Interesting weekend reading

Had a chance to review this blog post from Ed Tech Teacher, and I think it presents an interesting...and potentially provocative...point of view.  Love to talk with folks about it in the near future!

http://edtechteacher.org/blog/?p=2150

Kaizena - add audio feedback to Google Docs

I stumbled across this article describing Kaizena, an app that allows you to add audio feedback and comments to Google Docs.  From the looks of the video in the article, this can be accessed from any web browser.  I haven't tried it yet on the iPad but will let you know some feedback once I do!
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/10/a-great-tool-to-add-audio-feedback-to.html

Daring Fireball article

All

If you are interested in Apple products in general, daring fireball.net is a good blog to subscribe to. There was recently an article there that I found really interesting regarding the tablet/laptop dichotomy and I think it is worth reading!

http://daringfireball.net/2013/10/the_ipad_air

Love to hear what you think!

Pages, Numbers, Keynote

All- I was looking through the Apple announcement from yesterday, and they are offering free copies of GarageBand, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote with purchase of the iPad Air. I'm thinking we should purchase these for the faculty iPads and try them out, then maybe ask the students to purchase one or more. If we were to roll this out in any form next year those free programs would certainly be a nice part of the package to utilize and help us by keeping folks on the same platform. If you want to purchase one of those for your use, please do and then forward me the receipt. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pages/id361309726

Bloom's Taxonomy for iPads

While doing some iPad investigating this past weekend, I came across this image which falls right in line with some of our methodology at CH-CH.  Enjoy!

Screen sharing app may be worth a try

Looks like it might be worth a try. Could even work as a homework assignment where students could collaborate in real time at home, in the dorm, the library, etc..  They could then share their page with the teacher. Imagine collaborating on annotating a photo or other visual primary document?

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/10/14/share-anytime-is-a-clever-collaborative-whiteboard-app-for-ipad/

What we can learn from primary school

All- You should really take a look at this article from Slate about a private pk-8 in Switzerland. Great approach to thinking about the potential for creation with the iPad. Love to hear from any of you who have had kids use Explain Everything or a video or audio app for students to show understanding of a concept! http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/04/ipads_in_the_classroom_the_right_way_to_use_them_demonstrated_by_a_swiss.html