Category: mobile
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How to Share Videos from a School iPad Cart
I visited with a K-3 librarian today who recently received a cart of iPads at her school for teachers to check out and use with students. She was unsure how to share videos the students create and save to their iPad camera rolls, however, with apps like iMovie, Puppet Pals, and Sock Puppets. In this…
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Check Out Teetsie: A GameSalad-created iPad Game
Today at breakfast in a diner in Florida, I overheard a couple near me talking about the new iPad game the husband had coded which was just was released on the Apple App Store. The game is Teetsie, and it turns out the creator (Lee Walker) has been working on it the past six months…
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AirDrop Video Sharing, 5 Photo Stories and Narrated Slideshows
Today in Chickasha, Oklahoma, I led a “bring your own iPad” workshop for Storychasers on “Narrated Slideshows and Screencasts with the iPad.” This is the first iPad workshop I’ve led since updating my iPad2 to iOS 7. In the morning, we viewed and discussed different examples of student-created narrated slideshows and screencasts. These included: Ejyafjallajokull:…
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Sortable, Mobilized Google Spreadsheet with Student Photos and Information
Last night at our church, one of the parent volunteers helping out with middle school and high school mid-week activities was taking photos of students with an iPad Mini. I asked him if he had an app for organizing and sharing the photos he was taking, and he said no: He’d tried unsuccessfully to put…
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iOS Content Creators Rejoice: iMovie, Pages, Keynote and More FREE on New Devices!
This evening I watched the entire “special event” video from Apple’s iPhone 5c/5S announcements in Cupertino today. While the new iPhones look great, the announcement that iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for iOS are now FREE for everyone purchasing a new iOS device is absolutely wonderful! This is particularly great news for schools implementing…
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2011 iPad 2 = 1985 Cray Supercomputer
This is a classic photo caption: The second iteration of the Cray supercomputer, this time released in 1985, could run a staggering twelve times faster than the original, while taking up less space. by Pargon According to Steve Omohundro, in his TEDxTallinn presentation, “Smart Technology for the Greater Good,” The iPad2 in 2011 was (and still…
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Podcast405: Game Changing Apps with Brad Waid and Drew Minock
This podcast is an audio recording of Brad Waid and Drew Minock’s presentation, “Game Changing Apps” at the Podstock Conference in Wichita, Kansas, on July 19, 2013. The official conference session description was: Game Changing Apps with Brad Waid, Drew Minock. We will be presenting game changing apps for student engagement, teacher productivity, and augmented reality.…
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iPhone Apps by Category (July 2013) Shared with ThingLink
Today during day 2 of iPad Media Camp in Manhattan, Kansas, Cyndi Danner Kuhn shared a wonderful website and web tool with me I hadn’t heard of before: ThingLink. ThingLink lets you create hotspots on images which link to different things: Other images, videos, websites, etc. It’s basically a tool for creating embeddable image maps.…
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iPad Media Camp FAQs (July 2013)
Today during day 2 of iPad Media Camp in Manhattan, Kansas, I recorded a 17 minute screencast using the iPad app “Explain Everything” answering questions participants posted using a Google Form after our first day. This is also linked on the curriculum for day 2 of iPad Media Camp this week, which focuses on making…