Collated info using iPads for Learning

Notes from the first iPad user group meeting [edit]

Mark Caukill couldn't demo apple tv but discussed options for sharing screen via tether. Windows will soon have app to allow screen sharing via pc. Apple tv to be put in specific rooms Stephen looking for people to identify high use rooms.  A211, Sarah mentioned a room in F block

Beth Mills demo,ed use for workshop out around the country. Looking at a plant I'd app for German plants and making an nz equivalent. Doc keen to support. Contacted app publisher to explore options for using theirs as basis. Possible sources of funding. Ako Aotearoa could support if wrapped into research about impact on teaching and learning. Think big, not just local but international. Clare mentioned UNITEC lecturer doing something similar

General discussion about simple app development ideas

Craig Agnew did demo of videoing performance work using cam app, then using iMovie  to edit. Very easy and good but compressed quality. Gt quality just using iPad inbuilt mic and iPad on its own stand. Nice mention of David Bouds process for teaching students to calibrate their review of their work against teacher review. Recorded separate track over with teacher feedback and student did theirs as a separate track and can compare.

Process =  record, student watches video once then records comments, then teacher watches and records comments.

How to then make available? Load 2 separate videos with teacher or student voiceovers to YouTube using private or unlisted option. Export to GarageBand so they can listen to tracks as they like but need GarageBand app or softw and files are large.

GarageBand demo

David Sturrock mentioned 5 pads available next yr for projects involving student use of iPads. Start thinking about ideas - a simple project proposal form to follow shortly. Martin mentioned that if project goes well then could just get more iPads, while the set of 5 are circulated to other projects.

Sandra Dyke demo of using moodle and google site and docs to track project progress and give feedback. Sandra makes extensive use of Google docs & sites (especially sites template for projects) and students add their progress reports and outputs online. There was an extended discussion on use of cloud services such as googleapps vs ms live etc.  Also Dropbox, box and google docs as synching and file storage/sharing options. Stephen Tanner talked about improved NMIT storage capacity and NMIT Drop box equivalent coming next year (Octopus?).

Sandra also using scan app docscanhd to photograph and store files. Free app but limited to 3 pages and no OCR.

Use of conferencing and google docs. Aaron Steele example and Clare doing the same e.g. here  (and happy to help anyone wanting to know how to set up something similar). Sarah Fraser keen to explore for her theses work with supervisor in oz.

Round room 1 thing found iPad useful for

Mark quickly mentioned notetaker HD can annotate PDFs using handwriting or picture with colour too. Can comment or draw and easily publish image versions too. Sketchbook pro.

Star walk $6 layer over sky.

Tracey and Yvonne planning to use hairdressing app  - instyle hairstyle try on

Clare Atkins showed ustream itsa live stream version of YouTube. Can broadcast to ustream from iPad. eTV may be going to provide similar option next yr and Scopia can do similar but all over KAREN (i.e. not using up our internet bandwidth).

Smart cover self testing via Evernote peek.

World of goo game just fun

Ipadnzeducation.wordpress.com to keep track of tertiary ed and iPads

Showme interactive whiteboard

Monique showed Prezi - an alternative presentation tool to PPT that requires you to be online to design but has off-line player option for iPad. Slideshare and SlideRocket are other options.

ReaditLater - read bookmarked items offline and synchronised between devices.