As you know, Apple’s iPhone App Store went live last week, and a number of new applications look to be pretty handy tools for teaching and learning. Perhaps the one with the greatest educational potential is Stage Hand, which allows you to control your Keynote presentations from your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Stage Hand also shows you the notes for your current slide for those moments when you need a quick reminder and allows you to tilt your iPhone to view a miniature of the big screen on your small screen. You can also draw your audience’s attention with the Stage Hand highlighter: tap anywhere on the screen to spotlight your slide with a choice of graphics and colors.

For Stage Hand to work, you’ll need a small helper application, Stage Manager, running on your Macintosh. Stage Manager communicates with iPhone or iPod Touch devices to control your presentations. The application also requires Keynote ‘08 part of the iWork ‘08 suite, on a Macintosh computer with OS X 10.5 “Leopard” or later. Windows/Powerpoint is not supported.

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