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Index Card

09/26/11  |  Posted by Niki Smith  |  Posted in Digital Canvas - Apps & Accessories

The app Index Card is well-named: it's basically set of virtual index cards that you can fill out with whatever you want. Try it out when you're writing your next paper and aren't yet sure...

iSource - Bibliographies

09/21/11  |  Posted by Niki Smith  |  Posted in Digital Canvas - Apps & Accessories

Have to write a long paper, and your professor wants your bibliography to be formatted a certain way? Not sure what MLA means, or how to get it to look right? This useful app takes...

iTunes U

09/21/11  |  Posted by Niki Smith  |  Posted in Digital Canvas - Apps & Accessories

Apple's iTunes U is home to more than 350,000 free lectures, videos, books, and podcasts from learning institutions all over the world. Universities such as Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Beijing Open University,...

Students with iPads Perform Better in School

09/21/11  |  Posted by Niki Smith  |  Posted in Digital Creativity

From PadGadget, this great article about students who use iPads in school and how regular use reflects on their course work. An ongoing study conducted by Abilene Christian University is the latest to try to...

Art Authority

09/21/11  |  Posted by Niki Smith  |  Posted in Digital Canvas - Apps & Accessories

Art books and art history books are a mixed bag. Often, the most famous pieces will get a good-sized image in the book... but so many are relegated to tiny thumbnails, with few details visible....