I’ve just spent three days working with inspiring educators from across Europe at the Apple Distinguished Educator Institute, welcoming the “class of 2011″ to the ADE programme. It has been fantastic being surrounded by so many engaging and committed teachers from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. We decided [...]
Today I’m down in Birmingham doing a presentation at the Emerging Technology Conference at Kings Norton CLC. My task is to talk about Mobile Learning in Education – using iPod Touches, iPads, iTunes and iTunes U – in 45 minutes! It’s virtually impossible to cover all the possibilities of this huge topic in such a [...]
Now this looks very interesting indeed, and I wonder if it will answer some of the questions I posted on the announcement of the iPad. Inkling claims to be “the world’s first end-to-end platform for mobile learning content [...] making it easy to bring rich, interactive learning content to tablet devices like iPad”.
It appears to [...]
The wait is over. Last night Steve Jobs announced the iPad, and it looks good. Really good. A 9.7″ multitouch display, 16, 32 or 64gb of flash storage, wifi and bluetooth and a 3G version (annoyingly available a month after the wifi version is released!). Is it what I hoped for? In some ways, yes, in [...]
The long-awaited day has arrived and in about nine hours’ time Steve Jobs will take to the stage in the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco and announce Apple’s “latest creation”. Speculation has been peaking over the past few days and weeks as to what form this creation will take, and I think that there [...]
In 2010 I challenged myself to record a well-known song every day of the year. To see the full list of songs, click on the image below.
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