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[Apps for Kids] Toontastic for iPad: “Lights, Camera, Play!”

Tweet Toontastic is a family favorite in our household. Our oldest son (5 years old) loves to animate and create his own make believe stories with it. Right now you can get the app for free! Toontastic App “Designed in partnership with Stanford’s Graduate School of Education and Zeum: San Francisco’s Children’s Museum, Toontastic inspires [...]

[Apps] “Ambitious iOS Apps” – Fraser Speirs

Tweet Attempting to push the boundaries of what a mobile device can do is certainly a goal that every developer should strive for while designing or planning an application for an iOS device. Frasier Speirs, in a recent post, highlights some specific “things” that can be done to create an “ambitious” app. Two of my [...]

“Puts the sugar in the medicine of taking notes…”

Tweet “Rising generation of iKids slipping iPads in school backpacks and heading on home” –  San Jose Mercury News “‘The iPad has really been a game-changer,’ he said. ‘It allows us to do a lot of things in real time that weren’t possible before.’ During a class discussion of ‘A Raisin in the Sun,’ a [...]

[Education] “Classroom iPad Programs Get Mixed Response” – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Tweet It seems the mixed response comes primarily from the lack of time with the iPads as well as a limited number of students owning one… Classroom iPad Programs Get Mixed Response – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education “Caitlin Corning, a history professor at George Fox, said it’s been hard to meld [...]

[iPad] “Delete iPad Photos with Image Capture” – Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Tweet Useful iPad photo tip for deleting images without having to launch and connect to iPhoto… As shown in the Skitch-annotated screenshot above, after plugging in your iPad (or other iOS device) and launching “Image Capture” (which you’ll find in the Applications folder) you can delete all or some of the photos on your device by [...]

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

Tweet 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 [...]