Re: Question for a friend. What apps would you recommend for a student using iPad?

2014-01-30 Thread Gmail
I can't remember what the app is called, but a talking scientific calculator 
was posted to AppleVis. The app looked quite useful.


Thanks,
Ari

 On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:30 PM, Eric Caron ecar...@comcast.net wrote:
 
 Hi Nimit,
 
I'm a High School Guidance Counselor in VT.
 
I think these suggestions are right on.  I would add a few to the list.
 
 List Recorder is great for organizing recordings or brief written notes.  It 
 is one of my most used apps at work and home.  I would have loved it as a 
 student.  It can serve in many ways from a to do list to recording entire 
 classes. It can also be used if the student needs to do a presentation and 
 needs talking points.  It is great for studying languages as you can keep 
 lists of words to study.  The uses go on and on.
 
 
 Pear notes lets a student record something such as a class or meeting and 
 also take written notes.  The recording and the notes match up so the student 
 can hear again the parts of the class that their notes don't cover 
 adequately.  Again I would have loved this as a student!
 
 iBooks can be used to read PDFs pretty well.  And some text books are 
 becoming available on it.
 
 In addition to book share the student could use the BARD mobile app to find 
 many books for English and other classes.  This assumes it is a US student.
 Depending on math needs I'd look into calculator options to have ready to go.
 
 If the student is planning on doing lots of in class note taking they might 
 want a bluetooth keyboard, and to work quietly a bluetooth ear piece.
 
 Depending on the class other apps will be very helpful.  Apps to read current 
 news for example.
 
 
 
 Let me know if I can be of additional help.
 
 Eric Caron 
 
 On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:55 PM, Nimit kaur.ni...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
 Hello, everybody, 
 Well, I am asking this for a student, that I know, who has to use iPad for 
 educational purposes.  Note, for my friend...  Anyways, this person is is in 
 a regular High School Environment.  This person has to do regular school 
 tasks such as, writing papers, doing homework, reading and finding 
 textbooks, communicating with teachers by email and such.  I have 
 recommended the following apps for specific tasks for her.  I was asking if 
 you guys have any suggestions for apps you can suggest for her?  Apps that 
 you think may benefit a student?  
 I told her to use Pages for word processing, but if you have any other 
 suggestions for word processing, please advice as Pages accessibility has 
 been going down and down.  
 I told her Keynote for Powerpoint which seems accessible for viewing 
 presentations.  She has not had to create one yet so she can not comment on 
 that but she usually needs help in making powerpoints for the visual stuff.  
 She tries avoiding it and just writes what she wants each slide to be and 
 then somebody actually does it for her.  
 I told her Read2Go for bookshare for her textbooks.  
 Native Mail app is good for her to email people.  
 I told her to use reminders for homework reminder.  I taught her how to 
 create a list, homework in reminders, and then add stuff in it.  It seems to 
 work for her.  
 Now, can you guys suggest anything?  Please?  Here are the following we are 
 having troubles in helping her.  
 We can not find a cheap reliable scanning solutions for her iPad.  
 We can not find a good PDF reader but we have considered the Adobe Acrobat 
 Reader for her.  
 I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter in helping my friend.  
 Thank you, 
 
 
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RE: Question for a friend. What apps would you recommend for a student using iPad?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Erichsen
Hi

I'd recommend:
Voicedream for any books
Perhaps for notetaking functionality try AccessNote?
Just a couple of ideas.
Pages seems to work well last I tried it.


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Subject: Question for a friend. What apps would you recommend for a student
using iPad?

Hello, everybody, 
Well, I am asking this for a student, that I know, who has to use iPad for
educational purposes.  Note, for my friend...  Anyways, this person is is in
a regular High School Environment.  This person has to do regular school
tasks such as, writing papers, doing homework, reading and finding
textbooks, communicating with teachers by email and such.  I have
recommended the following apps for specific tasks for her.  I was asking if
you guys have any suggestions for apps you can suggest for her?  Apps that
you think may benefit a student?  
I told her to use Pages for word processing, but if you have any other
suggestions for word processing, please advice as Pages accessibility has
been going down and down.  
I told her Keynote for Powerpoint which seems accessible for viewing
presentations.  She has not had to create one yet so she can not comment on
that but she usually needs help in making powerpoints for the visual stuff.
She tries avoiding it and just writes what she wants each slide to be and
then somebody actually does it for her.  
I told her Read2Go for bookshare for her textbooks.  
Native Mail app is good for her to email people.  
I told her to use reminders for homework reminder.  I taught her how to
create a list, homework in reminders, and then add stuff in it.  It seems to
work for her.  
Now, can you guys suggest anything?  Please?  Here are the following we are
having troubles in helping her.  
We can not find a cheap reliable scanning solutions for her iPad.  
We can not find a good PDF reader but we have considered the Adobe Acrobat
Reader for her.  
I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter in helping my friend.  
Thank you, 


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Re: Question for a friend. What apps would you recommend for a student using iPad?

2014-01-30 Thread Ron Miller
Great suggestions from Eric and others. I would add a braille display to the 
list of suggestions if she's a proficient braille user. This will let her do 
all of her reading and writing without having an earphone or earbud. Our ears 
need to be listening to the class, not Voiceover. Sighted students are writing 
and reading their notes and listening to the teacher and everybody asking 
questions and commenting, a blind student needs to be writing, and reading 
notes tactually and also listening to the teacher and classmates. Ears out in 
the real world no audio division or distractions.

Best to all,


Ron Miller

 On Jan 29, 2014, at 10:30 PM, Eric Caron ecar...@comcast.net wrote:
 
 Hi Nimit,
 
I'm a High School Guidance Counselor in VT.
 
I think these suggestions are right on.  I would add a few to the list.
 
 List Recorder is great for organizing recordings or brief written notes.  It 
 is one of my most used apps at work and home.  I would have loved it as a 
 student.  It can serve in many ways from a to do list to recording entire 
 classes. It can also be used if the student needs to do a presentation and 
 needs talking points.  It is great for studying languages as you can keep 
 lists of words to study.  The uses go on and on.
 
 
 Pear notes lets a student record something such as a class or meeting and 
 also take written notes.  The recording and the notes match up so the student 
 can hear again the parts of the class that their notes don't cover 
 adequately.  Again I would have loved this as a student!
 
 iBooks can be used to read PDFs pretty well.  And some text books are 
 becoming available on it.
 
 In addition to book share the student could use the BARD mobile app to find 
 many books for English and other classes.  This assumes it is a US student.
 Depending on math needs I'd look into calculator options to have ready to go.
 
 If the student is planning on doing lots of in class note taking they might 
 want a bluetooth keyboard, and to work quietly a bluetooth ear piece.
 
 Depending on the class other apps will be very helpful.  Apps to read current 
 news for example.
 
 
 
 Let me know if I can be of additional help.
 
 Eric Caron 
 
 On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:55 PM, Nimit kaur.ni...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
 Hello, everybody, 
 Well, I am asking this for a student, that I know, who has to use iPad for 
 educational purposes.  Note, for my friend...  Anyways, this person is is in 
 a regular High School Environment.  This person has to do regular school 
 tasks such as, writing papers, doing homework, reading and finding 
 textbooks, communicating with teachers by email and such.  I have 
 recommended the following apps for specific tasks for her.  I was asking if 
 you guys have any suggestions for apps you can suggest for her?  Apps that 
 you think may benefit a student?  
 I told her to use Pages for word processing, but if you have any other 
 suggestions for word processing, please advice as Pages accessibility has 
 been going down and down.  
 I told her Keynote for Powerpoint which seems accessible for viewing 
 presentations.  She has not had to create one yet so she can not comment on 
 that but she usually needs help in making powerpoints for the visual stuff.  
 She tries avoiding it and just writes what she wants each slide to be and 
 then somebody actually does it for her.  
 I told her Read2Go for bookshare for her textbooks.  
 Native Mail app is good for her to email people.  
 I told her to use reminders for homework reminder.  I taught her how to 
 create a list, homework in reminders, and then add stuff in it.  It seems to 
 work for her.  
 Now, can you guys suggest anything?  Please?  Here are the following we are 
 having troubles in helping her.  
 We can not find a cheap reliable scanning solutions for her iPad.  
 We can not find a good PDF reader but we have considered the Adobe Acrobat 
 Reader for her.  
 I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter in helping my friend.  
 Thank you, 
 
 
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Question for a friend. What apps would you recommend for a student using iPad?

2014-01-29 Thread Nimit
Hello, everybody, 
Well, I am asking this for a student, that I know, who has to use iPad for 
educational purposes.  Note, for my friend...  Anyways, this person is is in a 
regular High School Environment.  This person has to do regular school tasks 
such as, writing papers, doing homework, reading and finding textbooks, 
communicating with teachers by email and such.  I have recommended the 
following apps for specific tasks for her.  I was asking if you guys have any 
suggestions for apps you can suggest for her?  Apps that you think may benefit 
a student?  
I told her to use Pages for word processing, but if you have any other 
suggestions for word processing, please advice as Pages accessibility has been 
going down and down.  
I told her Keynote for Powerpoint which seems accessible for viewing 
presentations.  She has not had to create one yet so she can not comment on 
that but she usually needs help in making powerpoints for the visual stuff.  
She tries avoiding it and just writes what she wants each slide to be and then 
somebody actually does it for her.  
I told her Read2Go for bookshare for her textbooks.  
Native Mail app is good for her to email people.  
I told her to use reminders for homework reminder.  I taught her how to create 
a list, homework in reminders, and then add stuff in it.  It seems to work for 
her.  
Now, can you guys suggest anything?  Please?  Here are the following we are 
having troubles in helping her.  
We can not find a cheap reliable scanning solutions for her iPad.  
We can not find a good PDF reader but we have considered the Adobe Acrobat 
Reader for her.  
I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter in helping my friend.  
Thank you, 


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Re: Question for a friend. What apps would you recommend for a student using iPad?

2014-01-29 Thread Jennie Facer
Hi,

I would also think about Voice Dream for reading books. As for .pdf files, the 
email program has a good reader in it, so if she could get those .pdfs emailed 
to her as attachments, it would work pretty well.

Have you thought about Prizmo or Text detective for scanning?

I hope these things helps a little bit as I don't know what else a student 
would need. My daughter is in high school, but she isn't visually impaired. 
Man, I so wish I had this in high school!

Have a great night!

Jenn

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 On Jan 29, 2014, at 5:55 PM, Nimit kaur.ni...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hello, everybody, 
 Well, I am asking this for a student, that I know, who has to use iPad for 
 educational purposes.  Note, for my friend...  Anyways, this person is is in 
 a regular High School Environment.  This person has to do regular school 
 tasks such as, writing papers, doing homework, reading and finding textbooks, 
 communicating with teachers by email and such.  I have recommended the 
 following apps for specific tasks for her.  I was asking if you guys have any 
 suggestions for apps you can suggest for her?  Apps that you think may 
 benefit a student?  
 I told her to use Pages for word processing, but if you have any other 
 suggestions for word processing, please advice as Pages accessibility has 
 been going down and down.  
 I told her Keynote for Powerpoint which seems accessible for viewing 
 presentations.  She has not had to create one yet so she can not comment on 
 that but she usually needs help in making powerpoints for the visual stuff.  
 She tries avoiding it and just writes what she wants each slide to be and 
 then somebody actually does it for her.  
 I told her Read2Go for bookshare for her textbooks.  
 Native Mail app is good for her to email people.  
 I told her to use reminders for homework reminder.  I taught her how to 
 create a list, homework in reminders, and then add stuff in it.  It seems to 
 work for her.  
 Now, can you guys suggest anything?  Please?  Here are the following we are 
 having troubles in helping her.  
 We can not find a cheap reliable scanning solutions for her iPad.  
 We can not find a good PDF reader but we have considered the Adobe Acrobat 
 Reader for her.  
 I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter in helping my friend.  
 Thank you, 
 
 
 Sent from my iPad
 
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Re: Question for a friend. What apps would you recommend for a student using iPad?

2014-01-29 Thread John Diakogeorgiou
That's a vague question. If the person has vision problems then for
sure Voice Dream would be my number one recommendation. I would also
suggest dropbox, notes or pages, and the rest depends on what they are
studying and their age.

On 1/29/14, Nimit kaur.ni...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello, everybody,
 Well, I am asking this for a student, that I know, who has to use iPad for
 educational purposes.  Note, for my friend...  Anyways, this person is is in
 a regular High School Environment.  This person has to do regular school
 tasks such as, writing papers, doing homework, reading and finding
 textbooks, communicating with teachers by email and such.  I have
 recommended the following apps for specific tasks for her.  I was asking if
 you guys have any suggestions for apps you can suggest for her?  Apps that
 you think may benefit a student?
 I told her to use Pages for word processing, but if you have any other
 suggestions for word processing, please advice as Pages accessibility has
 been going down and down.
 I told her Keynote for Powerpoint which seems accessible for viewing
 presentations.  She has not had to create one yet so she can not comment on
 that but she usually needs help in making powerpoints for the visual stuff.
 She tries avoiding it and just writes what she wants each slide to be and
 then somebody actually does it for her.
 I told her Read2Go for bookshare for her textbooks.
 Native Mail app is good for her to email people.
 I told her to use reminders for homework reminder.  I taught her how to
 create a list, homework in reminders, and then add stuff in it.  It seems to
 work for her.
 Now, can you guys suggest anything?  Please?  Here are the following we are
 having troubles in helping her.
 We can not find a cheap reliable scanning solutions for her iPad.
 We can not find a good PDF reader but we have considered the Adobe Acrobat
 Reader for her.
 I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter in helping my friend.
 Thank you,


 Sent from my iPad

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Re: Question for a friend. What apps would you recommend for a student using iPad?

2014-01-29 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Nimit,

I'm a High School Guidance Counselor in VT.

I think these suggestions are right on.  I would add a few to the list.

List Recorder is great for organizing recordings or brief written notes.  It is 
one of my most used apps at work and home.  I would have loved it as a student. 
 It can serve in many ways from a to do list to recording entire classes. It 
can also be used if the student needs to do a presentation and needs talking 
points.  It is great for studying languages as you can keep lists of words to 
study.  The uses go on and on.


Pear notes lets a student record something such as a class or meeting and also 
take written notes.  The recording and the notes match up so the student can 
hear again the parts of the class that their notes don't cover adequately.  
Again I would have loved this as a student!

iBooks can be used to read PDFs pretty well.  And some text books are becoming 
available on it.

In addition to book share the student could use the BARD mobile app to find 
many books for English and other classes.  This assumes it is a US student.
Depending on math needs I'd look into calculator options to have ready to go.

If the student is planning on doing lots of in class note taking they might 
want a bluetooth keyboard, and to work quietly a bluetooth ear piece.

Depending on the class other apps will be very helpful.  Apps to read current 
news for example.
  


Let me know if I can be of additional help.

Eric Caron 

On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:55 PM, Nimit kaur.ni...@gmail.com wrote:


 Hello, everybody, 
 Well, I am asking this for a student, that I know, who has to use iPad for 
 educational purposes.  Note, for my friend...  Anyways, this person is is in 
 a regular High School Environment.  This person has to do regular school 
 tasks such as, writing papers, doing homework, reading and finding textbooks, 
 communicating with teachers by email and such.  I have recommended the 
 following apps for specific tasks for her.  I was asking if you guys have any 
 suggestions for apps you can suggest for her?  Apps that you think may 
 benefit a student?  
 I told her to use Pages for word processing, but if you have any other 
 suggestions for word processing, please advice as Pages accessibility has 
 been going down and down.  
 I told her Keynote for Powerpoint which seems accessible for viewing 
 presentations.  She has not had to create one yet so she can not comment on 
 that but she usually needs help in making powerpoints for the visual stuff.  
 She tries avoiding it and just writes what she wants each slide to be and 
 then somebody actually does it for her.  
 I told her Read2Go for bookshare for her textbooks.  
 Native Mail app is good for her to email people.  
 I told her to use reminders for homework reminder.  I taught her how to 
 create a list, homework in reminders, and then add stuff in it.  It seems to 
 work for her.  
 Now, can you guys suggest anything?  Please?  Here are the following we are 
 having troubles in helping her.  
 We can not find a cheap reliable scanning solutions for her iPad.  
 We can not find a good PDF reader but we have considered the Adobe Acrobat 
 Reader for her.  
 I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter in helping my friend.  
 Thank you, 
 
 
 Sent from my iPad
 
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RE: Question for a friend. What apps would you recommend for a student using iPad?

2014-01-29 Thread rex wisdom
I use voice dream It will read PDF as well as other formats .  Voice use to
be half the price of read to go and I think is very easy to use.

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student using iPad?

Hi Nimit,

I'm a High School Guidance Counselor in VT.

I think these suggestions are right on.  I would add a few to the
list.

List Recorder is great for organizing recordings or brief written notes.  It
is one of my most used apps at work and home.  I would have loved it as a
student.  It can serve in many ways from a to do list to recording entire
classes. It can also be used if the student needs to do a presentation and
needs talking points.  It is great for studying languages as you can keep
lists of words to study.  The uses go on and on.


Pear notes lets a student record something such as a class or meeting and
also take written notes.  The recording and the notes match up so the
student can hear again the parts of the class that their notes don't cover
adequately.  Again I would have loved this as a student!

iBooks can be used to read PDFs pretty well.  And some text books are
becoming available on it.

In addition to book share the student could use the BARD mobile app to find
many books for English and other classes.  This assumes it is a US student.
Depending on math needs I'd look into calculator options to have ready to
go.

If the student is planning on doing lots of in class note taking they might
want a bluetooth keyboard, and to work quietly a bluetooth ear piece.

Depending on the class other apps will be very helpful.  Apps to read
current news for example.
  


Let me know if I can be of additional help.

Eric Caron 

On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:55 PM, Nimit kaur.ni...@gmail.com wrote:


 Hello, everybody, 
 Well, I am asking this for a student, that I know, who has to use iPad for
educational purposes.  Note, for my friend...  Anyways, this person is is in
a regular High School Environment.  This person has to do regular school
tasks such as, writing papers, doing homework, reading and finding
textbooks, communicating with teachers by email and such.  I have
recommended the following apps for specific tasks for her.  I was asking if
you guys have any suggestions for apps you can suggest for her?  Apps that
you think may benefit a student?  
 I told her to use Pages for word processing, but if you have any other
suggestions for word processing, please advice as Pages accessibility has
been going down and down.  
 I told her Keynote for Powerpoint which seems accessible for viewing
presentations.  She has not had to create one yet so she can not comment on
that but she usually needs help in making powerpoints for the visual stuff.
She tries avoiding it and just writes what she wants each slide to be and
then somebody actually does it for her.  
 I told her Read2Go for bookshare for her textbooks.  
 Native Mail app is good for her to email people.  
 I told her to use reminders for homework reminder.  I taught her how to
create a list, homework in reminders, and then add stuff in it.  It seems to
work for her.  
 Now, can you guys suggest anything?  Please?  Here are the following we
are having troubles in helping her.  
 We can not find a cheap reliable scanning solutions for her iPad.  
 We can not find a good PDF reader but we have considered the Adobe Acrobat
Reader for her.  
 I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter in helping my friend.

 Thank you, 
 
 
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