I love my iPod Touch. I can listen to music, surf the Internet, and study for my classes. Study for my classes? That doesn’t seem like it fits in with one of the coolest music playing machines today. But thanks to iTunes’ educational apps, it actually fits quite nicely.

iTunes offers many education apps, ranging from language learning apps to flashcards to preparation for SAT or ACT tests. iTunes U also helps students study when they are on-the-go. iTunes U allows professors to connect with their students through their iPods or iPhones. iTunes U offers note cards, syllabi, and audio and visual files for students to use when studying.

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Check out the coolest new educational app for iPhones!

A few months ago, EduInReview.com posted a review about the Essay Writing Wizard, an iPhone and iPod Touch application that allows students to write their essays on their iPod. The Essay Writing Wizard was created in order to transform the iPod from an organizational study tool to an interactive study tool. In addition to allowing students to write their essays on their iPod, the Essay Writing Wizard allowed students to take notes, review essay definitions and tips, and email their work to a computer. This all sounded pretty good to me, but now, the creators of the Essay Writing Wizard have created something even better. This new product is the Achievers Writing Center.

The Achievers Writing Center combines the benefits of the Essay Writing Wizard, everything you need to develop, organize, and write an excellent college essay, with personal interaction with a professional writing assistant. This assistant provides each student with unlimited support during their writing process. So if you get writer’s block or just can’t think of how to best phrase your idea, the assistant will help you. The Achievers Writing Center also provides assistance with argument development, paragraph sequence, and basic grammar and misspellings.Like the Essay Writing Wizard, the Achievers Writing Center offers iTunes apps for over 30 essay styles, including deductive essays, creative writing, and argumentative essays.

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Music is an essential part of our youth culture. When your favorite band releases a new single, you have to head over to iTunes and download it asap.

Music gives you something to talk about with new people at parties, or if talking isn’t a priority at the moment due to amount of alcohol you just consumed, it gives you another way to express yourself on the dance floor. I know that I spent a large amount of my paychecks this year on concert tickets and new CDs.

Music defines us. It can influence our moods, help us relax, and turn a bad day into a good day in three minutes flat. Certain songs can bring up memories we hadn’t thought of in years.

This past year had many wonderful songs released by some of the most popular artists. iTunes recently released their list of most popular songs for 2009, based off downloads. There are several repeat offenders on the list, but they really were some of the most popular artists this year.

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iTunes has released a new app for iPhones and iPod Touches: the Essay Writing Wizard. The EWW helps students write essays faster and easier, anywhere they can take their iPhone or iPod.

EWW was created by The Niles Technology Group with the goal of transforming iPhone or iPod from just an organizational tool to one that allows students to create and develop new ideas.

The Essay Writing Wizard offers many different editions, including editions designed specifically for college students, community college students, and field-specific programs. The following is a list of the most commonly used application editions that are available: Read the rest of this entry »

Students today want to be connected at all times. We want to be able to check our class syllabus, look up our homework, and communicate with our professors whenever we want. But we don’t really want to carry around textbooks and laptops and all other sorts of things. It would be so much easier to just carry a little hand-held device. Welcome to iTunes U.

iTunes U is the newest mobile learning application from Apple. Students can use iTunes U on their iPhone or iPod Touch. iTunes U allows professors to distribute digital lesson plans to their students, anytime and anywhere. Professors can set up presentations, lessons, and homework through iTunes U. Students benefit from this because they can study for their next test while waiting on the bus or eating lunch in the cafeteria; basically, whenever and wherever is the most convenient for them! Instead of hiking across campus to a computer lab or the library, students can whip out their iPhone or iPod Touch, connect to the Internet, and start studying. Read the rest of this entry »

Stacks is a simple flashcard app for your iPhone or iTouch, it is perfect for expanding your knowledge or even as just an entertaining memory game. Stacks can be great for quizzing friends and family, or utilizing the time spent standing in line or on a plane. This app is continuously updated with new content, with some categories available for purchase, and others for free.

Stacks’  flashcards cover a wide range of topics including:

- 1980’s music
- Americana
- Best Golf Courses
- Chick Flicks
- Duct Tape Trivia
- Government
- High School Reading Lists
- Inventors
- Morse Code
- Movie Quotes
- Pirate Phrases
- Roman Numerals
- Solar System
- States and Capitals
- Wine
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R.Cloud Software has just released Digit Defenders – now available for you to download at the iTunes app store. Digit Defenders is an entertaining game of falling math problems, while still an educational tool for sharpening math skills. The object is to answer problems correctly before they fall off the screen. Players begin with basic arithmetic skills and work their way up to algebraic linear equations and college level quadratics.

Players of all ages can challenge their mental math skills from a preschool to college level. Even the quickest math whiz will be challenged, testing his speed and accuracy on the most difficult setting, as this unique yet educational iPhone game has very advanced math content for teens and 20-something college kids. However, if you are someone who simply wants to brush up on your math, the normal difficulty setting is ideal. Levels include simple counting, elementary and advanced arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, and number base conversion. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s a new iPhone application on the market for students looking to find information about the school that’s on their mind. Colleges, for the iPhone, can provide quick access to statistics on thousands of U.S. colleges and universities, and no Internet connection is required! This app allows you to create and manage a list of potential schools, and sort them by reach, match, or safety.

Colleges gives the option to search for a specific school or browse through categories such as National Universities, Liberal Arts Colleges, as well as the top in Business, Engineering, Medical and Law schools. The schools are listed by rank based on the US News and World Report. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever wanted the ability to multiply at lightning fast speed like Dustin Hoffman in Rainman? Mathemagics allows you to do just that. You can practice and learn mental math calculation with this fun and engaging iPhone application, listed as one of the bestselling apps in the education category. Students can baffle their math teachers providing answers in record time, and teachers can inspire their students as they pull answers to math problems out of thin air. Read the rest of this entry »

Evernote is a software application I invented in my mind long before it arrived, but unfortunately didn’t quite have the means to create. Some tech people beat me to it, as usual.

How often do you find yourself wishing you had written down a website you looked at, or an item you saw that you wanted to purchase? Anything found digitally that you wish to remember is as easy as popping it right into your Evernote account. The information is indexed, and available for searching whenever you need it. Read the rest of this entry »