Dictionaries

• For beginning learners:  http://www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl

• Jtalk: http://nihongo.j-talk.com/kanji/
• jisho.org online (uses the Jim Breen dictionary)

iPhone and iPad apps

• Kotoba! on iOS (free and locally stored, so it can be used without wifi)  You can use the Chinese handwriting input with the Kotoba! app to draw a character and then look it up. It works for most of the basic characters that students would need.
• iPhone app ($9.99):  Midori
•  japaneseapp.com by renzo Inc  It’s a dictionary app for  iPhone & iPad. Great depth of words and allows search in English, romaji, and Kanji by SKIP Code, Components, and using Handwriting. ($14 to $17)