"Gone are the days of noisy projectors and professors writing with colored markers on white boards at Briar Cliff University.
Touch screens, apps and digital receivers are replacing these outdated teaching tools, as the college seeks to create dynamic classroom interaction between students and faculty by pairing the Apple iPad3 with Apple TV.
Briar Cliff began providing incoming freshmen with Apple iPad tablets in 2011. This school year, the Apple TV, a little black digital media receiver, will make its first appearance on campus in classrooms and dorm lounges.
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GoodReader® is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad - the #1 selling non-Apple app for iPad in USA in 2010! Mashable describes it as "a Swiss Army knife of awesome!" Reviews worldwide hail it as "essential," "the best," "magnificent" and "the killer app". With GoodReader on your iPad, you can read virtually anything
Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.
Transcript of Steve Jobs' address:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
Stanford University channel on YouTube:
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"After using thatquiz.org yesterday to "pre-test" my students for an upcoming unit on rational numbers, I knew some basic number theory concepts were lacking. So today, I took my first venture with Socrative, a free app that simulates using "clickers" in the classroom. I searched through countless Word files for a worksheet I created at least a decade ago that presented students with True or False questions like:"
"With Evernote Hello it's easy to remember everything about everyone you meet.
Whether you're meeting someone for the first time, trying to remember important details about a person you've met before, or recalling important information about a previ"
Numberlys presents a fanciful depiction of the origins of the alphabet and is the newest interactive epic from Moonbot Studios, the creators of The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. Numberlys is a story App celebration of the early fantasy epics King Kong, Metropolis and Flash Gordon with a dollop of the Marx Brothers, a splash of the Fleischer Studios technicolor Superman and a little bit of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Ever wondered what treasures lie hidden within The Field Museum's vaults? Curious about the creatures that lurk within its halls? Unlock the Museum's secrets via a new, downloadable iPhone and iPad app that contains collectible cards featuring unbelievable artifacts, animals, fossils, plants and more from the institution's vast collections.