Saturday, January 28, 2012
Went to another quite amazing session this morning on Visual Note-Taking on the iPad by Rachel Smith.To see a video of Ms. Smith explaining visual note-taking, click here. For examples of completed notes, click here. Of course some people will not see the worth of this and prefer to take notes the old fashioned way...writing them down, even with the iPad. But, for kids, or adults, who are very visual, this is pretty cool stuff.
One other thing...Jenny Oakley, who will be visiting Exeter in April to speak to students in Assembly and with the Art department, was one of twenty featured artists, worldwide, at Macworld|iWorld 2012. And, she was the only one featured who produced her artwork entirely on an iPad.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Macworld|iWorld 2012
More from Macword|iWorld 2012...
Thursday, January 26, 2012
I attended an amazing session on Zen and the Fine Art of iPhone Photography by Jonathan Marks. It will take me a bit to get all the links to the apps he mentioned entered here but click on his name and check out his website. And remember, each and every image was photographed then manipulated on his iPhone. He did not, as most do, download his photos to his computer and use Photoshop or iPhoto to manipulate his images. I am hoping to bring him to campus to speak with the kids.
Friday, January 27, 2012
I attended a session entitled The Future of Learning by Nick Floro. Again, it will take me a bit to enter in all the links he mentioned but you can actually access all the slides from his talk here. I love the statistics he quoted, "There are 1.6 billion Internet users, 1.5 billion TVs, 5 billion cell phone subscriptions, and 2.5 billion toothbrushes in the world today." Of course, today was yesterday, so these numbers are no longer valid. Hopefully the number of toothbrushes has increased!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
I attended an amazing session on Zen and the Fine Art of iPhone Photography by Jonathan Marks. It will take me a bit to get all the links to the apps he mentioned entered here but click on his name and check out his website. And remember, each and every image was photographed then manipulated on his iPhone. He did not, as most do, download his photos to his computer and use Photoshop or iPhoto to manipulate his images. I am hoping to bring him to campus to speak with the kids.
Friday, January 27, 2012
I attended a session entitled The Future of Learning by Nick Floro. Again, it will take me a bit to enter in all the links he mentioned but you can actually access all the slides from his talk here. I love the statistics he quoted, "There are 1.6 billion Internet users, 1.5 billion TVs, 5 billion cell phone subscriptions, and 2.5 billion toothbrushes in the world today." Of course, today was yesterday, so these numbers are no longer valid. Hopefully the number of toothbrushes has increased!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Macworld|iWorld 2012
Reporting live from the Macworld|iWorld 2012 Conference in San Francisco.
I attended an all-day workshop for educators yesterday which was sponsored by CUE, Computer-Using Educators, Inc. As I sat there from 10 am to 5 pm three things struck me: (1) the number of incredible, amazing applications out there for all levels of education, (2) the number of amazingly talented teachers putting these applications to use, and, (3) how little I know about any of it.
The following is a list of sites you can access to find out about the various presentations that went on throughout the day...
Slam Poetry
I attended an all-day workshop for educators yesterday which was sponsored by CUE, Computer-Using Educators, Inc. As I sat there from 10 am to 5 pm three things struck me: (1) the number of incredible, amazing applications out there for all levels of education, (2) the number of amazingly talented teachers putting these applications to use, and, (3) how little I know about any of it.
The following is a list of sites you can access to find out about the various presentations that went on throughout the day...
Slam Poetry
Keynote Address by Peter Reynolds
As the second grade teacher was presenting how he uses the iPhone with his kids I began thinking about how his students, or ones in similar classroom situations, will be at Exeter in just seven years. And, in just seven more years, they could be teaching at Exeter. How will we receive them? I'm confidant that in seven years, if not before, we will be embracing the mobile technology that our students have grown up with and have used throughout their entire pre-secondary years.
In the Fall 2011 edition of OnCUE, the publication of the CUE organization, there is an excellent article entitled Disruptive Technologies in Education by David D. Thornburg, Ph.D. The three disruptions are (1) the phonetic alphabet which gave the storyteller, or lecturer, control of the educational process; (2) the invention of the mass produced book, and, (3) mobile technology, or the smartphone, which we are in the midst of. In the first two cases, "education" and educators were slow to accept and adopt the change, so there is no reason not to expect the same reluctance today. But, as in the first two examples, the change will happen and education will be altered drastically.
More later...
As the second grade teacher was presenting how he uses the iPhone with his kids I began thinking about how his students, or ones in similar classroom situations, will be at Exeter in just seven years. And, in just seven more years, they could be teaching at Exeter. How will we receive them? I'm confidant that in seven years, if not before, we will be embracing the mobile technology that our students have grown up with and have used throughout their entire pre-secondary years.
In the Fall 2011 edition of OnCUE, the publication of the CUE organization, there is an excellent article entitled Disruptive Technologies in Education by David D. Thornburg, Ph.D. The three disruptions are (1) the phonetic alphabet which gave the storyteller, or lecturer, control of the educational process; (2) the invention of the mass produced book, and, (3) mobile technology, or the smartphone, which we are in the midst of. In the first two cases, "education" and educators were slow to accept and adopt the change, so there is no reason not to expect the same reluctance today. But, as in the first two examples, the change will happen and education will be altered drastically.
More later...
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