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...