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A thoughtful essay on change in education and how to adapt to it.

"Technology in the classroom no longer means simply having a computer available for students to use or presenting material through a PowerPoint presentation. Educational tech means utilizing aspects of the digital classroom within the traditional classroom-students use cloud technology to submit and review assignments, teachers facilitate class discussions through online platforms, and students collaborate through online media. These are new and revolutionary elements of learning and education that play an important role in our students' academic experience."

A very handy app for adding titles/captions directly on a photo, either plain text or in color, rotated, fancy font, etc. Thi is iPhone and iPad, but check out what might be available for other smart mobile devices. Use for vocabulary self-quizzes shared on social media or among classmates, and for project-based learning.

Includes a great chart showing how various social media are used and how they integrate with each other for various specific purposes.

A teacher "would start by creating an account and choosing the screen name [e.g.] 'smith'. Professor Smith would then tell her students to go to understoodit.com/smith on their laptop, tablet or smartphone. When students are confused they would click the 'confused' button, and when they understand they'd click 'understood', and in real-time Professor Smith can see the percentage of students that understand." Real-time polling and graphs. Can also contain embedded presentations. Useful for the fully technologized classroom.

Despite the explanatory text, this app is indeed ready to download for iPad. This is a nice use of technology to explain other technologies. You go through a browser screen to a Website, then draw on the iPad screen to demonstrate functionality while the app records what you do. What a cool app.

"We learn most effectively when motivated. This is a list of games your kids will have fun playing ... while also learning important skills and lessons as a by-product!" Spotted this, via Sam Gliksman's blog. Several are social games also. I'm eager to try The Oregon Trail. Now, if only they made a Hypercard app.

This transfer software will help you get your older Mac (up to 10.6) in touch with your iPhone, iPod, and/or iPad. Download the app to your desktop computer, install, and plug in your mobile device.

Among these errors are focusing on content apps instead of tools like Voicethread; lack of teacher guidance/management in using devices for learning; treating iPad as if it were a laptop instead of using its apps to enhance computer-assisted learning; teaching iPads as a multi-user device shared on carts across classrooms (remember the computers in closets?); and failing to communicate with parents and teachers about why iPads might be good for class.

"Complete coverage for major TV network affiliates in all 210 US DMAs, national cable news, as well as the most international coverage available anywhere." Called by one user, "a virtual DVR for every channel, every city, at every hour of the day." Also for mobile platforms. Free trial.

Another great talk from Learning2gether Sunday gatherings. Carla talks about the importance of archiving or curation to the teacher and introduces many wonderful tools for gathering and archiving websites. Mobile applications included. You may also find the recording of the live chat at http://tinyurl.com/2012oct07/carlaarena.

Although this is just a lead-in to the Edudemic Magazine iPad app (free to subscribers), this blog article has the short list in its graphic. Take a look for some ideas on how to use the iPad to "consume, collaborate, and produce."

This list of Webinar's appears to be free, but you must sign in with your email, telephone, organization, etc. Most Webinar's run about an hour. Numerous topics - designing mobile learning, using powerpoint, media editing tools, etc.

Winksite ID 17798 -- worldwide message to phone from the Internet. Steve McCarty's first attempt to create an Internet-mobile learning site.

"I attended a webinar two week's ago featuring Stacey Harris of Brandon Hall Group and Mark Hellinger of Xyleme. The topic of conversation was this idea of going mobile with your learning; a hot topic in the learning space no doubt. They touched on the concept that learning expectations have shifted with all of the new technology, which has caused change among those who are initially developing the content. Furthermore, while social media monitoring and exploring, I am seeing an increase in not only speculation of that point, but a firm belief from others in the industry that there IS a shift happening in todays learning market. People haven't exactly been able to call it by name, but its being felt. People are feeling a shift from the current learning demands of just getting the information out there, to infinite accessibility and readability. " = Dawn Poulos An interesting article on how e-learning is responding to the push-pull of mobile accessibility.

A way to let your students use their smart phones to practice vocabulary when and where they want to.

A good series of short articles describing apps for Apple: iBooks Author to allow teachers and students to create their own electronic books, epublishing for students, critical thinking at discoveryeducation.com, and apps for ELLs and Special Ed students, etc.

Some excellent tips for getting started with Twitter and using it effectively.

"We currently teach multiple courses for a total of 12 or 13 different lab classes. Each class has 50-60 students and can have up to two or three graded assignments in a given day. Paper grading takes too long and transferring thousands of grades to our computerized grade forms has huge potential for human error. Grading with a spreadsheet, even on a tablet, becomes too slow with so many rows and columns. So we made Green Gradebook to solve our problems. "Our plan was to create a gradebook app that allowed for large or small student and class numbers while minimizing the time it takes to enter a grade for one assignment. Ideally this would speed things up for us as we walked around the room grading!" Mobile access for grading has some real advantages.

"Students mainly used the class Twitter list to remind each other of due dates, seek help and feedback, and vent their frustrations. From an instructor's perspective, Twitter offers the ability to prompt students throughout the learning process by asking them to reflect on learning strategies and time management, which ultimately raises metacognitive awareness. " An interesting study on how students use Twitter, and what might be ideal from an instructor's perspective.