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Elena Ares

Bradley University adds iPads to its campus tours - Chicago Tribune - 0 views

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      The campus was dead and the tour guide shows off what normally goes on here during a busy time.
  • It is believed to be the first school to use the tablet technology in this way, though students are using iPads in class and some campuses are providing them free to freshmen. Bradley's admissions office is piloting their use, and have tested them on about 20 of 160 tours during the past 21/2 months.
  • The technology works like this: The Bradley tour guide has 10 videos on his iPad, and when he loads one during a tour, it triggers the video to play on the iPads carried by the prospective students. When videos aren't playing, a campus map is displayed on the screen
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  • Ferolo's academic research looks into how people use mobile devices in their everyday lives and how the technology affects their experiences. "If people are physically here, the video content becomes more relevant to them. I believe there is a higher engagement in that tour," he said.
  • Stacy Bernstein, 17, a high school senior who was visiting Bradley from St. Louis, said the videos provided insight that she didn't get by staring at limestone buildings.
  • Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
     
    Campus tour now comes with an iPad that helps future students around and gives them information 
Jamie D

MobileFrame: The leading provider of wireless mobile applications - 2 views

www.mobileframe.com/?source=adwords&gclid=CNSBu-y7_a4CFYub7QodmBsK2w

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    This page talks about certain apps.
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    true
Sloane Smith

Prediction: Commercial Applications Will Drive Education Use... Yet Again - 1 views

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    This website talks about technology is once again changing the way the school system functions. People are beginning to be able to get their school books online through mobile apps and then use additional apps to create documents. By being able to do this, students will be able to customize their curriculum to how they learn best.
Sloane Smith

Niftybytes About Us - 1 views

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    This website is a prime example of how people are beginning to customize every aspect of their life. This website was designed to allow people to customize mobile apps just for their business. So not only are people customizing their personal things, but their businesses too.
Sloane Smith

Soldiers, Customization & Music: New Apps Enter Apple's Top Grossing Apps List for iOS - 1 views

www.insidemobileapps.com/...loft-firemint-highest-grossing

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  • Sloane Smith on 26 Mar 12
     
    This article shows that society desire to be able to customize their devices could result in someone's fortune. Pimp your Screen was a recently published app that allows people to select their own skins, screens, and icon shelves for only 99 cents. The article also mentions other mobile apps that are predicted to be Apple's top grossing apps.
Vicki Davis

Out with the Old, In with the New - grownupdigital - 0 views

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    This video explains RFID tags and QR Codes very well and is from the NetGenEd project and will help someone envision the kind of video made for this topic.
Vicki Davis

QR Codes in the Classroom - 0 views

qik.com/mrrobbo

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    Mr. Robbo, the PE Geek, filmed this video on his cell phone about how he uses QR Codes in the classroom. He filmed it on his cellphone and uploaded it to qik -- he is in Australia!
Vicki Davis

QR codes at Bath - 0 views

blogs.bath.ac.uk/qrcode

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    This blog post shares the results of a QR Code hunt. As I learn more about hardlinking, this is a fascinating topic.
Vicki Davis

Learning the Skeleton with QR codes « Mr Robbo - The P.E Geek - 0 views

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    OH, Mr. Robbo - I am already just crazy about him! Here he talks about how he teaches the skelton with QR Codes.!
Vicki Davis

Twenty Uses for QR Codes and Tags for Marketing « Digital Business by Will Ha... - 0 views

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    This is information on QR codes for Marketing but in this there is potential for schools - particularly ubiquitous "hardlinks" between educational experiences like museums.
Vicki Davis

QR Codes Video about how can be used in education - 0 views

qik.com/1982598

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    QR Codes are an important new technology that use something called hardlinking.
Vicki Davis

QR Code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/QR_Code

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    Explanation from Wikipedia about QR codes and hardlinking.
Elena Ares

How to integrate a tablet computer into your life - The Next Web - 1 views

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  • The form factor that a tablet provides means that you can still watch a movie or video without it being too small, but a tablet is also much more mobile than carrying a laptop around with your everywhere. Tablets can access a wide variety of content as well. In Canada, th
  • e majority of major media companies have released iPad apps so you can watch their content right on your device.
  • it’s no longer necessary for you to print out the majority of documents.
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  • a tablet is an excellent way to find and read the news. Many major publications offer RSS feeds of their content that is exactly the same as it would appear in their print editions, or they at least link to their website so that you canAn RSS reader app can collect these feeds and present them to you on your iPad so that you don’t need to look at multiple different websites to find all the news you want to read.
  • having a tablet handy means you always have a great way to take down notes and you always have access to them, unlike that piece of scrap paper you probably just lost. Also when you write a note on a tablet, you can easily set them up to sync with your other devices so you can have them no matter what device is at your disposal.
  • it is much easier to pull out a tablet while using public transit if you want to lookup something quickly as opposed to whipping out your laptop.
  • Tablets get the best of both laptops and smartphones!
  • Apple seems to be on a mission to prove this with the release of iMovie and GarageBand for the iPad.
  • even easier to use than their “computer” counterparts
  • Tablets are still in their infancy as far as new technologies go.
  • I think tablets are here to stay, and whether you have an iPad or an Android tablet, there are plenty of benefits to owning one.
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    Justification of the purchase of a tablet
  • Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
     
    How to make yourself go tablet: how it can help and what it can do for you. 
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