This summer for the second time, I had an opportunity to present and learn with other educators gathered for the week long “Oklahoma Multimedia Teachers” workshop at the Gaylord School of Journalism on the campus of OU in Norman. Tammy Parks, a broadcast journalism teacher in Howe, Oklahoma, has got me involved in this project.
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This Thursday I’ll be sharing a full day workshop for faculty at Southeastern Oklahoma State University on “iPads in Education.” The following is a Google Doc I’ve created with links to about 30 different applications we’ll discuss and explore. If you’re viewing this page on an iOS device and cannot view the embedded version below,
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We have several new babies in our extended family, and today I learned about a new app my cousins are using to track the activities and development of their first child. http://www.baby-connect.com/ Baby Connect is a web app and an iOS app. Log times your baby eats, mom nurses and pumps, diaper changes, hours of
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eBooks are proliferating, and the trend toward reading more content as bits instead of atoms (in digital rather than paper-based forms) is going to keep gathering momentum in the months ahead. In July 2010, NPR reported Amazon.com sold more eBooks than paper-based books in the first half of the year. This is a telling statistic.
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Luis Suarez of IBM provides an optimistic view of the future of email in yesterday’s Mashable article, “A World Without E-mail: One Man’s Vision of a Social Workplace:” http://mashable.com/2010/09/03/world-without-email/ “With technology changing rapidly, it’s worthwhile to wonder if ten years down the line, e-mail may still be as prominent in our lives as it is
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My sister and brother in law use Pocket Informant HD for their Google calendars and love it. Like MobileMe for Google Calendar, but less expensive. Supports full editing as well as viewing of shared Google calendars. $6.99. http://www.pocketinformant.com/products_info.php?p_id=pocketinformant_ipad Sent from my iPad Posted via email from wesley fryer’s posterous
Jus learned about the free iPad app “Discover” by Cooliris. Similar to Flipboard in its interface – but all content from Wikipedia. H/T to my Sis! http://www.cooliris.com/ipad/discover Sent from my iPad Posted via email from wesley fryer’s posterous
Podcast Generator is an open source content management solution specifically customized for podcasting.* Since it’s open source, it’s free but you need to have access to a webserver supporting PHP scripts to use it. It permits users to upload audio files directly using a web browser, and share them as podcasts within a created RSS
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Yesterday during our second class of “Computers in the Classroom” for pre-service teachers at the University of North Texas, I showed students the 20×20 Pecha Kucha presentation model. Unfortunately (as you might notice at the start of this Slidecast) I STILL have trouble pronouncing it correctly: “Peh-cha kuh-cha.” This model involves the use of twenty
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What a great lineup of educators and presentations! http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=603 It all begins October 11th, and it’s all free. If you have not already, please join the K12 Online Conference Ning. http://k12online.ning.com Sent from my iPad Posted via email from wesley fryer’s posterous
