Did you ever want to use your iPhone / Touch as a portable disk drive to copy files between home and school? Did you ever want to take MS-Office documents with you to review at a meeting or PowerPoint files to review in class? If so, check out the free "Discover" program from B-Base Development Inc. in the Application Store.
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Did you know that Apple has a second application store, full of thousands of programs, that many people don't know about? Check it out at http://www.apple.com/webapps/. Once there, select the "+" in Safari then pick "Add to Home Screen" to put an icon called "Web Apps" on your iPhone / Touch home screen.
If you haven't heard of the TED talks, you should immediately go into the app store, search for "TED", and download the app.
The TED Talks are lectures by various experts at the Technology Entertainment and Design conference held each year in Long Beach California. In their own words "Inspired talks by the world's leading thinkers and doers". At first it was just a way to spread the conference proceedings to a wider audience. But the talks, under the banner of "ideas worth spreading" have become a useful resource in its own right for all educators and scholars. Now, with this useful application, you can enjoy TED talks right on your iPhone / Touch.
For more information about TED visit http://www.ted.com/.
The University of Saskatchewan has been using classroom response (clicker) technology for several years. Now one vendor, Turning Technologies, has released an application that lets you use your iPhone or Touch as a clicker instead of buying an actual clicker.
This only works when instructors are using the web-based clicker-hosting software to gather clicker information. At this time, the U of S has not licensed that technology. We are still using the older radio frequency technology that requires actual clicker hardware. So don't go out and buy an iPod Touch for this because you won't be able to use it on campus ... yet. ITS is investigating the new technology.
Also, you still have to pay to register you iPhone as a clicker. While the initial registration is cheaper than buying a clicker, you must renew this registration every year. So in the long run, it is more expensive than purchasing a clicker.
For more information see http://campustechnology.com/articles/2009/01/06/turning-tech-brings-classroom-response-system-to-iphone-ipod-touch.aspx