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=Apps for the Classroom=

Application #1: Business Analyst Online (BAO)
With he BAO app you can get demographic and market facts about any location in the U.S.

BAO answers 3 questions about a location: - What types of people live there? - How does it compare to another area? - Is it a good fit based on your needs?

We do an assignment where the students have to set up a business of their own, but first they have to find out the demographics of their location. This app is perfect for this. They can find out age, income, education, home ownership, lifestyle, and spending habits of the people in that area. Very cool.



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Application #2: Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an app that leads you to a library of over 2,400 educational videos, talks, and interviews from the subject areas of math, science, humanities, and others. It also has test prep.

This site was recommended to me to check out. I found the subject of finance and there are a number of videos I can show on banking, money, creidt, venture capitalism, current economines, credit. Litterly over a hundred videos just on finance. I can us this in my personal finance class and entrepreneurship classes.



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Application #3: Lemonade Stand Game
I didn't realize this was an old game that use to be bundled with Ie. It was revamped for the iPhone. It is a great game for economics. You are given the forcast for the day and have to decide how many cups, sugar, ice, and lemons to buy to make lemonade to sell at your lemonade stand.

I already have entrepreneurship students play this on our PCs at school. They love it. It teaches them a good economic lesson on costs, profits, and losses.



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Application #4: Office2 HD
Office2 HD is an app that is compatible with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. I would find this app extremely useful for my students in all my classes for creating their documents and presentations.



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Application #5: The World Factbook for iPad
This app gives you access to the CIA World Factbook which gives you up-to-date information about more than 250 countries. Information it can provide is listed below:

Flag w/ full description - Color Map - Location Map - Introduction - Geography - People - Government - Economy - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational Issues

I can use this app for two units that I teach in my Entrepreneurship class. This app can help us look for issues when traveling in a certain country in the International Business unit. For my Economics unit we do a comparison of three countries (United States, a third world country, and a country run by a dictator). We compare their gdp, population, farms, imports & exports, etc. and how government usually decides what is produced, how it is produced, and for whom is it produced. This will be an excellent app for this purpose.



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Application #6: XE Currency
XE Currency is an app that converts over 180 currencies--live. It also converts precious metals.

This app can use used in my International Business unit for converting US dollars to the country they plan to visit.



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Application #7: BA II Plus(tm) Financial Calculator
The BA II Plus (tm) Financial Calculator app was designed by Texas Instruments after their best-selling financial calculator. This calculator can be used by students and professionals.

Listed below are some of its more advance functions in which I could definitely use in my business classes:

• Solves Time-Value-of-Money calculations • Generates amortization schedules • Performs cash-flow analysis, and computes NPV and IRR • Calculates depreciation with four different methodologies • Breakeven, profit and percent difference calculations • Date function to determine days between dates • Evaluates bond prices and yields “to maturity” or “to call”

This app can definitely be used in our accounting, personal finance, and marketing classes in our department. In my personal finance class I have students do multiple loan conversions for auto and home so they get an idea on how much they pay in interest. I also can use this app when working with saving and investing. In my Entrepreneurship class we cover breakeven, profit and loss. to be able to do these calculations would be very cool.



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Application #8: MarketScan
The MarketScan app allows you to scan fonline inancial market data. This includes market news, portolios, stock quotes with indepth information. You can customize so you can look at the sources you want. You can set up the ticker symbols that you want to watch and are able to find the latest quotes for these stocks.

We do a stock portfolio project in my Entreprenership class in which the students have to pick three stocks to watch over a two-week period. This app would make it quick and easy for them to have the current stock quotes at the tips of their fingers. Would save a lot of classroom time.



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Application #9: CloudMe
The CloudMe app was developed by Xcerion AB. This is a free app (up to 3G, after that you have to pay) that allows you to save you files out on the Internet. These files can be documents, photos, videos, and music and is available anywhere. You can also do filesharing. You do have to set up an account with them before you can use their services.

Our school server is not that reliable. Many times students can't access their files or they are mysteriously gone. Putting their important work out on the cloud would be great back up. The feature I like the most is that their is fileshare. They can work outside the school and be able to share their work outside the school. Another plus to the file share is that when a partner is absent during the project, the rest of the group still has access to their files.



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Application #10: Grammar Up
The Grammar Up app was written by Eknath Kadam. This app has 1800 grammar questions in a multiple-choice quiz game format. The focus is on business and was designed to help improve grammar, word selection and vocabulary. You can prepare the game by topic or randomly with all topics. A summary is compiled after each quiz and this can be e-mail out. This app also records your progress.

This app can be easily adapted into my Business Communications and Microsoft Word courses. We can all use refreshers in grammar.



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Application #11: Nike Training Club
Nike Training Club is a training app that gives you your own personal trainer. There are 60 workouts with audio demos from a Nike Professional Trainer.

I find this app beneficial to me personally. I feel more energetic and happier when I'm on a regular exercise routine which transfers to the classroom.



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Application #12: Fluent News
Fluent News provides headlines news and articles from many sources like the Bloomberg, CNN, and FOX. You can customize from which sources you want to hear from and how much. This is a free app.

I don't have time to sit and read an entire newspaper. This apps gets the most important headlines news to me.



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Application #13: Motivational Quotes
This app supplies you with a daily motivational quote. These quotes are written by famous people such as W. L. Hunt, Mark Twain, Amelia Earhart, and more.

This app will give me a little motivation and boost to start my day.



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Application #14: Chase Mobile (SM)
The Chase Mobile Banking app was designed by JPMorgan Chase & Co. for Chase customers. This 24/7 apps allows you to pay bills, see account balances, check transaction history, and transfer funds. This app also helps you find the nearest Chase branch, contact a representative, make deposits, send money to another person, get account alerts, check on your rewards, and if you are involved in the BLUEPRINT (personal finance plan) you can check on it.

This always me to do banking on the go. Great to have all my accounts available to me at my fingertips.



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Application #15: SmartTime 4 - Adaptive Organizer
SmartTime 4 was developed by Left Coast Logic. This app is an online organizer and calendar. The screen shows you all of your tasks on the screen at once. This apps includes the integration with Tasks and Contacts in Outlook. It also integrates with Google Maps and Calendar. Pop-up alerts and tasks are apart of this app also.

I see myself getting a little better organized with school meetings, kids sporting events, and much, much, more.



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