Offering comment or tutorials for iPad apps would be almost too easy. One could offer several such posts a week for about as long as you could stay motivated. I don’t own an iPad, but I can borrow Cindy’s iPad and I will offer an occasional post when an app seems unique and relevant to my interests.<\/p>\n
One of the research topics I pursue concerns college study note taking and how note taking and note using can be improved with technology. About 6 months ago, I described a laptop program (Pear Note<\/a>) that allowed note taking and simultaneously recorded audio. The idea is that the user would record to a lecture or presentation and simultaneously take notes. The unique feature was the the text notes were linked to the audio. So, the user could click on a location with the text and hear the corresponding audio. In other words, the program time stamped the audio each time the user entered a new segment of text. If the value of this is approach is not apparent, consider that a student probably does not want to listen to a lecture she has already heard repeatedly. What she wants to hear is the parts of the lecture that correspond to a section of notes that do not make sense.<\/p>\n It turns out there are similar apps for the Ipad. SoundPaper<\/a> does exactly the same thing.<\/p>\n In addition, once the presentation is completed the user can email the audio and text to an email account. I translated the audio I recorded (generated by playing a segment of a recorded lecture from this semester through my desktop machine) from the mpeg4 format to mp3 format to insert below.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/soundpaper.jpg\")
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