Android Apps for students

Since the arrival of iOS and iPhones, Android apps haven’t been given nearly the amount of attention they deserve. It’s true, iOS apps are beautiful and functional, but Android users have access to great apps as well, and plenty of them. Especially with Google Nexus and soon Android Silver, Android isn’t going away any time soon.With that being said, we wanted to highlight some of the best apps we’ve come across for  students.

Tasker

From settings to messaging, Tasker offers total automation on your smart phone. Essentially a programming tool, this Android app lets you set your own triggers based on your environment. Tasker can detect when you’re at the library, for instance, and enable or disable certain settings on your phone so it adapts to where you are. It can launch apps automatically and perform actions with those apps.

Yes, this app sounds like a miracle but it is for the more advanced smartphone users. For those who like a challenge, Tasker is not only fun to play with but one of the most powerful tools for Android. Head over to their website to download a free 7-day trial.

Mint

Dollar tacos or prime rib? There are many different ways to saving money in college, but with Mint financial decisions just got much easier. One of the best financial management apps we’ve come across, Mint keeps track of your budgeting while you’re on the go. View up-to-date information about your accounts, check your budgets, and edit transactions information right on the app.

Worried about your personal information? The Mint app is password protected, so if you happen to lose your phone, no one will be able to see how much you make or what you spent (or didn’t spend) on textbooks.

 Studious

With Studious, forgetting assignments will be a thing of the past. This simple Android app reminds you when tests are coming up and when assignments are due. One of the most unique features of Studious is its ability to automatically silence your phone in class – right as you walk through the door. To set this up, all you need to do is import your class locations.

SlideShare

Recently acquired by LinkedIn, the presentation-hosting platform has finally delivered a mobile Android app. But instead of creating or uploading new files, the app revolves around viewing, sharing, and saving for offline access. With SlideShare you can view presentations whether you’re commuting, in class, or at the gym.

 WolframAlpha

“Remember the Star Trek computer? It’s finally happening – with Wolfram Alpha”. Unlike a traditional search engine though, Wolfram Alpha doesn’t search the Web for results but relies on its own curated knowledge base – compiled from specific data sources and its computational ability – to compute answers and generate reports instantly. With topics ranging from matrices and astrophysics to stock data and social statistics, WolframAlpha is a must-have Android app and natural companion for every student.

Coursera

Coursera connects students, professionals, and lifelong learners everywhere with free online courses from over 100 global universities and educational institutions, including Stanford and Yale. Browse courses and watch lectures from the best instructors anytime and anywhere – whether you’re interested in cuisine or computer science.

 Evernote

Rated as one of the Top 10 Must-Have Apps in New York Times, Evernote is a free app that helps you remember everything across all your devices. Stay organized and be productive, Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, and even record voice reminders. As of last month, Evernote released a new feature for its Android app: Handwriting. Finally, you can pick up your smart phone or tablet and quickly jot down notes with your finger or stylus.

You can also transform handwriting into other note types. if you want to add a chart or table to your notes, for example, you can go from typing to handwriting and then back to typing, making your notes that much more thorough and useful.

Mathway

Oh yes, your math homework or tests may be quite challenging. It is so easy to stuck trying to find the right answer. Try Mathway—the mobile application that will guide you step-by-step while you search for algebra, geometry, or any other math solution. Enter your task into the application, and check if your solution is the same with one offered.

EasyBib

What is the most difficult stage of essay writing? The majority of college students would probably say: creating a list of citations (do not forget that you have to know MLA or APA style to format it). If you are one of these students, EasyBib is the right app for you to download. Just enter a book’s title and get the right citation! All you have to do is copy this citation into your bibliography.

SelfControl

College students are so easily distracted from the studying process! They can’t live without social networks, they always need to check new photos of their friends on Facebook, or share their mood with the world during a lecture. To avoid such distractions, the SelfControl application has been created: it blocks certain websites that can distract you from studying, and it does it for a set amount of time. So, when a lecture is finished, you are welcome to come back to your fave websites again!

Andie Graph

First up is Andie Graph and this is one seriously underrated calculator app. Using this, your graphing calculator, and these instructions, you can have a completely functional graphing calculator on your phone or tablet to take with you anywhere. That’s one less piece of equipment to carry around and fewer batteries to buy. This is a lifesaver for math students.

CamScanner

CamScanner is more of a productivity tool but it can come in handy for almost any college student. Using this, you can scan various documents (lecture notes, registration forms, study guides, homework) and save them to your device for later use. The tech behind it is solid and it’s very simple to use overall. There is even built-in functionality for sharing and for faxing, in the unlikely event that you need to fax something.

Udemy

Udemy wants to be a university-replacement app but it’s still a valuable resource for college students. It has classes that you can take to freshen up on topics or learn new ones. In college, you may need a little extra help learning some concepts in some areas and Udemy is perfect for that sort of learning. The classes can get a bit expensive but there are plenty of cheaper and free ones to choose from. It’s worth a shot if you need a little supplemental learning.

Wikipedia

Most colleges frown upon Wikipedia thanks to its crowd sourced knowledge base. However, This is an invaluable tool to help students get started on a project. For instance, if you’re researching the Civil War, you can find the basics on Wikipedia and it’ll help give you an idea of where to go from there. The mobile site is actually better than any app available right now so we recommend using a browser to check that out.

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10 Free Google Chrome Extensions Teachers Should Try

If you use Google Chrome as your go-to web browser, you may have seen a little icon for the ‘Store’ (like what you see on the right) when you attempt to open a new tab. Never clicked that? Only clicked that once or twice but never took the plunge into the wild world of the Chrome Web Store? In an effort to help you truly surface the best Google Chrome extensions for teachers of all stripes, I thought it might be useful to showcase some of my favorites.

I’m a recent Google Chrome convert. I used Mozilla Firefox for several years because it actually worked better with WordPress (which is what Edudemic is built on). You could resize images just by clicking on them. That was the biggest benefit of Firefox. However, it was only when I got a new laptop (a MacBook Air I actually returned because it didn’t stay connected to wi-fi … long story) that I tried to import all my Firefox bookmarks over to the new computer.

What a pain.

I had used the bookmark importer on Firefox many times in the past but it just wouldn’t work this time. It was also a big confusing. Instead, I imported everything over to Chrome and then synced it all to the Google cloud. That amorphous and terrifying thing that runs the web. Everything just worked after that. I haven’t gone back to Firefox since.

In any case, my new foray into Google Chrome has let me explore the Chrome Web Store and truly test out some awesome web tools that aren’t available anywhere else. The following tools are some of my personal favorites.

CLASSDOJO

ClassDojo is an award-winning behavior management tool that helps teachers improve student behavior in class using realtime feedback. ClassDojo makes it easy to build positive learning habits and behaviors, and then easily engage students and parents to improve behavior in class and at home. It takes less than 2 minutes to get going – bring the dojo to your class today!

LEARNBOOST

The LearnBoost gradebook provides a free all-in-one classroom management solution for tracking student grades and progress, creating and sharing standards-aligned lesson plans, generating beautiful analytics and report cards, syncing calendars and schedules, and connecting with parents and students. LearnBoost integrates seamlessly with Google services to make rolling out our suite of tools a snap through the Apps Marketplace or Chrome Web Store.

GOANIMATE

GoAnimate is the world’s #1 “do it yourself” animated video creation tool. We allow everyone to make videos with simple drag & drop tools. Add your own music, sounds, backgrounds, etc. Make unlimited videos as lesson content or for assignments! Everything in this version is school-safe!

VOICE COMMENTS

Simply highlight and speak – the Voice Comments app for Google Drive is the fastest way to give high quality feedback on a document. Voice feedback for writing is nothing new. Stanford experimented with recording verbal feedback for students on cassette tapes back in the ’80s, and there’s been a steady stream of research ever since.

MY STUDY LIFE

A free online planner for students, teachers and lecturers designed to make your study life easier to manage. My Study Life is a planner for students, teachers and lecturers designed to make your study life easier. My Study Life stores your study life in the cloud making it available wherever you are. My Study Life isn’t just your average school planner, diary or tasks list. Classes, tasks and exams are integrated to show you not only the information for the class, task or exam but also related information such as tasks due for a class.

SLIDEGO PRESENTATION

The most complete presentation editor. Supports full animations & interactivity. Accessible, embeddable and downloadable. The first presentation editor that supports full Powerpoint-like drawings and animations (entrance, exit, emphasis and motion). Full support for text animations (by paragraphs, words or letters).

BLENDSPACE

The easiest way to blend your classroom with digital content.

THE QUIZ CENTER

The best way to Test & Improve your knowledge Thequizcenter is an online quiz for correctly answering a series of multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. Thequizcenter offers you a great experience to test & increase your general knowledge with its thousands of original question in different subjects. In each quiz sessions user has to find the right answer in just 20 seconds there are unlimited questions and session will continue until user choice wrong answer or timeout occurred. During each quiz sessions user can use fifty-fifty & by-pass, extra time and public opinion options once.

APPS FOR COMMON CORE

Overwhelmed by all the Common Core Standards? Apps For Common Core makes teacher’s lives easier Overwhelmed by all the Common Core Standards? Apps For Common Core gives you quick access to all Common Core Standards by grade level while saving you time by suggesting apps that solve those standards! Teachers and parents will no longer have to search for apps that help their children learn a particular standard.

LOCOLEARNING

Simple and efficient approach to memorizing texts and examination Locolearning is a free tool for creating educational tests from text materials like textbook chapter or anything else. Check example and tutorial on the main page

Improving memory for exam

Memorizing all day and not able to recall same when it is most needed, would be the last thing you would want happening to you. It is very important for us humans and specially students to have a memory of grandmaster to excel in our lives. We are here with 10 simple yet strong tips to help you improve your memory and trick your brain to memorize more and recall information quickly.

1. Do Some Exercise

Our brain is like a machine, the better maintenance we do, the less wear and tear we see. For the well functional brain and better maintenance of the machinery, it is very important to exercise. Studies have revealed that a 20mins exercise can dramatically improve your brain power and memory. You know now, the best thing to do before your examination start – walk atleast 20mins and you’ll see improvement in your performance.

2. Have Proper Sleep on the Night Before Exams

Sleeping is very important for your brain functionalities. For a better memory, it is highly advisable to atleast take a power nap of 40-45mins. The nap offers enough time for the brain to assimilate all the learning and move it to brain’s long-term memory storage – hippocampus. Sleeping also improves retrieval of information stored in your brain and thus you don’t have to put that extra effort to recall the difficult-to-remember history dates or irky mathematics formulae

3. Take Regular Breaks

Taking short breaks during your study hours is always advisable – it helps you concentrate and retain the learning for a longer time. While we say take breaks, we literally mean breaks and not distraction.  SMSs, emails, and checking your social accounts are complete distraction. Instead, we would suggest you to lie down, listen to your favorite music and relax for a while.

4. Read Aloud to Yourself

What we have learned from our elders is to read and doing it again and again is the key to memorize something. We just want to add our five cents – reading out aloud to yourself fetches you far great results than just reading it repeatedly. When we read, we use only visual pathway to make the memory, but when we read aloud, we add the auditory pathway as well.  Thus, reading aloud has reinforced pathways to our memory and help us retain the learning for a longer duration.

5. Practice & Practice Some More

Try solving as many problems you can before exams and don’t forget to keep a tap on your timings – this prepares your brain to search for relevant information & retrieve them in no time when needed. Try solving previous year question papers and create exam-like situations – This will help your brain to understand your abilities to respond to the stress and retrieve the information quickly. 

6. Use Flashcards to Aid Your Memory

Flashcards are small cards with information to be memorized written on them. These cards are especially useful in memorizing names, dates, definitions, equations, formulas and vocabulary words. Flashcards work on improving your memory via quick and regular review of the information shared on them.

7. Create Mental Maps and Brain Dumps

A mental map is a visual representation of all the thoughts related to a main idea, preferably drawn by hands for organizing and understanding information. This works very well in enhancing your memory as the idea to be memorized is correlated to various well-memorized stuffs, it includes thorough understanding of the concepts, involves creativity and has visual pathway to your memory. Mental maps make it easier for your brain to create connections between the information and recall it quickly.

8. Teach What You Have Learned

When you try to teach what you have learned, you need thorough understanding of the concepts, when you understand something thoroughly, it becomes easy for your brain to recall it. Teaching is thus considered as one of the best tools for cementing our learning and memory.

9. Revise for Better Output

Re-reading the concepts just a couple of hours before you head for the examinations, recapitulate it and helps your brain retrieve it from the hippocampus. This re-reading is also stored afresh in your brain’s prefrontal cortex and makes it easier to recall during the examination.

10. Meditate

Practicing meditation has been called the best way to de-stress and concentrate. Studies have also found that meditation changes the functions and physical structures of your brain positively – it helps in increasing the attention span, improved memory and sharpen the focus.

We know it for sure, these 10 tips, when followed religiously, will help you overcome the concerns with bad memory, forgetfulness and lack of attention and will give you a Grandmaster`s Memory. 

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10 Exams You Shouldn’t Miss in School

lthough the thought of exams sends chills down the spine of anyone, but there are a few exams conducted by some of the premier institutes that are quite beneficial for your career ahead. These are the exams that not only help you sharpen up your brain and aptitudinal skills, but some of these also get you scholarships for financially aiding your studies. You, as a student, should start learning in a way that not only get you marks in your academic examinations, but help you gain skills and apply your learnings to everyday life and excel in application-based examinations.

1- NTSE

Started by prestigious NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training), National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) is especially conducted for class 9^th students. The exam aims at assessing and awarding the students with high intellect and academic talent. The Exam can be taken in two of the most popular languages in Indian Schools – Hind & English. The Exam is conducted in two stages, first is mostly in the month of November at the state level and second at national-level in the month of May.

2- PSA

PSA is commonly known as Problem Solving Assessment test and is conducted by CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education). The exam aims at developing practical and application-based knowledge, and assessing problem solving and analytical skills. Launched as an optional exam in 2012, today PSA is a compulsory examination for students of Class 9^th and Class 11^th. The exam not only enhances the aptitudinal skills, but the marks obtained are also counted in the third and fourth formative assessments for the students. The 90 marks examination comprises of three main sections ‘Qualitative,’ ‘Quantitative,’ and ‘Language conventions’ and it can be taken in English or Hindi Language. PSA exam is compulsory ONLY for CBSE board students.

3- IMO

International Mathematics Olympiad is conducted by Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF), New Delhi. The organization conducts this examination to encourage math skills in India and abroad. The examination is open to the students of classes 1 to 12 studying in CBSE, ICSE or any other board. However there is a catch, students can only register for examination through the school and not individually. The exam can only be taken in English language and is conducted at various levels. Level 1 is conducted in the school and comprises of 50 multiple choice questions for students of class 5^th to 12^th. If the student excels in level 1, he/she can take up next exams at the city, state and international levels. Students are awarded cash prizes, medals, gifts and certificates based on the ranking at various levels.

4- NSO

National Science Olympiad is organized by Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF), New Delhi. The exam aims at instilling analytical thinking for the various science subject. The exam has three sections – mental ability, science and achiever’s section for students in grades 1-10; and physics/chemistry, achiever’s section, and mathematics/biology for students of class 11^th and 12^th. The syllabus of the NSO exam is as prescribed by the CBSE, ICSE, and various other state boards. Same as the IMO examination, the first-level exam takes place in school. Based on student’s performance in level 1, he/she can appear for city, state or national level. Students are suitably awarded based on their international, state and school rankings. The exam usually takes place in the month of November.

5- ZIO

The Zonal Informatics Olympiad is organized by Indian Association for Research in Computing Science, Chennai. The exam is open to students in classes 8^th to 12^th and is administrated as a computerized test. The exam aims at selecting meritorious students to represent India at International Olympiad for Informatics. ZIO is the first stage of this selection process. The second stage includes programming on a computer during Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI). During the third stage, approx. thirty top-performing students in the INOI are selected for International Olympiad in Informatics Training Camp (IOITC). At IOITC, the selected students undergo a fortnight-long training camp, which trains them to represent India during the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). For the exam which is usually conducted in the month of November, a student can register as an individual or participate from the school.

6- NSTSE

National Science Talent Search Examination is conducted by Unified Council, which stresses on improvement through exams by checking the understanding rather than the facts. NSTSE measures the concept understanding of a student and helps them improve. The examination is open for all students in classes 2^nd to 12^th and students who perform well at school, city and national level are awarded cash prizes along with medals, mementoes, gifts and certificates. The syllabus for the examination is again picked up from the curriculum of CBSE/ICSE and State boards and provides detailed skill-wise feedback highlighting strengths and weaknesses of the student.

7- KVPY

The Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) is a scholarship program examination started in 1999 by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The exam aims to identify and encourage students who are studying basic sciences to take up research career in science. Class 11^th and 12^th students are eligible to apply for this scholarship exam, which is held in two stages. The first stage includes an aptitude test and the selected candidates are required to appear for an interview to clear the final stage, based on the marks of each stage the fellowship is awarded to the successful students. The fellowships are offered up to the pre-Ph.D. level studies or 5 years whichever is earlier in basic science subjects.

8- iOS

International Olympiad of Science (iOS) is conducted by Society of Science Education with supported by SilverZone, New Delhi. Through this examination, the organization help students to judge themselves at international levels. Syllabus for the iOS exam, like other Olympiads, is based on the syllabus prescribed by ICSE, CBSE and State boards. Students of classes 1^st to 12^thare eligible to take the examination. Based on the merit, students are suitably rewarded and are eligible for participation at next levels. It is one of the prestigious examinations that promote science education nationally and internationally.

9- NCO

National Cyber Olympiad is conducted by Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF), New Delhi. The organization conducts this examination to encourage cyber readiness and enhance the reasoning and computing skills of students throughout India. The examination is open to the students of classes 2^nd to 12^th studying in CBSE, ICSE or any other state board. The exam is conducted at two level with first level comprising of 35 multiple choice questions for students in classes 1^st to 5^th and 50 MCQs for students in 6-12^th. There is no negative marking and the question paper is divided into three sections – Mental Ability, Logical and Analytical Reasoning and Computers and IT. Based on the performance in level 1 and the cyber quotient students are awarded suitable recognition and certificate of participation.

10- NSEA

National Standard Examination in Astronomy is a 2-stage examination conducted by Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT). The exam act as the screening examination for selection of students for Astronomy Olympiad Program. Any student born in India after January 1996 and is in standard XII or below it is eligible to take part in it. The exam aim is to judge the knowledge and skills in physics, mathematics and elementary astronomy. It is conducted in English medium and comprises of 80 multiple choice questions and the successful students get eligibility to participate in Indian National Astronomy Olympiad and International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

We hope this list will motivate you to recognize your inclination towards one of the academic subjects and explore the opportunities lying ahead of you. We are sure, with these competitive examinations you can take a leap ahead of your peers.

All the Best!

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5. Aptitute (MAT)

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