Using Mobile Devices

An emerging "issue and advance" in educational technology is the use of mobile devices, either provided by the school or using a "bring your own device" approach. If you have one of these mobile devices, you may wish to use it as part of this class:

• • iOS device: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

  • Android tablet or smart phone

  • Chromebook

The following apps are available that can support your use of your mobile device in this class:

• • Wordpress (to write your weekly blog entry)

  • http://ios.wordpress.org/  (iPod, iPad, iPhone)

  • http://android.wordpress.org/  (Android)

  • http://blackberry.wordpress.org/  (Blackberry)

  • Evernote (a handy note-taking tool that can be used to capture your day-to-day notes)

  • http://www.evernote.com - available in iTunes and Android App stores

  • Google+ (for asynchronous conversations in Circles and synchronous conversations in Hangouts)

  • http://www.google.com/mobile/+/

  • Google Drive (iOS and Android)

Other apps we like:

• • Dropbox (for storing files online, accessible from any device) and PlainText app for documents that are saved in Dropbox. http://www.dropbox.com

  • Social networking apps for Facebook and Twitter (LOVE Flipboard on iPad for reading posts)