Will Stewart (sumdy. A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning. Creating iTunes U Courses - Download Free Content from The de Ferrers Academy. How To Start Using iTunes U In The Classroom. Previously I wrote an article about the incredible potential of iTunes U for both student and staff learning. I posed the question: Why Aren’t We Talking More About iTunes U ? I was blown away by the many positive remarks in response to this article from others that have also experienced the benefits of iTunes U. I was recently asked if I would write a follow up to that post. In essence, the request was for me to help those interested in learning more about iTunes U to take the next step and explore how easy it is to build a course. So, here we go, if you are interested in building a course in iTunes U it really is relatively straightforward and easy.
iBooks Author As an example, I wouldn’t use the terms straightforward and easy when describing iBooks Author. My 10 Favorite iPad Apps Used In The Classroom. Technology has gone a long way in all spheres, even in education. Now, teaching and preparation for teaching can be done in a much easier way than before. Thanks to the iPad, teachers will have a fabulous new opportunity to use the different apps to create their study material in a marvelous way. Want to know how? Here are a few of my favorites: The Teacher’s iPad Spectrum First, check out the popular i Pad Spectrum for Teachers by Edudemic (embedded below) Even More Goodies GOOGLE EARTH – This will help you to visualize the process of emergence of motifs or themes from some geographical regions. WUNDERLIST AND INSTAGRAM – With Wunderlist you can plan the required project details and have some visual evidence of the event, issue or problem with the help of Instagram. PREZI – With this app, you get the opportunity to view presentations which can provide you intricate multi-media ideas.
TWITTER – This is not only a social networking site, you can find many useful elements for your teaching. 17 Real-World Ways iPads Are Being Used In Schools. Last year, iPads in education took the world by storm, finding their ways into initiatives at both the K-12 and university levels. Edudemic’s friends over at Education Dive have talked to some of the people responsible for those roll-outs and watched schools decided how to use tablets, whether they were Apple’s or not . In 2013, iPads are still going strong. New pilot programs are winning over former doubters—and in some cases existing programs are expanding. So how will iPads be used as their classroom roles evolve in 2013? Education Dive found these examples: In Arab, Ala. , the board of education approved the purchase of 120 iPads, putting one in the hand of every teacher in the district.
This fall, every student at Justin-Siena High School in California will receive an iPad with a charger, earbuds, manual and cover. How A Classroom Of iPads Changed My Approach To Learning. Recently, my wife and I had the opportunity to take our kids on an overseas family holiday. About a third of the way through our trip as I tiredly walked to yet another airport terminal, I found myself thinking, “I know how check-in works. Someone at a counter will tell me what to do, so I can turn off and just go with it.”
On entering the terminal, we found self check-in kiosks and one distinctly disinterested attendant hiding behind a counter at the far end of the hall. We struggled through the process – our first encounter with such a system – telling each other what to do, making a simple process much harder than it really needed to be. It occurred to me later that my prior experience and expectations had made it harder to adjust my thinking. We tend to rely on what we know as one way to manage demands on our time. This anecdote serves as an illustration of an important realization made at this stage of our journey with iPads in learning at Redlands College .
Apps & The App Store. Says Declining Worldwide PC Shipments in Fourth Quarter of 2012 Signal Structural Shift of PC Market. STAMFORD, Conn., January 14, 2013 View All Press Releases Global PC Shipments Declined 4.9 Percent in Fourth Quarter Worldwide PC shipments totaled 90.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, a 4.9 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2011, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc.
Analysts said the PC industry’s problems point to something beyond a weak economy. “Tablets have dramatically changed the device landscape for PCs, not so much by ‘cannibalizing’ PC sales, but by causing PC users to shift consumption to tablets rather than replacing older PCs,” said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner. “Whereas as once we imagined a world in which individual users would have both a PC and a tablet as personal devices, we increasingly suspect that most individuals will shift consumption activity to a personal tablet, and perform creative and administrative tasks on a shared PC. During the holiday season, consumers no longer viewed PCs as the number one gift item.
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