Free Mobile AppsSuccess at Your Fingertips

Libr 203 Peer MentorsWhitni Watkins & Jessica Chung

Introduction

● Name?● Where you are from/located?● What platform you prefer to use?

Feedly: Google Reader @ a whole new level.

Why?●RSS feed aggregator●Convenience●Ease of use●Fantastic User Interface●Organization of:

○ blog postings

○ rss feeds○ subscribed

youtube videos

○ podcasts

Feedly: Google Reader @ a whole new

level.

Feedly: Google Reader @ a whole

new level.

Collaborate

Why?●Convenience●Attend sessions from home●Emergencies (Internet outage)

Cons●Not all features available (web tour)●Can’t watch recorded sessions●No closed captioning

Collaborate

Collaborate

myHomework

Why?●Organize course assignments●Reminders on deadlines●Time management●Sync accounts

myHomework

Sort assignments multiple ways Calendar View (Week, Month, Day)

Badge Notifications on iPhone

myHomework

ArticleSearch

Use for:

•scholarly research

•citations (check APA manual)

ArticleSearch

ArticleSearch

Features:

•who else cited

•“web” of articles

•citation info

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Use for:

•definitions

•usage

•vocabulary

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Features:

•speech lookup

•suffixes

•other entries

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Dropbox

Use for:

•file backup

•file-syncing

•collaboration

Features:

•file options (swipe)

•change page view

•search within doc

Dropbox

Dropbox

Dropbox

See the “What is Dropbox?” video (made by CommonCraft):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFb0NaeRmdg

Or click “What is Dropbox?” in the app’s sign-up screen

Summary

Apps We Covered:

•Feedly

•Collaborate Mobile

•MyHomework

•ArticleSearch

•Merriam-Webster

•Dropbox

Thank You

● Presentation slides

•Questions?

•Comments?