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7 Invaluable iPad Apps for Distance Nursing Degree Students

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

My College Guide collected five of the most useful Apple iPad apps for distance nursing degree students. As an adult learner, you have most likely recognized the importance of multi-tasking. The iPad can be a great study tool when you are on the go — especially with the addition of these applications!

Distance Nursing Degree Students: Invaluable iPad Apps!

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Medical Reference Apps for Distance Nursing Degree Students

When it comes to reference iPad applications, distance nursing degree students have quite a few choices! From free to paid, the medical apps below will go a long way in helping you prepare for what lies ahead.

Medscape – Medical reference, drug database for both name brand and generic options, this nursing app for the iPad even includes images! Get the scoops on common procedures in this handy and info-packed reference app. Did My College Guide forget to mention that it’s also free?

MediMath Medical Calculator – Don’t waste time trying to hunt down specific formulas in your college textbook. Using the MediMath Medical Calculator, you can easily reference 135 medical calculators and scoring tools. You’ll find plenty here! From APGAR score to Winter’s formula, this nursing iPad app could be just what you need!

Mediquations – An interface that differs slightly from MediMath Medical Calculator, this nursing app possesses over 200 formulas and scoring charts! Loads of information right at your fingertips. This could be a great supplement to your course textbook.

Micromedex Drug Information – Free is a good thing, especially when it contains more than 4500 search terms relating to drug information. Is that a good fit to your distance nursing degree or what? From directions, black box warnings, and even generic names, this free iPad medical app could just be your new best friend!

Study Tools for Nursing Students

Get familiar with the tools and terminology that you will need to know to advance in your distance nursing degree—and beyond! My College Guide found these interesting apps that could be great study tools.

3M™ Littmann® SoundBuilder — Sometimes, it’s the little things that help the most. Soundbuilder may seem like your basic free iPad app—but it is what it does that makes this one truly special! Learn to recognize the sounds of the heart, discover common problems and, more importantly, how to identify and treat them!

Med Mnemonics – Let’s face it: as a distance nursing degree student, you have a lot of memorization ahead of you! Make it easy on yourself. Using this iPad app, you can memorize the terms for subjects like anatomy, biochemistry, and even surgery. Perhaps the best feature of this medical app is that you can even add in your terms.

AnatomyLab – Only anatomy, not physiology, this iPad app is perfect for students studying for their distance nursing degree. Learn the parts of the body with detailed visual imagery. It’s applications like this that  were made for the iPad!

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The College Library: More Than Books and Magazines

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

When you get to college – don’t overlook an amazing (and free) resource — your college or university library!  You might be picturing stacks of dusty books and plenty of shushing — but today?  You should know that college and university libraries are as familiar with the latest techy gadgets as you are!

...or just spread out! Take advantage of all that (quiet) space and just relax!

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It’s true!  At colleges across the country you don’t even have to set foot inside the campus library to find out if it has what you need.  The college library is taking advantage of the latest trends, like smartphone technology, to give you easy access.

Colleges like Florida State University and Southwestern College are a few of the many colleges that have created mobile library sites!  By keeping the library website simple, using only basic text and no images, college students can use their smartphones, iPhones, or even iPads to gain access to the university library database as well as find out general information like library hours, tutoring times, or the status on library holds.

Do you have a basic research question and need an instant answer from a librarian?  You can speak to a librarian without even being in the building!  No, it’s not magic – many college libraries are allowing students to text a librarian.  The University of Washington library is one such campus library that offers text a librarian services.  The University of Iowa library, University of Michigan Library,  Berkeley College libraries and the University of Minnesota library and Ashland University library even lets you chat with one!

Not just books and magazines, your college or university library has plenty to offer!

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Did you spill an energy drink on your laptop while pulling an all-nighter, completely frying its insides?  Are you curious about the Apple iPad but just don’t know if you want to shell out the big bucks?  If your laptop conks out or if you just want to play with an iPad – you can!  Many college libraries let students borrow the latest gadgets.

A few campus libraries offer things that you probably aren’t expecting, like digital camcorders and even digital cameras!  The University of Wisconsin Madison Library and St John Fisher College Library even  have video games available to borrow (even at college you have a little downtime!).  But some, like the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Undergraduate Library,  have a whole gaming center – so you can get out of the dorm, spread out a little, and Halo it up with your friends on the XBox 360 or goof around with the Nintendo Wii.  Need a little musical practice?  The University of Arizona library has metronomes available to borrow!  How about a little fresh air?  The Oxford College Library lets you borrow a bicycle!

When you get to college and need a little help – don’t forget about your college library!  Whether you use it for term papers, borrowing electronics (or books!), or as a place to hang out with your friends, your college or university library has plenty to offer!

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One Book, One Twitter: World Summer Reading Twitter Project

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Do you have that summer reading list in your hands already?  What if you could expand your critical thinking skills in a different way, like sharing your thoughts about a classic novel — with the WORLD.  With the “One Book, One Twitter” project started by Jeff Howe of Crowdsourcing – it’s possible!

One Book, One Twitter Project: One Book to Rule Them AllIn what will hopefully turn out to be an annual Twitter summer international reading book club, the One Book, One Twitter project could prove to be an awesome way for you to hone a few skills pre-college, like critical thinking, listening, and contributing something of value to a conversation — and ward off summer boredom in the process!

The 140 character limitations could help you learn how to organize and focus your thoughts, stop the rambling, and get to the point (crucial skills for college – and beyond)!

With the One Book, One Twitter project, the goal is to aim for a book with universal appeal, a book that not only has been translated into many languages but one that is also available for free, so you can participate without spending a dime!  You know colleges will check out your online profiles anyway – why not give them something good to discover: a college bound student showing a definite interest in the written word.

Books currently topping the voting chart? Classics like American Gods by Neil Gaiman, 1984 by George Orwell, and Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury to name a small sample of the contenders!  You can head on over and vote for your favorite before voting ends next week.  Our only question is: Will the One Book, One Twitter project hashtag, #1b1t, serve to beat out Justin Beiber as a trending topic?  We’ll be watching – and reading, of course!  And, just think: if you enter (and win) our Apple iPad contest – you could be reading and participating using an iPad of your very own!

Special thanks to the Ruth A. Myers Library/ Ojibwe Archives Overview of the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College for bringing the One Book, One Twitter Project to our attention!

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An iPad App to Make You Smile…or Doodle

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

What makes My College Guide happy?  Previews for what look to be a totally useable and completely awesome app for the soon to be released Apple iPad that will be just perfect for college life !  Have you met PadNotes?

After reading about the possibilities of this exciting iPad application recently mentioned on Fast Company – we just had to pass it along!  With the PadNotes app, you can doodle or write (and then some) on any PDF document!  Sounds like fun, don’t you think?  As you might recall, Apple’s sleek new tablet is due out in stores on April 3, 2010.  Don’t forget – My College Guide is giving you a chance to win an iPad of your very own!  You can’t win if you don’t enter!  Now, check out this video and prepare to be amazed!

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Apple iPad: it’s ALL the Rage — Even in Higher Ed!

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Sleek 'n Shiny: the Apple iPad! If you think your high school textbooks are heavy now…just wait until college!  But, if Apple has its way, the sleek 1.5 lb Apple iPad tablet could end up changing the way you learn at college…and possibly save you a few bucks (and your back) in the process.

How?  With eBook capability built right into the multi- touch-sensitive device (and their own iBookstore)!  Almost 150,000 iPhone applications will cross-over from Day One – so you can use your favorite iPhone apps to help fill out your college applications or take a break with a little Plants vs. Zombies, without having to wait!

No drab gray here, the iPad is all about color – and interaction!  Touch highlighted words (like vocab or concepts) for more information.  Create bookmarks to pick up where you left off, browse a touch activated slideshow, and flip through images, charts, or diagrams.  Surf the web or watch an awesome college video lecture.  Think of the possibility!

Pick a social media network and chances are somebody, somewhere is talking about it – what they heard, what they read, what they hope to see — and who can blame them?  Even colleges share in the iPad enthusiasm!  The Abilene Christian University student newspaper, The Optimist, is the first college newspaper to declare their intention to be on the iPad –  or, at least, it will be when the Apple iPad (finally!) hits stores April 3, 2010.

Don’t forget about George Fox University!  GFU is offering incoming students a choice between a computer (as they have done for the past 20 years) or the new iPad tablet.  Great idea for GFU’s computer possessing freshmen – or for those planning to purchase eBook textbooks down the line – and hoping to save big in place of hefty college texts.

The 429978333803sleekness of the iPad tablet dazzled My College Guide so much…well, what could we do?  Offer up a chance to win an Apple iPad of your very own, of course!  Request college information and you will be automatically entered to win the sleek and shiny Apple iPad (it isn’t like you don’t need college information)!  The contest will end on June 1, 2010.

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