January 2012
5 posts
iBooks Author EUA: Much Ado about Nothing.
holtthink:
After Apple introduced their revolutionary game changing iBooks Author program the other day, the blogosphere went into a collective gran-mal seizure about how restrictive the licensing agreement was. Fun to watch. Of course, the same over reaction happened when iTunes came out ten years ago. Wailing and gnashing of teeth. The...
[iBooks] Tools for Creating Interactive Books
Gotta say that I agree with Dave on this…
Tools for creating interactive books for Apple’s iBooks | 52 Tiger
“The “book as toy” phenomenon migrated to the iPad with digital children’s books. I’ve purchased a few for my own children (ages 8 and 6) and found the experience disappointing. Instead of listening to the story, my kids only want to “see what it does,” randomly tapping,...
iPads in Higher Ed.
What I’ve Learned From Teaching with iPads | The Chronicle of Higher Education
“My students said they saw little or no return on investing large amounts of time to personalize the iPad’s settings, organize the many apps, transfer their address books or even learn new apps that might make the iPad more functional. Why become attached to something they had to give back? “
...
Buying and Selling Apps
Free vs. Paid apps in the Android Market: This is a problem…
On Buying And Selling Apps | Smarterware
“Android users don’t already have their credit card information entered into Google Checkout (or is it Wallet), so the difference between downloading a free app versus buying an app is the inconvenience of setting that all up. Since apps are often impulse buys, and typing...
CES
512 Pixels
“None of these products will change the world. None of them will create blocks-long lines at their launch. It is hard to get people excited for cheap, shoddy devices that more and more look like knock-offs of Cupertino’s work.”
November 2011
1 post
Watch60 Minutes special on Apps and Autism
October 2011
4 posts
Test Post
This is a test post using the app Elements on my iPhone. I wanted to see how well it can post to Tumblr using Markdown.
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve...”
– Steve Jobs
June 2011
6 posts
3 tags
New App Widget
2 tags
New Pearson Foundation Survey: Students Who Own... →
“Students who own tablet devices are far more likely to favor digital formats for their textbooks than non-tablet owners, and the overwhelming majority of student tablet owners believe the devices are valuable for educational purposes, according to a new survey from the Pearson Foundation.”
From the Department of Obviousness
May 2011
1 post
WatchiMotion HD - Time-lapse and Stop-motion app for iPhone / iPad (by Fingerlab)
I tested this out on both the iPad and the iPhone and it works wonderfully. Now I just need to get my hands on some nice iPad/iPhone mounts.
March 2011
2 posts
“This isn’t really about the iPad as much as it is making computing easier. Those...”
– Dean Shareski
February 2011
2 posts
December 2010
9 posts
Is HTML5 a Flash in the pan? | asymco →
“When the market is failing to deliver a solution, I question the need for the solution in the first place. It’s also worth while to follow the money: Adobe makes money only on the tools for Flash, not on distribution of content. For anyone to disturb Adobe’s franchise, it’s tools that need to be put forward as alternatives. Tools are not easy to build. Are the incentives simply not...
: "Need better text hygiene? Try CleanHaven." |... →
“Given my persistent need for clean text, I was pretty excited to find CleanHaven recently via Mac AppStorm. CleanHaven offers all kinds of options for cleaning, sorting, and manipulating text. Remarkably, it costs nothing.”
: "5 Classic Children's Tales Reinvented for the... →
“Yet creating apps for children — whether that’s musical games, learning exercises for children with autism or full-featured e-books — is no easy feat. Fixing children’s attention on an app requires a high degree of ingenuity, interactivity and, most importantly, variety.”
: "How We Might Use Our iPod Touches" | Kevin's... →
“I like the ideas of:
Collaborative flashcards
Collaborative stories
Google surveys
Type Drawing for visual stories (new one to me)
Martian App allows you to create an alien (and then your partner has to draw a replica based on descriptive language)
Story Kit for writing and publishing a book
Using iPadio for interviews and sharing at our blog (hmmm — I will need a little iPod...
: The iPad—Breaking New Ground in Special... →
“‘There are so many different features developers can put into these applications,’ says Eric Sailers, a speech-language pathologist at La Mesa Spring Valley (Calif.) School District. ‘It’s creating a multisensory product for children with autism and special needs. Kids who used to have difficulty using a mouse on a computer can use their fingers to touch and drag things and get immersed in...
: 16 Educational Apps for iPad that offer Video... →
Excellent curated list of video-out apps.
Teaching with Comic Life 2 (eBook) - DigMo! →
“The following guide is a little unit devised for KS3 pupils but can easily be adjusted for younger learners. The focus is digital storytelling and the guide offers a rough educational idea and a quick guide from concept to creation.”
We Need a Children’s Apps Rating System - GeekDad →
“Increasingly, I am deciding that we need a better way to determine the quality of applications for children. We need to develop industry standard rating systems, or systems aligned to Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence concept or other educational model – a system to help us work out what apps support what aspect of a child’s development. I know we have the crowd rating systems like iTunes...
iOS 4.2 features « Speech-Language Pathology... →
“Restricting access to deleting apps
Open the Settings app on the home screen.
Tap General, then Restrictions
Enable Restrictions by entering a passcode
Turn Deleting Apps OFF.
Click the home button, then tap and hold on a 3rd party app (e.g., BrainPOP) until your apps pulse. You can now move the apps, but not delete them.
To update the iOS, sync your device to iTunes and...
October 2010
1 post
““That is, if you write something and distribute it for free under the...”
– Opinion: Google Android is only ‘open’ if you’re the phone company - CNN.com
July 2010
5 posts
: "Apple's iPad goes to college" | CNN.com →
“If I were to predict, I would say that the results are going to be dramatically different and much better,” Martin D. Ringle, chief technology officer at Reed College, told The Chronicle of Higher Education, “and they’re going to point the way to what role this technology is going to play in higher education.”
:"Potomac School students take photos of Earth's... →
“The group headed to Delaware, driving toward the cooler’s location on InstaMapper. They drove on rural roads, closing in on the cellphone’s GPS signal, until they finally spotted the bright orange parachute in the middle of a strawberry field. A few anxious moments later, they turned on the camera and looked through the pictures.
Mission accomplished.”
: "5 Useful Mac Utilities" | theAppleblog →
My personal favorite from this list is Notational Velocity.
June 2010
10 posts
HTC Droid Incredible signal strength issue →
Signal strength issues when holding the Droid Incredible at the bottom.
“Look… I don’t mean to belittle concerns about this issue. But in the...”
– Faster Forward - Technology News, Observations and Occasional Rants by The Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro
: "Will the iPad and Similar Technology... →
” Someday, teachers might just create apps for their students instead of handing out papers, or posting assignments on the Internet. I also wonder if this technology will allow access for students across the world that do not have access to schools or teachers.”
Native apps? No way. Web apps? Quite possibly…
How is Apple Revolutionizing Education?
Via Research by Online Degrees.org
: "Can apps make kids smarter?" | iPad Atlas -... →
“A separate study conducted by Nielsen has shown that smartphone usage is 12 percent higher in households with children than other households—which is possibility attributed to use by children. Maybe it’s time that parents come to terms with the reality that our phones and iPads moonlight as entertainment for our kids, and try to make the most of it. With the right apps and...
May 2010
3 posts
: "QuickCursor Automatically Uses Your Favorite... →
“QuickCursor sits in your menu bar and waits for you to activate it by clicking on its icon, which produces a drop down menu displaying a list of compatible text editors. By clicking on one of them, QuickCursor will automatically paste the currently active text in your frontmost window into that editor. When you finish writing and you leave that editor, your edited text will automatically...
:"Take a planetary tour with Solar Walk": The... →
Love this app on the iPhone and iPad…
Watch“iPod Touch Comes to the Grade 1 Classroom”
(via ianw91)
April 2010
12 posts
: "The iPad and Education - It's Not The Size of... →
“Gray says putting iPads in classrooms is a good idea, as long as they are properly utilized. He says educators used to be anxious to get their students in front of a computer, but once they were there, they didn’t always know what to do with them. Now that computers are more ubiquitous, “we can have more intelligent discussions about how they should be used,” he says. Gray says he hopes...