The Ultimate Guide To Using iPads In The Classroom | Education Technology and Teacher Tools – Edudemic How Students Benefit From Using Social Media 14.60K Views 0 Likes A lot of criticism has been leveled at social media and the effect it has on the way students process and retain information, as well as how distracting it can be. However, social media offers plenty of opportunities for learning and interactivity, and if you take a moment to think about it, it's not too hard to see how students benefit from using social media. 100 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About 44.24K Views 0 Likes We're always trying to figure out the best tools for teachers, trends in the education technology industry, and generally doing our darnedest to bring you new and exciting ways to enhance the classroom. To Flip Or Not Flip?
An Open-Source, HTML5 Framework for iPad E-books A group of Italian developers has just released a free and open-source framework for creating e-books for the iPad. The Baker E-book Framework allows designers and developers to turn fixed-width HTML5 pages into an e-book format and publish the finished product. After that, all you need to do is follow the App Store submission guidelines, and you're on your way to e-book greatness. To design for the Baker Framework, simply build HTML5 pages with a fixed width of 768 pixels. Don't own an iPad? E-book files are then packaged in the HPub format. Finally, you download the Baker Framework, rename the Xcode project and include your book and icon. To see an example of a Baker-created e-book, check out this free title, 5x15 Tokyo [iTunes link]: "HTML5 is out there," co-founder Davide Casali wrote us in an e-mail. Casali and his team hope their creation will lead to more beautiful e-books and digital magazines on the iPad, and for other WebKit-enabled devices later.
40 Most Awesome iPad Apps for Science Students | Best Colleges Online Posted on Wednesday June 15, 2011 by Staff Writers The iPad has found its way into hospitals, retail stores and homes across the nation, but it’s also making a big splash in the classroom, even with some of the best online colleges. With a great selection of apps focused on everything from word processing to keeping in touch with classmates, the tablet computer can be an invaluable tool for learning — no matter your age. Online science students haven’t been left out, of course, and there are a wide range of applications offering help with chemistry, biology, astronomy and even the math that comes along with certain fields. If you’re a college student looking to supplement your science studies, these apps are some of the best for learning, sharing, researching and just plain having fun. Chemistry Get beautiful photographs of the elements or explore what happens when you design your own molecules using these great iPad apps. Biology Astronomy Reference Tools Miscellaneous
Coding An HTML 5 Layout From Scratch - Smashing Coding Multiple phone web-based application framework A multiple phone web-based application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of phone applications that are written as embedded dynamic websites and may leverage native phone capabilities, like geo data or contact lists. For more general frameworks see List of rich internet application frameworks. Current frameworks[edit] History[edit] With mobile device manufactures each having its own preferred development environment, a growth mobile phone application developments that are World Wide Web capable and a large population of HTML savvy developers, there has arisen web based application frameworks to help developers write applications that can be deployed on multiple devices. March 6, 2008 - the first iPhone SDK beta is released to a limited number of developers (4,000). March 12, 2008 - the first versions of the QuickConnectJavaScript, QuickConnectPHP, and QuickConnectErlang frameworks made available to the public. See also[edit] External links[edit]
HTML5 enabling script 7 Jan Since HTML5 is getting more attention by way of marking up our new pages, and the only way to get IE to acknowledge the new elements, such as <article>, is to use the HTML5 shiv, I’ve quickly put together a mini script that enables all the new elements. Download html5shiv.js and must be inserted in the head element (this is because IE needs to know about the element before it comes to render them – so it can’t sit in the footer of the page, i.e. below the elements in question). I’ve updated this post to link to Alexander Farkas’s version of the shiv – it’s the very latest and my simple one line script. The one I originally released was (I thought) beautifully small, but didn’t support print styles nor dynamic injection of HTML5 elements.
Best iPad Apps for Kids | Best Kids Apps So you’ve got a brand new iPad and kids who are clamoring to play on it. What you need now are a handful of high quality apps with good replay value. You don’t have time to slog through the entire iTunes App Store looking for them though. We do. If you like our reviews, please support us! Grade: A- | Age rating: 4+ Oh, what a cute story this game presents! The graphics are perfect, the music and sound effects are appealing, and the game play is very challenging. Age rating: 4+ | Price: $0.99 Another silly story line that we just can’t help loving. Different birds have different powers. Age rating: 3+ | Price: $1.99 Using their finger as a blade, kids swipe various pieces of fruit that fly up in the air, chopping them in half. We like the fact that you get all the action with none of the violence. Age rating: 5+ | Price: $1.99 The most downloaded iPhone app of all time is even better on the iPad—get ready to jump and jump and jump again in this insanely addictive game.
HTML5 and The Future of the Web - Smashing Coding Advertisement Some have embraced it1, some have discarded it2 as too far in the future, and some have abandoned a misused friend3 in favor of an old flame in preparation. Whatever side of the debate you’re on, you’ve most likely heard all the blogging chatter surrounding the “new hotness” that is HTML5. It’s everywhere, it’s coming, and you want to know everything you can before it’s old news. Things like jQuery plugins, formatting techniques, and design trends change very quickly throughout the Web community. When looking for some stability, we can usually turn to the code itself as it tends to stay unchanged for a long time (relatively speaking). In this article, I’m hoping to give you some tips and insight into HTML5 to help ease the inevitable pain that comes with transitioning to a slightly different syntax. Welcome to HTML5. What are the basics? The DOCTYPE When I first started researching HTML5 a few months ago, one of the main things I struggled to find was the doctype. Conclusion
Best iPad games for gamers So you've got an iPad, and now you want to play some games on it because your PSP and Nintendo DSi are so, well yesterday. Don't panic, we are talking gamer's games here, none of those casual iPad games like Scrabble or Air Hockey that your mum and dad would be interested in. We've scoured the 3500 dedicated iPad apps to bring you what we think are the best iPad games available at the moment (early May) to get you started if you want to drive fast, kill people and generally challenge yourself to more than just coming up with the best triple word score. We've tried, tested and reviewed all the iPad games below ourselves, rather than just guessing whether they are good or not. Pinball HD Yep - it's the classic pinball machine re-jigged for the iPad. The game play is incredibly simple with two views available to suit your gaming style. Scores, presuming you've done well, can be shared with the community, however we would recommend you put in some practice first. Price £1.79 / $2.99 PadRacer
Understanding aside Please note aside has been redefined since this post was written, please read the updated article. HTML 5 offers a new element to mark additional information that can enhance an article but isn’t necessarily key to understanding it. However, in the interpretation of <aside> there lies confusion as to how it can be used, and with that there is demand for the Doctor to step up and clear the air. In this article I will look at what <aside> was created for, including sample uses and how not to use this useful, misunderstood element. First, a look at how the HTML 5 specification defines <aside>: The aside element represents a section of a page that consists of content that is tangentially related to the content around the aside element, and which could be considered separate from that content. What can often trip-up someone reading the specification is the use of the word “sidebar”. How strict should this relationship be? Example Uses Incorrect use of <aside> Closing Thoughts