Tag: mobile
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Learn About Your Teacher Through Her QR Code
(cross-posted from the Yukon Public Schools Learning Showcase) How did parents in your classroom or your child/grandchild’s classroom learn about new teachers this year? At Independence Elementary School in Yukon Public Schools, parents of students learning with Dawn Dukes in the Gifted Program could use a smartphone and a free QR code reader app to scan…
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Free iPhone Turn by Turn Driving Directions with Waze
Thanks to James Deaton, this past week I learned about the free mobile app, Waze. Waze is “Real-time maps and traffic information based on the wisdom of the crowd.” The website explains: Waze is a social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road. 100% powered by users, the more you drive, the better…
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Platform agnostic developers will help redefine print and literacy
Great quotation from yesterday’s Mashable article, “The Reinvention of Print, One App at a Time.” The final advantage is that because the app is built on an HTML5 base, the process of taking the app from the iPad to another platform is going to be less complicated. Portability and platform agnosticism is going to become…
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Watching TV on an iPhone
We have been hearing about watching TV on our phones here in the USA for awhile, but many cell phone network towers (especially in rural areas) still can’t support the bandwidth this requires. Most cell phones today can’t stream live TV either. Today, I learned my iPhone can! Using the $3 CNN iPhone app, I…
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Podcast317: Comparing Drop.io and Gabcast for Cell Phone Digital Recording
In this podcast from the road, I compare the available features, limitations, and relative benefits of using the web service drop.io compared to Gabcast for cell phone (or regular land line phone) digital recording. Gcast is another available option for phone-in recording, and I discuss it a bit as well. Both Gabcast and Gcast became…