Category: mobile
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Tips for Getting Started with AppleTV Mirroring
Several teachers in our elementary school got AppleTVs installed in their classrooms recently and have questions about how to use it. These are some suggested tips and techniques for getting started. Since wifi network configurations are unique for different school districts, these instructions may be a little different than what you need for your setting.…
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Add Music to iPad Stopmotion Videos with YouTube Capture
I’ve been helping our elementary school art teacher, Jackie Myers, get ready for a stopmotion video project she’ll be starting with her students on Wednesday. I wrote more about how we found the free iPad app she’s using for the project, Stop Motion Cafe, in the March 17th post, “Preparing for a Stopmotion Art Project.”…
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Great reason NOT to use iBuildApp
The past couple of years I’ve dabbled with several different mobile app building websites. These have included sites which support the creation of web apps as well as true “native apps” which can be added to the Apple App Store as well as the Android Marketplace. Today I received an email that the app I…
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GeoMap Comparison of Cellular Data Speeds Between OKC and Dodge City
Sunday afternoon and evening I drove from Oklahoma City to Dodge City, and I noted the cellular data speeds available from T-Mobile on my iPhone5s and from Verizon on my JetPack mobile hotspot on the trip. I used Google Map Engine Lite to create a GeoMap comparing the results. This is the map key /…
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Why Our Family Ditched AT&T and Joined T-Mobile: Huge Monthly Savings
I’ve been an AT&T customer for years, but the rising costs of AT&T’s wireless charges for our family combined with T-Mobile’s simple and VASTLY less expensive family wireless plans have enticed us to switch over. T-Mobile’s 4G and LTE wireless data support in Oklahoma City for the iPhone is the other main reason we decided…
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T-Mobile and Verizon Hotspot Mobile Data Shootout
It’s official: I’m the 4th and final cell phone toting member of our family to ditch AT&T and switch over to T-Mobile. In upcoming days I’ll post more about this, and include a photo of our entire family in new pink T-Mobile tshirts which just arrived in the mail today for the occasion. We’re going…
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Cbus Flex-Gel iPad Cases: Fit Great in a Bretford iPad Cart
Thanks to recommendations from fantastic Chicago educators Carolyn Skibba and Jennie Magiera, the iPads in my classroom cart now have protective covers! These were VERY inexpensive and while not the most protective and padded cases on the market, they WERE very affordable and are MUCH better than the zero/zilch protection we had previously. I’m also…
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Improving Student Writing Using iPads
These are the presentation slides for a series of hands-on workshops I’m sharing Thursday and Friday with elementary teachers in Lewisville, Texas, on the topic, “Improving Student Writing Using iPads.” Improving Student Writing Using iPads from Wesley Fryer Access referenced resources on Interactive Writing and Narrated Art Projects, as well as student blogs on stem.wesfryer.com.…
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Open ZIP Files on an iPhone with Puffin, Dropbox and Goodreader
iPhones cannot do everything a laptop computer can do, but with a few extra apps it’s possible to do more with ZIP (compressed) files than some people realize. In this post I’ll explain how to use the Puffin web browser (free), Dropbox app (free), and Goodreader for iPhone ($5), to download a ZIP file from…