On 04/19/2012,
in corporate / business world, IT in HE, productivity / tips and tricks, tools, user experience (UX),
by Daniel Christian
On 04/13/2012,
in animation, art, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, creativity, media/film, music, productivity / tips and tricks, storytelling, tools, transmedia,
by Daniel Christian
Animator creates incredible musical painting with $5 iPad app [VIDEO] — from Mashable by Christine Erickson
Excerpt:
“I really recommend it to anyone who does storyboards, concept art and animators, filmmakers, producers, whatever — this is the future,” says the video’s lead animator and director, Whitney Alexander. (You can see the full making-of here.)
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On 04/03/2012,
in mobile technologies, productivity / tips and tricks, telecommunications,
by Daniel Christian
On 03/30/2012,
in art, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, collaboration, creativity, productivity / tips and tricks, tools, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
Description (from iTunes)
Paper is where ideas begin. It’s the easiest and most beautiful way to create on iPad. Capture your ideas as sketches, diagrams, illustrations, notes or drawings and share them across the web.
Mobile creation done right.
Paper was designed from the ground up for touch and creating on the go. No fussy buttons, settings or other distractions. Paper works the way you think, like a familiar notebook or journal. Have all of your ideas with you in one place.
Essential tools, settings-free.
Productivity meets beauty. No settings. Always beautiful—like great tools should be. Just pick up a tool and instantly begin to Sketch, Write, Draw, Outline and Color. Draw comes free with Paper.
Purchase additional tools from the in-app store:
- Sketch. Ideas start here. The pencil blends from light to dark for sketching scenes, objects, and thoughts in rough form.
- Write. Words never looked so beautiful. Write messages, add captions, or create lists with this quality ink pen.
- Outline. Think bold. Graph insights, create a storyboard, or outline a presentation with this marker. Black lines stay black.
- Color. Give color to your ideas. Move from a light wash to deep, rich color in one stroke with this watercolor made easy. You’ve got to try it.
Expressive Ink Engine.
Our custom ink engine reacts to your movements to optimize each tool for the process of creation. Get a range of expressions from a single tool without fussing with settings for great handwriting, beautiful coloring, and sketching that just works.
Retina Resolution.
Built for the new iPad’s brilliant display. With a full 2048×1536 canvas, see stunning details in your creations you couldn’t before—like pencil texture and watercolor edge bleed.
Paper the web.
Share your ideas instantly. Stream pages to Tumblr, send them over email, or share pages with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.
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- 5 apps for working from the iPad — from ReadWriteWeb.com by Jon Mitchell
Excerpt:
Let’s be real about this. You can’t do everything on an iPad. As Shawn Blanc pointed outthe other day, you can’t make iOS apps on it, for example. But you might be surprised by how much real work you can do on it with the right tools. If your work requires generally office-like capabilities, there are definitely iPad solutions.
Here are five road-tested apps for getting things done on an iPad. It’s not meant to be a complete list, but it’s meant to be a flexible one. These are tools that are not tied to any particular method of working. They’ll help any digital worker stay sane and accomplish things, and you might find that the iPad is a surprisingly nice device to use for them.
On 02/22/2012,
in 24x7x365 access, 3D, animation, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, elearning, engagement / engaging students, Europe, innovation, multimedia, online learning, presentations, productivity / tips and tricks,
by Daniel Christian
Per Benoît Morel:
We just launched a new release of Living Actor™ Presenter, a 100% online tool that generates video animations from an audio or text file, automatically animating a high quality 3D full body avatar. This new version is more powerful, offers more multimedia, and is faster to use.
On 11/14/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, blended learning, change, digital learning, education technology, elearning, future, game-changing environment, hybrid learning, innovation, K-12 related, online learning, personalized/customized learning, productivity / tips and tricks, student teaching/teacher education, student-related,
by Daniel Christian
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A comprehensive look at the promise and potential of online learning
In our digital age, students have dramatically new learning needs and must be prepared for the idea economy of the future. In Getting Smart, well-known global education expert Tom Vander Ark examines the facets of educational innovation in the United States and abroad. Vander Ark makes a convincing case for a blend of online and onsite learning, shares inspiring stories of schools and programs that effectively offer “personal digital learning” opportunities, and discusses what we need to do to remake our schools into “smart schools.”
— Examines the innovation-driven world, discusses how to combine online and onsite learning, and reviews “smart tools” for learning
— Investigates the lives of learning professionals, outlines the new employment bargain, examines online universities and “smart schools”
— Makes the case for smart capital, advocates for policies that create better learning, studies smart cultures
Addendum on 11/29/11:
- Getting Smart envisions a smarter system of schooling — from innosightinstitute.org by Michael Horn
On 10/28/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, accessibility / UDL, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, assistive technologies, Augmented Reality (AR), cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, collaboration, communications, convergence, corporate / business world, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, e-books, e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, intelligent systems, interactivity, interface design, internet, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, lifelong learning, machine-to-machine communications, Microsoft, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), new media literacies, online learning, online media, personalized/customized learning, reinvent, tablets, technologies for your home, technology (general), television, tools, transmedia, trends, ubiquitous learning, user experience (UX), user interface design, videoconferencing, vision/possibilities, visualizing information, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
On 09/23/2011,
in blogs / blogging / vlogging, CMS/LMS, productivity / tips and tricks, tools,
by Daniel Christian
On 09/14/2011,
in music, productivity / tips and tricks,
by Daniel Christian
Tonara for iPad, sheet music for the next generation — from padgadget.com
- Automatic page turning
- Score following with Tonara’s magic marker
- Play alone or with others
- Listen back to your sessions
- Share your performances with friends and colleagues
- Noise resilient
- Shows your tempo at any given moment
- Metronome – visual and audio
- Substantial sheet music store
- Scores formatted for the iPad
- Appropriate for any level musician
With Tonara, turning pages is a thing of the past! Tonara is the next generation sheet music application. It listens to you. As you play, it shows where you are on the score and automatically turns the pages.
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On 09/14/2011,
in adult learning, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, learning ecosystem, lifelong learning, productivity / tips and tricks, professional development, social learning / networks, tablets, training / L&D,
by Daniel Christian
Learning 2011 Breakout Session Formats:
- Thought Leader
- Learning Story
- “Learning @” Session
- Targeted Session
- Panel
- Discussion
- Workshops
- FLIP Sessions
- Supplier Showcase
- Ten Ways Session
- Author Sessions
- Learning Café
- Step-by-Step How-To Session
Spotlight Award: iPad as “Game Changer”
The Learning CONSORTIUM is proud to announce that the iPad will receive a special “Game Changer” Learning Spotlight Award at Elliott Masie’s Learning 2011, November 6-9, in Orlando, FL.
On 09/13/2011,
in communications, Daniel S. Christian, productivity / tips and tricks, tools, trends,
by Daniel Christian
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From DSC:
I post this because I’m glad to see that email is still kicking tail! In 1990, I was hired at Kraft to help rollout email to (then) 66 plants across the country. The project got scrapped, but I kept at it as I believed in the power, efficiency, and productivity of this new tool (that is, email was new to Kraft in the early 90’s).
By the time I left Kraft, email usage had spread throughout the company and applications even resided on top of the email system. The VP of HR could communicate to every employee within seconds — something that was unheard of before email.
On 09/07/2011,
in blended learning, CMS/LMS, hybrid learning, instructional design, productivity / tips and tricks, teaching & learning, teaching online, tools,
by Daniel Christian
On 09/02/2011,
in art, creativity, digital learning, graphics, innovation, productivity / tips and tricks, tools, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
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- Wacom Inkling smart pen does drawing the old-fashioned way — sort of (video) — from endgadget.com
- Digital ink pen revolutionizes the art of creating art — from dvice.com
- Wacom Inkling system converts your ink drawings to digital scribbles — from thisismynext.com
- The Inkling: A Wacom Tablet Without the Tablet — from core77.com
- Wacom Inkling uses sonar to turn ink doodles into digital vectors — from wired.co.uk by Mark Brown