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When students come back to school for a new year at Abilene Christian University or Oklahoma Christian University and others they are likely to receive in their package they paid for either an iphone or an iPod touch and at OCU along with those choices they give you a macbook computer. All though if you choose to get the iphone you have to accept the expenses. Every month you have to pay the AT&T phone bill. "It's an eye-catching toy," concedes Kevin Roberts, chief information officer at Abilene Christian. "There's been a lot of interest from students." All though teachers may use it for lectures and email and homework assignments they can also be used for many different things that the school provides. On the itouchs and iPods the school has provided the students with being able to access a lot of different and unique applications. Some examples of a few applications they have provided are an app called the panic button. It allows you to contact the local police and gives them the ability to find where you are located and the locations that you are needing help at. Another app that the schools have made up actually let you take attendance on your iphone by displaying pictures of everyone in that certain class along with four status buttons which are “Tardy, Absent, Here, Excused.”
Tech helps students adopt good study habits
Purdue University professors are using online "signals" to communicate with students that either their grades are dropping or their doing a great job. They do offer study habit suggestions, and provide positive attitudes to students who are passing quizzes and exams. The signals that the students would see when they sign onto their blackboard are signs that of traffic lights. Green means that everything is good, passing and all yellow means you are close to failing and either need to get back on track or come ask for help and red means you are failing and need to get things in order immediately.