iPad App: Scan Documents into PDF with Genius Scan

Genius Scan is very handy app I discovered recently while scanning documents.  It allows you to take a photo of a document and export them as JPEG or PDF files. What makes Genius Scan better than other apps is its ability to detect edges and its perspective correction.  This can be useful for teachers or students who want to scan pages of books and read them on their iPads.

Once you take a photo, the app detects the page frame, crops it, correct its persective, and remove unnecessary background. This means that you don’t need a perfect straight shot. In addition, you can also adjust the corners and borders of the frame.

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Genius Scan allows scanned images to be emailed as a JPG or PDF file. It allows export to Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Expensify, Facebook, Google Drive, OneDrive, OneNote, Twitter, and many others.

Genius scan is also available as an iPhone app and an iPod Touch app.

Compass and Straightedge Construction with Robocompass App

After introducing Primo, a new math game, I would also like to introduce Robocompass app, one of the latest online apps for compass and straightedge construction. It was only released three weeks ago.

Robocompass is an application that allows users to type commands and then turn those commands into an animated compass and straightedge construction. What is good about this application is that it has a 3d environment which allows the user to view the construction in any perspective. Constructions in Robocompass can be saved in Google drive and can be embedded in websites. Watch the introduction video and see the embedded file below.  » Read more

New Lesson Study Book Now Available

To all my readers from the Philippines, our new book on Lesson Study is now off the press. The book is titled Lesson Study: Planning Together, Learning Together.  It is a documentation of the actual experiences of teachers and students in mathematics and science classes as well as learning that arise while doing Lesson Study. It was published by the the University of the Philippines National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development (UP NISMED).

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The book is 258 pages and costs Php300.00. You can buy it at the UP NISMED Bookstore in the University of the Philippines, Diliman.

By the way, I am also glad to tell that I am one of the writers of this book. 🙂

Here are the contact details:

Tel: +632 927-4276, 928-1563
Fax: 928-3545
Email: nismed@upd.edu.ph

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