Friday, January 7, 2011

More Apps

The musical instrument apps could be useful. They sure aren't a replacement for the real thing but they can be a fun music class tool. I also liked all of the metric conversion apps. They would definitely be useful for science because there are always units that need to be converted in order to find the correct final answer. The fifth and final app that I thought was useful was the scientific calculator app. This combined with the graphing app that I wrote about in the last post would make a great combo. The calculator does everything, even trigonometry functions but it doesn't graph so it would be a great combo. These are the five apps that I think will actually think the students would use in class, other than the countless games of course.

-Akash Patel

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey akash - Could you give a couple of app. names for the ones you looked at?

Thanks!

Akash Patel said...

I believe it's just called calculator and the graphing one was iGraphs lite. There's a pro version but it has to be bought. The music apps are called Piano and Drums and I don't know the exact name of the conversion one but it's one of the first in the market place when you search "unit conversions."