QUT Learning Design

One of the hardest thing with using the iPad in the classroom is finding the time to go through all of the apps in the iTunes Store listed under the education banner. We have started to list some of the apps we've found under each of the Key Learning Areas.

A tour of some of the great iOS apps available out there for educators (02 March 2012 by Clint Stephens on Prezi).

These guidelines have been designed as a developmental tool for individual staff, schools and faculties to consider how they can progressively increase student engagement in the online environment.

This blog follows CSU's investigation into mobile learning including iPad trials. Also see http://www.csu.edu.au/division/landt/resources/mobilelearning

A good summary of iPad apps categorised according to these learning objectives: 1. I want my students to record and edit video on the iPad. 2. I want my students to record and / or edit audio on the iPad. 3. I want my students to read class content on the iPad. 4. I want my students to annotate course readings on the iPad 5. I want my students to be able to use audio books on the iPad. 6. I want my students to use the iPad as a digitial notebook / note-taking device. 7. I want my students to use their iPads to create screencasts to share and demonstrate their understanding. 8. I want my students to create presentations on the iPad. 9. I want my students to create digital stories on the iPad. 10. I want my students to be able to study with the iPad. 11. I want to use the iPad as a student response system. 12. I want my students to create written content on the iPad. 13. I want my students to blog on the iPad. 14. I want my students to create ePubs / iBooks to read on the iPad.

A concise list of important tips.

Kieran Mathieson, an Associate Professor at Oakland University who has developed an online site at CoreDogs.com where he publishes lessons, tools, a textbook and more, commented and shared his work.

The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which the typical lecture and homework elements of a course are reversed.

Using gamification for language learning.

Online pinboard - some good ideas for using it here.