in the Apple App Store. 'Dallas, Tex. May 19, 2013 – Float Mobile Learning announced today its upgraded suite of mobile learning apps will be free for a limited time throughout the ASTD 2013 International Conference & Exposition, May 19-22. Allowing these apps to be free during this time and performing these upgrades demonstrate Float’s commitment to the growing industry of mobile learning, and show Float’s continued support of mLearning solutions,” said Float’s managing director, Chad Udell, about the apps that have been downloaded more than 23,000 times this year.

But they do mention that the Apple versions (cross mobile) will be out soon as well. Last week I got a message from Stephanie Ray and she asked me to take a look and review Nota , a free mobile collaborative learning platform which is available in a web format and as a mobile app. As she mentioned that it was linked to Open Educational Resources (OER) of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) textbooks, I got intrigued. They only launched in January 2013 so still beta, which is the nicest state as all of our remarks on the tool are as such welcomed. all over again.

Like Mozilla, Wikipedia, GitHub (who have a bold mission they champion) [50:30] Has apple peaked? When is technology helping, and when does it hinder? How can you ensure "enthusiasm for the new" doesn't blind you to what is good right now? 7.30] Thinking about touch screens. Voice control. Google glass. what's augmented reality all about - where's the meaning, and sense in that, and what could you do for learning ? 10 mins] And how soon with augmented reality be real? 14 mins] Nic the AR cynic - "is technology swamping our humanity"? tech is flooding us like a wave. 29:30] Ubuntu.

The next few years of the enterprise mLearning landscape were focused on supporting mobile workers equipped with nearly ubiquitous BlackBerry smartphones from Research in Motion; sure, there were some new Apple iPhones out there and Google had just introduced Android into the market but real companies needed real devices with real security so most organizations sought to leverage those BlackBerry populations for their mobile learning needs. Oh what a difference a few years makes, eh? popular four or five years ago.

This is a free eBook authoring application by Apple for iPad. Anyone can build mobile learning materials and publish to both HTML5 with cross-platform support for Apple iOS, Android, and Blackberry, as well as PC and Mac browsers. Last week I asked if you had thought about mEnabling your eLearning for iPads (mEnabling, is what we are calling the process of getting your existing eLearning to run on iPads and other tablets) but didn’t really tell you how? So here’s a few – 15 actually! So let’s start with…. Adobe Edge Animate. And the icing on the cake? It’s free! Claro.

year ago Apple amped up its iPad push into the education market with the launch of iBooks 2. Apple’s worldwide marketing vice-president Phil Schiller described education as “deep in our DNA” Schiller’s pitch was for iPads to become a replacement for textbooks. Want to point you all to this story published in major newspapers across Australia recently that gives a positive look at where tablets in Education are going rather than the ‘we did alright with pencils’ view thats often offered up. mlearning Australia iPad slide2learn tablets

Apple CEO Tim Cook has created quite a buzz as a result of his pair of visits to China in the last year. Comic Apple China iOS 6 Steve Job Tim Cook

Naturally, Apple have their own – the iBook Author, an eBook authoring application. Now that we have thought about what we can do with our existing courseware let’s think about building some new eLearning and what’s all the fuss about HTML5. Not surprisingly, there is a plethora of rapid authoring tools available today that do this. good starting point is our blog post – 5 Rapid Authoring Tools to Publish Courses For Your iPads – where we talk about some of the authoring tools that can be used to develop HTML5 courses for iPads. and later. Surprised? learning.

The connection is that Apple have recently released an excellent guide for in house app developers , listing top tips, and advice that - although aimed at iOS developers making in-house apps, are in fact useful to ALL app developers, across ALL platforms. The specifics here are obviously pretty Apple / iOS centric, but the sections on Web Development, and Back Office Integration are great advice whatever your platform Finally, Deployment : This section is pretty much 100% Apple. Many thousands of people are developing apps. The answer: learn from the gurus.

Since its launch, back in April 2010, Apple has sold more than 100 million iPads – a mind boggling quantity unmatched and way ahead of any other device manufacturer. Moreover, Apple’s mobile browser Safari can also affect and largely decide on the design of your eLearning course as it can be very ‘choosy’ about supporting interactivity we took almost for granted when building in Flash. It literally revolutionised the ‘hand held’ mobile, tablet market across the world. Watch this amazing video. So, how can you mEnable your eLearning for iPads? HTML course from scratch?

ponder how this would have played out if Apple had ventured into the television market as many analysts expected them to 2012 and that opportunity remains for 2013. Apple’s iPad will continue to be the market leader in 2012 though a collection of tablet devices based on Android (in older Honeycomb to newer Ice Cream Sandwich flavors), Microsoft Windows 8 and possibly even RIM’s PlayBook 2.0 OS will continue to eat away at Apple’s market share as organizations seek to take advantage of the tablets for media consumption, user-generated content creation and in situ selling supported.

“It seems to me that in the last 2 1/2 years, Apple have pretty much already done the work needed to explain to most people what the iPad is. Beyond this, I’d probably also point out that Apple has done well in their goal of continuing to try and make the hardware disappear until all that you notice is the screen and the portals that apps open up for you. For me, the fact that there is space enough to include them in the mini makes it clear why Apple has moved to a smaller dock connector. And now, there’s a mini version – it really is that simple.

So the much awaited entry by Apple into the smaller tablet space has now been announced. It does look, just like with the iPhone5, to be an amazing feat of engineering in regards to its fit and finish etc, areas that often set Apple products apart and for which people are prepared to choose time and again. mlearning mobile/miniaturisation uLearning Apple apps iOS iPad mini tabletYou can as usual get all the details immediately at Apple.com. My feeling however for schools is that the US$329 price ($369 in Australia) is too high to really trigger a mass takeup.

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Like a classic car (or even Apple’s product designs that often don’t change much for years) the basic rugged green XO exterior that screams ‘made for kids not adults’ remains. Preview: XO-4 Duo hybrid laptop/tablet from OLPC Australia. Based on use of an early XO with touchscreen prototype. Announced just recently but under development for sometime is the next hardware iteration of the ‘its an education program not a laptop program’ XO. An upgraded XO-1.5 No longer are cheap netbooks the frontier of computing. So how is the XO design evolving to stay relevant in such a ‘PostPC’ era?

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You may have noticed already – mobile platforms (or operating systems) are jostling for larger share of the pie with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android together ruling the market as of now. Mobile learning is a relatively new domain and is rapidly evolving as well, which makes its implementation a not so easy task. When implementing mobile learning in workplace, following 6 steps will help create an effective mlearning strategy. Establish the Need. This is fairly obvious, but you’d be surprised how often it is ignored. Ask yourself -. What do you wish to achieve with mobile learning?

With the advent of voice input software for mobile devices, such as Apple’s Siri, and voice dictation on Apple’s computers, we are seeing the beginning of the mainstream use of voice commands and voice dictation.  Digital mobile technology is changing our society.  The ease at which we are able to convert information into digital formats and then consume this content on a mobile device is changing how we consume information.  A good example of this is with audiobooks.  While audiobooks themselves are not new (i.e. This much we know.  How does this all affect education? 

Tablets The same is true for tablets (there is an increasing array of tablets out there, running on Apple (iPad) or Android (Samsung Galaxy tab) or. Let's say you go for the more high-end ones, at that moment the operating system of the phone becomes very important (apple mobile operating system, Android OS, windows mobile operating system, RIM/Blackberry.). Choosing the best (smart)phone or tablet for mobile learning can be quite a challenge. It also depends on what you want to do with it and how easy you can get used to technology. Or is it of interest to you?

So Google has now personally joined the other big PostPC device makers (Amazon, Microsoft and of course Apple) in creating a dedicated tablet device designed to serve those consumers who choose their particular operating and media eco-systems. But what will it mean for education? I’ve already seen ICT Works comment on FaceBook that its price will be great for developing nations. https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_8gb. nexus_7_8gb. mlearn uLearning Android Kindle nexus postpc surface tablet

Apple iPads have a significant head start in educational institutions so there may be a conflict as a result of adopting multiple ecosystems. Yesterday Microsoft finally unveiled its new tablet called Surface. It seems to have made a solid first impression , which is good news for Microsoft given this one represents several firsts for Microsoft. thought it looks stunning especially with the Windows 8 UI. Will it help Mobile Learning? see it making a big push in mobile learning because Microsoft Surface simply makes integration of mobile devices into an existing ecosystem much easier.

Every year at this time, Apple has used the opening of its World Wide Developers Conference to preview what the next version of the iPhone and iPad operating system will bring. mlearn accessibility Apple iOS iPad iPhone Siri updateWhat will be in iOS6 for educators? Amongst the purported 200 new features we will see when iOS version 6 is released in our Spring (Fall in the USA), I wanted to detail three of those announced overnight that in my opinion will be most useful for educators and schools. ll also touch on something that might be a concern. Do-not-disturb switch.

There’s Apple and their iOS platform and there are the other devices that use Android. The podcast makes the point that Adobe Flash, once a standard for viewing animation and video, is becoming obsolete mainly because Apple decided not to support Flash on its mobile devices. Imagine one day Apple decides to block all Google products (i.e. Let me provide a little context. When it comes to mobile devices, there are currently a handful of manufacturers that produce devices that mainly run one of two mobile operating systems. Every tried to access iMessage though Android?

There’s Apple and their iOS platform and there are the other devices that use Android. The podcast makes the point that Adobe Flash, once a standard for viewing animation and video, is becoming obsolete mainly because Apple decided not to support Flash on its mobile devices. Imagine one day Apple decides to block all Google products (i.e. Let me provide a little context. When it comes to mobile devices, there are currently a handful of manufacturers that produce devices that mainly run one of two mobile operating systems. Every tried to access iMessage though Android?

a collaborative Web browser for the Apple iPad. Morton, Ill. April 19, 2012 – Float Mobile Learning announced today the release of RabbleBrowser™ version 2.5, Available for download from the [.]. Press Releases collaborative web browsing iPad browsing iPad web browser mobile learning app RabbleBrowser 2.5

Finally, RJ is working to gain approval from Apple to release the weekly recordings to a broader audience via the iTunes App Store and we'll let everyone know when that's a reality. We've put the finishing touches on our second weekly podcast detailing all the happenings in the mobile learning field for the week of April 9, 2012 and you can listen to RJ Jacquez and I talk about the week that was by clicking the link here. only wish I had paid attention enough in high school Spanish class so I could at least listen to each episode much less participate in any substantive way. Robert ;?).

uLearning Apple apps children iOS Kids mlearn mlearning toddlersAs tested and selected by my Miss 4 1/2 – a 3 1/2 year iOS veteran. Nearly all of these have iPad and iPod touch/iPhone versions, and are in the free->$5 range (some also have free ‘lite’ versions you can try out). Special mention: Clara. link]. This was the first app our then 9 month old used. Very simple of course, just tap the image that links to the sound being made. link]. choose characters, move them with your finger and talk – and Puppet Pals turns it all into a movie. My PlayHome. link].

Yesterday was a banner day in the tech biz as Apple unveiled their third generation tablet device to an eager audience and overall market. Apple’s much admired/discussed ability to keep mum on new products and features notwithstanding, the actual device they’ve released is largely a reflection of what the market and consumers hoped for and expected and includes the following key features: High-rez retina display (2048x1536 with 3.1 Will this latest iteration of the iPad prove to be as revolutionary as the original iPad or the iPad2 on the learning industry?

mobile/miniaturisation 2012 Apple education iPad mlearn mlearning retina Schools-  apple.com/iPad. Significantly, my number one item for how the new 2012 iPad will impact education is not the new 2012 iPad at all – its the fact that the 2011 iPad 2 is now much more affordable for schools – $100, or a permanent 20% discount in fact. And if schools take the tip of buying refurbished units when they can (these still have the full warranty) you can now get an iPad 2 for US$349. The screen. The camera. The specs. Voice dictation. 200,000+ tablet apps.

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For schools with Macs and iPads, the release of Apple’s iBooks Author software in January made this even more possible. Its well known that giving easy digital content creation tools into the hands of more teachers and students is a great way to encourage focus on higher order thinking skills in the curriculum. Attached to this post is 1.0  draft of a ‘know-why’ guide to using iBooks Author to make digital content thats localised and personalised just for your students. Download and enjoy, plus leave comments if you have questions or feedback. PDF file link (51mb).

Today Apple released iBooks 2, a beautiful new format for interactive books that they hope to use to “re-invent the textbook”. Today’s event in New York is the first education-only launch from Apple in a long time. The Apple vision is by moving textbooks onto the iPad, they can be cheaper, more interactive, and ultimately more useful as educational reference tools. As will other non-Apple platforms. Steve Jobs reportedly spent the last few years of his life planning to shake up the textbook market, and revitalise education. Has Steve added to his legacy? Absolutely!

This is a move in the right direction by Google, especially since many Smartphone users perceive Android apps to be inferior to Apple’s iOS. On the 15th of December 2011, the Android Developer Relations team at Google launched the beta version of Android Training — a collection of classes to help developers build better Android apps using best practices in a variety of framework topics. This initiative targeted at developers will help to raise the quality of Android apps developed in the public realm. Android Training will be led by the Android Developer Relations team. Sharing content.

When Apple launched the iPhone 4S, one of the key differentiators to previous models was the inclusion of Siri. To get the official Apple spiel, see here: [link]. Apple isn’t known to condone hackers modifying their products and software. When they started out, their hardware and software platforms were fairly open; as time has gone by, Apple has closed of its product/service ecosystems and removed much of that initial openness in favor of tight control (curation of sorts) over its platform. You can find out more about it here: [link]. Very cool indeed.

Apple’s iPad will continue to be the market leader in 2012 though a collection of tablet devices based on Android (in older Honeycomb to newer Ice Cream Sandwich flavors), Microsoft Windows 8 and possibly even RIM’s PlayBook 2.0 OS will continue to eat away at Apple’s market share as organizations seek to take advantage of the tablets for media consumption, user-generated content creation and in situ selling supported. Here on the last day of the year, I offer my predications for the big and shaping trends we’ll see in the enterprise mobile learning space for 2012. Summary.

After years of BlackBerry dominance in the pockets and purses of enterprise personnel, iOS (Apple) and Android-based mobile phones and tablet devices will supplant RIM-supplied smartphones as the primary desired (and likely used) smart devices for mobile learning – at least in North America. The adoption of tablets, initiated by Apple’s iPad but closely followed by several others, proved to be a true driver for enterprise mobility in general and mobile learning is a real beneficiary of this trend. a.k.a. How On Target Were My 2011 Predictions? On the Target – But Barely. Bullseye!

’” – Apple Computer Inc. Wow, people are so often wrong about the possibilities of the future: (via DavidCV comment [link] ). “Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 ” – Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” ” – Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 “I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.”

Following the footsteps of Apple, their concept are highly stylized designs that use the entire mobile device as an interactive display. The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has issued several new videos on their view of the future of mobile devices. The HumanForm is a tear shaped phone that is flexible. Here is a video of what they have in mind: Jarkko Saunamaki, Senior Design Manager at Nokia, has his own channel on YouTube with other videos showing prototypes of other big ideas. Check it out by clicking here. Future of Mobile Learning Haptics mobile phones

This will likely be a blow to Android device manufacturers who have counted on the Flash player support as one of the main differentiations from Apple devices, but what does it mean for e-learning and m-learning developers? Apple and Android), most mobile learning authoring solutions (such as Rapid Intake's rapid authoring for mobile learning software, mLearning Studio) publish to HTML5 rather than Flash. This morning Adobe stated that it will no longer develop the Flash player for mobile devices in favor of throwing their support behind HTML5 development.

Tomorrow a great app will launch in Apple’s App Store, called Coach’s Eye , from TechSmith. Yesterday, I posted about mobile learning and using the sensors on the device in your learning design. Coach’s Eye is an app designed to help coaches, parents and teammates evaluate an athelete’s performance and provide feedback through video. Think about it as if you’re the commentator watching the game with the magic pen that writes on the screen. The end product is a video that you, the coach, produce with your feedback.

By Jonathan Nalder | Teacher | Mobile Learning Project Officer | Apple Distinguished Educator. Adonit Jot-Pro stylus review. link] jnxyz.posterous.com | Twitter: @jnxyz. Overview : For touchscreen use where fine control is required, fingers and even traditional ‘rubber-tipped’ styli can do an ok job, but the fact that you can’t see the exact touch point often creates problems. Adonit, a brand new design company has just released the Jot stylus to address exactly this problem. link] /. pastedGraphic.pdf Download this file. pastedGraphic_1.pdf Download this file. uLearning

Clearly the Apple iPad is winning the tablet wars, in spite of the lack of Flash support, and a couple of Android competitors will be left standing in a year or two. A new tablet computer is being built in India to sell for under $60. This will go a long way to providing inexpensive computing to hundreds of millions of people around the world who cannot affort machines in the $500-$800 range. It will also help to drive prices of tablet computer down in general, a trend which is already happening in the North American marketplace. Click here for details. Tablets Tablet computer

apple #stevejobs #rip tribute wall. View Photo on Instagram Found with Instamap. Rip steve by @kubotoki. Sent from my iPad (please forgive any auto-correct errors). Posted via email from Jonathan Nalder. uLearning

ADE (Apple Distinguished Educator) Sent from my iPhone (please forgive autocorrect errors). Can a nerd change the world? Maybe. Has a nerd +liberal + perfectionist + a maximum care factor changed the world? Oh yeah. Why can’t we all be like him? With 300,000,000 iOS devices & millions more Macs out there, perhaps the time to start is now. Regards, Jonathan Nalder ? Posted via email from Jonathan Nalder. uLearning

And now, the team at Apple may finally have solved voice recognition. iOS Mobile Technology Apple Cards iOS5 iPhone 4S SiriThey’ve revolutionized the way we listen to music. They’ve changed how we think of notebook computers and tablets. At [.].

Apple's personal iPhone assistant Siri got me thinking again about the future again and how the concept of 'future' becomes more and more speedy in getting here to our contemporary times. Although many people were disappointed when Apple’s new iPhone was so limited in its innovations, the Siri application got me completely enthusiastic. With ongoing amazement I have been following time changing technologies like the 3D printers (replicating materials), the food replicators, nano-technology and so on. The upcoming societal changes are so phenomenal! What an algorithm, sigh….

Just reading thru some of the details about the announcements overnight – now 500,000 apps – oops, I mean 500,000 potential learning resources. I’ve been thinking what’s in it for educators – not much this time. No updated iPod touch, and seemingly no price drop either to compensate. Will be useful as we upgrade our personal phones over time to have AirPlay mirroring on the new iPhone 4S though, and the amazing looking new camera. Posted via email from Jonathan Nalder. uLearning

Kit Eaton at Fast Company has a lengthy article on how Twitter and Apple are integrating through the upcoming Apple iOS5 operating system. According to sources at Twitter, it will be much easier to Tweet from an Apple device than to use Facebook from the same device. iOS5 will be backwards compatible with the current generation of iPods, iPhones and iPads, so this has huge implications for users of those devices. The ability to save a couple of clicks is a competitive advantage in this new world. For the complete article click here. Social Media Tablets iOS5 twitter

On his blog, Learning in Hand, teacher and technology specialist Tony Vincent lists a number of common myths about Apple mobile products such as iPads, iPhones, and iPods. A similar list [.].

All the tablets that are coming out these days are knockoffs of Apple’s iPad. Not so the new Nintendo Wii U tablet controller. It is described as a “body-enveloping 3-D virtual environment&# that senses your body in interactions with Nintendo’s Wii gaming system. Games are now interactive in all 360 degrees. Some of the possibilities for this in terms of learning are: group games that involve bodily movements. augmented reality in virtual-reality settings. new possibilities for individual and cooperative learning experiences. Learning Technologies Tablets

Well, it’s clear that the Apple iPad now has established Overflight [.]. In air defense and reconnaissance strategy, establishing air dominance or “Overflight&# is a key element in any successful campaign. iOS Mobile Technology electronic flight bags iPad Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck United Airlines

hadn’t heard of the ‘Apple iPad/iPod Learning Labs’ (a Bretford trolley that comes with devices) before – perhaps they are USA-only? [link]. Sure its missing www.slide2learn.net from its list of useful iOS resource sites , but over 46 pages, this guide does give a very good overview of iTunes, adding and also creating content, and gives some device management scenarios on page 31 that should clarify these for many. As is the volume licensing – document should be marked as such). Posted via email from Jonathan Nalder’s posterous. uLearning

Developing code once (like “native”) but deploying across apple / android / blackberry (like “web apps”). As part of our work on the MoLE project we have been revisiting the rapidly growing number of frameworks, libraries and platforms that developers can use to create cross-platform mobile apps If you are new to app development, you may know there is a constant debate between app developers, building “native” apps, and mobile web developers, championing “web apps”. This is a rapidly emerging area, with a flurry of very exciting toolkits available. We have hope you find it useful.

Now I’ve had some time to read different reports and reactions (including probably 200 blog comments both pro and negative) to the massive range of Apple announcements today, it seems to me that as usual, most writers and pundits are missing the point. And only when iCloud is released will we really know if Apple have tied all the features together in a seamless, uber-usable way – but I posit that that is the true test of all these features - not what they are as much as how well they work. Posted via email from Jonathan Nalder’s posterous. uLearning

The app is listed as being for kids 4-9, an area that is not targeted as much by the 20,000+ education apps in the Apple App store. I’ve recently had the opportunity to test out ‘Ansel and Clair’s Adventure in Africa’ App from Cognitive Kid. They state a developer mission that is two fold: To encourage children to think, ask questions, synthesize information and develop higher order learning skills; and to instill a love for learning that will carry on from a child’s early years through his/her adulthood. Pretty high standard to live up to one would expect.

OSU study finds Apple’s powerful iPad decreases expenses, increases productivity [link]. — Sent from Zite personalized magazine iPad app. Posted via email from Jonathan Nalder’s posterous. uLearning

Apple iOS, Google Android, Blackberry, etc.) When designing a course for mobile devices we have to make a fundamental decision: are we going to design the course for both smartphones or tablets.or If we choose to support smartphones, we don't have a lot of screen real estate. How do we account for that? If we choose to support tablets, we have a lot more screen real estate. How do we take advantage of that? Smartphones First off, what we are designing is a content-based experience. It's not a game. It's not a calculator of some kind. Images can also be bigger.

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As discussed in prior research, Apple remains the primary beneficiary of this technology transition which is increasingly coming at the expense of PC vendors (Acer, HPQ, etc).&#. Under the heading ‘ Bleak outlook for tablets outside of iPad’ , this article quotes Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore who has “ announced slashed PC growth estimates, from initial 9 percent year-over-year growth in 2011 to just 4 percent, primarily due to weakness in the consumer market due to cannibalization by smartphones and iPads.&#. uLearning

I think Steve Jobs had that intention from the day we started Apple, but it was just hard to get there, because we had to go through a lot of steps where you connected to things, and (eventually) computers grew up to where they could do … normal consumer appliance things,” Wozniak said. During a keynote session at Storage Networking World in Santa Clara, California, Wozniak was asked how tablets would change the computer industry. He compared them to TVs. The tablet is not necessarily for the people in this room,” Wozniak told the audience of enterprise storage engineers. link].

When multiple operating systems still existed across the burgeoning early PC market, entrepreneur Adam Osborne created a machine that ‘just worked’ – it was called the Osborne 1, and unlike the Apple ||, was portable (well ‘luggable’). especially like the section (page 2) describing how care was taken to make the user experience seamless with all the needed drives, display and productivity apps included at a time when users normally had to make multiple additional decisions and purchases before being able to get working. Sounds like the iPad. uLearning

The new web-based HTML5 authoring package looks and performs quite well and delivers an impressive array of authoring features that can produce exceptionally nice looking mobile content for the various web kit-based mobile devices and tablets including Apple’s iPad and the full range of Android-based tablets. Finally, I had a chance to see one of NexLearn’s simulations – normally a Flash-based deliverable – running on an Apple iPad tablet using a new new delivery format they are working on. This first post will focus on LS2011 and I’ll post again on CTIA tomorrow.

Catch Apple’s co-founder, Steve Wozniak, tonight from Abilene Christian University’s Connected Summit. In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. … The Apple II was integral in launching the personal computer industry. After leaving Apple in 1985, Wozniak was involved in various business and philanthropic ventures, focusing primarily on computer capabilities in schools and stressing hands-on learning and encouraging creativity for students. Connected Summit, 2011).

My disappointments included: Apple, although the winner of the device of the year with the iPhone 4, was noticeably absent (although this is expected from Apple as they just do not participate in such conferences.) Over my career I have become a technology "conference veteran" beginning with Comdex in the 80’s. This event grew to over 220,000 attendees and over 20,000 vendors. For several years I was privileged to be a judge for Best of Comdex, so became very familiar with the conference. This is the first time that mobile learning has been recognized. mHealth was evident though.)

At the top of the list are Apple, Twitter and Facebook. Fast Company has produced their list of the “world’s most innovative companies&# for 2011. The top 10 in the mobile space are as follows: 01 / Foursquare – For transforming the experience — and business — of building consumer loyalty. 02 / eBay – For multiple innovations that have set new standards for mobile shopping. 03 / Voxiva – For apps that support education and behavioral change. 04 / Skype – For succeeding with VOIP over cellular networks. Uncategorized Innovation

The only reason anyone is still hollering about this is because Apple still refuses Flash on their mobile devices. BONUS--Reason #6: Apple will eventually support Flash Whoah.did you just hear me say that? Okay, I know I'm going out on a limb here, but when I led a panel at eLearning DevCon 2010 on the Flash vs HTML5 debate, five out the six panelists agreed by the end of the discussion that there was a very high probability that Apple would eventually support Flash. Sorry for shouting in the title, but I am fed up with people saying Flash is dying. Come on! Will it die?

Here are some of your options (some more feasible than others) to think about: Building in the native app SDK : This is usually not practical, but if you know the programming language (Objective C for example for the Apple SDK), you can build your native app as a standalone course from scratch by programming in that native programming language. Apple) and repeat the process for the next (e.g. Right now, HTML5 is the standard that works most reliably across the newer mobile devices (Apple iOS, Google Android, and RIM Blackberry). This one is a mobile learning overview.

got to play around with some early content samples and found their mobile packaging to be clean, flexible and very well structured for playback on compatible mobile devices based on Apple's iOS or on Android-based mobiles or tablets. It took no longer than the end of January for new product announcements to be made by two of the leading authoring tool vendors who are now offering both Flash and HTML5 course publication output options to instructional designers using their respective applications. Moreover, we really like what we see in their "version 1.0" Harbinger Group's Raptivity.

It works best using Google’s Chrome browser, but its connection to mobile is that it demonstrates some of the new possibilities of HTML5, a standard that will be supported by all new mobile devices, including Apple. Ten years ago internet innovation was led by the pornography industry, as they tried to figure out ways to entice you to sign up for their sites. But, as Bill Tancer showed in his 2008 book  Click , the number of people visiting porn sites has gone down as the use of social media has gone up. Here are two examples, both involving mobile. Enjoy, and be amazed.

ADE (Apple Distinguished Educator) | Winner Smart Classrooms Teaching Award 2009 | Masters of Learning Innovation (QUT 2008) |. Jonathan Nalder www.jnxyz.net | [link] | Twitter: @jnxyz | Principal Project Officer, Education Queensland – Mobile, Transformational Learning & One Laptop per Child Australia | Literacy & Numeracy Teacher | Finalist, Learning Without Frontiers Award, 2011, UK | InnovatED grant 2010 (mLearning) | ? Posted via email from Jonathan Nalder’s posterous. uLearning

For those of us with the means and the desire, the choices are plentiful and reasonable in most markets and the up-trending Bring Your Own Device movement is starting to influence IT departments to allow newer Apple iOS , Google Android and Microsoft Windows Phone7 devices to coexist on the highly restricted/locked down networks IT has operated in the past. Tablets devices are all the rage at CES as vendors from across the world all seek to cash in on Apple’s success with their iPad. Better Devices. Way Faster Networks.

ADE (Apple Distinguished Educator) |. Voting in the UK-based Learning Without Frontiers awards closes today. I’ve been privileged to be shortlisted for in the primary practitioners section. link]. feel I have been shortlisted on behalf of all the great Aussie educators working so hard to integrate technology and transform their students education. Actually winning the final award though is decided strangely by SMS or TXTing (see below for full details) – so if you haven’t already voted (you can only do so once), please do so. Non-UK votes are counted twice! How to vote.

After years of BlackBerry dominance in the pockets and purses of enterprise personnel, iOS (Apple) and Android -based mobile phones and tablet devices will supplant RIM-supplied smartphones as the primary desired (and likely used) smart devices for mobile learning – at least in North America. devices – each with tens of thousands of available apps – will help fuel continued adoption of Apple and Google-designed tablets in the learning space. mLearning Engagements Expand. If 2010 was the year of the pilot, then 2011 will be the year of the deployment. Pad/Tablet Use Explodes !

Tablet-based content delivery of mlearning will win our "hearts & minds" over netbook-based content delivery thanks largely to the arrival of Apple's much rumored "iSlate" tablet offering. The industry finally witnessed the arrival of Apple’s highly anticipated tablet onto the field in Q1 and upon shipment somewhere around “opening day”, the appropriately named “ iPad ” set a standard by defining a new device category and capturing 95% of that market with 20+ million units sold in less than nine months. Apple iOS , Android , BlackBerry , Windows Mo/Pho ). A.K.A.

The online tutorial site for Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and a host of other software has been around for a few years and continually updates their massive database with new tutorials as products and services are released. Haven’t stumbled upon Lynda yet? The website reads:  &# We’re here to help you better understand and maximize your software, whether you want to build your business, improve your job skills, or simply want to learn more for personal enrichment&# and offers both personal and corporate memberships. The eLearning Coach review. Opinions and Reviews blog review. Industr

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An Apple Distinguished Educator ,* Iemma stresses that mLearning’s strength is that it will continue to evolve for different environments, making use of a gamut of tools to achieve the end result. Sourced from: EDtalks: Educators Talk about Learning *edited content Tagged as: Apple mLearning , Megan Iemma , mlearning , mLearning Australia , patient mLearning { 1 comment… read it below or add one } Megan Iemma December 4, 2010 at 12:29 am Hi, Just want to clarify that I don’t actually work for Apple. Thanks for writing the great intro into what I do.

The success of the Apple iPad Jeremy LeBeau, Float’s IT Manager (as well as for Float’s sister company, The Iona Group) recently posted a review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab. 

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they used: GPS, sensors for movements, compass working with AOS (Apple), but they also want to go with android platform. this will be made available to the Apple marketplace as an application for adult users. The purpose now is to make the sitsims available to larger user groups, for example via Apple's App store for free download. Gunnar is a curly person with glasses, who just gives an AMAZING presentation!! Please if you can, look this research up! It is so strongly build (sustainable, new, well-thought throug). Just amazing! So they try to experiment with new media's.

The couple ones that were the most memorable were the ability to see course registrar info on the smartphone or tablet of your choice (they had Apple and RIM products), figure out the semester course schedule and even email the instructor if the class was full. Sungard: Similar to Blackboard, they also have a platform for creating mobile apps for the usual suspects (Apple and Android I saw). That is how I closed each of my 8 presentations at the Cisco booth at Educause 2010 this week.  What I should have said instead though is “Learning is Mobile”. My conclusion?  billion by 2014.”

digital pedagog Home About Subscribe Check out the Latest Articles: Workshop Recap: NERCOMP Mobile Learning in Higher Education Classroom Projector and the iPad, Can They Get Along? In the opening presentation by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, mLearning was broadly defined as any learning which takes place outside the classroom and away from a desktop computer. This included a vast variety of technology tools including: cell phones, smart phones, laptops, flip cameras, iPads, etc. Duke University encouraged thoughtful critical reflection through the use of Flip digital cameras.

More specifically, many popular mobile devices include: Apple iPod Touch Apple iPad Apple iPhone Android-powered Smartphones Android-powered Tablets Kno (no relation to KnowPro , my educational app company) Cameras, GPS devices, etc. Mobile Learning Blog About A learning revolution through mobile devices. More About Us | Join Us! Today’s Thought "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Chinese Proverb MLearning Flickr Photos More Photos What is Mobile Learning? What is Mobile Learning in Real-life?

Today there are hundreds of apps for education available on the Apple Appstore – here’s a big list of iPhone apps for education. Technology around us is evolving at a rapid pace and is in turn affecting a speedy evolution of learning technology. Work is changing and, to keep pace with it, training is changing too. Which of these technology changes will impact training the most? think mobile applications are the game changer for training. Let me explain why I think that way. Why Mobile? information) and its use gets separated. Why Apps? Mobile apps are big business. Do you agree?

As a contrast to the Apple iPad, this browser supports Flash. Tags: Future Learning Mobile Learning apple ipad Blackberry Playbook Tablet Computers Tablet Interface It’s been in the rumor mill  for some months and was confirmed by Blackberry only recently. Now, they’ve gone ahead officially revealed the product and begun the marketing blitz. While it’s still early to say, this tablet seems a marked improvement over the iPad (which we were quite disappointed with). The Playbook comes with a camera, a fast processor that enables true multitasking and a fully featured browser.

Applications Pedagogy Tablet apple australia education ict ipad learning m-learning mlearning mobile pedagogy teaching university of adelaideFrom next year, the University of Adelaide’s Faculty of Science will be moving towards mobile delivery, with all first-year students provided with iPads , and textbooks replaced by digital materials.  To help ensure that teaching materials and activities are compatible with the iPads, teaching staff will also be receiving the devices. have a modicum of skepticism about some aspects of this planned course of action, however.  Aaargh. 

A member of Notre Dame’s ePublishing Working Group, Angst is debuting the University’s first and only class taught using Apple’s new wireless tablet computer to replace traditional textbooks. “This has become known as the iPad class,” Corey Angst , assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame, told his students on their first day of class Aug. It’s actually not…it’s ‘Project Management.’” The course is part of a unique, year-long Notre Dame study of eReaders, and Angst is conducting the first phase using iPads, which just went on sale to the public in April.

The big news of the moment amongst App developers, is the surprise announcement by Apple that they are relaxing some key restrictions on how Apps can be made. Apple is not against cross-platform apps per se, but until recently they were very against Adobe & Flash, and their previous stance was to a large extent an attempt to block several different technologies that allowed Flash apps to be automatically disassembled, and automatically re-assembled into an App. The smallprint of the Apple restrictions, also restricted this sort of App. They all use different languages.

recently read an article praising Apples iPad and criticising Microsofts strategy of putting Windows 7 on mobile devices. first step, as always has been the picking of low lying fruit. The prime use of VLEs initially was as (still is?) a repository of course documents and administrative information and such a trend is now being replicated in the mobile space. While hard work from a technical perspective, such projects are relatively quickly implemented as they don’t require an institution to do anything particularly differently, institutions still carry on teaching in the same way.

While I’m not a massive Apple fanboy, as a graphic designer who has extensively used Wacom graphics tablets for digital sketching and drawing, I can certainly see the advantages of doing freehand creative sketching and drawing using a device like the iPad.  Applications Products Tablet apple communications creative design drawing ipadThere’s a pretty decent post over at the AppStorm blog, which has posted its reviews for the “ 30 Essential iPad Apps for Designers and Creatives “ Adobe Ideas 1.0 for iPad (a free app on the iTunes Store).

Apple’s App Store (available through iTunes) has pretty much cornered the market — at least for now — on third party applications for delivering content, whether it’s reading an Amazon book from the Kindle app or browsing through a Pearson interactive text delivered through CourseSmart. This model works well for companies like Apple because it keeps users committed to their store. Tricia Duryee pointed out in July last year that Apple’s Steve Jobs originally trumpeted the idea of “[building] for the Web,” in other words, of delivering content via the Safari browser. Simple!

  Other Feedback from the Survey Responders Some feel that the lack of support for Flash by Apple will be a huge detriment to the development of Mobile Learning and others reported that they would like to get involved more in Mobile Learning but their companies are slow to consider Mobile Learning tools as an option. by Rosie Hausler.   A few weeks ago I created a survey about Mobile Learning. Thanks to everyone that took time out to answer. The results are summarized below. 79% of respondents are interested in learning more about Mobile Learning. 50% use Twitter.

These include content creation and applications for tablet computers like the Apple iPad, learning games etc. We have been interacting with a number of clients, understanding their requirements and discussing possible learning solutions, and one thing that stands out in these discussions is the surge in the demand for mLearning solutions. The use of mobiles and other related digital media as an alternative source of information is increasingly gaining ground in the learning environment. You can read more about it here. We see exciting times for mlearning ahead. Leave your comments below.

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Follow me on Twitter RSS Feeds Home About MoSo Tech! Directory Technology Channel Science Channel Stores « Why were we born in the now human history, not in the past or in the future? Green Electricity Production – Have You Heard The News ? » E-learning on Mobile Phones by Cyprien E-learning on Mobile Phones The main advantage of E-learning is independence of both location and time. However the minimum requirement of E-learning is a personal computer, which has to be fixed at one place. Using technological devices such as Mobile phones can solve these types of problems. Crazy!

There was VHS vs. Beta , Microsoft Windows vs Apple OS, and more recently, HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray.  iOS or Android? Kobo, iBooks, Nook or Kindle? There are clearly format wars taking place today in the mobile space.  When it comes to operating systems, handsets, or ebook readers, everything mobile is entangled in some sort of format competition. We’ve seen this in the media space many times before. I would argue, however, this round of format wars is much more intense and the stakes much higher. Couple that with a personal device that individuals own and you have a powerful market. 

It would be interesting to see if it supports other mobile platforms to in future – that potentially can be a big help to development of cross platform apps.And it would be interesting to see if Apple releases a similar tool to ease out the development for iOS devices. Last week Google launched App Inventor a visual development tool to build Android applications. This tool will allow anyone to create an Android app without writing even a single line of code. The video below shows how easy it is to built an Android app using this tool –. doubt.

Of course, this also helps Google catch up with Apple in the app marketplace because enabling more people to create apps insures more apps are available in their Android Marketplace. Droid. Many in the mobile learning community have been clamoring for tools that allow us as learning content creators to build apps for the mobile device. Google has decided to help us with that need by creating App Inventor , which claims to allow people who don’t have programming skills to create mobile apps through a drag and drop interface. More about it here: [link].

It decreases your development time plus it brings stability to your application in case tomorrow Apple decides to change the appearance of standard icons and buttons. In continuation to my previous post of this series ( Part I & Part II ), I will be concluding my discussion on the various components available for developing the user interface of your iPhone application. Table Views, Text Views and Web Views: Table View: It displays information in single column multiple rows format.  Rows can be divided into sections or groups. Each row can contain image, text and controls.