Posts Tagged ‘ Apps ’

ShowMe

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July 9, 2011

The interactive white board (i.e. smartboards, et.al.) are fine technology, but they have the problem in being in almost every classroom I have ever taught in, and I have never seen them used…There are plenty of ways to describe this white elephant of educational technology…as a waste of money (usually they are several thousand dollars [...]


pen and paper…

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July 7, 2011

One thing which continues to fascinate me about the iPad is that there are still emerging ways to use, and to see what this tablet is capable of. At the beginning, the iPad was seen (correctly) as a media consumpti0on device (it works quite well at this!), and was considered to be nearly unusable as [...]


Beyond DropBox…

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July 6, 2011

As with LastPass a couple months ago, I give DropBox some credit for dealing with their little imbroglio the other week (passwords were in the open for several hours!). With any human endeavor, things like this may occur. The thing which inspires confidence for me in these examples is the way with which both companies [...]


PrivateInfo-HD

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July 5, 2011

I have finally found what may be a reasonable personal information-safe for iOS devices (i.e. the iPad and iPhone). PrivateInfo uses real encryption (AES256 bit) and allows you to ‘safe’ most kinds of information (i.e. photos, movies, data, documents, personal information, etc.). While this is not the same thing as having the whole OS encrypted [...]


more media consumption apps…

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June 25, 2011

It seems to me that the advent of the RSS reader and the idea of a personal news aggregation tool may have started a revolution in how we deal with our daily news fix. The emergence of the iPad as a media consumption device (a big topic last year) has slowly morphed into talk about [...]


more new forms of media…

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June 23, 2011

I’ve seen a lot written about some of the shortcomings involved in the actual practice of using eReaders as platforms of school textbooks. There may be a case where merely porting a textbook over to (let’s say) the Kindle provides students with: a much lighter load to have to carry, and a textbook which does [...]


(UN) intended consequences…

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June 20, 2011

When Steve Jobs presented OSx Lion and some of the new additions to iOS 5, the fact that some of these new features overlapped a lot of successful (and still worthwhile, in my humble estimation) apps which live to a large degree in these operating system ecosystems became a news item…Such iPad mainstays as Instapaper, [...]


Rapportive and Wisestamp

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June 14, 2011

If only by virtue of having a blog, I guess that I am on the side of those who want to be real net citizens. This big think article; Invisible = irrelevant is a valid topic for many to consider. The world of communications is in the process of rapidly and profoundly changing…it seems to [...]


The future of media?

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May 20, 2011

One of the underlying ideas which are rarely covered directly, but are implicit in most of the ‘old school’ media we have, or are dealing with is that newspapers, magazines, music, movies, and possibly soon…books, are all in some sort of economic decline. One of the areas where there is a lot of large scale [...]


Blogsy

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May 7, 2011

This is my first chance to use the new blogging app (Blogsy) for the iPad. I’ve written about how the iPad works really well for consuming content, but creation of content, as well as most productivity tasks to be more bother than it was worth…that is, until I tried this app… i don’t know how [...]


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