Five Apps: Five Minutes

Apps for Professional Development

Annalisa Moretti (Boston College)annalisacmoretti@gmail.com | @annalisacaprice

Courserahttp://www.coursera.org

● MOOC = Massive Open Online Course

● Enroll, watch videos, view course materials

● Courses in technology, history, etc…

o “Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information” - UNC-Chapel Hill

o “Programming for Everybody” -University of Michigan

o “Age of Jefferson” – University of Virginia

o “Metaliteracy: Empowering Yourself in a Connected World” – State University of New York

Codecademy

http://www.codecademy.com

● “Code Hour” App - introduces programming concepts

● Website version has modules in:

○ HTML/CSS

○ JavaScript

○ jQuery

○ Python

○ Ruby

○ PHP

Duolingohttp://www.duolingo.com

● “Gamifies” language acquisition

● Translate the internet (ex. CNN, Buzzfeed)

● Crowdsourced languages (Duolingo Language Incubator

o Frencho Germano Italiano Spanisho Portugueseo Dutch

o Irisho Danisho Swedisho …. And more in

development

Workflowyhttp://www.workflowy.com

● Interactive lists

○ collapse/expand

○ move bullet points

● Shareable across platforms

● One single list rather than notebooks like Evernote

Elevatehttp://www.elevateapp.com

● “Brain training” - educational games

● Helps you exercise your:

○ Memory

○ Agility

○ Name recall

○ Writing clarity

○ Calculation

● Apple’s 2014 App of the Year

Things to consider...

● Security

○ Many apps ask for permissions - make sure you know what they can access

○ Be careful who you download from

○ Android apps especially

● Time management is important!

● Look to the future: apps and archivists

● Alternatives to these apps (and more information!) at annalisacaprice.wordpress.com