Cool apps & interactive resources

The countdown is on for the start of the semester.  So as we are thinking about our classes, I always think about technology and how I can use it to aid my students’ learning.  Having just returned from the annual meeting of NAELA’s Council of Advanced Practitioners (CAP), I was mulling over our trip to the Apple Store—-which was part of the conference agenda.  (The Apple folks did an interactive presentation for us on specific attributes of iPads that are helpful for those with special needs.)

Turning my thoughts to the upcoming semester, I was thinking about what else I might be doing in my class. I noticed last semester that more of my students are using tablets than in prior semesters. So I thought I’d ask you. Are any of you using tablets in your classes and if so, would you share what you are doing? What apps do you think are helpful?  I use a couple of different versions of readers where I can annotate for the class sections that are important and I just downloaded the Haiku Deck (an alternative to PowerPoint). I also have resource and productivity apps, such as the Clinical Scales from Psychiatric Times, Lexis, Westlaw Next, Keynote, Dragon, Dropbox, Penultimate, Evernote,Blackboard and Bloomerberg Law Reports. What apps do you use–for your classes? Do any of you use a blog for your class or twitter?

Tell us what you are doing. What works and why?

Becky Morgan