App Discovery: Rachel Alter

Title: Librarian

About Me: Reference and Instruction Services 

App 1: Doc Scan has been a great help to students here in the library when the printer/scanner is down. It scans to PDFs, doing the same thing the big scanner does, and eliminating the step of emailing the scan to yourself.

App 2: Overdrive, which can be used with an eCard at the Boston Public Library, for downloading audiobook titles from their huge collection, and then listening to them on your commute.

App Discovery: Bryan Corbiere

Title: Tech Support

About Me: Your friendly local IT Giant! Proud Android user, always happy to answer questions about any tech.

App 1: AlarmDroid for Android A free and powerful alarm tool with tons of options including obstacles to solve before the alarm stops!

App 2: Google Play Rewards Free, Android. Free Google Play rewards money! 

FREE MONEY!

FREE!

MONEY!

App 3: Snapdragon BatteryGuru Control what applications sync on your phone and how often. Can increase the battery life on your device significantly (up to 30% in some instances)!

Honorable Mention: The redesigned Weather Channel app, clean and beautiful new UI gets the most important information to you right away.

App Discovery: Michael Roberts

Title: Online Course Builder

About Me: Audiobooks. Ebooks. Immediately.

App 1: Overdrive - I listen to books. A lot. 

App Discovery: Dave Wallace

Title: Associate Professor of Psychology

App 1: Notabilty - I was very fortunate to pick this up when it came out; it is an outstanding note taking app that is still my go-to one for taking notes at meetings, lectures, conferences, etc. Directories, Solid organization (where can move files into your own named directories etc), and Exporting features. Most of all - their CS is without peer. When I once had a problem after upgrading my iOS, they responded within hours When that fix didn't work someone else got back to me 5 hours later with a fix.

App 2: Toodledo - A great task manager. Less detailed than some of the more formal GTD apps, (it is streamlined), but it still allows for Outlines, Notes, Dates and Times due, Alarms, Repeating a task, Searchers. etc.

*tie*

mSecure - a fantastic encryption app. It can transfer to Mac, PC, and mobile formats. You can wifi to update each one (so you can enter passwords etc in one, and they pop up in the other), and you can save your info in an encrypted form as a backup.

App 3: Weblock - a great way to reduce the number of ads, scripts etc that we pick up along the way. It creates and manages your PAC (proxy auto configuration), and uses a dummy proxy to allow you to not get many of those ads and other things that pop up.

*tie*

Plants vs Zombies/Bloons 5! Everyone needs a fun game now and then to unwind -- and these are pretty fun ones regardless of one's background, interests, and abilities.

App Discovery

Bay Path University Community,

There has been a lot of interest expressed that there be suggested apps, along with tips and tricks, posted more regularly to the Center for Online & Digital Learning's blog.

However, we want to engage more with you: We are seeking faculty and staff that want to share their favorite apps and why they can't live without them. Think of them as Indispensable Apps.

Be on the lookout soon for an email containing all the information that you'll need to be a member of this awesome group.

Thank you in advance!!


Chris Gaudreau
cgaudreau@baypath.edu
Learning Technologist
Center for Online & Digital Learning

Hangout with us.

Oh, hello everyone.

There has been a lot of faculty interest around the use of Google Hangouts. It is a robust tool that everyone at BPU has access to, though one that doesn't see a lot of use. To help curb that notion, we have created a resource guide

Things that the Center for Online & Digital Learning has been asked about how to:

• Collaborate on Documents
• Record and Archive a Meeting with Students
• Add an archived Hangout to your classroom

To best facilitate your learning, view the workflow here. We'll see you in a Hangout soon!

Getting Organized!

Links to help you Get Organized!

Evernote - https://evernote.com
Evernote Introduction - https://evernote.com/introduction
Evernote Apps - https://appcenter.evernote.com/
Evernote Family of Products - https://evernote.com/products/

As we discussed, some things you can put into your One Workspace:

• Recording of a student advising or tutoring session
• Clippings from your Gmail conversations
• Marked up PDFs via Skitch
• Syllabi
• Classroom Prep with all your material and a reminder in the same note
• Flash Cards and Citation assistance via Study Blue and RefMe
• Sunrise Calendar offers Google Calendar and Evernote integration

Need help finding the 'right' app for you?

iOS App Store: Productivity - https://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/ios-productivity/id6007?mt=8
Google Play: Productivity - https://play.google.com/store/apps/category/PRODUCTIVITY
Windows Phone: Tools and Productivity - http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/top-free-apps/tools-productivity/toolsandproductivity
Mac App Store: Choose Productivity from the right-hand drop Category drop down. There is also a Get Stuff Done category currently live.

Hey, Siri!

Did you know that if you say "Hey, Siri" while a device running iOS 8 is plugged in, the virtual assistant will automatically start listening and respond. Try it out! If you're looking for more information about Siri and what she can do, click here.

Also, I found a great iPhone User Guide For iOS 8 for free on iBooks. Apple has always done a great job with customer-facing documentation, and this is no exception.



Chris Gaudreau
Learning Technologist, Center for Online & Digital Learning
cgaudreau@baypath.edu