UCTV – University of California

UCTV delivers documentaries, faculty lectures, cutting-edge research, symposiums, and artistic performances from each of the ten Universities of California campuses. Categories include: UCTV Main Website: http://www.uctv.tv/ UCTV iTunes U (opens in iTunes): https://itunes.apple.com/us/institution/uctv/id382079682 Categories (click link to visit webpage) Arts […]

ProjectWriter

This is not just limited to English teachers but any subject where you want your students to write collaboratively can benefit from this free resource. ProjectWriter is a new offering from the folks at BoomWriter. The purpose of ProjectWriter is […]

App – DataAnalysis

DataAnalysis Developer: Data Evaluation Systems Free Available for iPad only Thanks to John Forte for suggesting this app This app plots and analyses any data that can be formulated as x, y pairs. Data points are entered directly into the […]

App – MyCongress

Developer: ObjectiveApps, LLC Free Available for iPad and iPhone My Congress offers a wealth of information about the representatives of the 113th Congress. Get information on Senators and Representatives, including political affiliation, a short biography, a link to their website, […]

App – Today’s Document

Developer: National Archives and Records Administration Free Available for iPad and iPhone Today’s Document comes to us from the National Archives and Records Administration bringing to your iPad or iPhone one historical document, relevant to American History and Culture, each […]

App – FRED Economic Data

FRED gives you full access to the Federal Reserve Economic Database’s vast storehouse of economic data, some 34,000 economic data series from 37 regional, national and international sources, according the publisher’s description. Select data by category, release date, source or […]

App – EconWise

Developer: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Free Available for iPad & iPhone EconWise and FRED Economic Data are two apps in the economics category that deliver micro and macroeconomic analysis in the form of news, articles and interactive data […]

App – SkyGrid

Developer: SkyGrid Free  Available for iPad and iPhone SkyGrid delivers to your iPad or iPhone the latest news from 100s of sources in sports, business, science and technology, health, travel, art and design, and many others. The opening page of […]

App – MyScript Calculator – Handwriting calculator

Developer: Vision Objects Free App Available for iPad & iPhone This is truly an amazing app that does more than just hint at what the future of handheld computing has in store. With your finger or a stylus, write any […]

App – Political Time Machine

Developer: Original Victories Free App Available for iPad & iPhone Political Time Machine brings you political videos from throughout history. The developer boasts that there are over 2,000 videos to choose from. Videos stream so they need to download before […]

Gapminder – A Fact-Based Worldview

Gapminder uses animated and interactive data-visualisation to display statistical data on a wide range of topics. There are some 500 data sets that can be plotted in categories like economics, education, energy, environment, health, infrastructure, population, societal, and work, encompassing […]