ASUS Padfone

Brad is in love!

http://www.asus.com/Mobile/PadFone/#overview

 

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If This, Then That

If This Then That is a web-based service that automates all kinds of notifications, from texting you know if it's going to rain, to emailing you when that jacket you've wanted has come on sale. It uses services like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and RSS feeds, and can do all kinds of cool stuff. Because it's web-based, it's not limited to a particular os or hardware. Check it out.

IFTTT / About IFTTT

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"Old" teachers, new technology

Interesting blog post that suggest that research doesn't support the notion that more experienced teachers are inherently technology-resistant.

http://preilly.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/fact-or-fiction-are-older-teachers-slow-to-adopt-technology/

Education Services Australia - ICT in Everyday Learning

Education Services Australia has developed a web based resource for the use of ICT n education, linked to the Australian Curriculum. The site provides ready-made units and recommendations on which ICT tools to use. It also has a listing of a range of tools and their potential uses, linked with specific subjects that they may be useful for. Maybe we don't need to design a website?

100 iPad apps for education

http://www.fluency21.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=2402

iPad as

Some of the learning activities that can be undertaken with an iPad in combination with selected apps.
http://edtechteacher.org/index.php/teaching-technology/mobile-technology-apps/ipad-as

Difficulty of finding info on BYOT

http://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/2012/6/26/byot-the-policy-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html

Feedback from a school that deployed iPads

Interesting article from a school in the US.

What I Wish I’d Done Before Deploying iPads to 735 Middle Schoolers, Part 2
http://tericeschneider.com/?p=33

I have created a file of thoughts and ideas towards using technology at DC. I will post when back at school. Greg Mac

Sling note

Sling Note - An App for Web-based Note Taking

This would be a great benefit to kids with their online research. Now they would be able to 'remember' where they found their resources!

Middle Years iPad apps

From Florida USA. A list of apps they use in their middle school.
http://www.palmbeachschooltalk.com/groups/ipadpilot/wiki/ad829/Middle_School_iPad_Apps.html

HOW many apps???

Just FYI, there are now slightly in excess of 675,000 apps in the Apple App Store. One perverse mathematician at Slide2Learn calculated that if you laid the icons on the ground in the size they appear on an iPad screen, (about 1.4 cm wide), they would stretch for 9.5km. Also he estimated if you put together the icons of all the apps downloaded so far (2 billion or so) they would stretch to the moon.

Of these apps, 50,000 are in the Educational category. Many others have educational uses (like the two from my previous posts) but are not categorized as Educational.

Measuring angles with a mobile device

Both iOS and Android have apps for measuring angles. Android has one called Max Protractor that can be used by putting the device against the object, or by looking at it through a camera.

Max Protractor
 The iOS app, ImageAngle, measures through the camera and is super easy to use.

Image Angle

Using an iPad for Art

Got shown a fantastic app for 2D Art. Students can create works that look like oil paintings without the mess. Also gives students an opportunity to experiment in different media without being worried about mistakes, waste etc.


http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/art-set/id469918702?mt=8

Slide2Learn ning

In addition to the ipadeducators ning that Casey posted, this one is worth a look:

http://slidetolearn.ning.com/

Ipads: some articles and ideas

Great breakdown of how aps can be used in classroom under headings of what teacher wants students to do: annotate notes, reading, create presentation etc. http://edtechteacher.org/index.php/teaching-technology/mobile-technology-apps/ipad-as
This could be useful as an example of what technology could do, to inform before asking what others may want technology to do

How one school used 1:1 ipad program http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrVIRTfNO_A&list=PL9D19A2F2D3799093&index=19&feature=plpp_video

A preference for laptops over ipads http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/still-sold-on-laptops-over-ipads/

Importance of technology suiting lesson/outcome and not making lesson suit technology http://mgleeson.edublogs.org/2012/02/11/ipads-cant-improve-learning-without-good-teaching-pt-1-note-taking/.

This website has heaps of great links: blogs, videos etc http://ipadeducators.ning.com/

A day in the life of an ipad teach http://syded.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-ipad-teacher/

Evaluating edapps (from Tony Vincent)

Tony Vincent (learninginhand.com) gave us this rubric for evaluating ed apps - http://learninginhand.com/storage/blog/Vincent-App-Rubric.pdf
Maybe we could develop a similar rubric based on the feedback we get?

At Slide2Learn 2012

Lots of iOS apps and ideas. Edmodo looks interesting because it crosses a lot of platforms, and works more fluently then SIMON.


Went to one session where apps enable students to put voice recordings to videos or slides to create how to videos and other things like that. Some of the apps they used were Educreations and Explain Everything. iTalk was the best of the voice recorders because it could share to email, dropbox, sms/mms and a few other places. 


A few more sessions of interest, but more about them tomorrow.

Skype in the classroom

http://vimeo.com/44867804

7 rules for technology in schools - MindShift

From MindShift, a great site for technology in education. http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/07/the-seven-golden-rules-of-using-technology-in-schools/

Well, here's a starting point.

Free Google Resources for Educators

The aim of this working party was devised at the ICT Committee meeting on 14th June. It is:

To determine the Learning Technological Platform for Damascus College to move forward for the next 3 – 5 years. 


As discussed at our first meeting, this can be broken down into three stages:
1. Consultation
2. Visitation
3. Experimentation


At the end of these stages, we need to make a recommendation to the ICT Committee and the College Leadership. 


Before we can begin Consultation effectively, we need to do some Education of staff, students and parents as to the possibilities of Technology in Learning. Otherwise they won't be in a position to make informed choices about what kind of learning possibilities they would like to see in practice. As co-authors of this blog, you can share links, sites, videos or anything that you might think is helpful in us creating a portfolio of Technology in Education options for us to use in educating others.

Welcome

Welcome, and thank you, to members of the TIE working party. Whilst some of you may think of an item of apparel when we use that acronym, I always think of Star Wars. The video below is one of I think is the most memorable film sounds of all time.

Not that that has anything to do with the work at hand, but I thought it probably best to let you know what kind of geek you're dealing with her.