Lainie Rowell presented to a standing room only group on effective use of the iOS platform in the classroom. iOS is Apple's new branding of the operating software for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. She focused on the iPhone, but showed how the only difference between an iPhone and an iPod Touch is the camera and microphone.
Here are some highlights from her presentation (pdf of presentation):
Advantages of Mobile Computing
• Affordable • Portable • Accessible • Easier to use than some desktop computers • Enough functionality to serve as your primary computing device • Often, less IT support is required
Tools used (not iPhone apps):
- Ipevo like Elmo, but compact and much cheaper: http://www.ipevo.com/Point-2-View-USB-Camera_p_70.html
- RSS news aggregator, create your own newspaper: www.netnewswireapp.com
- Quick audience or classroom polling using a text messaging: www.polleverywhere.com
- iPod charging/syncing station
- Shake to undo typing.
- Save draft of email by clicking cancel
- To get to top of a screen while in a scrollable application press clock
- Hold down your finger on something for the equivalent of a right click to get options
- Can save images by holding down to get a 'right click' to save image or copy and paste.
- Language special characters: hold down letter and options appear. When you hold down you get options.
- Double click home button to open multitasking bar.
- Getting directions using google maps:cUse laptop ann Google maps and email directions to phone. Then in phone open email and click on link to launch Maps and load direction set.
Lainie Rowell
website: www.lainierowell.com
bookmarks: http://www.diigo.com/user/lainierowell
email: lainie@me.com
What Lainie uses her iPhone for (Apps, most free, some small charge):
- Using clock to set alarms (free)
- Weather app (free)
- IPod (free)
- TED talks-Tech,Entertainment,Design (youtube, free)
- Calendaring (free)
- Attendance.app
- Used in Lang Arts
- Preso
- Calculator (turn device sideways to get science calculator)
- Lots of science apps
- Uses instant messaging (IM) which is always up to communicate with other teachers
- Mail (Message grouping in Mail)
- MS exchange support
- AudioBoo (uses this to quickly and easily upload audio to podcasts)
- Evernote (I use this constantly and in fact used this on my iPhone to take these notes during Lainie's presentation). Pictures, text, sound that is indexed on servers for easy search.
- Kindle has come to the iPad!
- iBook
- Google mobile app
- Shazam, your iPhone will listen to a song and then tell you what it is and give you a link to easily add to your iTunes
- Tv.com, see those epsidoes...that were recently aired or not
- Whiteboard
- Translator
- ibowl
- iGolf
- Bump is used to share contact info...akin to a high five with an exchange of contact info! Bump
- Used to share contact info with others.
- Augmented reality
- EUSD iRead site for good iPhone apps
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ReplyDeleteI had no clue about shake to undo typing. That is life altering!
This was a great session! I liked learning that if you press and hold the .com key you get more choices... .org, .edu, .net
ReplyDeleteHere's the handout from the session I didn't get to attend, on the iPad:
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My mantra to students had always been, "When you right click you get options, when you left click you select." You can imagine my dismay as I learned more about the Mac seven years ago and discovered that there was no right click...or so I thought. There was the Control+Click to get a right click. More dismay at iOS with no right click, but it was there all along!!
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