Software

Chemistry Computer Science General Mathematics Music Physics

Chemistry

COMPUTATION
	Scilab - Open source, cross-platform numerical computational package. It can be used for signal processing, statistical analysis, fluid dynamics simulations, numerical optimization, and modeling and simulation of explicit and implicit dynamical systems. MATLAB alternative.	X	X	X
DRAWING MOLECULES
	Avogadro - Avogadro is an advanced molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers flexible high quality rendering and a powerful plugin architecture.	X	X	X
$	ChemDoodle – Proprietary cross-platform application that has free versions of mobile. Intended as a companion to the paid computer version; allows limited number of free NMR and spectral calculations.	X	X	X		X	X
	PyMOL - Open source, user-sponsored, molecular visualization system. It can produce high quality 3D images of small molecules and biological macromolecules, such as proteins. Technically free if you install it using a package manager (Linux, OS X) or install a precompiled binary (Win). Binaries available directly from PyMOL for purchase.	X	X	X
PERIODIC TABLE
	Periodic Table – Socratica’s Periodic Table is a simple reference tool that also offers a quiz feature.						X
★	Ptable.com - Interactive web-based periodic table. Displays physical properties, electron configurations, orbitals, as well as isotopes and their decays. Each element links to its respective Wikipedia page.				X
REFERENCE
	Reaction Flash – Phone app that helps you learn and study named reactions and their mechanisms. In addition, the app provides recent literature examples from Reaxys, and comes with ReactionFlash quiz.					X
QUANTUM MECHANICS
$	Atom in a Box – App that visually shows the electron density given the probability density of orbitals in a hydrogen-like atom.		X			X

Computer Science

SYNTAX BUILDERS
	Alice – Freeware object-oriented educational programming language with an integrated development environment (IDE). Later versions are implemented in Java. Alice uses a drag and drop environment to create computer animations using 3D models.	X	X	X
	Scratch – Educational programming language that allows people of any experience, background and age to experiment with the concepts of fully versatile computer programming by snapping together visual programming blocks to control images, music and sound. It is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.	X	X	X

General

CLASSROOM TOOLS
	Air Sketch - Turn your iPad into a wireless whiteboard. This app allows you to annotate PDF documents and images live on a host machine.					X
	JetPack – HTML5 software developed by Purdue University that will let iOS and Android users download textbook/ebook crossovers called JetPacks. Web-based authoring kit project for public release in 2012.				X	X	X
E-BOOK AUTHORING/MANAGEMENT
★	Calibre - Organizes, saves and manages e-books, supporting a variety of formats. It also supports e-book syncing and conversion between a variety of popular e-book readers. Great news syndicator. Comes with web server.	X	X	X	X
	iBooks Author - Application that allows anyone to create Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, and more.		X			X
	Sigil - A cross-platform application distributed under the GNU GPL license. Sigil supports both WYSIWYG and code-based editing of EPUB files, as well as the import of HTML and plain text files.	X	X	X
DICTATION AND TEXT TO SPEECH (TTS)
$	Acapela TTS – Top-notch TTS voices. Acapela group works primarily with corporate sales. Voice sales are done by third parties given your desired platform.	X	X
$	Dragon Dictate - Proprietary speech recognition software. Formerly Mac Speech Dictate on OS X.	X	X
	Google Translate - You are currently limited to 100 characters, but Google’s TTS engine is very good; it is available in a variety of languages as well. Great way to augment foreign language education.				X	X	X
$	IVONA TTS – Top-notch TTS voices. It is currently platform restricted, but the quality is very high. Incorporates BrightVoice technology.	X					X
DISTANCE EDUCATION
	Flockdraw – Whiteboard collaboration service; integrated into TinyChat chat rooms.				X
	Skype –  Allows users to make voice, video calls, and chats over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free.	X	X	X		X	X
FILE SHARING
★	Dropbox - Free 2GB account. Web-based file hosting service that uses cloud storage to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization.	X	X	X	X	X	X
PROJECT AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT
$	Basecamp - Web-based project-management tool developed by 37signals and runs on Ruby on Rails framework.				X	X	X
$*	Evernote - Suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A “note” can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten “ink” note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can be sorted into folders, then tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched and exported as part of a notebook. *Paid version offers more storage/doc types.	X	X	X	X	X	X
	Google Docs – Free, Web-based office suite, and data storage service offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users.				X	X	X
	Moodle – Free source e-learning software platform, that functions as an extendible Course Management System (CMS). Can be deployed on both large/small scale. Requires server for hosting.				X
STUDY TOOLS
	NOOKStudy – Software authored by Barnes & Noble Booksellers designed to help organize digital study materials as well as annotate and view purchased e-textbooks. Requires B&N Login.	X	X
	Quizlet.com – Flashcard creation and quizzing study aid. Either create your own or search through user-submitted flashcard sets. You can even learn flashcards as a game. *Unofficial mobile apps that use Quizlet’s API.				X	X*	X*

Mathematics

COMPOSITION
★	LyX - Cross-platform graphical editor with EPS, PDF, , and other output formats. Supports many document classes/layouts out of the box.	X	X	X
COMPUTATION
$	Mathematica - Computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing.	X	X	X
	Sage – Mathematical software with features covering many aspects of mathematics, including algebra, combinatorics, numerical mathematics, number theory, and calculus.	X	X	X	X
★	Wolfram Online Integration – Powerful online integration software. Based on Wofram’s Mathematica engine.				X
GEOMETRY
	GeoGebra – Cross-platform Geometry sketching and computational software. Requires Java.	X	X	X	X
★	Google SketchUp - Excellent 2D/3D drawing application. There is also a Pro version, which adds even more functionality. Great for architectural projects.	X	X
GRAPHING
	Andie Graph – Texas Instruments TI 82, 83, 83+, 85, & 86 graphing calculator emulator. You must provide the ROM from the actual calculator, but it allows you to turn your phone into a graphing calculator.						X
★	Graph - Simple 2D graphing application. Can also evaluate functions at points, take derivatives and integrals, and produce various best fit lines.	X
★	Grapher - Excellent native OS X application for 2D and 3D graphing. Comes preloaded with various Mathematical standard functions and can graph in rectilinear, spherical, and cylindrical coordinates.		X
★	Wolfram Alpha - General knowledge engine with access to Mathematica’s plot & graph backend. This is an exceptionally powerful tool, take the time to check out examples of what it can do. Paid mobile versions.				X	X	X
STATISTICS
	R – Programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. A standard among statisticians for developing statistical software, R is widely used for statistical software development and data analysis.	X	X	X

Music

COMPOSITION
	MuseScore – Free and open source cross-platform music notation software. MuseScore is a WYSIWYG editor, complete with support for score playback and import–export of MusicXML and standard MIDI files. Percussion notation is supported, as is direct printing from the program.	X	X	X
PLAYBACK
$	SnapNPlay – Take a snapshot of sheet music and this app will play the music back.						X

Physics

COMPUTER MODELING
	Easy Java Simulations - An open-source software tool, part of the Open Source Physics project, designed for the creation of discrete computer simulations. Requires Java.	X	X	X
	VPython - Python + 3D graphics module called Visual. VPython allows users to create objects such as spheres and cones in 3D space and displays these objects in a window. The simplicity of VPython has made it a tool for the illustration of simple physics, especially in the educational environment.	X	X	X
GAME-BASED LEARNING
$	Portal - Single-player first-person puzzle-platform video game developed by Valve Corporation, available through Steam. The source™ SDK including Hammer allows students to build their own Portal levels. Has a powerful physics engine that will provide large learning potential.	X	X
$	Portal 2 – Single- & Two-player puzzle-platform video game developed by Valve Corporation, available through Steam. Sequel to the critically acclaimed Portal.	X	X
QUANTUM MECHANICS
$	Atom in a Box - App that visually shows the electron density given the probability density of orbitals in a hydrogen-like atom.		X			X