http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/01/28/educators-intrigued-by-apples-ipad/ Just another eSchool Media site Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:48:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/01/28/educators-intrigued-by-apples-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-256 rcockerill Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:12:41 +0000 http://www.eschoolnews.com/?p=30062#comment-256 I've just finished a pilot with iPods in our Middle School Foreign Language classroom and I feel like I'm well versed on this stuff. We were concerned about a 1:1 laptop program. It seemed like too much of everything ... and too much for the kids to carry around everywhere, too much classroom management. The iTouch allowed our kids to have little bites of lessons in the fabulous number of applications designed for education. The recording capability was perfect for supporting oral fluency over written work but ... the screens were too small for reading, the keyboards a little too small for essay writing. The iPad is the Dream Machine in my mind. We just need the iPad to get through a couple of versions and sort out the bits and bobs that aren'ts quite right! Regina from England I’ve just finished a pilot with iPods in our Middle School Foreign Language classroom and I feel like I’m well versed on this stuff. We were concerned about a 1:1 laptop program. It seemed like too much of everything … and too much for the kids to carry around everywhere, too much classroom management. The iTouch allowed our kids to have little bites of lessons in the fabulous number of applications designed for education. The recording capability was perfect for supporting oral fluency over written work but … the screens were too small for reading, the keyboards a little too small for essay writing. The iPad is the Dream Machine in my mind. We just need the iPad to get through a couple of versions and sort out the bits and bobs that aren’ts quite right!
Regina from England

]]> http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/01/28/educators-intrigued-by-apples-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-2205 rcockerill Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:12:41 +0000 http://www.eschoolnews.com/?p=30062#comment-2205 I've just finished a pilot with iPods in our Middle School Foreign Language classroom and I feel like I'm well versed on this stuff. We were concerned about a 1:1 laptop program. It seemed like too much of everything ... and too much for the kids to carry around everywhere, too much classroom management. The iTouch allowed our kids to have little bites of lessons in the fabulous number of applications designed for education. The recording capability was perfect for supporting oral fluency over written work but ... the screens were too small for reading, the keyboards a little too small for essay writing. The iPad is the Dream Machine in my mind. We just need the iPad to get through a couple of versions and sort out the bits and bobs that aren'ts quite right! Regina from England I’ve just finished a pilot with iPods in our Middle School Foreign Language classroom and I feel like I’m well versed on this stuff. We were concerned about a 1:1 laptop program. It seemed like too much of everything … and too much for the kids to carry around everywhere, too much classroom management. The iTouch allowed our kids to have little bites of lessons in the fabulous number of applications designed for education. The recording capability was perfect for supporting oral fluency over written work but … the screens were too small for reading, the keyboards a little too small for essay writing. The iPad is the Dream Machine in my mind. We just need the iPad to get through a couple of versions and sort out the bits and bobs that aren’ts quite right!
Regina from England

]]> http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/01/28/educators-intrigued-by-apples-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-190 PatrickA Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:53:33 +0000 http://www.eschoolnews.com/?p=30062#comment-190 This is what I said over 2 years ago. Back in 1987 MH started building these kinds of Apps. Cesare DelVaglio was the innovator. He was and still is brilliant. I learned everything I know from him. A true visionary and a great person to work with. This is the future of books. Publishers better realize it. Books will include video, audio and hypertext. They will basically be the blog format exported as an xml and uploaded for browser distribution. This is what I said over 2 years ago. Back in 1987 MH started building these kinds of Apps. Cesare DelVaglio was the innovator. He was and still is brilliant. I learned everything I know from him. A true visionary and a great person to work with.
This is the future of books. Publishers better realize it. Books will include video, audio and hypertext. They will basically be the blog format exported as an xml and uploaded for browser distribution.

]]> http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/01/28/educators-intrigued-by-apples-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-2163 PatrickA Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:53:33 +0000 http://www.eschoolnews.com/?p=30062#comment-2163 This is what I said over 2 years ago. Back in 1987 MH started building these kinds of Apps. Cesare DelVaglio was the innovator. He was and still is brilliant. I learned everything I know from him. A true visionary and a great person to work with. This is the future of books. Publishers better realize it. Books will include video, audio and hypertext. They will basically be the blog format exported as an xml and uploaded for browser distribution. This is what I said over 2 years ago. Back in 1987 MH started building these kinds of Apps. Cesare DelVaglio was the innovator. He was and still is brilliant. I learned everything I know from him. A true visionary and a great person to work with.
This is the future of books. Publishers better realize it. Books will include video, audio and hypertext. They will basically be the blog format exported as an xml and uploaded for browser distribution.

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