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Adobe, makers of Photoshop and other creative software, comment on the SAMR model.

Curation and collecting tools for eportfolio. especially helpful if you are using mobile tools to create eportfolios.

Frank Shared this amazing article that will inform our work in this class in future weeks.

Divided as researchers sort out whether readers of tablets or textbooks perform better. As well as hidden costs of mobile devices.

I tried sharing comments using Evernote as an experiment. I don't think it worked, so here is what I had posted there: The Future of Education: Tablets vs. Textbooks BY MARGARET ROCK "Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt tested an interactive, digital version of an Algebra 1 textbook for Apple's iPad in California's Riverside Unified School District. Students who used the iPad version scored 20 percent higher on standardized tests versus students who learned with traditional textbooks." * This is interesting. It's noted later in the article that students who read a more traditional textbook in digital format, without the benefit of the bells and whistles of a book designed to play on the strengths of digital media, did no better than those reading paper books. My thinking on this is that the books that moved beyond just the traditional text and images were more intriguing because they allowed students to interact in more diverse ways with the information. One of the reasons I enjoy reading on my Nook is that it more closely resembles the experience of reading on paper. The advantage over paper is that I can annotate and highlight without damaging the book, plus I like the dictionary feature. Reading a book on a computer is not as rewarding as reading on a good quality reader. The Houghton Mifflin Harcourt folks add much more to the experience through videos, audio links, animations, and links to ancillary information while maintaining the options I mentioned in my Nook experience. It's more engaging because there's more to do and more of the senses are being addressed. "A small but growing number of researchers are uncovering evidence that readers are better able to remember what they read in printed books long-term when compared to materials read via an electronic screen, raising questions about tablets in the classroom." "For example, Kate Garland, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Leicester in England, conducted a study on the effects of e-books

The Future of Education: Tablets vs. Textbooks

bog pondering living with an iPad and only an iPad

Just found this blog on living with an iPad alone. We recently bought one for my Mom (74) and she has decided to try traveling with only her iPad to Florida this summer. Some schools are buying iPad's instead of computers. Wondering if this blog has insightful advice. will peruse. Thought I would share.

I found this to be much more detailed and helpful than the Overview in the Writing Classroom that was included in our week's assignment.

We will be comparing IPad annotation systems. This article did an excellent job helping you to understand the potential choices.

In Week 3 we will be reading and annotating on the iPad.

This article was of interest because most predictions are conjecture - the mobile market is growing no doubt, but how and what consumers are going to do with these devices is of real interest. As the mobile market grows, the personal computer market is shrinking

Watch the videos on Mobile and Tablets from the Horizon Report 2012 and 2011

iBooks Tutorial

Here is a video tutorial for those who need an orientation to iBooks.

6 Ways Students Can Collaborate With iPads

14 excellent pdf annotating apps for ipad

New Media Consortium report

A great tutorial for Google and Mobile Tools

For those using Google and Mobile Tools, check out this article

In what can be considered a major dig at Microsoft ( MSFT), Clay Bavor, product management director at Google ( GOOG) Apps told V3 that the company is not bringing native Gmail or Google Drive apps to Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.

"There are three competing visions of educational computing." reports Gary Stager in this sharp analysis. The actor is the system, the teacher or the student. Guess which vision he advocates.