Apps Education

This is an excellent post written by Lisa Johnson on May 18, 2011 on her blog Techchef4u. Make sure you check out her blog. This is what the rest of us have been waiting for. Lisa has put in a lot of time, energy and hard work creating some really clever lessons that incorporate ipad apps. She has obviously thought long...

Greg Swanson @ AppsineducationIf Apple were truly serious about integrating iPads into education then they need to implement an overhaul of the iOS to incorporate multi user log-ins.For the iPad to operate with ease across the board educationally then the attitude that the iPad is a purely personal device needs to be challenged.On a personal...

All apps are created equal but some are more equal than others.I love the mirroring capabilities of the iPad 2. This means that a lot of prep work is taken out of the teacher's hands. They can just plug in the VGA adaptor and mirror their iPad screens on a data projector or HDTV.But what of the guys who were early adaptors. The original iPad...

Problem:How many times have you had to send a student back to complete a proper bibliography for an assignment or project. How many of your struggling students do not understand the correct bibliography process. Students can not see the need for bibliographies but lose marks because it has not been done correctly. Many school even have a...

This app has excellent uses in education and more specifically in the classroom. I can think of a dozen reasons why this would be useful to a teacher. The offline tabbed browsing and file download features are really good but the ability to share your iPad screen over a HDTV is what really opens this app to the education sector. This is especially...

Reimagine the Classroom:Here is an excellent way to utilise the iPad in your classroom. Put together by Cyndi Danner-Kuhn over at technologybitsbytesnibbles. This is the sort of workflow advice that teachers using iPad in the classroom needs.Creating a global learning community with the best teachers in the world. Easily record interactive...

This post has some of the tips and tricks that we have seen before, however it also covers some of the basics that you might have forgotten or would be really handy to a new iPad owner. There were quite a few things here that I had not seen before and will find really useful. It is a well written and easy to read guide to getting the...

As teachers one of the most important aspects of our day is the way that we present information. It does not really matter what our pedagogical philosophy is, at one point or another during the day we all need to present. If we are going to use the iPad in our classroom shouldn't we be modelling to our students the appropriate apps or presentation...