iPad+Assignments

__Assignments for iPad Class__

__Assignment #2__
School/Educational Personal
 * 1) iMovie - My video production students could do a "quick and dirty" video shot and edited directly from the iPad.
 * 2) CamScanner Free - Students could do brainstorming on a whiteboard or paper, then use scanner to create a multi-page PDF of the results and share digitally, instantly.
 * 3) Dropbox - keep documents off the school network, accessable 24/7 anywhere, and share quickly and easily with students.
 * 4) Skype - Communicate with students/parents as necessary if users don't have Facetime.
 * 5) Dragon Dictation - Allow students to dictate composition instead of writing/typing it.
 * 6) ShowMe - Create quick presentations/illustrations to pre-record and share to send to sick students or build always-on instruction materials.
 * 7) GarageBand - Students can create songs/beats for intros and in-production sound effects. Also podcasting.
 * 8) iBooks - Create virtual textbook/bookshelf of reference materials for my classes. Create EPUBS with interactive material.
 * 9) Financial Football HD - review financial concepts for Intro to Business, football season or filler activity.
 * 10) Square - allow my school store/retail management class to accept credit card payments.
 * 1) Netflix - watch movies, documentaries and television shows to relax!
 * 2) LinkedIn - professional networking and career development.
 * 3) PayPal - transfer money and split bills with friends/colleagues.
 * 4) Pandora - relax or work out with a customized music mix!
 * 5) Family Handyman - help me figure out how to fix and improve my home without (hopefully) hurting myself.

__Assignment #4__
Educational (OrioleTV) Kandorfer, P. (2010). //Digital video production handbook//. Author Solutions, Inc. (from iBooks Store) Personal Levitt, S, & Dubner, S. (2010). //Freakonomics rev ed//. HarperCollins. (from iBooks Store)

__Assignment #5__
NPR Planet Money Podcast []

The Planet Money Podcast is an NPR audio production that focuses on taking current financial topics and presenting it in a way that The Everyman can understand. They use humor and real-life analogues to keep it interesting and relevant to those outside the Wall Street Journal crowd.

I can use use this particular podcast to explain current events and things that my Intro to Business or Marketing students might see in the newspaper or on CNBC but in a concise way. The podcast is updated regularly and usually topical (the value of gold, the S&P credit downgrade, etc) so it is "current events" and not outdated. The iTunes U helps to find related content or content in categories, and the integration to iTunes/iPad makes it very easy to access and subscribe to.

__Assignment #6__
The Crisis of Credit Visualized - HD A visually stimulating presentation of what caused the credit/housing crisis, in a way that children can begin to understand. Very polished visuals and quickly/smartly narrated. media type="youtube" key="Q0zEXdDO5JU" height="349" width="560"

A Quick Example of a Movie Made Entirely from the iMovie App on the iPad media type="youtube" key="oIqtx03YLTc" height="345" width="560"

Reflection


The impact of mobile technology in the classroom can be tremendous. At the very least, it can allow teachers to become “untethered” from their desks and computers, and free to move more freely around the classroom. That alone can let teachers be more actively engaged with their students while taking advantage of the technology tools we’ve embraced. The “app for that” philosophy means that the effectiveness of mobile technology is nearly limitless – as a need or use is identified, wither the marketplace will produce it or educators themselves will begin to create apps.

As students use mobile technology in the classroom, we can hopefully move to an environment that replaces traditional textbooks with resources that are more interactive and continuously updated. It will also mean that students can have all their tools at a touch instead of remembering their calculator, their reflection journal, their free reading material, their periodic table, homework planner, etc. And students will be able to more freely and easily create and publish/share than before.

In my personal life, I plan to use my iPad to increase my effectiveness. The productivity tools available for the iPad are tremendous, such as Evernote, Dropbox, and so on. And further, since many of these tools are cloud-based I can choose the device that is the most convenient and effective. I could take notes at a meeting on my iPad and sync that with my Dropbox and use the notes to send a more detailed summary from my computer without clogging up my inbox.

I thought the John C. Riley Educational Technology Day at Marian University was a tremendous opportunity for educators. One thing that I learned was how much value there is in conferences! So many presenters in sessions had so many great things to share with us that it was hard to fit it into 50-minute sessions. On a related note, I also learned that by sharing freely what we have and know makes it that much easier to receive important information as well. As far as apps go, I was struck by the sheer volume of apps on the marketplace, and how quickly that landscape is changing. I think that ONLY by attending conferences and leveraging Twitter/LinkedIn/Facebook can we hope to make be aware of everything that’s going on! I also learned about two tools that I intend to use in my classroom. The first is wikis – I’d been dismissive of them in the past, but I can definitely see the value that wikis bring as a sharing tool and as an archiving/accessibility tool. The second technology I will use is Google Apps, specifically Forms and Spreadsheets. The session about using forms to create peer review forms and assessments was excellent, and even though I’ve been a Google evangelist for years, I hadn’t utilized Google Apps to that extent before.