Features
- Create unlimited stories and blogs from anywhere
- Easily upload photos, video and audio
- Post comments and likes
- Keep connected with Buzz notifications
- See the best work from 1000's of schools
Portable lecture capture
Record lectures in any classroom cost effectively. Any instructor can set up Swivl quickly without an AV tech, record every move and word.
Flipped classroom content
Are you flipping your classroom? Use Swivl to record classroom content for student consumption in a natural setting - your classroom!
Teacher assessments
Swivl's features allow student teachers to record their classroom performance and interactions for review by instructors cost-effectively.
Student presentations
Record student presentations to share with parents, and as a method for providing students with feedback.
Podcasts app is the easiest way to discover, subscribe to and play your favorite podcasts on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Explore hundreds of thousands of free audio and video podcasts from the Podcasts Catalog, and play the most popular podcasts, organized for you by topic, with the all-new Top Stations feature.
Mac OS X Lion includes an Auttomator action, named Text to EPUB File, that is designed to make it very easy to convert selected text or text documents into EPUB books, ideal for transferring to iPads and iPhones. Additionally, the created EPUB books can include images, MPEG audio, or MPEG video files.
eBooks are documents of a particular format, such as the open standards EPUB and Mobipocket (.mobi)
eBooks can be further distinguished from “enhanced eBooks,” which use formats such as ePUB3 for iBooks (Apple) and Kindle Format 8 (KF8) for Kindle Fire (Amazon)
Enhanced eBooks (ePUB3) are a new digital publication standard that allows easy integration of video, audio, and interactivity.
Interactive eBooks is a category for apps designed specifically to utilize the powers of tablets to enable users to interact with the storyline in sight, sound, and touch.
On a touch device, interactivity is the ability to engage with the user interface, including the ways you move your fingers on the screen, the way you to select an app, or how you browse the Web.
If a book app does not use interactivity in order to enhance the reading experience, it does not belong in the interactive eBook category.
I think this is an important clarification. From an educators standpoint, we want interactivity to enhance comprehension and help students understand what the story is about.
Although these activities through the 52 pages of the book are fun, I think they distract from the actual story.
It is possible for interactivity to go beyond the superficial, to add value to the book and create an experience that would be impossible in print.
they are about adding value through interactivity by using the full capabilities of a touch device to engage the user and enhance the learning and reading experience. These engaging experiences are what I call a true reinvention of reading.
iPad Learning Objectives
I want my students to record and edit video on the iPad.
I want my students to record and / or edit audio on the iPad.
I want my students to read class content on the iPad.
I want my students to annotate course readings on the iPad
I want my students to be able to use audio books on the iPad.
I want my students to use the iPad as a digitial notebook / note-taking device.
I want my students to use their iPads to create screencasts to share and demonstrate their understanding.
I want my students to create presentations on the iPad.
I want my students to create digital stories on the iPad.
I want my students to be able to study with the iPad.
I want to use the iPad as a student response system.
I want my students to create written content on the iPad.
I want my students to blog on the iPad.
I want my students to create ePubs / iBooks to read on the iPad.