On 06/25/2013,
in 21st century, Apple, business side of he, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, cost of getting a degree, Daniel S. Christian, education technology, experimentation, future of higher education, game-changing environment, innovation,
by Daniel Christian
On 06/12/2013,
in Apple, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, new business models, publishing,
by Daniel Christian
Description
Self Publishing Using iBooks Author is aimed towards introducing you to using to Apple’s powerful eBook authoring software, the new possibilities it provides, and help start you on the path to creating your very own books to share and distribute.
Being an eBook about iBooks Author, created using iBooks Author, we will take advantage of this and explore every facet of this software while demonstrating on the pages how we went about creating the layouts and designs you see using iBooks Author’s many features.
Free.
Available on iPad.
On 06/10/2013,
in Apple, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, computer science, convergence, digital audio, digital video, multimedia, music, platforms, technologies for your home,
by Daniel Christian
Also see:
- Crazy iPad numbers from the WWDC 2013 Keynote — from ipadinsight.com by Patrick Jordan
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- The Best Features Of iOS 7 — from techcrunch.com by Sarah Perez
. - Everything You Need to Know about iOS 7 — from hongkiat.com
Excerpts:
iBooks is now available on the Mac, giving users access to 1.8 million books including interactive textbooks.
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AirDrop Sharing Between iOS Devices <– potential uses in the Smart Classrooms…?
AirDrop is now available for transfers between iOS devices via peer-to-peer WiFI connection. Turning on the Share Sheet on an app, you can find users who are nearby and tap items to share. A notification will appear on their device and when they open it, it will open to the relevent app and show the content that you shared.
. - Apple’s WWDC 2013 Keynote: Highlights, Summary & History — from hongkiat.com by Singyin Lee
Excerpt:
Multiple Display <– potential uses in the Smart Classrooms…?
Multiple Display support allow you to work on, multiple screens, even though only one device is physically connected, even if it means you are using Apple TV as one of your screens. Full screen spaces can be pulled from one display to the next and the dock and other menus will be displayed on each connected screen as well.
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- Apple’s App Store hits 50 billion downloads, 900K apps, $10 billion paid to developers; iTunes now with 575M accounts — from techcrunch.com by Sarah Perez
Apple TV needs apps — from money.cnn.com by Adrian Covert
If there was ever a time for Apple to open up its Apple TV platform to third-party apps, that time is [today] at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference.
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On 05/30/2013,
in Adobe, Apple, communications, content development, aggregation, repositories, cost of getting a degree, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), education technology, innovation, interactivity, mobile learning, streams of content,
by Daniel Christian
Below are some great resources re: creating your own e-books / streams of content — with thanks to Mr. Michael Haan, Technology Integration Specialist/Purchasing at Calvin College, for these resources
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- Adobe DPS:
http://www.adobe.com/education/products/digital-publishing-suite.html
. - Apple iBooks Author:
http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
. - Creating ePub/eBook books in Pages:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4168
. - Creating ePub/eBook in InDesign:
http://blogs.adobe.com/vikrant/2012/02/create-epub-ebooks-with-adobe-indesign/
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From DSC:
You might also want to check out Lynda.com for the relevant training materials.
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Let’s create our own streams of content — always up-to-date — plus we could help our students save big $$! And, as Michael pointed out, such tools could also be used internally for training-related and communications-related purposes.
Thanks Michael!!!
On 05/09/2013,
in Apple, corporate / business world, digital learning, mobile learning, platforms, technologies for your home,
by Daniel Christian
IT does not love iPads — from by Michelle Fredette
Students and faculty may love them, but IT personnel get a major headache when they try to integrate Apple tablets–and the company’s TV technology–in an enterprise setting.
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From DSC:
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) train has arrived. As such, this is a huge issue and as you can tell from reading Michelle’s article, there is no silver bullet out there (at least not as of 5/9/13). I sure wish all of the relevant vendors could get behind a secure, efficient, reliable standard here…or at least have Apple come up with something that would get past the multi-cast issues for wireless networks (i.e. what works great for the consumer at home doesn’t work well on a campus or throughout an enterprise). It also adds to the already difficult job we in IT have when the targets are constantly moving — and moving faster than ever. Add to that the need to consider entire ecosystems/platforms these days.
On 05/01/2013,
in Apple, art, biology, chemistry, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, geography / geology, history, K-12 related, languages and translation, mathematics, music, physics, reading,
by Daniel Christian
On 04/26/2013,
in Apple, business, corporate / business world, Daniel S. Christian, Google, learning ecosystem, Microsoft, platforms, tools, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc (GOOG), Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN): Ecosystems are widening moats — from insidermonkey.com
Apple smartphone strategy: It’s the ecosystem — news.investors.com
The strength of Apple’s ecosystem remains its greatest asset and will secure customers and profits despite slowing growth and margin dips — from tbrnewsommentary.wordpress.com by Beau Skonieczny, Analyst
iPad continued to fuel growth and healthy margins for Apple despite headwinds
From DSC:
Those of us working in the tech side of the house know how difficult it is to navigate this space. The targets are always moving, and determining which tool to go with has changed through these last few years. It used to be about individual tools (and sometimes still is). But increasingly, one needs to fly at the 50,00-foot level and ask how the ecosystems are playing out and how an individual tool fits into a greater ecosystem or platform. Some ecosystems that come to my mind right now include: Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.
On 03/11/2013,
in A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, collaboration, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, higher education, innovation, IT in HE, K-12 related, mobile learning, mobile technologies, participation, web-based collaboration, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
The worlds of K-12, higher education, and corporate training/development are all seeking solid solutions to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or the Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) solution. (The way I see it, it would sure be helpful it Apple worked with the other relevant vendors to establish better wireless networking protocols.) Anyway, below are some items on this topic:
How to BYOT for Learning? –– from shift2future.com by Brian Kuhn
Responding to the “Shift to the Future” — from seanrtech.blogspot.com by Sean Robinson
BYOD: 7 reasons to leave them to their own devices — from Donald Clark Plan B
Ten reasons the iPad is an awesome tool for classrooms and education — from isource.com with thanks to Krista Spahr, Senior Instructional Designer at Calvin College, for this resource
The 4 easiest ways to mirror the iPad (comparison chart) — from edudemic.com by Seth Hansen; working off of a similar posting from Tony Vincent
Strategies for taking flight with BYOT — from byotnetwork.com
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills identified 4 critical areas of learning for students that include creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration. In Forsyth County Schools, we’ve been working hard with parents, teachers and students to embrace learning with student-owned technologies; something we call Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT). What we know for sure is that BYOT is really more like Bring Your Own Learning because we’ve discovered that it is NOT about the technology – it IS about the learning.
From DSC:
This aligns well with Alan November’s replacing “one-to-one” with “one-to-world.”
But whether we use the acronomyns BYOD, BYOT or BYOL (or whatever), it’s all about students being able to contribute content (hopefully that they created) and participate in the discussions.
From June 2012
From October 2009:
Building off of Steelcase’s media:scape product line
On 03/06/2013,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, analytics, Apple, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, Daniel S. Christian, data related items, online learning, vendors, vision/possibilities,
by Daniel Christian
Harvard’s plan to dominate higher education — from jumpthecurve.net by Jack Uldrich
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
Critics of online education and MOOCs may delude themselves by thinking an online course can never offer the same level of intimacy or interaction as a traditional college course but they are missing a key component of the MOOC movement: analytics.
What Harvard and other MOOC providers understand is that every time a student interacts with the material on an online course, she provides the institution feedback that allows it to learn a little more about how that student learns. Armed with this information they can then offer future courses designed not only to meet that individual’s specific educational needs but which are delivered in a manner personally tailored to his or her unique learning style.
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Imagine Harvard charges a $100 accrediting fee to every student who takes one of its free courses. If one million students—students who formerly populated state universities and colleges—opt instead to take just one accredited course a year from Harvard that amounts to $100 million a year.
From DSC:
Readers of this blog will know that I think MOOCs are in an iterative process of morphing into something else, something new. MOOCs are half-baked at this point. I say that because it’s like drinking from a firehose (at least as of early March 2013). But what Jack Uldrich points out is what I was trying to get at in the graphic below. That is, if technologies that can capture, filter, curate, provide relevant information based upon analytics, one doesn’t have to drink from a fire hose anymore…the drinking fountain now becomes a better metaphor.
On a potentially related note — and a veeeerrrryyyy interesting question asked at this article out at Chief Learning Officer:
- Apple keeps a tight lid on what goes on in its learning organization, Apple University. Why?
From Apple’s Secret Training Ground
Either one of these forces could create what I’ve been calling “The Forthcoming Walmart of Education” (since 2008). As Smart/Connected TVs proliferate, Apple’s developing infrastructure and ecosystem could easily fill the bill.
On 02/28/2013,
in Apple, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, game-changing environment, higher education, innovation,
by Daniel Christian
On 02/21/2013,
in Adobe, Apple, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, digital learning, elearning, India, mobile learning, mobile technologies, training / L&D, ubiquitous learning, UK,
by Daniel Christian
The question of why (not) eLearning on iPads or tablets? — from upsidelearning.com by Amit Garg
Excerpt:
2012 saw the re-emergence of ‘Mobile learning’ or ‘mLearning’ as “new” (ok, not really new) buzzwords in L&D and Training circles around the world. But largely in the wrong context! Mobile Learning is being loosely attributed to any learning activity that is not location bound, which is very surprising! And even more surprising is, more often than not, it is not even referring to mLearning at all! But to things like, making an LMS available on an USB drive so you can track courses while on a plane! Certainly not mobile learning in my opinion.
I believe ‘real’ mobile learning is much more than just learning on a mobile device. I also believe that ”tablet” learning is neither mobile nor eLearning, but actually occupies a position between mLearning and eLearning. So let me lay out my argument for why I believe this!
Also see Amit’s presentation at LT13uk — the full presentation is available here:
http://www.slideshare.net/UpsideLearning/designing-elearning-for-ipads
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