The year 2012 saw many schools purchasing iPads for use in their classrooms. The iPad has made made huge in-roads into education, and quickly developed a reputation as being a must-have device. The content available through the AppStore has appealed to teachers of all learning areas, and across all ages in the K-12 spectrum. The iPad's ability to be an all-in-one device with access to camera, microphone, internet, custom apps, has [...]
The Adobe Creative Suite is by far the professional choice for all things digital-media-editing-print. In my experience for classroom use, we typically tap into no more than 5% of the capability of these programs, which sometimes can make it hard to justify spending the thousands of dollars on the entire Adobe suite. Granted, it's worth giving students the experience on industry standard platforms, and depending on what you are trying to achieve and [...]
We recently discovered ThingLink, and we think it's worth sharing. ThingLink is a web tool that allows you to annotate images with links that appear when you hover your mouse over it. In some ways, it is similar to an image map you might create in html, but this interface is so easy to use, there is no coding required. I have used ThingLink to add some Australian Curriculum-related resources to [...]
Here is a tool worth checking out. Murally allows you to create an image-rich mindmap and invite other users to contribute. Murally logs each user's contributions, and even allows space for a little chat window. This could have some interesting uses in the classroom, but also has potential for teachers to collaborate with each other. Murally is a free resource, and given it is relatively new, could become a powerful addition [...]
Creative Book Builder is one of those apps for iOS devices that can be applied across all learning areas, and can enable the iPad to be a truly creative device. The app allows the user to create a fully published ebook by assembling content including: text images videos audio clips code music For older students, and teachers, the strength of this app is its ability to compile so many different media [...]
