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iPad Classroom Workflow Management App | Vision ME - 0 views

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    Tagged for awareness of this product for possible classroom interaction
sanamuah

Free Technology for Teachers: Preso.tv - Broadcast Your Slides to Everyone In the Room - 0 views

  • Preso.tv is a neat service for sharing slideshow presentations. Through Preso.tv you can broadcast your slides to the laptops and iPads of everyone in the room with you.
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    "Preso.tv is a neat service for sharing slideshow presentations. Through Preso.tv you can broadcast your slides to the laptops and iPads of everyone in the room with you. "
Yin Wah Kreher

How Handwriting Boosts the Brain - WSJ - 2 views

  • Studies suggest there's real value in learning and maintaining this ancient skill, even as we increasingly communicate electronically via keyboards big and small. Indeed, technology often gets blamed for handwriting's demise. But in an interesting twist, new software for touch-screen devices, such as the iPad, is starting to reinvigorate the practice.
  • In children who had practiced printing by hand, the neural activity was far more enhanced and "adult-like" than in those who had simply looked at letters.
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    "Studies suggest there's real value in learning and maintaining this ancient skill, even as we increasingly communicate electronically via keyboards big and small. Indeed, technology often gets blamed for handwriting's demise. But in an interesting twist, new software for touch-screen devices, such as the iPad, is starting to reinvigorate the practice." Tie in with ECAR findings writeup
Joyce Kincannon

18 Apps Every Creative And Artist Type Should Download Right Now - 2 views

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    "Mobile devices like iPads and Androids have transformed the way we experience boredom. No longer is a wayward commuter forced to play Snake or Tetris, occupying themselves in a hardly satisfying, and utterly pixelated virtual reality. The tablet or smart phone-wielding travelers can now immerse themselves in an entire library of art and culture-related distractions, finding solace in everything from a Vincent van Gogh game to a digital version of the Louvre."
sanamuah

Your personal networks visualized as microbiological cells in Biologic - 1 views

  • Data exists in digital form, on our computers and spreadsheets, but the exciting part about data is what it represents in the real world. Bits are people, places, and things. This is especially true with social data from places like Twitter and Facebook, where ideas flow and people talk to interact with each other in different ways. It's not just retweets and likes. Bloom Studio, the folks who brought you Planetary, embrace this idea in their just released iPad app, Biologic.
sanamuah

The Next Big Thing You Missed: New Apps Instantly Convert Spreadsheets Into Something A... - 1 views

  • The idea is that, when someone emails a spreadsheet to your iPad, the app will open it up—but not as a series of rows and columns. It will open the thing as chart or graph, and with a swipe of the finger, you can reformat the data into a new chart or graph. The hope is that this will make is easier for anyone to read a digital spreadsheet—an age-old computer creation that’s still looks like Greek to so many people.
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