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1. Five Apps:
Five Minutes
Apps for Professional Development
Annalisa Moretti (Boston College)
annalisacmoretti@gmail.com | @annalisacaprice

2. Coursera
http://www.coursera.org
● MOOC = Massive Open Online Course
● Enroll, watch videos, view course materials
● Courses in technology, history, etc…
o “Metadata: Organizing and Discovering
Information” - UNC-Chapel Hill
o “Programming for Everybody” -
University of Michigan
o “Age of Jefferson” – University of Virginia
o “Metaliteracy: Empowering Yourself in a
Connected World” – State University of
New York

3. Codecademy
http://www.codecademy.com
● “Code Hour” App - introduces
programming concepts
● Website version has modules in:
○ HTML/CSS
○ JavaScript
○ jQuery
○ Python
○ Ruby
○ PHP

4. Duolingo
http://www.duolingo.com
● “Gamifies” language acquisition
● Translate the internet (ex. CNN,
Buzzfeed)
● Crowdsourced languages (Duolingo
Language Incubator
o French
o German
o Italian
o Spanish
o Portuguese
o Dutch
o Irish
o Danish
o Swedish
o …. And more in
development

5. Workflowy
http://www.workflowy.com
● Interactive lists
○ collapse/expand
○ move bullet points
● Shareable across platforms
● One single list rather than notebooks
like Evernote

6. Elevate
http://www.elevateapp.com
● “Brain training” - educational games
● Helps you exercise your:
○ Memory
○ Agility
○ Name recall
○ Writing clarity
○ Calculation
● Apple’s 2014 App of the Year

7. Things to consider...
● Security
○ Many apps ask for permissions - make sure you
know what they can access
○ Be careful who you download from
○ Android apps especially
● Time management is important!
● Look to the future: apps and archivists
● Alternatives to these apps (and more information!) at
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