31 August 2010
If you’re looking for more functionality than your iPad offers, but more portability than a MacBook provides, Sena Cases’ new Keyboard Folio might be just the middle ground you’re looking for. The book-style leather case with integrated Bluetooth keyboard brings your iPad within a hair’s breadth of netbook status while sparing you the indignity of purchasing a real netbook.
via Sena Keyboard Folio gives iPad near-netbook functionality | Accessories | iOS Central | Macworld.
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Mobile/Mobile Devices |
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Posted by harryhaddon
31 August 2010
How do you encourage pupils to think about their own development? By getting the teachers to talk with them about their portfolio. An increasing number of schools are expecting a lot from a digital development portfolio. In this portfolio, pupils collect their own work with the associated reflections over a longer period of time. Dutch researcher Marieke van der Schaaf from Utrecht University has demonstrated that teachers can support pupils in their self-reflection process.
via NWO – Verbal feedback gets pupils thinking.
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Education, Learning Management Systems | Tagged: portfolio |
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Posted by Teb Locke
30 August 2010
Will the iPad herald a revolution in the classroom, displacing musty textbooks once and for all? Enterprising educators experimenting with Apples new tablet aim to find out.
[Source: MacWorld]
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eBooks, Education, Emerging Technologies, Emerging Trends, mLearning, Mobile/Mobile Devices |
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
29 August 2010
Learn about one professor’s five indispensable tools for Web design and development (predominantly Mac-oriented).
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Software, Tech Tips, Tools |
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
27 August 2010
Google Wave and Google Buzz may have had troubles attracting usage, but the new ability to place calls from Gmailappears to have caught on quickly.
“Over 1,000,000 calls placed from Gmail in just 24 hours!” Google tweeted Thursday, evidently pleased with the number.
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Emerging Technologies, Online resources |
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Posted by Charles Wachira
26 August 2010
Web video subscription service Netflix launched a free iPhone and iPod application that allows subscribers to watch TV shows and movies on Apple’s handheld devices. An iPad app was already available.
[Source: Reuters]
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Emerging Technologies, iApps, Media Distribution, Mobile/Mobile Devices |
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
24 August 2010
Time without digital input can allow people to learn better or come up with new ideas.
[Source: New York TImes]
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General, Mobile/Mobile Devices, Research |
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
24 August 2010
Collection history, related resources and images from a variety of New York Public Library digitized collections.
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Online resources |
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
24 August 2010
The Internet is calling into question one of academia’s sacred rites: the peer- reviewed journal article.
[Source: New York Times]
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Emerging Trends, Scholarly Publishing |
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Posted by Oscar Retterer