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

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. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nimit Sent: Thursday, 30

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

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,

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

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,

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

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. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eric Caron Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 9:31