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Jeremy Brueck

Playing by the Book: What eBooks Do Best » Kidscreen - 66 views

  • what are the things that interactive eBooks do especially well?
  • Simultaneously highlighting text with recorded audio, creating thoughtful tap-on support for both words in the text and elements in illustrations, and providing options to support different reading abilities are all wonderful ways to foster emergent reading skills.
  • One of the most intriguing opportunities in eBooks is the ability to show different characters’ points of view
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  • When you think about it, this is something that’s incredibly hard to do in any other format.
  • Making the reader an active part of the story experience is where story and game can really combine in interesting ways
  • hearing your name spoken by the pigeon in Don’t Let the Pigeon Run This App give the user an agency and a presence in the story that’s engaging in a totally different way than reading a book aloud or watching a movie on a movie screen.
  • Interacting with the story in an active way, a way that is immediate, visible, and makes an impact is exactly the sort of agency that is unique to an interactive experience.
Martin Burrett

Sound Around You - 104 views

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    This is a wonderful site from the University of Salford in the UK. Listen to soundscapes which have been recorded all over the world. Navigate on the map to find a place of interest, listen to the recording and read the information about the location. Upload your own soundscapes using the site or download the iPhone and iPad app at https://itunes.apple.com/app/i-say/id516927213. It's a useful geography resource and should get your students thinking about the sounds around them. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts
Mark Gleeson

New year, new challenges and successes with Apple Configurator - 1 views

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    A new year begins and the order for more iPads arrives on our doorstep. All the preparation last year setting up profiles, selecting and purchasing apps, backing up optimal setups to use as base models to set up batches of iPads are now to be put to the test. 65 iPads and 14 USB ports - how will it pan out?
teacherlinda

Web Tools :: Professional Development Promising Technologies - NorQuest College - 43 views

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      For students who use diigo,the app seems  just as easy
  • Quizlet is an online
  • Prezi is a
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    • teacherlinda
       
      I don't use Prezi but I assume that if you are going to use an pad for a presentation, then the Prezi app would be APPropriate
  • Skype, an synchronous communication tool, is the ideal spoken
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      There is a Skype wi fi app which could bE useful, although for Apple to Apple, The built in app FaceTime is best
  • Vimeo is a video
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Elizabeth Resnick

iOS 7 Leaves Older iPhones And iPads Out Of The Fun | TechCrunch - 82 views

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    Includes chart with iOS 7 compatibility with current apple devices
Martin Burrett

Video: Edu Tweeps & Blog Nominations For The 2016 UKEdChat List - 7 views

Jeff Andersen

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | TED Talk | TED.com - 49 views

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    Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership - starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers ...
Martin Burrett

Color Pop Effects - 25 views

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    A great iOS and Android app for editing photos and images to show only selected objects in colour on an otherwise monochrome image. Start with a completely greyscale image and add the colours back by moving your finger over the areas you want.
Martin Burrett

Draw and Tell - 10 views

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    Create videos of drawings & animations with narration on iOS devices. Record audio as pupils move elements of the picture on the screen and then share the videos.
Martin Burrett

The Great Brain Experiment - 76 views

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    This is a fun Android and Apple app from University College London were players complete a range of games to exercise the brain cells and provide researchers with real, but anonymous data to use in their study. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Roland Gesthuizen

Apple and the Education-Information Chasm - Forbes - 1 views

  • The price of information plummets. Yet the price of education soars. These two trends cannot both continue. Guess which will crack first.
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    Apple's digital textbook venture, launched yesterday in New York, is just the latest attempt to bridge a yawning gulf between technology and learning. It's still the beginning. The gulf is so large, it will take decades and thousands of experiments to cross. But we've begun, and things will move fast.
Martin Burrett

SomNote - 64 views

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    A useful sticky notes site that syncs with a well designed Android and Apple devices app. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Marc Patton

goodreader.com :: products :: GoodReader - 1 views

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    GoodReader® is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Its iPad version was the #1 selling non-Apple app for iPad in 2010 in USA!
Marc Patton

Apple - Education - Resources - Information Technology - 1 views

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    View documentation, video tutorials, and web pages to help IT professionals develop and deploy education solutions.
Steven Engravalle

5 Must-Have iOS Apps For Writers | Edudemic - 91 views

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    Check out these top 5 Apple applications for essay writing to make getting organizing and presenting your thoughts in a coherent manner a much easier process.
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    These apps strike me as aids to plagiarism, not to writing. I wouldn't recommend them.
Bob Rowan

3 Major Problems With Apple's Education Announcement | The Edublogger - 122 views

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    one perspective of some of the concerns around Apple's January 2012 announcement regarding textbooksbuilt for the iPad
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