deal of time this quarter blogging about the many different Apps available to us as instructors and that are available to our students.  If you have an app you love - whether for teaching or personal use - please send it my way as I'd love to share it with everyone.

The first App I'd like to share with you is one that our amazing librarian Elaine Settergren found:

• King of Math: This game app for iOS devices provides people with a fun way to refresh their skills across several areas of mathematics. The game starts you off as a farmer who must level up by answering several fast-paced math exercises across areas such as statistics, arithmetic and geometry.

Whether you teach a math specific course or not, I could see this as beneficial for all programs and all students.  Check it out and let me know what you think.  And once again, send your favorite Apps my way!

Thanks, 

Heather Thomton-Stockman
Online Instructional Specialist

"Better studying = less studying" : I like that!

Welcome to the start of another quarter!  And with the start of another quarter, we have a new batch of students and a wonderful opportunity to help guide our students in their educational and studying pursuits. This week I am blogging about another blog; a blog that was shared with me by our very own Catz Neset. Catz regularly engages in technology and social media opportunities to enhance educational knowledge and endeavors, and this blog she shared with me this week is very timely for the start of our new quarter.

As I mentioned above, we have the power to influence students to engage in better study habits, and as this blog explores, better studying can mean less studying...I'm thinking many of our students would like that idea!

Check the blog out, explore some of the strategies and ideas discussed, and share some with your students...then let me know how it goes!

Thanks,
Heather Thomton-Stockman
Online Instructional Specialist