Tag Archives: ipad

Anyone can create

Apple has just released new iPad focused curriculum guides focused on encouraging student creativity. The guides which focus on music, photography, video, and drawing include project ideas and app tutorials. Apple has also released a related teacher’s guide.

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Big business and edtech

It is back to school time and this seems to have generated a number of articles focused on school districts and large technology purchases. One to one initiatives are being launched and when such purchases involve a district wide decision … Continue reading

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Creating video tutorials explaining the use of iPad applications

Many educators have reason to create video tutorials for students and colleagues. Demonstrating iPad applications requires the mirroring of the iPad screen to a computer, the integration of audio with this video, and the generation of a video from this … Continue reading

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Setting iPad Restrictions

I have generated a short tutorial on setting iPad restrictions. Such restrictions allow a parent/teacher/administrator to place limitations on what can be done with an iPad running iOS7.

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iOS7 Filtering Problem

There has been a great deal of recent commentary regarding hacked iPads in California schools. I wonder if any of this is due to inherent flaws in the OS.

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If you must go to system 7 tomorrow

Here is a detailed tutorial on backing up your iPad if you intend to install system 7 tomorrow. I have several iPads and I plan to wait a bit for the iPad retina and longer for my iPad 2. My … Continue reading

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Read Kindle books on the iPad?

If you use your iPad to read books from Amazon (Kindle), it appears there is a problem with the most recent update to the app (see the date of this post as the problem is likely to be corrected soon). … Continue reading

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High capacity iPads?

I fail to grasp the rationale for a high capacity iPad. The cost is over $900 for the wifi/cellular version. More and more I see the device as a way to manipulate content in the cloud and the amount of … Continue reading

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Why $329?

So Apple has a smaller iPad. The price is $329. This is what was predicted and this turned out to be the price. The question is why offer a product that is fairly close in price to the full size … Continue reading

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Getting Noticed

AppleInsider offers an interesting post noting that nearly 2/3 of the apps available through the Apple store receive no attention and very few downloads. Zombie apps. Assuming some of these products are worthy of a try, the challenge is how … Continue reading

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