Grading with Voice on an iPad. [This is a guest post by Doug Ward, an associate professor of journalism and the Budig Professor of Writing at the University of Kansas. You can find him online at www.kuediting.com and www.journalismtech.com, and follow him on Twitter @kuediting. Doug's previous posts have looked at finding iOS apps, what to do if your Twitter account is hacked, using iPads in the classroom (one, two) and engaging students with music. --@jbj] One of the frustrating things I found in teaching online last semester was the lack of direct contact with students. The class felt impersonal, despite my efforts to give it life. I found that especially frustrating when I graded assignments. The feedback seemed cold and distant, even as I as I tried to point out strong areas of writing and multimedia projects.
I overcame this in part by using my iPad to add audio comments to grading. Most students liked the voice feedback. Academics have talked about paperless grading for years. I had better luck using iAnnotate. UM Carey Law | Mobile Apps. Do you have a smartphone or tablet? Are you looking for apps that can help you in your research, scholarship, and teaching? This page contains some suggestions.
Helpful Apps: The table below can be sorted or filtered - for instance: are you only interested in apps for your iPhone or iPad? Just select "Yes" in the sort menu under Apple and only apps that are available for those devices will be visible. The apps referenced here have been tested or have been highly rated. Helpful blogs: iCivics | Free Lesson Plans and Games for Learning Civics.
TrialPad for iPad - Trial Presentation Software. Last-minute rumor: Apple snuck Senseg’s groundbreaking haptic display technology into iPad 3? We are extremely skeptical about this one, but we are reposting it for the sake of discussion. According to Pocket-lint sources, Apple’s iPad 3 will include a new advanced tactile feedback technology that could add a completely new sensory input to the tablet. Unlike traditional haptic feedback that creates the sensation of physical touch with a small electrical stimulus (creating pulses that push against the finger), Apple’s solution allegedly puts an electrical pulse behind every pixel. In theory, this would effectively create a 2048-by-1536 Retina display with so-called “textured feedback.” That is, it would add “texture” to objects on the screen when touched. Possible applications of this technology could be numerous and especially handy for both seeing and hearing issues.
According to the article, Apple has been in talks with a Finnish startup called Senseg, the creators of advanced haptic display technology called E-Sense, depicted in the below clip. Leap Motion gesture control technology hands-on. Leap Motion unveiled its new gesture control technology earlier this week, along with videos showing the system tracking ten fingers with ease and a single digit slicing and dicing a grocery store's worth of produce in Fruit Ninja.
Still, doubts persisted as to the veracity of the claim that the Leap is 200 times more accurate than existing tech. So, we decided to head up to San Francisco to talk with the men behind Leap, David Holz and Michael Buckwald, and see it for ourselves. Join us after the break to learn a bit more about Leap, our impressions of the technology, and a video of the thing in action. Leap motion control technology hands-on See all photos 6 Photos Before diving into the more technical details of the device he created, Holz told us about the genesis of his idea to create a better way for humans to interact with their computational devices. In practice, the Leap is impressive. What's next for Leap Motion? Comments. Report: Microsoft Office for iPad launching on Nov. 10. Reports claimed last week that an iPad version of Microsoft Office would launch in November, following several reports from The Daily, which claimed Microsoft is readying the app and posted the alleged spy shots above.
Today, The Daily weighed in again by offering an exact launch date of Nov. 10: Microsoft will launch Office for iPad on Nov. 10, The Daily has learned. This follows reports earlier this month that a late fall release was likely… We’ve learned that the development team within Office Mobile finished its work on the project last month, and the efforts of the design group wrapped soon after.
The app is now in the hands of a usability team that appraises software that utilizes the Metro design language for “Metro compliance” and suggests changes as needed. When approved by the team, the app likely will go to Apple for app store approval, which could take a couple of weeks. Microsoft Office for iOS allegedly launching in November (9to5mac.com)
Why the iPad is more important than the Kinect | Two Bulls - Immersive mobile experiences. By Aaron Vernon, Two Bulls Lead Developer The iPad and the Kinect are both shrines to technical innovation and engineering excellence, but it is the iPad that has been more significant in moving the games industry forward. I draw a comparison between these two devices because both are aimed at the casual gaming market and both were released in 2010. According to Gamasutra there have been over 19 million Kinects sold, but this figure is dwarfed by the sale of more than 67 million iPads. Of course the iPad has more uses than just gaming, but games still remain the most popular category of apps on the App Store. Those numbers are interesting, but they are not why I think the iPad is more important.
Your body as a controller The Kinect was certainly innovative in a lot of ways, but in the end it hasn’t really changed gaming that much. Gamers want immersion, they need to feel it, be close to it and experience it unfolding right before their eyes. The ubiquity and power of the iPad. Kinect LiveAR Concept With Apple iPad At Mobile Expo [VIDEO. The idea of pairing video game equipment to an iPad to video game equipment is nothing new to the iOS homebrew community. In addition to the iCade and iControlpad, recent versions of ZodTTD’s emulators are compatible with Wii remotes over bluetooth. Premium Agency’s mad R&D team have joined an iPad into an unholy union with Microsoft’s Kinect. While the current iPad already has a pair of capable cameras, the Kinect can do motion tracking in 3D with the help of infrared laser-beams and LiveAR brings the technologies together.
Okay, the demo they screened for The Verge for the Tokyo Mobile Expo isn’t exactly mind-shattering. Think of how cool this technology could be! While Premium Agency is apparently putting this technology to use for commercial game designers (in some form), it also works as a proof of concept for homebrew developers. What iPad apps do you think would benefit from Kinect integration? Good iPad Apps for Law Students « Legally Bound. So I can’t sleep (because my friend wants me to stay up and talk to him lol)…so I figure I’ll churn out a post since I haven’t written in awhile. So as you know (or may not…depending on what posts you’ve read), I have an iPad 2. I’ll admit…I pretty much think it’s one of the best things ever. It’s so much easier to travel with this than my giant 17″ laptop lol.
Anyways, I digress lol. So when I got the iPad 2, being the law school nerd that I am, I googled iPad law student apps. I didn’t really get a lot of options specifically geared towards law students…most of them were general student/college student apps. *neu. *Fastcase – This is a legal research tool that I know some lawyers swear by. *FRAP & FRCP (by trekk innovation) – For those of you who don’t know, the acronyms stand for Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, respectively. *inClass – This is a scheduling/homework assignment app. *Law Guide (by TheLaw.com) – This is a legal dictionary app. Law School Innovation: “I think [the iPad] could very well be the biggest thing to hit school technology since the overhead projector.” 6 Must-Have iPhone and iPad Apps for Productive Law Students — Law School Toolbox.
The Law School iPad. Law School 2.0: iPad. When the iPad was announced by Steve Jobs in January of 2010, readers of this blog probably won't be surprised that I started trying to think of ways to use it in the law school classroom. But mostly I came up empty. I purchased one anyway, and am typing this post on my third iPad. I use it mostly for "short form" reading, such as magazines, web pages, newspapers, and Twitter (and Twitter links). But I have continued to try to think of ways that it might be effectively used in the classroom. I know, easy, right? Old hat. But that's exactly the point.
But, if we could move around with it... well, that might make a huge difference. About a year after the iPad launched, I noticed with interest a teacher that had kludged together a wireless dongle that allowed him to walk around the class and project it on screen. So I brought in an Apple TV unit into school last August, and experimented with it. But still, the utility is not that great - it is still just showing something on the iPad. Tablets Tablets Everywhere. One thing that became obvious at ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago this year was that lawyers are embracing tablet devices like the iPad in great numbers. Some people claimed that iPads even outnumbered laptops at the event. I’m not sure if that claim would have stood up to a head count but it was certainly plausible. The little tablets were everywhere.
So, fine, if you’re thinking about bringing a tablet device into your practice I have some advice for you. Connectivity There’s no getting around it – most tablet devices are barely useful without some kind of Internet connectivity. Wi-Fi is great, but you can’t always rely upon having good public Wi-Fi. Virtualization Tablet devices annoy, irritate and even frighten IT people. So what’s the solution? From there he can launch apps, compose documents, handle e-mail, enter his time…almost anything he can do from his desktop machine. Since no data lives on the tablet it’s far more secure. Better Windows 8 Than Never Don’t have a tablet yet? Conclusion. Tablets (ex. Ipad) and Law Schools. LockBox wrote: Strange wrote: When the windows tablets come out, you can pair them with a bluetooth keyboard and they'll be just as useful as a laptop. I already have an android tablet which I'll be bringing, but my laptop will be used for class and note-taking. Current tablets including ipads are mainly good for couch surfing, coffee shops, toilets I've seen vendors that come to my office that use their ipads connected to keyboards instead of a laptop.
I don't get what everyone's aversion is to them unless the software is incapable of handling the workload. I don't have an ipad so I don't really know, but an ipad connected to a keyboard would be pretty similar to a mac, no? I don't use macs, but as far as word processing goes it's definitely not similar. Ipads can still be used for a lot of things, but taking tons of notes in class seems like it would be a burden and would slow you down. eBooks on Thomson Reuters ProView – West® | Westlaw® 60 Apps in 60 Minutes 2012 - iPhone J. This past Saturday morning at ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago, Josh Barrett, Brett Burney and I presented the 2012 installment of 60 Apps in 60 Minutes. We highlighted some of the best new apps for attorneys as well as old favorites that cannot live without, plus a few others just for fun.
Here is a list of the apps that we discussed this year. I put links on the names of the apps that have received a formal review here on iPhone J.D. I think that you will find that this is a good, diverse list of apps for you to explore. Agenda - calendar ($0.99): Instacast - podcast organizer and player ($1.99): Conference Pad - presentations ($4.99): GoodReader - store documents, annotate PDFs ($4.99): PDFpen - PDF editor ($9.99): Adobe Reader - PDF reader (free): PDF PROvider - convert to PDF ($6.99): PDF Expert - PDF editor ($9.99): Mr.
I created a short live demonstration of that last app, Action Movie FX, during our presentation. Here is that video. Exhibit A. DK Global Inc. | Trial Touch. PDF Tools on an iPad for Scholars | The University of Chicago Library News. As iPads grow in popularity their multi use nature becomes more obvious. This can range from designing high end graphics, exploring the solar system, assembling chemical structures to playing Sudoku. One of the major uses for an iPad for scholars is as an eReader. Unlike the Kindle or the Nook the iPad was not designed primarily to be an eReader. This causes confusion for people that are used to being able to easily interact with PDF’s on devices like the Kindle or Nook. To interact with PDF’s on an iPad you have to use an app. iAnnotate PDF Cost: $9.99Text Interaction: highlighting, underlining, writing and typing in notesSharing: can link directly to DropBox, syncs with home computer via wirelessFeatures: multiple PDF’s can be opened and interacted with tabs, possible to export all the notes taken on a PDF directly to a txt file.Organization: mirrors folders set up on home computer There are some downsides though.
PDF Expert There are a few downsides to PDF expert. ReadableDocs GoodReader. GoodReader for iPad.