{"id":42882,"date":"2013-10-15T16:59:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T20:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=42882"},"modified":"2013-10-15T16:59:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T20:59:36","slug":"tidebreak-next-generation-mobile-app-powers-full-participation-learning-digitaljournal-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/10\/15\/tidebreak-next-generation-mobile-app-powers-full-participation-learning-digitaljournal-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidebreak Next Generation Mobile App Powers Full-Participation Learning  [digitaljournal.com]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/pr\/1525301\" target=\"_blank\">Tidebreak Next Generation Mobile App Powers Full-Participation Learning<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> &#8212; from digitaljournal.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mountain View and Anaheim, CA (PRWEB) October 15, 2013<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>New web app increases collaboration between students and faculty in classroom in BYOD learning environments.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cUsing technology in the classroom can help spur creativity, increase participation, and foster a collaborative environment,\u201d<\/span><\/strong> said Andrew J. Milne, Ph.D., chief executive officer of Tidebreak. \u201cThe latest version of Tidebreak\u2019s mobile web app allows students to use any tablet or handheld device to share information with the entire class in real-time. By incorporating mobile web apps into devices that students already own, faculty can improve the learning process by creating a more collaborative environment that encourages active participation.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mobile web app from Tidebreak has many new features that will help increase student participation in the classroom. New features that have been incorporated into ClassSpot, ClassSpot PBL and TeamSpot include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> Work \u201cat the board\u201d without getting up<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 Full keyboard and track pad control from a tablet or phone allows students to collaborate on the large classroom screen in real-time.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Bridge the physical and digital world<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Capture and share photos of whiteboard content, physical objects, or images and then share it on-screen or archive it instantly.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Surf and share<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Search the web for relevant content and then share it to the main screen, the session archive, or to everyone in the group simultaneously.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Navigate an enhanced design<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 A great deal of improvement has gone into the user interface which helps generate new ideas among students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tidebreak Next Generation Mobile App Powers Full-Participation Learning\u00a0 &#8212; from digitaljournal.com Excerpts (emphasis DSC): Mountain View and Anaheim, CA (PRWEB) October 15, 2013 New web app increases collaboration between students and faculty in classroom in BYOD learning environments. &#8230; \u201cUsing technology in the classroom can help spur creativity, increase participation, and foster a collaborative environment,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,354,208,127,32,210,141,3,391,419,180,276,46,7,510,87,511,496,14,5,23,182,279,526,126,84,166,491,66,50,518,189,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-av-audiovisual","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-collaboration","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-interactivity","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-spaces","category-machine-to-machine-communications","category-mirroring-andor-multiple-devices","category-mobile-learning","category-multi-touch","category-multimedia","category-new-media-literacies","category-participation","category-second-screen-apps","category-simulations","category-smart-classrooms","category-social-learning-networks","category-streams-of-content","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning","category-tvs","category-videoconferencing","category-web-based-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42885,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42882\/revisions\/42885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}