Squrl Launches an iPad App for Video Discovery
Squrl is a free service that allows you to create a playlist of videos from sources all over the web. Rather than creating playlists on individual video sites like YouTube and Vimeo, you can create playlists from multiple sources and save them in one place for sharing with others and viewing at your convenience. Squrl has been available as a web application for a while and now they're offering a free iPad app.
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Squrl Launches an iPad App for Video Discovery
Squrl is a free service that allows you to create a playlist of videos from sources all over the web. Rather than creating playlists on individual video sites like YouTube and Vimeo, you can create playlists from multiple sources and save them in one place for sharing with others and viewing at your convenience. Squrl has been available as a web application for a while and now they're offering a free iPad app.
brengt woordenboekapp uit (9 dec) - Muiswerk Educatief
Sinds deze week staat de Muiswerk woordenboekapp voor u klaar in de App Store en in Android Market. Het woordenboek is beschikbaar op de drie Apple-apparaten (iPhone, iPad en iPod) en op 741 verschillende Android-apparaten. De app is tijdelijk gratis te downloaden. Het woordenboek bevat ruim 40.000 veelgebruikte woorden uit de Nederlandse taal. Van de meer dan 12.000 basiswoorden worden de verschillende betekenissen gegeven en per betekenis worden voorbeelden van het gebruik, synoniemen en tegenstellingen aangegeven. Ga naar uw App Store of Android Market en zoek het Muiswerk Woordenboek direct op! Update:We horen dat sommige moderne Androidtoestellen het woordenboek niet kunnen installeren, terwijl dit wel zou moeten. Geplaatst: dec. 2011. href=
Study: iPad Apps Improve Learning
First of its kind evidence shows that an iPad learning app can measurably deliver educational value. I’ve tested, rated, tried out, and put tons of educational iPad apps through their paces. Some are worthwhile, some are not worth your time. That’s why I was excited to read about a new study that attempted to figure out the actual effectiveness of iPad apps in learning. In a landmark study, a USC professor studied 122 fifth-graders from two schools and four math classes to assess the effectiveness of an iPad app for improving students’ fractions knowledge and attitudes. The study is the first to document learning and motivation gains achieved through iPad game play. Education researcher Michelle Riconscente (Los Angeles) designed and constructed the study, which was funded by a grant from the Noyce Foundation and Stanford StartX company, Motion Math . • 5th graders fractions test scores improved 15% after playing Motion Math, for 20 minutes over 5 days.
The top 50 iPad apps | Technology | The Observer
It's easy to forget that when Apple's first iPad was unveiled in January 2010, there were plenty of cynics questioning the need for a slate-shaped device sitting somewhere between a smartphone and a laptop computer. Microsoft had pitched tablets a decade before, to little interest. So what were iPads for? Scroll on 21 months and a second-generation model later, and we have a better idea: iPads are for lounging on the sofa, browsing, emailing, tweeting and Facebooking, for sure. There are currently more than 100,000 native iPad apps available, although, as with the iPhone, a big chunk of those are filler. Developers are bringing multimedia bells and whistles to poetry; splicing books and games to find new ways to educate and entertain children; tapping into social networks and filtering technology to aggregate news and recommend music; and they offer tactile touchscreen ways to explore the earth, the human body and the solar system. JAMIE'S RECIPES free. MARK ON CALL HD £2.99.
This New App Turns Your iPad Into Your Classroom - Education
Thanks to the popularity of the Khan Academy's simple video lessons, millions of people around the globe have learned everything from how to simplify fractions to how to understand a credit default swap. But what if students had the ability to pick from thousands of Khan Academy-style videos taught by a wide range of teachers? That's the goal of the new Educreations Interactive Whiteboard, a free app that gives everyone the ability to create video tutorials, share what they know, and learn what they don't. Created by tech startup Educreations, the app is available for the iPad and can also be accessed from any computer through the web. What sets the Educreations whiteboard app apart from the Khan Academy and other virtual learning platforms is that anyone can create a lesson on a topic of their expertise.
Hungry Fish for the iPad teaches children (and adults) mental math skills
Video games for the iPad are an unlikely ally in the fight to help America’s students close the achievement gap in math. But that’s just what startup Motion Math has in mind. Motion Math is a San Francisco game design studio that creates fun and engaging iPad and iPhone games to teach children mental arithmetic skills. Motion Math: Hungry Fish was released on Thursday, to teach addition and subtraction with the help of a fish who wants to snack on number combinations. Most educational games teach a single problem-solving method and emphasize the answer. If the fish is marked with a 7, there are a variety of ways to reach this sum; 5+2, 6+1 or 3+4. “It’s both more engaging, and there’s a lot of evidence that doing the same thing over and over again doesn’t lead to deeper, conceptual knowledge,” Motion Math co-founder Jacob Klein told VentureBeat. Winning a level allows the player to customize his or her fish with new colors and snazzy fins.
