iPad mobile event: George Abbot School, Surrey
| June 23, 2011 | Posted by Brian Lake under Conferences, Featured, iphone, Mobile Learning |
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Hello all! Blogging from George Abbot school today. We’ll be looking at the use of iPads in education and deployment via our mobile learning forum
Session is being run today by Simon Birch -- Solutions Inc Apple reseller. They do a fair bit of apple sales in the education sector. Simon is focused on teaching and learning.
Issac Asimov video on technology:
Overview of the App store and iTunes U -- the focus is on the large community and the possibility for using resources. There are 25 million iPads out there in the past 14 months.
A focus on creating, accessing and sharing. The iPad is useful in that you can capture photos and videos. The idea is you can then submit to your learning environment.
Battery power is running low, I may have to cut this blog short. A lot of the functionality is around the use of ePub files and the use of apple technology in learning. The iPad has much potential here, but methods of assessment and evaluation are still a bit thin. The challenge is to develop either a way of delivering learning materials effectively, and evaluating or assessing using these devices as well.
In terms of moderation of these devices, you can limit the devices, but tracking user behaviour is more difficult. The principle of using config profiles is how iPads are managed. The profile can also load up web apps or web clips. This can be a useful way of having dynamic apps on an iPad. What we mean by this is the ability to embed a web page in an iPad app, which gives us the ability to make ongoing pages.
There is also something called “mates rates” for educational discounts. We’ll have more information on this later on from the wiki.
More info here:
“Please continue to use the wiki. Feel free to add comments to any page and if you have any news you’d like to share, just let me know: https://wikiserver.solutions-inc.co.uk/groups/mobilelearningforum/”
Username & password for both: forum
Additional apps that were mentioned:
- Zite
- WedDAV Nav
- iGuildford
- Plan Book EDU
- Idea Flight
