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Apple Announces App Store Volume Purchase for Educators

Apple continues its push to bring iPads to the classroom with a quiet announcement this week on their developer blog. The App Store Volume Purchase Program will offer education institutions in the United States the opportunity to purchase apps in volume for distribution to students and faculty.
The full posting is restricted to Apple’s registered developers, [...]

What the Apple iPhone 4G Means for Education

On Monday morning at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the perennial CEO-lebrity Steve Jobs announced the release of the new iPhone 4G. Slightly thinner and a bit heavier than the pervious model, the iPhone has several new features that could offer interesting possibilities for educators.
Facetime
Without a doubt the most talked about feature of [...]

Join Foursquare and You Could Become Mayor of ISTE 2010

The first video game I really became obsessed with was the Legend of Zelda for the original Nintendo console. I spent hours traversing the two-dimensional videogame world looking for boomerangs, bows and arrows, and magic flutes. The location-based social network program Foursquare brings the joy of Zelda into my real world travels.
Foursquare is an application [...]

Smartphones Head Toward World Domination

Smartphones have been all over the news this week. Whether you’re an iPhone addict, a Droid loyalist, a Blackberry aficionado or a Palm devotee, something new is simmering in the smartphone market.
Gizmodo broke probably the biggest smartphone story early last week when they unveiled the prototype for the next iPhone, which an unlucky Apple employee [...]

Do Smart Phones Make Memorization Obsolete? Musings from BEA 2010

Your intrepid ISTE Connects community manager left the boggy Pacific Northwest for the weekend and is landed in the hot, dry desert of Las Vegas for the annual Broadcast Educator Association conference. The convention floor seems pretty quiet after the excitement of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) tradeshow, which took place at the Las [...]

iPad Apps for Education

The Apple iPad hit the stores only a little over a week ago, but there are already over 1,000 different applications created specifically for the handheld computing device. Apple’s new device also runs nearly all of the 150,000 iPhone and iPod Touch apps available. For all you technology junkies that have managed to snag an [...]

Great iTouch Apps for Primary Students

Yesterday here at NECC I learned about three fantastic applications for younger / primary age students from Jenny Ashby from Vic, Australia, who has 8 iPod Touches in her classroom currently. Here are the applications. These are ideal for students to use in center activities in a primary classroom.

iCanWrite (99 cents)
Give your kids a boost [...]

Convert PDF files into eBooks

While it is possible to read a PDF file on a smartphone in its original format, I’ve found to be MUCH easier and flexible to convert PDF files into eBook-formatted documents and read them on the smaller screen of a smartphone. This post explains how to do this using free, cross-platform software tools.
On my own [...]

iTouch and iPhone Apps for Education

The power of Twitter and personal learning networks continues to amaze me! Yesterday Oklahoma teacher Christy Paradise tweeted me a question about available workshops or training resources on iTouch and iPhone applications for education / classroom use. After retweeting the question, California educator Sandra McGonagle replied with a link to Tony Vincent’s upcoming live workshop [...]

Ustream on your iPhone

Just in time for the U.S. inauguration tomorrow: An iPhone application to view Ustream broadcasts! Hat tip to Michael Arrington. A WiFi network connection is required to use the app. The iTunes description is:
A live and recorded video viewing application with interactive chat functionality. The application allows users to login with their Ustream account, view [...]