Posts Tagged ‘iphone’

Uses of the iPhone/iPod/iPad in the Classroom

I came across a short presentation by Grace Poli from Union City High School on Slideshare.net. The presentaion focuses on practical ways for using the iPod Touch in class, but of courses the uses of all of Apple’s mobile devices are interchangeable most of the time since they have similar technical specifications. Here are some [...]

Apple’s Mobile Devices and Education

Apple is known for supporting educational uses of its technologies. On Apple Learning Interchange Community, for instance, teachers can find news and share lesson plans and ideas on different subjects. Of course, Apple also supports the use of their mobile devices for learning, and here is their official website dedicated to just that: showcase different ways the [...]

GroceryiQ – Grocery Shopping at Your Fingertips

My wife and I installed the GroceryiQ app on our iPhones this past week. Perhaps one of the most useful apps I’ve ever installed. We have a centrally shared shopping list that gets updated dynamically across our iPhones. so, when we add or check off any items, it gets updated immediately for both of us. [...]

Augmented Reality and Learning

The dawn of augmented reality on a consumer level presents many possibilities for marketing, tourism and virtually any area of expertise. But what would be its impact in Education and learning in general? Would the possibility of adding a layer of information and rich media atop an individual’s view of the world via his/her mobile [...]

Essential iPhone Apps for Students and Educators

MacWorld published the “Ten Essential Back to School iPhone Apps”. While they chose very good apps, they might have left out a few other interesting apps as well. A possible improvement on the “top X apps for students” post idea would be to have different school levels (Pre-school, Middle School, High School, Higher Ed., etc.) [...]

Waze, the Driver-generated GPS – Crowdsourcing Navigation – Free GPS for the iPhone

Yeah, the concept of crowdsourcing has been everyone. The wisdom of the crowd is something that has been more in evidence lately and Web 2.0 technologies allow for people to get together and collaborate on products, websites, information gathering, etc. Now it’s the navigation systems’ turn. With Waze, drivers submit new routes, traffic updates and [...]

iPhone Educational Apps

A while back I thought of creating a blog to review only educational apps for the iPhone. Suddenly I noticed that not only did just a few developers try to create educational apps but also the quality of those that are there isn’t what you’d expect… So, I’m still considering reviewing a few iPhone apps [...]

Apple and the iPhone – When the Customer doesn’t Matter…

“…because we’re too good for you…” That is the vibe I get from Apple with this whole iPhone 3G shortage fiasco, or circus… Everyone that reads my blog posts here knows that I have been quite disappointed with the customer care at Apple and their attitude towards the shortage and their customers. Well, today I [...]

Screen Capture – iPhone 2.0

Wondering how to get some screen shots of your iPhone’s applications to create tutorials or maybe just to show off on your blog? The iPhone 2.0 platform has a built-in screen capture functionality. Explained here by Gizmodo. Enjoy!

Is it really all about the users?

I have been really disappointed with the whole sales process for the iPhone 3G. While Apple’s design and advance technologies are impressive, it is fairly disappointing that they still don’t understand it is about the costumer. We’re in the era of the prosumers, crowdsourcing. The whole iMonopoly or is a practice that (help me out [...]