Tuesday 30 October 2012

Apps for education: The Best Around


There are hundreds of amazing educational apps right now, and it's really difficult to pick one from the other. But we have researched these apps, and are providing the best educational apps across all platforms and for all users. We hope you can use these apps in a positive manner and enhance your true potential in terms of studies.
The best educational apps for Apple users:
 1) Edmodo:
Edmodo is the best app for teachers and students to stay connected and share information. Best of all, its a free app and has a wide range of uses like homework submissions, grade assignments, alerts and a lot more.
2) iAnnotate:
iAnnotate PDF is the most powerful annotation application for the iPad, and with their latest release they are bringing that same power to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files – so now you can get the app that users say is “light years ahead of the other annotation apps” and go paperless with more files than ever before!
3) Grammar Up HD:
Grammar Up is the perfect app to improve your grammar and English vocabulary skills, with more than 1800 multiple choice questions and a progress meter, look no further than this app for improving your grammar.
4) Monster Anatomy:
Whether you want to become a doctor, biologist or anything related to the biology subject, this app is perfect for you. Explore 384 contiguous MR slices in the three anatomical planes with this interactive lower-limb radiology atlas.
5) Motion Math HD:
Whether you love math or hate it, its one of the most important subjects for school, university as well as your life. With motion math, you will learn to love math, as Motion Math HD follows a star that has fallen from space and must bound back up, up, up to its home in the stars. Moving fractions to their correct place on the number line is the only way to return. By playing Motion Math, learners improve their ability to perceive and estimate fractions in multiple forms.

The best educational apps for Android users:
1) Advanced English and Thesaurus:
Instead of following the standard dictionary format, the WordNet dictionary is organized with an innovative and convenient approach. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms, interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. In addition to the straightforward definition, the dictionary shows how each word is linked to other words in terms of synonyms, opposites, and similar words, but also hyponyms and hyperlinks within the group. This app is best suited for High-School students to improve and enhance grammar along with vocabulary.
2) Flash Card Maker Pro:
 With text-to-speech capability and advanced gesturing functions, Flash Card Maker Pro uses multi-sensory learning techniques to help improve memory. Best suited for high school students, looking to improve ways in retaining memory.
3) Gutenberg E-Reader:
This app gives the user access to the entire Project Gutenberg eBook library, allowing users to search by author, subject, and titles to find the book they need quickly. Perfect app for students who want to do research without purchasing a book.
4) Tick!
The perfect app for students who want to time their studies and write practice exams with perfect timing. Best for students while practicing for their exams.
5) Trippo Mondo:
A language translator, Trippo Mondo translates any phrase and speaks it out loud in the language chosen. Perfect app for students learning multiple languages or interested in learning foreign languages.
The best educational apps for Windows users:
1) Programming Tutorials:
This app makes available a collection of programming tutorials – in video format – covering various programming languages including C#, C++, HTML5, PHP or Windows 8 Apps. The front lists the latest tutorials that have been added indicating that new contents will be added regularly to the app. Perfect app for students who are interested in programming and want to make that as a career.
2) Phonetics- A students Handbook
Phonetics can be very helpful when you are trying to learn a new language. You have probably seen the phonetic spelling of words in dictionaries which help you pronounce words correctly even if you have never heard them before.
The application gives you an introduction to phonetics, from the original meaning of the word and the areas of study to the phonetic alphabet, terminology and how we speak.
3) Speed Reading:
If you want to read faster, speed reading is what helps you achieve that goal. The application offers information about the theory behind speed reading, exercises to train your eyes and an option to record your speed reading progress.
4) Sky Map:
Space. The Final Frontier. If you are interested in constellations and astronomy, then this app is for you. This app lets you explore stars and constellations and is an amazing app for astronomy, displaying more than 13000 stars.
5) English Club:
English Club offers two English learning modules, Business Terms and Advanced English, and a selection of English word games like Word Search or Hangman. Amazing app for improving English Language Skills and Vocabulary.
These are some of the best educational apps around for Apple, Andorid and Windows users and these apps are definitely going to help you to cope with your studies and transform the way you learn.


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