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Whether used in the classroom or in their personal lives, students are not the only ones who use digital apps. Here at Georgia Southern magazine, we recently asked faculty members to share with us what apps they just couldn’t imagine living without.
Paperless
“I’m not sure how interesting my app is—call it ‘apps for the absent minded professor.’ I rely on Paperless (a checklist app). I am a cheapskate for apps and I actually paid for the full version of that one.”
Carolyn J. Bryan, professor of music, saxophone and director of Music International Studies
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
DropBox and TripAdvisor
“My favorite app for productivity is DropBox. It’s great for storing and sharing files for class and committee projects, as well as keynote presentations, because it allows the use of my iPhone as a remote. My fun app is TripAdvisor, which is essential for our family vacations!”.
Todd Deal, professor of Principles of Leadership LEAD 2031
Student Leadership and Civic Engagement
“I rely on Twitter to help me communicate with my students outside the classroom. By using the hashtag (furlongspeechclass), I can continue conversations about class topics and give hints about test questions. The students look forward to those hints!”
Jennifer Furlong, adjunct instructor Department of Communication Arts
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
TuneIn Radio
“I like TuneIn Radio, a Web radio app. My favorite station is a classic rock station from Luxembourg. It’s fun to listen to German weather, traffic and news, and then AC/DC’s ‘Shout It Out’ in English. I also listen to ‘Wait Wait’ from NPR on Saturdays. If I miss the 11 a.m. airing locally, I can get it at noon from a central time zone station or 1 p.m. mountain time or 2 p.m. pacific time…it’s fun!”
Donald Armel, professor of graphic communications management
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences