So, I’ve apparently been quite the ‘tech nerd’ for some time. Prior to Android, I’d touted the usage of the Palm OS for many years. If you’ve been in some of the hangouts you’ll see I still have my TX on my desk. Haven’t quite got the heart to permanently shelve it. Plus I’ve got YEARS worth of archival calendars on there I’m still trying to find a way to bring to my Google Calendar.
As I was thinking about this article I was reminded of something I wrote almost 10 years ago, that I thought I’d share with you. <see it at the bottom or click here to view now>
It was a self directed assignment to write about anything we wanted that could pertain to teaching. So I did what my nerdy preclusions suggested – I wrote about using my PDA to stay on top of things. Hopefully my review skills have grown since then.
September makes me think of only one thing, despite being 10 years done, September is the return to school. As such, a ton of new deadlines, tasks, assignments locations to memorize etc… (I used to have to have my university schedule taped to all my notebooks up until late in November, just in time for them to change). With all these chaos surrounding a proper education, it’s necessary to have some system in place to monitor and coordinate.
Without going to far afield, we have our Google Calendar, with all it’s ‘sharing’ and easy setup for repeating and locations, etc… There’s the unofficial GTasks app that ties itself to the tasks feature.
Google+ can help you circle your classmates by class and keep in touch and contact. Google Docs can help you collaborate on the assignments and co-writing, as well as making up a bunch of different ways to make lists for each other.
Chrome for you to start reading webpages at school, then continue reading where you were at home. Or Google Reader to help you keep up to date on specific topics.
You may even have Play Books for some of your textbooks.
In fact Google Now, is slowly but surely, probably trying to learn your patterns and help keep you on top before you even need to know you need to be kept on top of.
Outside of the Google apps there’s tons of Cloud Options for you to share your files with each other. Box especially has that nice ‘collaborator’ feature.
Evernote is a great note taking app (tho’ I’ve yet to find the appropriate method to properly use it effectively).
And that’s some of the generic ‘stay on top of things’ apps. There’s a boat load more if you just search for “School” in the play store.
So I want to know, which apps have you used, or are using to keep your head above water during this academic year. Let’s keep it to ‘organizational’ only, and leave topic specific apps out (like Wikipedia, Wolframe, etc…).
