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Using Smart Phones as Educational Resources

Why should teacher embrace the smart pone revolution? What the research says?

[|List of Smart phone Applications]

Top Free Apps
[|**Open Culture**]: This iPhone app gives you free mobile access to our educational media collections. Free audio books, university courses, foreign language lessons, science podcasts and much more. Per Apple rules, you will need to use wifi to download files. [|**American Museum of Natural History: Cosmic Discoveries**]: Take a ride with the Museum’s astrophysicists through our Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy, and beyond. Cosmic Discoveries is the first app to collect nearly a 1000 stunning astronomic images. [|**Council on Foreign Relations**]: The latest news analysis and commentary from the Council on Foreign Relations’ website now available on the go for the iPhone and iPod touch. [|**Dictionary.com**][|:] Pretty simple, but handy. A good dictionary in your pocket. [|**FORA.TV**]: FORA is an excellent resource for smart video, featuring a steady stream of talks by today’s thought leaders. To access their videos, you can download their free app, or point your mobile browser to [|m.fora.tv]. [|**Kindle**]: This free app from Amazon lets you download books straight to your iPhone. The Kindle store contains many free classics books, but one of the easiest ways to access these books is to visit our collection of [|Free eBooks]. [|**Moon Globe**]: The free app puts the moon in your pocket with 3D graphics and touch screen navigation. [|**Poetry from the Poetry Foundation**]: From William Shakespeare to César Vallejo to Heather McHugh, the Poetry Foundation’s app turns your phone into a mobile poetry library: [|**Stanza**]: Another good app for downloading free e-books on the iPhone. Once you download the app, navigate to the “Online Catalog” section and then focus on the “Project Gutenberg” materials, which contains a long list of free classics. [|**StreetMuseum**]: This free iPhone app from the Museum of London overlays 400 years of historic images on today’s city streets. Not available for download in the US. Pity. [|**The Iliad and Odyssey by Homer**]: The ancient tradition and Western civilization go straight back to these two great books. Get them fore free. [|**USA Presidents**]: A flash card app that teaches you cool facts about the historical line of American presidents.
 * [|AskPhilosophers]**: AskPhilosophers puts real philosophers at the service of the general public. Have a big, lofty question that only a professional philosopher can tackle? They’ll answer it on [|the web]. And now on the iPhone. Check out this [|free app].
 * Fotopedia Heritage ([|iPhone] – [|iPad])**: The new Fotopedia Heritage app for the iPhone and iPad lets the world come to you. Drawing on 20,000 curated photos taken by thousands of photographers from the [|Fotopedia] community, this FREE app lets you visit (at least virtually) 890 UNESCO World Heritage sites.
 * [|Louvre Museum]**: From the most important museum in Paris. [|According to Lifehacker], this “amazingly slick free app provides a virtual tour of its galleries and lets users check out the works of everyone from DaVinci to Michelangelo. The app gets you up close and personal with paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and even the French Crown Jewels.”
 * [|NASA]**: Discover a wealth of free great space travel information on this free app. The NASA App collects, customizes and delivers an extensive selection of dynamically updated information, images and videos from various online NASA sources in a convenient mobile package.
 * [|Shakespeare]**: A nice app that puts the complete works of Shakespeare on your iPhone. As you’ll see, the app comes with some handy functionality: you can search the text by keyword and also increase/decrease the fonts. Plus the app automatically remembers the last page you read.
 * [|TED]**: TEDTalks need no introduction. They’re perhaps the most popular video lectures on the web, featuring talks by “the world’s leading thinkers and doers.” Now you can access these talks on your mobile phone too.