If you don’t spell well, surfing the Web can be a challenge. If you can’t correctly spell, you may struggle to find what you’re looking for. And if you are a student with weak fine motor skills, hitting the right key or the right letter on a touchpad can be a challenge, too.

Earlier this month, Dragon — a long-time leader in voice recognition software — launched Dragon Go as a free app to help folks navigate their online information spaces on an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.

Perhaps it would help bridge the information access gap — or let kids work with less support from adults? Worth trying!

Dragon Go! for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), and iPad on the iTunes App Store via kwout

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Are your science teachers engaged in units that deal with leaf identification? Do you have a local environmental center? Do you keep parents informed of free, high-quality apps for their smartphones? If so, you might want to check out LeafSnap, a project of the Smithsonian, the University of Maryland, and Columbia University. It’s a free iPhone or iPad app (Android app is coming soon) — and as you can see from the home page above, it’s gorgeous!

I’ve just received a Pandigital Novel eReader, which includes Wifi and runs Android apps. At $250, I’m eager to see if it’s a viable, low-cost, color-screen alternative to an iPad. Can’t say I’ve used it enough yet to recommend it, but this would be the kind of app I’d want to try with it, so I am eager for the Android release! Anybody have experience with it?

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