I spent most of my day preparing iPads for students who will be piloting them in the Spring Chemistry class. Ever since we started working with iPod Touches and then the iPad I have struggled with iTunes syncing and finding the best way to manage larger groups of iOS devices. I was able to make [...]
I was recently asked a question about some of the soon to be available competitors and what my thoughts were about them. Here is my response:
I’m not too excited about the first round of any of the iPad competitors…except for the possibility of HP and I think they will be just as expensive. Here [...]
Discovery Education added a mobile site to their offerings recently that works well with the iPad but not very well with the iPod Touch. The iPad interface was clean and allowed for quick browsing of the different subject areas. The search tool worked great as well. It does not give a teacher access to any [...]
While evaluating different interactive white board products I was also considering the iPad for different applications in the classroom. When I started working with the slate based products I liked the idea of being mobile in the classroom but struggled with having to look at the projected image while drawing on the slate. It was [...]
Over the last 2 years I have learned to type quickly and fairly accurately on the iPhone and ever more so on the iPad. Here is a link to the top 10 keyboard shortcuts available on iOS devices. Well worth a read if you type on an Apple mobile device.
http://www.labnol.org/software/keyboard-typing-shortcuts-for-iphone-ipad/13564/
Before deploying Air Video to our teachers we wanted to test and make sure it was capable of streaming to an entire class at one time. It was a great success. I could say a lot about it but the video below does a much better job. Air Video is a very capable streaming video [...]
I had the opportunity to go to school with my 4 year old yesterday and talk to her class about what I do at work. As I was trying to figure out what would keep 4 year olds attention for more than 1 minute I thought about the iPod Touch and the iPad.
I searched for [...]
Earlier this week I posted some of my thoughts about electronic textbooks and promised to share my thoughts on CourseSmart. I was pointed to CourseSmart by Monte Vista Christian School who has purchased 70 iPads for use in their AP courses.
I created a CourseSmart account and browsed through some of the over 10,000 books available. [...]
I have been using the app Instapaper ($4.99) on the iPad for a few days and have really enjoyed it. Simple concepts like this make the iPad a great device for learning. Instapaper is a free website with $5 app that allows you to download online content for later reading. In the [...]
One of the reasons for considering the iPad for a 1:1 program is the concept of electronic textbooks. Watching students carry 10 pound backpacks around all day, seeing textbooks fall apart and having students forget to bring books home all make the concept of an electronic textbook very appealing. The cost of hardbound textbooks and [...]