iPads and Other Tablet Devices

More examples of synchronous virtual classroom participation

April 24, 2013

Skype, FaceTime, and Google Hangouts are being used to bring online guests and students into the brick-and-mortar classroom. Following up Sunday’s post about Applications to Facilitate Synchronous Remote Classroom Participation, today we share three more examples and insights into schools and tools for bringing virtual participants into the classroom … The Internet is making the [...]

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6 Higher Education Institutions Leading the way with Mobile Learning Apps

April 14, 2013

These Universities are leveraging the smart phones that are in most student’s hands to provide mobile access to learning resources and administrative tools. As the high-tech world evolves from dial-up access to lightning-fast smartphones, students benefit from a more mobile classroom. But as anyone with a smartphone or tablet already knows, no two apps are [...]

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Picture This: 5 Ways Teachers Can Use Instagram in the Classroom

March 6, 2013

Extending on our post last month about why Instagram can have a place in the classroom, “Using Instagram in an Educational Context“, this week we delve into some specific approaches to leveraging this popular photo sharing app (or similar ones) in educational applications. Instagram seems to be appropriately named since it has been an almost [...]

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The Updated Classroom – Developing Student Writing Skills with Tablet and Smartphone Apps

March 3, 2013

This collaboratively written article provides some great ideas for leveraging today’s mobile technologies to help students enhance those vital writing skills. The use of smartphones in the classroom is no longer clearly something to be frowned upon. In fact, some teachers are now looking to use them as tools to get the best out of [...]

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Using Instagram in an Educational Context

February 13, 2013

The highly popular photo sharing app can deliver a variety of educational benefits. If you are active on social websites, or have young tech users in your life, then you’ve probably come across Instagram. This application works in hand-in-hand with Facebook and has grown to be one of the most apps on the Internet. What [...]

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Free eBook: 154 Brilliant iPhone (and iPad) Tips. Too Cool Not to Share.

February 6, 2013

This free eBook is full of tips and tricks you’ll benefit from for years to come! Did you know you can add your own keyboard shortcuts on the iPad or iPhone? How about some faster ways to reject suggested auto-corrections as you type, or write contractions, or a single-tap method to magnify and select text? [...]

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Three Ways Pinterest is Getting Used by Teachers

January 16, 2013

The popular content sharing site is getting attention in the classroom. Guest post by Jason Kane. When most of us think of Pinterest, we probably think of young people sharing links to web pages, photos and videos with their friends – just another social network for people to show off things they like, what’s going [...]

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Book Review – Teaching and Learning With The iPad by David Mahaley

January 13, 2013

This new eBook is an excellent introduction to using the iPad in the classroom. David Mahaley is the principal at Franklin Academy in North Carolina, where he has led the adoption and integration of the iPad into this innovative K-12 charter institution’s curriculum. Together with administrator/teacher Tim Hall, Mahaley developed and ran the recent “Education [...]

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Kno Introduces Analytics Tool for Student use with Electronic Textbooks

January 9, 2013

The popular electronic textbook provider is always working to bring etexts to the next level. Kno CEO and founder Osman Rashid spent some time with me last week providing insights into Kno’s latest innovation, which is being unveiled today at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new “Kno Me” tool provides a [...]

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Making BYOD Work in Schools – Three School Districts That Have Figured it Out

December 16, 2012

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) can Work Well When Approached Properly. Since I wrote the controversial post, “5 Reasons Why BYOD is a Bad Idea” over the summer, and received such strong push back the concerns I noted, I’ve been looking forward to learning about sharing ways in which schools have addressed some of these [...]

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