Draft:Application Toolkits
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Intended Audience
WSU students and employees interested in using their tablets in and out of the classroom.
Overview
There are a series of pages under the Applications Toolkits umbrella, each describing a collection of applications that WSU faculty and students have tested and endorsed. These sets fall into several very distinct sets, some pertaining to general educational needs, some applying specifically to a course or program, and others collected around a need outside of the learning environment.
The applications are broken down into four categories:
Core applications include apps that are of general interest independent of the course or program area. There are specific categories of applications that fit into the core category including note-taking, calculator, productivity, audience-response, and ebook-reader apps.
Professional applications are of interest across several or all colleges but perhaps not to all students. This includes apps for movie editing, podcast creation, interview conductors, graphing calculators, and anatomy analysis.
Departmental applications are of specific interest to one college or department. This could include a drug-interaction app in nursing, a drawing app in art, or an assistive technology app for special education.
Course-specific applications are used only in a particular course or section. Examples of course-specific apps include a waterflow-analysis application for a watershed science course or an app containing paintings from the Louvre for an art appreciation class.
Faculty and students will find these app sets useful in several ways.
- Designing or taking a course? Here are lists of applications that have been tried in the trenches and proven worthy.
- Looking for some ideas for something to do on a weeknight? There are entertainment apps here to keep boredom away.
- Need an app and don't have the time to try a lot of them on your own? Someone else has done the work for you.
Here are some of the application toolkits in the Wiki:
- Entertainment
- Health and Wellness
- Mathematics and Science
- Note Taking
- Nursing
- Research
- Social Networking