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Random Tips & Tricks: Web Tools, iOS, Mac
I am working with a dynamite group of people at Apple Academy, all with great ideas and energy. When in info overload, it takes time to sort and organize. Since I don’t have the time, here flows random thoughts: Use dotEPUB to convert any web page or article and save it as an iBook document:…
iPad | Pedagogy | Trends | Uncategorized
iOS 5 Potential and Accessibility Features for Classrooms
I am participating with the Apple Academy this week held in Cupertino. While I have learned much in just the first day, I will share two things that I look forward to for classroom implementation: potential iOS 5 features and the current iOS 4 accessibility features. Let’s start with the future: while I have been…
Android | iPad | Uncategorized
Finding Apps and Staying Current with iPad and Android
So most of us have read articles that list “The 10 Best Apps for…” or “My Favorite Apps to…” There are hundreds out there, many listed in my list of bookmarks (so what do you call a list of lists?) Several sessions here at the ISTE Conference provide great suggestions for apps (e.g. What’s Your App? Finding Real…
How to Use Web 2.0 Toolbars in iPad Browsers
Often you may come upon a website you wish to add to a web 2.0 resource like Diigo, Delicious, Evernote, Livebinder, ReadItLater, Instapaper, Shareholic, etc. On a computer browser, you can install extension toolbars to make quick work of it, but not so easily on the iPad. Not wanting to relegate the iPad to a…
Flirting with Chaos: Rooting Android on my Entourage Edge
Because I have focused so hard on the iPad the last year or so, I have committed to learn more about Android in the next few months. I specifically bought an Android rather than an iPhone just to better understand both platforms. Not that I will drop iPad, rather it will be a parallel existence…
First Look: Google Docs for Android
I was very excited to see Google release an Android version of Google Docs on Wednesday (Support Page and Marketplace Link). Many of the limitations seen in using iPad to access Google Docs apply with this app as well: creating/editing a doc is mostly limited to text, nothing complex. While I can view and edit…
iPad and Google Docs: Still Not a Great Fit
When the iPad was first released, it didn’t take long to realize Web 2.0 tools are important for the iPad to have any semblance of productivity. One early hole, though, was Google Docs/Google Apps. Because I have had to prepare for mobile device presentations, I have been evaluating options for using Google Docs with the…
Schools: Pay Attention to the New Hacker & Cyberbullying Tool Firesheep
Firesheep has garnered much attention in tech circles. The developer, by releasing this Firefox extension, is nudging web service providers to fix a problem that has been known but ignored for years. Services like Facebook depend on cookies to maintain connections with users, and Firesheep easily intercepts these cookies to take over someone else’s session….
Moving Beyond Safari on the iPad
While Safari is an important piece of the iPad experience, it’s lean feature list leaves users pining for more. My web experience is so much less frustrating since I found two alternative browsers to Safari that have become important enought to be moved onto my dock. Both of these apps, Perfect Browser and Atomic Browser,…