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Ken Fuller

What Apple Should Have Told the Times About App-Takedown Letter | Epicenter |... - 1 views

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    Is The New York Times behind "the times"? This article highlights an iPad app, PULSE (an RSS feed reader) that sparked controversy between Apple The Times. In a letter, The Times requested Apple to remove the app from the iPad app store...read more
Ken Fuller

Apple backtracks on restrictive in-app subscription rules | VentureBeat - 1 views

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    Apple is becoming more difficult to work with for app developers. An antitrust investigation resulted in Team Jobs to backtrack on proposed restrictions on pricing in the Apps and iTunes stores. Apple's increasingly closed off and proprietary products begs the question. How long will it take before App developers shift to making their products exclusively available on the Android platform?
William Russo

Apple's Mistake - 4 views

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    Apple and mistake in the same sentence...wow.
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    Wow is right. I read the article. Apple sets itself apart from the field by being innovative. The iPhone is as popular as ever, and yet they use a boiler plate approach to "controlling" the Apps store content.
Scott Nourse

Connecting Apple TV to a VGA Projector (and AirPlay from iPad) | Mark Pentleton - 0 views

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    Have you tried wireless streaming from your Mac to the Apple TV. I started watching Matrix Reloaded on my MBP(in iTunes) and decided to finish it the ATV2. I didn't try mirroring yet.
Ken Fuller

Measuring the iPad's Potential for Education -- THE Journal - 1 views

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    Teacher considers using Apples new iPad to replace her Macbook for classroom use.
Scott Nourse

Apple Education Challenged Based Learning webinar - 1 views

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    A webinar on a discussion of Challenged Based learning with a technological tools focus. The video is on the bottom.
Ken Fuller

Mactracker - 1 views

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    Need to know what Mac system you're working with? We are getting rid of them over time but believe me they are still around. How much memory can you install and what type? How do you reset the PRAM? When was the model discontinued? This is the app to help you with all of those questions and more.
Scott Nourse

More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems.
  • replace textbooks; allow students to correspond with teachers, file papers and homework assignments; and preserve a record of student work in digital portfolios.
  • extend the classroom beyond these four walls
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  • takes away students’ excuses for not doing their work.
  • e traditional scope of homework: go home, read, write,” he said, referring to its video and multimedia elements. “I’m expecting a higher rate of homework completion.”
  • spending money on tablet computers may seem like an extravagance.
  • invest in them before their educational value has been proved by research.
  • , is advancing its effort to go paperless and cut spending. Some of the tablets are being used for special education students.
  • “IPads are marvelous tools to engage kids, but then the novelty wears off, and you get into hard-core issues of teaching and learning.”
  • versatile tool with a multitude of applications, including thousands with educational uses.
  • laud the iPad’s physical attributes,
  • light weight
  • “There is very little evidence that kids learn more, faster or better by using these machines,”
  • simulate a piano keyboard on a screen or display constellations based on a viewer’s location
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    Pros and cons
Scott Nourse

Pearson Maximizes the Power of the iPad for Virginia Students - 3 views

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    Pearson partners with the Virginia Department of Education to provide Virginia students with the first-ever Social Studies digital curriculum made especially for the Apple iPad. Three lesson elements allow students to connect, experience, and understand Virginia's Standards of Learning, providing a complete instructional solution.
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    Hopefully this is just the start. Is this to Debs desk?
Scott Nourse

Instructional Coaching Conversations - Arkansas State Education Department - 0 views

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    On iTunesU--- some videos that show various instructional coaching conversations.... not the best quality but I found them informative.
Scott Nourse

How to get your Notes Webmail working in Firefox 4 domino lotus lotusnotes notes apple ... - 2 views

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    Use "buffalo.k12.ny.us" to get all of the Notes servers....
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    thank you Scott, i have been losing my mind over not being able to use my beloved firefox!!!
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    You're welcome. Hey, didn't Mr. Russo once offer some sort of reward for the first fix post for the Firefox/Lotus Notes issue?
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    I didn't hear anything about that but Mr. Russo has always been a straight shooter. I would go looking for a finder's fee if I were you.
Ken Fuller

The Great Mac OS X Freeware List | MacApper - 2 views

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    The best thing about free is...well it's free. I'm still a die-hard Mac fan so I had to post this. When I find one for PCs I'll post it. As one commentator pointed out, this list was compiled awhile ago.
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    Thanks for posting this list, Ken. I'm downloading some of the stuff to test-drive right now!
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