Application: iBooks free eBooks from Kaplan Publishing What it is: For a limited time, Kaplan Publishing is offering free ebooks (87 of them)! Find ebooks for teachers; medical, law, and business students, study aids, biographies, family and relationships, and more. How Kaplan ebooks can enrich learning: These ebooks are a great place to start your […]
Archive for the ‘iPad’ Category
Transform Any Text into a Spoken Track
August 25th, 2010
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Did you know that you can transform any text in almost any program into a spoken track on iTunes using your Mac? You can, and it is extraordinarily easy to do! First you need to adjust a setting in your System Preferences: 1. Open System Preferences 2. Click the Keyboard icon 3. Select the Keyboard […]
Dragon Dictation
August 17th, 2010
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Application: Dragon Dictation What it is: Dragon Dictation is a speech to text application. To use it, students speak into the microphone and their speech is converted to text. The accuracy is impressive, even with difficult words or background noise. Students can use Dragon Dictation to compose notes, email messages, or status updates for a […]
Adding PDF Formatted ebooks to iBooks
August 16th, 2010
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Apple recently updated iBooks so that PDF documents could be read natively directly in the iBooks application. It is simple to add a PDF to the iBook bookshelf from iTunes with 5 easy steps: 1. Connect your device to a computer. 2. Click on the Books icon in your iTunes Library in the left side […]
ARIS
August 13th, 2010
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What it is: ARIS , which stands for Augmented Reality and Interactive Storytelling, is one of the most innovative applications I have come across. The application is still in development so all of the functionality isn’t available within the application just yet, but it is such an incredible application that I had to share it […]
August 4th, 2010
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Application: Flipboard What it is: Flipboard is an iPad application that takes social media and turns it into a personalized digital magazine. The way that Flipboard displays feeds is absolutely stunning. Flipboard lets you flip through Facebook and Twitter feeds or follow a specific Twitter list or user. With Flipboard you can like, comment on, […]
My iPad Journey
July 29th, 2010
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Open publication – Free publishing – More school The story above is meant to be an illustration of the school/learning experience. The first explorer’s journey represents the traditional school model. Here, students are given set tools and led in one direction down a river of scripted curriculum and standardized tests. Some wonderful things are learned […]
Go Sky Watch Planetarium
July 28th, 2010
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Application: Go Sky Watch Planetarium What it is: Go Sky Watch Planetarium is an incredible application that puts t night sky in the hands of your students. This planetarium displays the night sky with the correct orientation of wherever students are. This means as your students move the iPad around them, the application adjusts to […]
