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ITLib Digital Library → Designers Discussing Design: An Investigation into the Design of an Innovative Science Textbook Designed to Take Advantage of Multi-Touch Tablet Technology and the Cloud. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, in Denver, Colorado, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-95-2 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, VA Abstract This study utilizes a modified Delphi design to assess instructional designer’s perceptions of E.

ITLib Digital Library → Designers Discussing Design: An Investigation into the Design of an Innovative Science Textbook Designed to Take Advantage of Multi-Touch Tablet Technology and the Cloud

O. Wilson’s high school biology textbook available for the iPad or other multi-touch tablets (MTT) and the iBooks authoring potential. The first; and perhaps most lasting, impression of the group was this is a visually stunning, scientifically relevant textbook that should be a game changer in how the next generation of science textbooks are developed and the textbook that was measured in pounds and cubic inches of space in your child’s backpack is dead!

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If your university, college, or library subscribes to EdITLib, you may be able access full text articles through a login page. Useful Bookmarklets for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch Browser. 18 Mar 2013 The most useful iOS bookmarklets for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch with instructions on how to install them in your mobile Safari browser. couch mode print story The Safari browser of your iOS device (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) doesn’t support extensions (or add-ons) but you can still add extra functionality to the mobile browser with the help of bookmarklets.

Useful Bookmarklets for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch Browser

Bookmarklets, if you are new, are like regular bookmarks but instead of opening new websites, bookmarklets are often used to perform actions. For instance, you can shorten long URLs, translate web pages, find word meanings, save pages and more with a single click. In the case of a desktop browsers like Chrome or Firefox, you can simply drag the bookmarklet to the bookmarks toolbar but unfortunately, the Safari browser of your iOS device doesn’t support this style of installation.

Just pick any iOS bookmarklet from the drop-down menu below and a bookmark the page in your iOS Safari browser.

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Mobile Learning. Reflections on eLearning and teaching Drama, English/ESL and the Humanities! TodaysMeet. How To Capture Ideas Visually With The iPad - By its very design, the iPad promotes consumption.

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Essentially an interactive mobile screen, the combination of physical form and supporting software-based user interface on Apple’s wunder-tablet suggests watching and listening, enabling you to tear the “monitor” off the desk and take it with you. By lacking a keyboard, input and production aren’t quite as natural. That isn’t necessarily because the iPad can’t accommodate such input, but rather that the software–and our habits as users–haven’t completely caught up with the not-insignificant shift in interface. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

One microcosm of the potential of the iPad in learning is the concept of visual recording. Visual recording is what it sounds like it’d be. Mapping Media to the Common Core » What do you want to CREATE today? Adding Bookmarklets on iPad and iPhone. I made this page out of frustration.

Adding Bookmarklets on iPad and iPhone

There is simply no easy way to add bookmarklets to your iPad or iPhone. I blagged a little about that here. I don't use Safari on my desktop, so I don't sync my bookmarks to my iDevices. So I took a few minutes to copy the Javascript from all my bookmarklets and made this iPhone/iPad formatted page with all the Javascript in a selectable textarea for each bookmarklet. Learn more. More about Site44 Site44 provides the easiest and fastest way to publish files to the web by connecting the contents of a special folder in your Dropbox account to our optimized hosting platform.

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Changes to files within this Dropbox folder appear on your website within seconds—there are no additional steps to publish your files. Pres-mlcw2012-ectel2012-isajahnke-v1 - Preparing Didactical Designs for Learning to be Creative Using iPads. 12 Crucial Questions to Ask before Using iPad with your Students. iPad is making huge inroads into education and it is believed to have revolutionized the whole concept of mobile learning.

12 Crucial Questions to Ask before Using iPad with your Students

More and more schools are, if not already adopting 1:1 environments or BYOD projects , then they are at least debating a future inclusion of this mobile device in the classroom. But as a teacher and practitioner who is going to be using iPad with his/her students, you need to think about the instructional use of this tool.

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