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[Education] Have an old iPhone or iPod Touch? Donate them!

Educational application developer Steve Glinberg is a friend of edu.Mac.nation and the creator of KidCalc, 123 Color Talking Coloring Book, and 123 World Geography Coloring Book. He also has created “HD” versions of 123 Color and 123 World Geography for the iPad. Steve recently launched a wonderful donation program for iPhones and iPod Touches. Below is information [...]

[Media] iPad and Wired Magazine: “The Wired Tablet App: A Video Demonstration”- Wired.com

Take a look at this video from Wired.com and begin to imagine this in the hands of a student… Imagine static content coming alive… The Wired Tablet App: A Video Demonstration | Epicenter | Wired.com: “The point here is that we are entering a new era of media, where we finally have a digital platform [...]

[Tips] “Using an Old iPhone as an iPod Touch”- AllThingsD

During the early part of the summer I upgraded from the original iPhone to the iPhone 3GS. I decided to turn my old iPhone into an “iPod Touch”. In the recent “Mossberg’s Mailbox” a question was sent in asking many of the questions I had when I made the switch… Using an Old iPhone as [...]

[e-Textbooks] Kindle Pitfalls: What can Apple and others learn from this?

photo credit: oskay Ughh. I saw this coming as soon as I heard about campus rollouts and testing… e-Textbooks: How Apple Can Dominate the Education Market With the iTablet “In particular, students and professors note the difficulty of adding notes, highlighting text and finding content quickly. One student called the Kindle DX ‘…a poor excuse [...]

[iPhone App] Need to see something close up?: “Eye Glasses gives iPhone users some optical help | The Loop”

I will definitely have my father check this app out! (Click on image above  to check out the application on iTunes) Eye Glasses gives iPhone users some optical help | The Loop “Eye Glasses is a brand new app from Freeverse that can help keep you from squinting. It’s like having a pair of virtual [...]

[Education] *New* IEAR.org: iPod Touch/iPhone Educational Apps Review

(Image via IEAR.org) Over the weekend I learned of an excellent new project called “I Education Apps Review”.  This project/website focuses on the educational value and responsible usage of iPhones and iPod Touches in education. The work on this project has just begun and I believe that IEAR will be a valuable resource. Below is a brief description of [...]