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[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 that allows us [...]

1 Comment by Michael on February 17, 2010
filed in Featured Articles, Hardware, News, Video
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[e-Textbooks] Kindle Pitfalls: What can Apple and others learn from this?

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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 of an [...]

2 Comments by Michael on October 9, 2009
filed in Education, Featured Articles, Hardware
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[Apps for Toddlers] Pre-reading/writing skills: “Firstwords: Animals” and “iWriteWords”

One thing that I love about the applications available for the iPhone and iPod Touch are the multitude of learning activities available for toddlers and children getting ready to enter school. Today I would like to share two applications that I have recently purchased for my son. Both of these applications (“FirstWords: Animals” and “iWriteWords”) [...]

4 Comments by Michael on March 22, 2009
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