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March 30, 2010

: "The Griffin Technology Advantage" | Seton Hill University

1 Macbook and 1 iPad for all first year students at Seton Hill starting in the fall of 2010…

“Technology Provided to Every Student

Beginning in the fall of 2010, all first year undergraduate students at Seton Hill will receive a 13” MacBook laptop and an iPad. You will have complete access to these mobile technologies for classes as well as at all times for personal use. After two years, Seton Hill will replace your laptop with a new one - one that you can take with you when you graduate! With this technology at your fingertips, you can create a just-in-time learning environment, stay in touch with professors, advisors, and classmates, research any topic at any time, engage in hybrid and fully on-line courses, and access a whole host of Seton Hill technology services.”

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March 13, 2010

Comics by comiXology iPad concept on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Comic books will look amazing on the iPad.

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March 10, 2010

Video: “iPad Demo for Digital Ranch Productions”

This video officially makes the Kindle look ancient…

“Demo for the iPad that features a book called ‘Missions to the Moon’ by Rod Pyle and how it could look like as an app for the iPad.”

iPad Demo for Digital Ranch Productions from andreas kronenberg on Vimeo.

I hope that publishing companies watch this video. Especially Penguin.

11:11pm | URL: http://bytes.edumacnation.com/post/440440618/video-ipad-demo-for-digital-ranch-productions

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March 9, 2010

iPad iMagineering - Penguin Books - DK (via PenguinDigital)

The Great:

“The Human Body” (Sweet!)
“DK Travel Guides” (These look extremely useful for travelers.)
“Starfinder” (Winner: Best of Show…at least in this vid.)

The OK:

“Spot” (What is the deal with the finger/cursor paint brush?)

The Not Great:

“Baby Touch” (Painfully basic; I hope we see more depth than this.)

10:42pm | URL: http://bytes.edumacnation.com/post/438188653/ipad-imagineering-penguin-books-dk-via

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March 8, 2010

"I’ll go so far as to predict that by the time Monday April 5 rolls around, it’ll already be an established meme that non-iPad-optimized iPhone apps are to the iPad what Classic apps were to Mac OS X — something you’ll make do with “for now” but can’t wait to abandon for the real thing."

— John Gruber

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March 5, 2010

“How Penguin Will Reinvent Books With iPad”

via Paid Content

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"The essence of the new opportunities on iPad is that this class of device is a natural home not just for the viewers and small utilities we’ve seen on our phones, but also for creators and editors as we see on desktop platforms. Productivity applications, and sophisticated workflows. There are entire genres of applications which haven’t been truly feasible on an iPhone OS device until now; this is an opportunity to literally pioneer a high-profile touch-screen version of those applications."

— Matt Gemmell

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February 25, 2010

3 Reasons Schools Don't Need iPads - The Atlantic Business Channel

“First, I’d argue that for most subjects, media isn’t very important to learning. Take math, for example. What can multimedia really do that a chalk and blackboard can’t? I guess equations may be prettier on an iPad’s screen, but that’s about it. How about for English/literature? Now you can read a book on the iPad, but you don’t learn more by doing so. And even then, any old e-reader will do. With history, I guess you can view video clips or pictures on an iPad. But you could do the same with a film projector and an e-mail from the professor with the slides/clips attached for studying. Science may sort of blend all of the other three: there may be visuals and equations. But the iPad won’t help you execute the scientific method in the lab.”

Hmmm. Interesting. Another business/finance blogger making assumptions and claims about a product that still is not out. What do other educators think about this? Specifically —-> “media isn’t very important to learning.”

2:14pm | URL: http://bytes.edumacnation.com/post/411580456/3-reasons-schools-dont-need-ipads-the-atlantic

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February 24, 2010

My Kid’s an Honor Student at iPad University: Apple on the Rebound in Edu | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

“The soon-to-be-introduced iPad has the potential to change the buying dynamics in both the secondary and higher education markets,” Wolf writes. “At $500 before typical education discounts, the iPad is price competitive with all the PCs schools now purchase. And the device has the potential to go much further if, as it appears certain, education content is customized for the iPad to exploit its unique multimedia capabilities. It is not difficult to imagine classrooms where the iPad takes center stage, capturing a significant percentage of the school market in the process.”

Customization of educational content for the iPad is critical. It can’t just be videos embedded in between blocks of text though. Publishers need to view the iPad (and “new” tablet/slate compututers) as an avenue for new experiences for their users. The “experience” that people have had with current e-readers is not too far off from the printed versions of books that sit on shelves.

As much as I would like to see the iPad play an important role in the school market… I hope it does not take “center stage”. As educators our focus should be on the learner, not the tool they use to learn.

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U. releases Kindle pilot data - The Daily Princetonian

Despite the Kindle’s environmental friendliness, users said they often found its design ill-suited for class readings. Students and faculty participating in the program said it was difficult to highlight and annotate PDF files and to use the folder structure intended to organize documents, according to University surveys. The inability to quickly navigate between documents and view two or more documents at the same time also frustrated users.

The challenges that these students and professors had with the Kindle, in its current form, will hopefully change when the iPad comes out. In college I was lucky enough to have professors that accessed different types of literature/articles and made sure to provide access to these documents in PDF form. Most I never printed out. All of them I did highlight and annotate on my computer. I hope that the iPad will replicate this experience.

12:25pm | URL: http://bytes.edumacnation.com/post/409338590/u-releases-kindle-pilot-data-the-daily-princetonian

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February 18, 2010

1Password for iPad Announced: First Mockups

5:17pm | URL: http://bytes.edumacnation.com/post/397243109/1password-for-ipad-announced-first-mockups

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February 17, 2010

"When competing with iPad, you have to realise that, to your new core market, tablets are not computers. There’s no such thing (to your customer) as a “tablet computer”; the very name reduces the likelihood they’ll buy it. The potential of the tablet is that it’s not even seen as a computing device. This is an incredible opportunity to expand into a new market, if you’ll only commit to that mindset."

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How to compete with iPad » Matt Legend Gemmell

A lengthly write-up by Matt. Definitely an interesting read…

via Daring Fireball

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"Someone asked me the other day, “Why would you want to build an iPad app when you could just use your website?” And I think what touch gives you is such a different way of accessing information as a user. It’s physically direct. You’re much more focused — you can literally touch a fact and get more information about it. So I think therefore you do want to actually work on something new. You don’t want to just think it’s a big space which you’re gonna access the browser — you want to really think about touch, the way the user manipulates the information, the ways which you might be able to take a photograph, look at it more closely, enlarge it, put it away again, continue reading the story."

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What should news apps on the iPad look like? John-Henry Barac on space & touch in digital news design » Nieman Journalism Lab

The interaction the user has with the text and images in these new iPad apps will… and should… be different than current websites. The static experience should transform.

10:00am | URL: http://bytes.edumacnation.com/post/394769890/someone-asked-me-the-other-day-why-would-you

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February 16, 2010

"We in the technology world can navel-gaze all we want, but if we want to actually sell things, we’ve got to figure out what real people want. Guess what? They don’t want technology, per se. They just want easy solutions to hard problems."

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Can Silicon Valley write software for the ‘normal’? | The Open Road - CNET News

“Easy solutions to hard problems” sounds good to me…

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