Look Mum – No Cables! iPad2 Mirroring In The Classroom We had a big day last week. A day when long term planning in a school and taking a measured risk paid off. Let me explain… One of the most underrated and significant developments of iOS5 has been the ability to mirror the iPad2 onto any screen via AppleTV. Yet our decision to invest in this concept started many months ago, when mirroring was still a rumor. Ringwood North Primary School was allocated a new learning space as part of the ‘Building The Education Revolution’ initiative in 2010. A new area, new teaching team and 138 students on a 1 to 1 iPad program with no projectors or displays. The months that followed proved challenging at times, but allowed us to see the how the students and teachers interacted with a new space without the predefined notion of allocated display spaces. This is one key area that is often overlooked in relation to the iPad. In retrospect, this was a bit of a gamble, as at this stage, mirroring on the iPad was still a rumor. Setting Up & Managing The AppleTV
Learning and Teaching with iPads Educreations: DIY Whiteboard Video Tutorials on the iPad The new app from Educreations is available in the Apple App Store today (iTunes link). The app is designed to make it easy to create, narrate, and record whiteboard video tutorials on the iPad and to share them with others. A Web version of the startup's whiteboard app has been available for some time now, but it's the native app for an iPad that makes this sort of tool make sense -- it's so much easier to write on a whiteboard with the finger than it is with a mouse, if nothing else. Educreations is hardly the only app like this available for the iPad (I covered the very similar app ShowMe over on MindShift this summer, for example). But while Educreations' iPad app might be late to the whiteboard app market, its entry is a solid one. Educreations hosts the video creations themselves on educreations.com (helpful for schools that block YouTube), and teachers using the site can opt to share videos privately with a set group of students or share them publicly so anyone can see them.
2012 Apps for Teachers People often ask what apps I would recommend for Teachers? There is no simply answer that fits all. What I do is give them an insight into the apps that I have on my iPad that I use all the time or that I use in preparation for my lessons. They probably say more about my own teaching style than I would care to reveal. See if any of them are useful for you. My students have always use Prezi exceptional well to zoom in and investigate the detail and then pull back to see how it all fits within the curriculum outcomes. Dropbox: FREE Dropbox is a free service that lets you save any file to your Dropbox and it will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad and even the Dropbox website! Flipboard: FREE Flipboard creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you. Who has what?
educreations teacherswithapps Educreations Interactive Whiteboard, by Educreations, Inc, is an incredible, yes that’s right, INCREDIBLE app. This newly released app comes with the huge bonus of being FREE! We think this app has the edge needed to push education in the right direction and to begin modernizing teaching as we know it. Educreations Inc had the wherewithal to realize the need to add the option to use multiple pages for the same lesson; this is another feature that makes this app a standout. This revised Bloom’s Taxonomy pyramid shows classification of levels of intellectual behavior that is important in the learning process. It is obvious that the developers in this new start-up company spent much time and consideration while incorporating user-friendly features into this app.
iPad Apps that work with Smartboards The iPad looks amazing when projected onto a large screen. The students in a 1 to 1 iPad classroom gets to see the apps at work. Have a look at the list below to see if any of these might be useful in your classroom. Doceri: FREE Turn your iPad and classroom computer into an Interactive Whiteboard with Doceri. SplashTop: $5.49 AU This is the ONLY remote desktop app that streams video and audio from your PC or Mac, allowing you to interact with your PowerPoint, Keynote, Word, Excel, Outlook, Quicken, IE, Firefox, Safari, World of Warcraft, and other PC / MAC applications. Edistorm: FREE Edistorm is an online brainstorming tool that uses the metaphor of sticky notes to allow you to brainstorm. Exploriments Series:
Top 14 Presentation Apps - Showing 1 to 14 based on popularity 1 to 16 based on popularity Presentation applications give users the tools needed to organize information to be shared with an online or offline audience as slideshows, videos or photo montages. AppAppeal ranks all presentation apps based on worldwide popularity. Popularity rank 119 AppAppeal rating 4/5 Price range (p/month): $19.00 - $249.00 Free plan available Mobile apps SlideShare is an online community for presentations. Popularity rank 1,201 AppAppeal rating 4/5 Price range (p/month): $5.00 - $13.25 Prezi allows anyone to create presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left with... Popularity rank 11,124 AppAppeal rating 4/5 SlideBoom is an online service to upload and share your PowerPoint presentations on the web. Popularity rank 34,852 AppAppeal rating 4/5 Price range (p/month): $24.00 - $24.00 SlideRocket users can create presentations, manage a library of related assets and slides, share them, and measure ho... Price range (p/month): $29.00 - $100.00
7 Awesome iPad Apps for Bloggers The blogging world is changing all the time. Today’s bloggers are much more sophisticated than ever before. Many of them have a more mobile work style. Just because you spend a lot of time on the road, that does not mean you can’t keep blogging using your iPad. Here are 7 apps that bloggers can use to blog, edit photos, and product videos on the go: Blog Docs: you can use this tool to great formatted blog posts or sync your documents with Google Docs. Posts for iPad: helps you manage your blogs on your iPad like a pro. WordPress: WordPress for iOS should not need any introduction. Blogsy: a powerful blogging tool for the iPad. BlogPress: a universal blogging tool for iPhone and iPad. Snapseed: every blogger needs a decent photo editor.