"I'm on a continuing quest to discover more effective and efficient ways to share audio recordings online, and the Cinch app for iOS (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) continues to be one of my favorites"
"If you've recently gotten an iPad or a set of iPads in your school and you're not sure what to do with them, here are four things you can do right away:"
"The most popular post I've ever written is 13 Ways to use iMovie in the Classroom, having reached thousands of readers in the first day. I've been meaning to follow it up ever since, and now I finally have created a short video introduction to using iMovie on the iPad."
"If you've ever made a video in iMovie, a song in Garageband, a book in Book Creator, (or made anything really) on an iPad, than you know the pain of getting that product off of the iPad. That's why I've made this video (below) to teach you how to pull files off of the iPad, and how to put it back on to the iPad, i"
"A very techno-skilled young teacher, Lindsay, was in a session with me on Friday. I could tell pretty quickly that she is keen on learning and has a lot of iPad expertise. During a discussion on uses for Dragon Dictation (an app that converts voice to text), Lindsay shared the speak selection feature of iOS as a complimentary technology. Great! I had never thought of tying dragon dictation to the voice over feature of the iPad before to give you a fully integrated speech-to-text-to-speech again experience."
"When students start taking photos and video on a variety of iPads, iPods and iPhones for a collaborative project, it can be a little hairy trying to pull all of that media into one place. Last year while struggling to share photos through a variety of apps that just never seemed to work well enough, I discovered that I could use the camera connector kit to connect one iPad to another to share photos and even large video files"
"Recently I hosted 20 teachers in my school district at the zoo for an afternoon. The idea was to explore how we might use iPads during a field trip. It was certainly an exciting form of professional development."