Also:
Videoconferencing capabilities — hooked into this board — would be a
useful ingredient to bring even more communication and engagement
powers to our hybrid-based classrooms.
From Moodle Monthly’s posting:
MoodleTouch 1.2 hits the App store: Supports Themes, Profiles, myMoodle and some Gradebook functionality
On 05/05/2010,
in Apple, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, publishing, textbooks,
by Daniel Christian
From Share audio recordings with AudioBoo – by Chris Clark
AudioBoo is a free service that lets you record sound on an iPhone, iTouch, Android phone, or computer and share it online. It’s an example of microblogging; users record a “boo” of up to five minutes in length, optionally add a photo, and post it to their page. Those who understand Twitter can think of a boo as a sort of audio tweet.
On 04/26/2010,
in Apple, digital video,
by Daniel Christian
On 04/26/2010,
in Apple, higher education, online learning, online media, open courseware and systems, research,
by Daniel Christian
On 04/21/2010,
in Apple,
by Daniel Christian
Apple’s blow-out quarter: The bloggers called it. The Street blew it. — from Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Also see:
On 04/17/2010,
in Apple,
by Daniel Christian
On 04/12/2010,
in Apple, convergence,
by Daniel Christian
Apple goes where the portals failed — from wired.co.uk
Six months ago, an Apple analyst told me he thought the company’s long-term goal was to become the internet’s cable TV company. I didn’t get it then. I really get it now. Most think of Apple as a computer or consumer electronics company. I think that’s becoming a means to a much bigger end: becoming a giant news, entertainment and communications network with Googillian ambitions (emphasis from DSC –> and this will open up possibilities for education as well).
I’ll leave the goodness or badness of Apple’s ambitions to others. What is not debatable, however, is that what Apple is doing has the potential to be a colossally huge business.
Cable TV companies’ are always constrained by their capital costs (laying and maintaining all that cable). Apple has none of those worries. It appears that for the moment all it has to do is keep making killer devices and software, and the rest will take care of itself.
Devices like the iPad and iPhone generate audience, which attracts advertisers (a business Apple just said it was plunging into), which attracts content. It doesn’t hurt that Apple has been proven to be one of the few online platforms capable of charging for digital content.
MoodleTouch submitted to Apple’s App Store — from MoodleMonthly.com
On 04/08/2010,
in Apple, mobile technologies,
by Daniel Christian
Also see:
New iPhone system, with multi-tasking, unveiled — from CNN.com
and
iPhone OS 4: Multitasking and 100 other new features — from wired.co.uk
and
Apple Previews iPhone OS4: Mutli-Tasking, Folders, Gaming Platfrom, iAds — from gottabemobile.com
On 04/06/2010,
in Apple, convergence,
by Daniel Christian
In Apple news: iPad, iAd and iPhone 4.0 — from Philip Elmer-DeWitt
On 04/05/2010,
in Apple, mobile learning,
by Daniel Christian
Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie – April 2, 2010.
#616 – Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
54,909 Readers – http://www.masie.com – The MASIE Center.
iPad for Learning LAB:
We’ll be doing immediate testing on the “affordances” for learning that may be created by this new device. Jonathan Kayes (our CLO), Lauren Boughton (our Producer), Tom King (MASIE Fellow for ePubs), Erin Anderson (our recent college graduate editor) and Elliott Masie, will do a series of immediate experiments on the iPad. We are looking for affordances such as:
* Learning Apps: What might a $3 or $20 Learning App look like and accomplish?
* Media Shifts: How could one develop a module that deeply leverages multi-touch?
* Learner Expectations: What might devices such as these do to learner expectations for content and interaction?
* Marketplace Disruptions: What is the equivalent of the iTunes Song for 99 cents in learning?
* Missing Capabilities: Explores the role of video-conferencing, flash and other elements currently absent from the iPad.
Some of you are a bit hyper and will get your iPad tomorrow. Some are waiting. And, many are seeing too much hype and buzz. If you would like to follow and participate in our MASIE Center LAB tests and experiments, you can go to:
http://www.ipadlearninglab.com
This is a free and vendor-neutral blog that will take a deep look at the Learning dimensions of the iPad. Feel free to add your thoughts, experiences and questions.
Yours in learning,
Elliott Masie
See:
Blackboard Mobile Learn App Now Available for iPad
— Blackboard
Blackboard Mobile Learn Debuts on iPad
— The Journal
