So what's next? What are students going to do with their new facts? How do they apply them in 5th grade? I think part of this is knowing that they won't use their facts for anything other than a test. We must provide an immediate context for math facts.
"Now, SRS has release MyTunes for the iPhone, a software solution to do their magic all within your iOS device. While the software is not yet universal, and a iPad version is promised, this initial iPhone release runs just fine on the iPad."
"Preparing for a guest blog for Computer Explorers on the topic of "How Can iPads Support Literacy?", I spent some time looking for a few of my favorite titles of the "I Like…" series in the app store to determine which ones were currently free. And do you know what I found? Not one… but 37 Books in 1 for… free."
"The standard application that comes with your iPad is not too bad at organising your photos, visitors and doesn't do much more than that. And this is why you may be interested in finding something that will give you a way to sort photos by a"
The report also reveals a shift in thinking by parents and educators who are now beginning to accept the role of mobile devices as instructional tools, in part because they are active users of mobile devices in their own personal lives. In some cases, educators have embraced mobile devices as a catalyst for making learning a more student directed experience. At Jamestown Elementary School in Virginia, for example, students use mobile devices to
Has mobile web compatibility for calendar, to do's, and lists.Has mobile web compatibility for calendar, to do's, and lists. Syncs with Outlook. Nice interface. (some advertising)
"Capturing information quickly and efficiently in a classroom is an important skill. So much of what we do in the classroom needs to be documented either by you, the teacher or by the students. Apps that make this process quick and easy are therefore vital. Here are a quick list that might work in your classroom - some are quite expensive but they do offer a vastly different product depending on who will be the primary user.
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I have heard reports that consumer-grade hubs are not up to this kind of load
long-term so we will see how that goes
I'm not happy with the way we're doing Secondary syncing and I'm starting to
think that adopting the Primary sync model (every device on one library) would
be of more benefit
When, I want to deploy a new app, I buy it on my master Mac mini. Each library
is configured to pull new purchases from the mini using iTunes Home Sharing.
This works but is imperfect, as Home Sharing only pulls new purchases and not
updates
While I think the iPod Touch could be an excellent learning tool (my iPhone certainly is), I’m also the resident curmudgeon about such things so naturally I have a few concerns about this initiative.
it’s clear that many people around here are looking at the iPod Touch the same way they do our current laptops.
Almost exclusively we use computers as group technologies. We have a bunch of them in a lab and then bring in a bunch of kids to use them for some teacher-designed activity.
However, the iPod Touch, and other pocket computing devices, are intended for personal use.
They are designed to be customized, personalizing the user’s experience so, instead of everyone seeing the same desktop, we all see ourselves in the device.
We just need to find people who are already using these devices in our schools (our IT department sees several thousand a day on the network) and invite them to tell us how they use their iPod Touch.
And the few instructional examples noted in the article are pretty much the same as some of the very superficial whiteboard lessons I’ve observed.
handyPrint (AirPrint Activator)
handyPrint™ v3.1 is a Mac OSX application that allow you to print from your iPods, iPads and iPhones on legacy printers that do not support the AirPrint protocol. handyPrint™ is the new name for our application that used to be called “AirPrint Activator”. We have decided to rename the application to avoid using the Apple trademark ‘AirPrint™’. With the 3.1.1 release, we simply renamed the application handyPrint™.
"Using rubrics and providing student's feedback via the iPad has not been an area that has received a great deal of attention. This is, however, starting to change. I have recently spoken to a number of teachers who have developed apps that will allows teachers to use the iPad as a viable way of assessing student work. Some of these apps actually do more than just mark work. Check out the list and see if any would work for you and your students."
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