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Dec 12, 2012
Slides from my TABS-2012 workshop "Collaborative Classroom"
I gave a talk about iPads in Education. Here are the slides. Unfortunately, I cannot find any way for the slides to play the animations automatically. So, if it looks like the slideshow stopped, click anywhere within the slideshow window.
Nov 12, 2012
Oct 29, 2012
60 in 60: Inspiring Apps (and site) for teachers by Hansen and Birks
Very good presentation by Aaron Hansen and Ray Birks of Wenatchee School District from 10/2012.
http://waetag.tk/
Their presentation includes websites and iPad apps, for K-12. Here are some free ones that I thought especially useful for high school and that people may not have heard about.
Sites
PollEverywhere -- polls taken via phone, web and Twitter -- use it as a clicker response system
FlockDraw -- draw collaboratively -- on the same page at the same time
Scale of the Universe
Speak Pipe -- record a voice message and email it (up to 10 minutes)
Sound Cloud -- record audio files and share
Soundation -- site for creating music (aka free Garageband)
iPad apps
History: Maps of the World
3D Cell Simulations
Coaster Physics
Science 360
Woices -- geolocalized audioguides done by users around the world - record one or explore others'
http://waetag.tk/
Their presentation includes websites and iPad apps, for K-12. Here are some free ones that I thought especially useful for high school and that people may not have heard about.
Sites
PollEverywhere -- polls taken via phone, web and Twitter -- use it as a clicker response system
FlockDraw -- draw collaboratively -- on the same page at the same time
Scale of the Universe
Speak Pipe -- record a voice message and email it (up to 10 minutes)
Sound Cloud -- record audio files and share
Soundation -- site for creating music (aka free Garageband)
iPad apps
History: Maps of the World
3D Cell Simulations
Coaster Physics
Science 360
Woices -- geolocalized audioguides done by users around the world - record one or explore others'
Oct 15, 2012
Talk about "iPads in Education" at NJAIS 2012
I gave a talk about iPads in Education. Here are the slides. Unfortunately, I cannot find any way for the slides to play the animations automatically. So, if it looks like the slideshow stopped, click anywhere within the slideshow window.
Aug 28, 2012
Grading with Voice on an iPad
Here is a good article by Doug Ward, a University of Kansas professor, who uses iAnnotate to provide verbal grading/feedback on student papers. iAnnotate is the Cadillac of PDF annotations and it syncs with Dropbox. The audio notes are saved with the file. iAnnotate is pricey ($10).
There is another app, PaperPort, that supports text dictation using Dragon speech-recognition software. PaperPort is not fast at importing a PDF document from Dropbox, and you need networking "on" in order to use the text dictation. The handwriting is pretty rough, but typing, dictation and support for PDF make it a good app. The free pricetag doesn't hurt either. Here's a good review.
There is another app, PaperPort, that supports text dictation using Dragon speech-recognition software. PaperPort is not fast at importing a PDF document from Dropbox, and you need networking "on" in order to use the text dictation. The handwriting is pretty rough, but typing, dictation and support for PDF make it a good app. The free pricetag doesn't hurt either. Here's a good review.
Aug 24, 2012
Nearpod for iPad
Nearpod is an interesting tool that, from the buzz the company has produced, seems to be the holy grail for education. On further testing, it proves to be useful but limited.
Here's how it works:
1. You, the teacher, create a lesson at nearpod.com ahead of time. Here is where you hit the first limitation -- the lesson cannot be created or edited on iPad. So, if you don't have a computer in your classroom, you cannot change anything mid-class. This also means that you and your students must all be connected to the Internet, since it is being run from nearpod.com and not from your iPad locally. Depending on your school's Internet speeds, this could be dicey.
A similar, but less restrictive and more feature-rich software is GoClass, but it is still in beta. It allows creation and editing of lesson elements on iPad, students can proceed at their own pace, and quizes/polls can be timed. Being in beta, the stability and buggyness of the app are unknown.
Other reviews of Nearpod:
Here's how it works:
1. You, the teacher, create a lesson at nearpod.com ahead of time. Here is where you hit the first limitation -- the lesson cannot be created or edited on iPad. So, if you don't have a computer in your classroom, you cannot change anything mid-class. This also means that you and your students must all be connected to the Internet, since it is being run from nearpod.com and not from your iPad locally. Depending on your school's Internet speeds, this could be dicey.
- A lesson is made up of slides
- A slide can be either a content slide or an interactive slide.
- A content slide can be a page from a PDF document or an image or a movie.
- An interactive slide can be a poll, a quiz, a Q&A or a drawing the students produce on a blank page or on an image (e.g. graph paper).
- You give students a pin and they each enter it into the student version of the nearpod app on their own iPads. As they join the lesson, you see their names pop
- You control exactly what is displayed on everyone's screen. Results of interactive slides (e.g. poll) show up in real time to you and you can choose to display them to everyone. Same with anything the students produce on their own drawing slides.
A similar, but less restrictive and more feature-rich software is GoClass, but it is still in beta. It allows creation and editing of lesson elements on iPad, students can proceed at their own pace, and quizes/polls can be timed. Being in beta, the stability and buggyness of the app are unknown.
Other reviews of Nearpod:
Aug 15, 2012
iPad and Flash
Although iPad does not fully support Adobe's Flash technology, a number of Web Browsers available for the iPad handle at least some Flash sites. The best of these is a free one called Puffin.
Here are pointers to further information about Flash and iPad:
… articles about different solutions for playing Flash: How to Get Flash on the iPad and Can I Play Flash on iPad? Yes!
… sample sites that “flash” browser should be able to handle: syfy.com/tinman, arome.fr, Monoface, Get The Glass
… sample sites that “flash” browser handle somewhat: friv
Other browsers with some Flash support are Skyfire ($5), Photon ($5), iSwifter ($5). I have tried all of these and prefer Puffin.
Here are pointers to further information about Flash and iPad:
… articles about different solutions for playing Flash: How to Get Flash on the iPad and Can I Play Flash on iPad? Yes!
… sample sites that “flash” browser should be able to handle: syfy.com/tinman, arome.fr, Monoface, Get The Glass
… sample sites that “flash” browser handle somewhat: friv
Other browsers with some Flash support are Skyfire ($5), Photon ($5), iSwifter ($5). I have tried all of these and prefer Puffin.
Apr 16, 2012
A free screencast and whiteboard app for iPad
Came across this reasonably new iPad app: PageSend. It is free and does two important jobs very well.
1. It's a very nice screencast app. It supports writing/typing/drawing, provides choice of colors and line thickness and allows multi-page boards. The only downside is that it is not integrated with Dropbox -- the finished product can be emailed or viewed at pagesend.com
2. It's a great whiteboard app. You need to create pagesend.com account(s) then you and any other users you invite can use your iPads as a common whiteboard in real-time. Multiple users can write simultaneously.
1. It's a very nice screencast app. It supports writing/typing/drawing, provides choice of colors and line thickness and allows multi-page boards. The only downside is that it is not integrated with Dropbox -- the finished product can be emailed or viewed at pagesend.com
2. It's a great whiteboard app. You need to create pagesend.com account(s) then you and any other users you invite can use your iPads as a common whiteboard in real-time. Multiple users can write simultaneously.
Mar 1, 2012
OnLive -- a better Office on the iPad?
Onlive Desktop is a new app for handling Microsoft Office documents. It is fast, it is sleek, but there are two reasons to wait: getting any document into or out of Onlive Desktop is a pain in the neck, and it is not at all clear if Onlive will survive Microsoft's licensing challenge. For more info, check out OnLive's train wreck: Office on the iPad and First look: OnLive Desktop Plus.
Feb 27, 2012
OneNote on iPad?
There is no good news for OneNote devotees. Your choices are the newly-released OneNote app by Microsoft, Outline app by Aqrate Software, or Mobile Noter for iPad. Outline allows viewing of any OneNote files in Dropbox, but does not allow editing. Microsoft's app syncs to cloud storage via your LiveID, but you can only edit the typed text part of the note; any handwritten notes are not only not-editable, they are not even displayed -- they show up as "[ink]". MobileNoter is free only for 30 days; after that you need to pay $15/yr if you want sync functionality. MobileNoter does not allow you to edit existing OneNote notebooks, just view them. [3/11/2012 Correction, thanks to oblacksmith: MobileNoter does allow viewing and editing existing OneNote notebooks. I still don't think this app is worth using since there are a lot of complaints in the reviews.]
So, what do you do if you have copious handwritten notes and like OneNote? To be honest, I do not know. There are good iPad apps for handwritten notetaking, but they do not have versions for Windows or Mac. Evernote exists on all the devices, but its support for handwritten notes via Skitch is kludgy, at best.
So, what do you do if you have copious handwritten notes and like OneNote? To be honest, I do not know. There are good iPad apps for handwritten notetaking, but they do not have versions for Windows or Mac. Evernote exists on all the devices, but its support for handwritten notes via Skitch is kludgy, at best.
Feb 15, 2012
How my tablet and Dragon Dictation helped me stop procrastinating and write those interims already...
After sharing my experience with Dragon Dictation and interims with Dina recently, she invited me to blog about it. I found the app to be very helpful but recognize that everyone works differently. If your biggest stumbling block with writing interims or comments is facing the dreaded BLANK PAGE, or you find yourself procrastinating up until the last few days, this may help:
I found that on the friday evening before interims were due, I had a pile of student work in front of me and lots of things to say about my students' progress, but kept struggling to sit down and just write. So I decided to give a dictation app a try. I had seen Jim Jordan use Dragon Dictation with some success, so I downloaded it and tried recording my thoughts. I figured out pretty quickly that I'd need to speak pretty slowly, and that felt awkward at first. But after a few paragraphs I had relatively few typos or misspellings. All you do is open the app, start recording, and once you're done you can copy and paste the text into a word processing program (I used Pages on my iPad).
The big bonus was that after a couple of hours of relatively stress-free work (just having a chat with your iPad really doesn't feel like hard work), I had a (VERY ROUGH) rough draft for most of my students. There was a lot of editing that needed to be done, but I'd gotten past my own worst hurdle, that first draft. Even substantial editing seemed easy to do, since mentally I was over that anxiety-inducing first step.
Drawbacks:
1. If you do this in public you may feel some concerned stares. You'll be talking to your tablet, and talking to it as though it's a non-native English speaker... Oh and you're a robot.
2. as far as I can tell dragon dictation has no understanding of punctuation pauses make no difference there's no capitalization at the beginning of a sentence you'll want to skim through the text soon after recording to make sure you can make sense of it
3. The software has some trouble with proper nouns, "Kate" and "Steve" were recognized. But it tried to translate "Aurelio" into "I really own". Easy enough to fix unless you have lots of students with similar and unusual names... and don't check your text as mentioned in drawback #2
4. Typos do occur, most will show up as such in pages so you can find them and fix them quickly. Some make it through not as a misspelling but just as the wrong word. For example, I commented on some of my students' reflections about the process of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, or "fracking" for short. I let you imagine what came up instead of "excellent job on your fracking paper...."
I found that on the friday evening before interims were due, I had a pile of student work in front of me and lots of things to say about my students' progress, but kept struggling to sit down and just write. So I decided to give a dictation app a try. I had seen Jim Jordan use Dragon Dictation with some success, so I downloaded it and tried recording my thoughts. I figured out pretty quickly that I'd need to speak pretty slowly, and that felt awkward at first. But after a few paragraphs I had relatively few typos or misspellings. All you do is open the app, start recording, and once you're done you can copy and paste the text into a word processing program (I used Pages on my iPad).
The big bonus was that after a couple of hours of relatively stress-free work (just having a chat with your iPad really doesn't feel like hard work), I had a (VERY ROUGH) rough draft for most of my students. There was a lot of editing that needed to be done, but I'd gotten past my own worst hurdle, that first draft. Even substantial editing seemed easy to do, since mentally I was over that anxiety-inducing first step.
Drawbacks:
1. If you do this in public you may feel some concerned stares. You'll be talking to your tablet, and talking to it as though it's a non-native English speaker... Oh and you're a robot.
2. as far as I can tell dragon dictation has no understanding of punctuation pauses make no difference there's no capitalization at the beginning of a sentence you'll want to skim through the text soon after recording to make sure you can make sense of it
3. The software has some trouble with proper nouns, "Kate" and "Steve" were recognized. But it tried to translate "Aurelio" into "I really own". Easy enough to fix unless you have lots of students with similar and unusual names... and don't check your text as mentioned in drawback #2
4. Typos do occur, most will show up as such in pages so you can find them and fix them quickly. Some make it through not as a misspelling but just as the wrong word. For example, I commented on some of my students' reflections about the process of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, or "fracking" for short. I let you imagine what came up instead of "excellent job on your fracking paper...."
Feb 13, 2012
Review of "20 Free iPad Apps Educators Can't Live Without!"
Some of you have asked me about this list, which is a free ebook from the people at simplek12.com. Below is my take on the apps.
Incidentally, the site (simplek12.com) contains good info and the associated blog is worth reading.
| Good tools I would recommend from this list: |
| 3. Educreations -- allows you to record a lesson. It's good, except that it does not import/export from/to dropbox. See my post on this type of tool: recording-lesson-on-your-ipad. 4. Google Search -- yes. If fact, this app gives you access to all Google Apps (mail, calendar, docs, etc), in addition to search 6. Quick Graph -- graphic calculator. 18. Kindle -- book reader from Amazon. 22. Dragon Dictation -- current best speech recognition technology; works well for some. |
These tools I do not know, but I prefer having ideas and task list in the same place as my other information. For me, that place is either Google Docs or Evernote. |
| 8. Lino -- brainstorming 21. Wunderlist -- task list |
| These apps are content, rather than tools: |
| 2. TED talks -- awesome, on iPad, on your computer, anywhere. 9. NASA app -- looks neat; I have not played with it. 11. History pin -- awesome. 13. Science360 -- looks neat; I have not played with it. 17. Free Books -- good collection of free books. There are many others. |
| These seem to be geared at earlier grades: |
| 5. Math Quizzer 7. Today in History Lite 10. Puppet Pals 12. Project Noah 14. Toontastic 15. Red Stamp 19. Era of Dino Lite |
| No knowledge or opinion: |
| 16. Virtuoso Piano 19. Flashcardlet 23. How Stuff Works |
Incidentally, the site (simplek12.com) contains good info and the associated blog is worth reading.
Feb 2, 2012
iPad apps for Windows users
Apps of particular use to people who live in Windows/Microsoft Office world:
Tablet trends
Good article on the trends (of tablets and laptops, Windows vs Mac) and strengths and shortcomings of various tablet platforms.
Your next computer could well be a tablet
Feb 1, 2012
Best blogs and resources on iPads in edu
Blog post (1/28/2012) that gives the best resources for teachers:
More good iPad tips and tricks sites
These are great if you are new to iPad and do not know which tricks you are interested in:
- 50 really useful iPad 2 tips and tricks
- 50 really useful iPad 2 tips and tricks
Jan 20, 2012
Updates to "Guide to apps for sketching, notes and annotating PDFs"
There have been some important updates and corrections to my Dec 2011 post on note taking apps. I've made the updates to the post, but the long and short of the updates is that Notes Plus now covers all the bases: typing, handwriting and handwriting recognition, PDF annotations and folder organization. The only missing feature is integration (import and export) with Dropbox. If you need Dropbox, this app is not for you. The cost is $5, plus $2 if you want handwriting recognition.
Jan 13, 2012
Great tips and tricks for common iPad tasks
Two excellent sources of tips and tricks for common iPad tasks -- worth a quick read even if you have used iPad for a while: techsupportalert.com and ipadinsight.com.
Here's a snapshot of the current listing at techsupportalert.com:
At ipadinsight.com, the many tips include
Here's a snapshot of the current listing at techsupportalert.com:
At ipadinsight.com, the many tips include
- uses for Home button
- taking a screenshot of what's on your iPad screen
- how to force an app to close
- how to quickly mute the iPad's volume
- sync and backup with your computer and/or iCloud
- multi-touch and multi-tasking gestures
- iPad dock
- how to remove an app
- rapid app switching
- using folders to organize your iPad apps
- how to lock the iPad screen orientation
- how to save an image from a Web page
- how to enable the Caps Lock function
- and many more
Jan 11, 2012
Simple graph app for iPad
If you need to enter some (x,y)-pairs data, plot them, do some curve-fitting, and save the graph as a PDF or image, there is a nice free app that this: DataAnalysis.
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