I used this app to better familiarize myself with the anatomical positioning of the muscles, names and functions. This app helped me prepare for my exam by allowing me to view the muscles from different angles, which was very helpful because when my muscle practical came I was able to identify one muscle from the other thanks to this app.
Essential skeleton 3
I used the " Essential Skeleton 3" app so that I could better memorize thecorrect names of thebones, function each bone served and better familiarize myself with the spellings of the names of all the bonesso that I can get a high grade in this practical. This app is very useful because you can view any bone from a different angle which is was a huge plus for me because on the day of my bone practical the some bones were placed upside down and rotated to a certain angle, and the students were not able to touch them or move them.
When you think about virtual reality and sport, your mind will go straight to the VR sport games. But in this blog post we are not discussing about VR video games. we will explore how athletes use virtual reality on their training in real life. STRIVR is a company that provide virtual reality equipment and services to pro sport teams. STRIVR was the first to bring immersive VR onto the real world sport environment. With STRIVR, players can practice anytime, anywhere, just as if they were out on the field, court, ice, or course. Using an immersive VR environment, athletes can accelerate their training in the most realistic environment possible.
Football
Football teams of some universities like Stanford and Clemson, and teams of National Football League (NFL) use STRIVR’s VR system to training their athletes. The best pro football players dedicate years and years of work to be ready to perform at the highest level when it matters most. But real life reps are limited due to all sorts of factors including rules, physical toll on bodies, and weather. However, with STRIVR players can engage in unlimited reps in the most realistic environment.
Ski and Snowboarding
STRIVR has been working with United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) to improve athletes’ skills and prepare them for competitions that take place around the world. Ski and snowboarding athletes training with STRIVR virtual reality environment at the high performance division of USSA. They train their body motions and decision making skills over and over again. VR technology help them to get familiarize the race course, mentally prepare for the races, and take advantage of teachable moments that are rare in the physical world.
Google Classroom is a free web service developed by Google
for schools that aims to simplify creating, distributing and grading
assignments in a paperless way. Users can access this service through computers
or the mobile app. The primary purpose of the Google Classroom is the process
of sharing files between teachers and students. Google Classroom combines
Google Drive for assignment creation and distribution, Google Docs, Sheets and
Slides for writing, Gmail for communication, and Google Calendar for scheduling.
My Study Life
My Study Life is a web and mobile school planner
application. It allows users to create their class schedule for the semester,
exams list and tasks list in the same environment. The dashboard’s tasks tab is
a focused list of tasks that require immediate action such as those incomplete
and due in the next 3 days, or ones which are overdue. Exams tab is useful to
get advanced warning about upcoming exams, so we’ve added a list of exams that
occur in the next 7 days to the dashboard. This app provides rotation schedule
and color codes features to plan and understand one’s class schedule at a
glance. I use this app because it allows me to organize my classes in a visually pleasing way and I can do many thing using one app instead of multiple apps. And it also shows holidays, upcoming event on the calendar.
Duolingo: Learn Languages Free
Duolingo is a free language learning platform that provides
lessons and tests via web and mobile application. Duolingo teaches one to read,
write, listen, and speak in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian,
Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Esperanto,
Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Hebrew, Welsh, and English. One will
improve their vocabulary and grammar skills by answering questions and
completing lessons. Duolingo is loved by millions of users, and available on
both Android and IOS platforms.Since it is available on android and IOS, it is very easy to use in a classroom. Level based achievements and score encourage students to learn and test their knowledge of a particular language.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an online education tool which provides
video lesson courses in many subject areas such as math, science, engineering,
computing, economics, finance, and arts and humanities. Khan Academy offers
courses from kindergarten to college level. Khan Academy mobile app is very
popular among students because it is free and one can access their courses
anytime anywhere. Quizzes, practice questions, instants feedback, step by step
hints, and unit test help students to improve their knowledge of course
materials. Personally, I consider this app as my personal tutor. Regardless the subject or the question I always find answers to my questions through this learning platform.
Study.com – Online Courses
The Study.com app
will help you learn any academic subject on the go. Their short, fun video
lessons, taught by expert teachers, provide homework help for difficult topics
from your classes with easy-to-understand examples and animations.
Study.com offers over 35,000 educational video lessons in various subject areas
such as algebra, calculus, discrete math, history, chemistry, biology, logic,
grammar, reading, and writing and build confidence for tests with SAT and ACT
prep tests. Users can download their lessons on the device for watch them
offline. This app will help students to understand difficult lessons and engaged
in their education process in a fun way.
Google suit
Google suit consist of google apps that are used for collaborations within a group of certain people, which can be from a business group project in school or any other uses that involves communication among more than one person and sharing of ideas. These apps are known as Gmail, Docs, Drive and a calendar app.
Microsoft office
Microsoft Office also known as office 365 consist Microsoft office consist off various applications which are free on mobile devices and include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneDrive and OneNote. Word is used to create documents and also provides you with the ability to share the work you have done with others. Excel provides you with the opportunity to create tables enter in formulas and set up more that one column of information within a document and allows other colleges to have permission to update certain tables by sharing the created documents with others. PowerPoint also has the option to share your work with others, this application is mainly used for presentations. Outlook is a free email app provided by Microsoft so that you can safely communicate through email with others. OneDrive is an online storage app that allows you to save work in folders online and can be accessed as long as you have you have an internet connection on any device. OneNote is an app which allows you to draw, attach screenshots, attach audio videos or voice clips, and even allows you to upload photos you might want to draw on to this application.
Blackboard
Blackboard is another application used in colleges for learning, the way this works is the professor will post up practice exams for student and later students will log onto blackboard and be able to take the practice exams online and if a problem or question is raised the student has a place where they can contact the instructor. You can also view your test and exam grades through out the semester which is good way to help you see areas where improvement is needed.
New York Times - Latest news app
I use this app to order to learn about was is happening around the world and how this can come to affect me in the united states for example a recent case of Romanian lettuce that is infected with bacteria and has already caused 4 people to deaths within the U.S so far. This app helps inform you about other countries governments current events occurring in other countries and many other categories. I have recently used this app for my urban sociology class where we had to read several articles on gentrification as well and environmental racism that were taking place in certain parts of Queens and Brooklyn.
Star Chart is one of the best mobile virtual reality apps
for astronomy enthusiasts and stargazers. Star Chart app allows users to enjoy
excellently animated and illustrated star viewing experience. There are
additional features that allow students to interact with facts about planets
and space discovery. It is easy to use in a classroom with VR headset.
VirtualSpeech
Virtual Speech is a virtual reality that helps people to
practice their public speaking skills. This app provides different scenarios,
virtual environments, job interview simulator and lessons on public speaking.
The virtual environments which provide by the app vary from small conference
rooms to large stadiums. Also, users can select their audience by region such
as United States, United Kingdom and upload their own presentations to the app.
Osso VR
Osso VR is the leading, validated virtual reality surgical
training platform designed for surgeons, and hospital staff of all skill
levels. It offers highly realistic hand-based interactions in immersive
training environments that contain the latest, cutting-edge procedures and
technology. Osso VR can be used with a wide variety of consumer-grade VR
headsets for any accurate and realist surgical procedure.
Google Expeditions
Google Expeditions is a virtual reality teaching tool that
lets users join in immersive virtual trips all over the world. This app allows
you to get up close with historical landmarks, dive underwater with sharks, and
even visit outer space. Google Expeditions app can be used among students in a
classroom or small group of people using android devices that connected to a
wireless router. Google Expeditions allows a teacher to act as a “guide” to
lead classroom-sized groups of “explorers” through collections of 360° and 3D
images while pointing out interesting sights along the way.
The definition of virtual reality comes, naturally, from the
definitions for both ‘virtual’ and ‘reality’. The definition of ‘virtual’ is almost
or nearly as described and reality is what we experience as human beings. So
the term ‘virtual reality’ basically means ‘almost or nearly as described reality’.
Everything that we know about our reality comes by way of our senses. In other
words, our entire experience of reality is simply a combination of sensory
information and our brains sense-making mechanisms for that information. It
stands to reason then, that if you can present your senses with made-up
information, your perception of reality would also change in response to it.
You would be presented with a version of reality that isn’t really there, but
from your perspective it would be perceived as real. Something we would refer
to as a virtual reality.
Virtual reality has both entertainment and serious uses. As
the technology is becoming cheaper and more widespread, we can expect to see
many more innovative uses for the technology in the future and perhaps a
fundamental way in which we communicate and work thanks to the possibilities of
virtual reality.
Welcome to the blog page. In this blog we will speak about several mobile apps which you can use on your phones, iPad or computers in order to better educate yourself in a specific area of interest. We will be introducing you to several educational apps which can be used for studying, online learning and contribution applications such as Google suit.
