If you have an opportunity to share a presentation with a group of people equipped with their own iPads, consider using the application “Idea Flight” instead of a projector and screen. Idea Flight is a free app for your audience members (up to 14 “passengers”) to view slides YOU share and control as the “pilot.”
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Equipped as a storychaser with my iPad2, a $60 iRig mic, and the help of friends (as well as some bystanders) willing to be short-term videographers, I’ve recorded a series of interviews this week here in Philadelphia for the 2011 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. This fifth episode (and my last one
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Equipped as a storychaser with my iPad2, a $60 iRig mic, and the help of friends (as well as some bystanders) willing to be short-term videographers, I’ve recorded a series of interviews this week here in Philadelphia for the 2011 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. This first episode is a three minute
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The following five minute video was shared Daniel Wessel, director of technology in Lansing Public Schools, Kansas, at the MACE Conference in Manhattan on March 4, 2011. The video highlights the ways elementary students in Lansing are using iPads and iPod Touches. Many of these are 1st graders in Jessica Asbury’s classroom, who also presented
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This podcast is an audio recording of Jessica Asbury and Daniel Wessel’s presentation, “iPad: A Tool for Differentiation” at the MACE Conference on March 4, 2011. The recording is initially a little hard to listen to because the audio from played videos in the session compete with the presenters, but STICK WITH IT! This was
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Podcast374: iPads for Differentiation in a Primary Classroom #mace11 [ 50:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2183)School leaders around the United States continue to spend HUGE amounts of money on interactive whiteboards for classrooms, despite the fact that these devices universally FAIL to empower students to become more independent, self-directed and engaged learners in the way mobile learning devices (like laptops, tablets or other personal digital learning tools) can. Please do
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My kids and I recorded this 21.5 minute audio podcast on an iPad today during the last leg of our car trip back to Oklahoma from California, discussing tips for winning the game, “Plants Versus Zombies.” This is currently one of our favorite games to play on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Enjoy and
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The February 13th video from FoxNews, “Florida School Replaces Textbooks” provides a graphic illustration of why eBooks are the WRONG choice for K-12 learning environments. The 91 second news video also shows how reporters can knowingly manipulate media content to mislead the public and encourage false conclusions about “new eBook reader technologies.” A Kindle ain’t
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Today in Jackson, Mississippi at the 2011 Mississippi Educational Computing Association annual conference, I had an opportunity to hear Dr Randy Shaver and other members of his learning team at Tupelo Public Schools share the inspirational story of their community’s journey to 1:1 blended learning. Amazingly, this has taken place in the past TWO years
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These are my notes from the afternoon session, “Learning with iPad” at the 2011 Mississippi Educational Computing Association annual conference in Jackson on February 7th. This session was presented by Neil Hitchcock. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. KEEP IN MIND VOLUME PRICING FOR SOME APPS IS AVAILABLE, THE PRICES I LISTED NEXT
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Lifelong learning, continuing education, and CHANGE in the classroom should not be optional for in-service teachers. This past fall, Karen Montgomery shared a story with me she heard from a school administrator in Ohio. That principal tells her staff they have three options when it comes to learning new ways to help students learn, both
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In this three minute video, high school biology teacher Julie Raines describes a free “Virtual DNA Fingerprinting Lab” which her students in Yarmouth, Maine, were completing the day my daughter and I participanted in a tour of their school. Check out Julie’s fantastic science curriculum wiki (yhs-raines.wikispaces.com) for additional links and resources. More videos from
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Apple sales are higher than ever, and the New York Times reports many schools are doing their part to contribute to those revenue numbers in their article today, “Classrooms Around the Nation Embrace the iPad as a Tool.” Several quotations from the article are notable. Do you know how many educational apps, and specifically free
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This podcast is a recording of a presentation on November 9, 2009, by Leslie Wilson, chief executive officer of the One-to-One Institute and former co-leader of Michigan’s Freedom to Learn Project. Leslie shared this session at the 2009 Great Lakes 1:1 Computing Conference in Chicago. It was titled, “Leadership: The Critical Factor (for 1:1
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Podcast365: Leadership Lessons for 1:1 Learning Projects from Leslie Wilson (The One-to-One Institute) [ 47:35 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1540)
When teachers in schools implementing 1:1 laptop projects start creating technology-infused assignments for students, often they will require the use of a SPECIFIC software program or application. That is NOT the case today for some of the teachers at Yarmouth High School in Maine, where teachers and students are in their EIGHTH year of a
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On December 2, 2010, I had an opportunity to visit Yarmouth High School, in Yarmouth Maine, with a group from Sweden touring innovative schools in the state implementing 1:1 learning projects as part of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI.) This tour was organized by leaders of the Maine International Center for Digital Learning (MICDL.)
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Craig Grannell’s December 30th article for techradar.com, “The school that gives every student an iPad,” presents a compelling summary of the 1:1 iPad project at Cedars School of Excellence in Greenock, Scotland. On their school website, built with the open source software platform MediaWiki, they proudly proclaim: We are the first school in the world
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According to today’s ABC News article, “Army to Deploy iPhones in Combat: Military Could Deploy First Units With BlackBerrys, Androids by Spring,” the US military has not only recognized the constructive power of mobile computers in troops’ pockets but is moving quickly to deploy them into combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. …as early as
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The following is a comment I left today for Daniel Rezac on his provocative post, “The Battle for the Interactive White Board: The Kids Surrender.” I agree screencasting is something everyone should know how to do AND do to share lessons / tutorials. I agree we should encourage teachers not to “hog” the podium /
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Take nine minutes and watch educators Kevin Honeycutt and Howard Pitler demonstrate their musical creativity as well as skills on an iPhone and iPad in the video, “Tradigital Mini-Concert at AESA Conference.” Better yet, show this video your students and then together, discuss the creative possibilities demonstrated here! The apps Kevin and Howard utilize in
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