Thursday 24 November 2011

Videolicious

Videolicious Turn raw video clips and photos into tightly edited masterpieces to share with your friends, in just three simple steps. Thanks to @lizziemcke for this recommendation



Choose Your Shots
Select the videos and photos you
would like to include in your movie


Tell Your Story
Film yourself and talk about the
videos and photos in your movie


Step Three
Choose Your Music
Choose one song to
enhance your movie























Very easy to create a video story from video clips and photos you have on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad 2. Great for trips out of school providing students with a simple way to add a commentary to their work.

Thursday 17 November 2011

epub converter


Great resource for creating epub files from existing document 

2EPUB allows you to convert PDF, doc and other types of documents & books to ePub format, the standard format for ebooks, supported by almost every reading device including iPad, iPhone, iPod, Sony Reader, BeBook, Nook, Kobo (for Kindle use .mobi).
Input formats: doc, docx, epub, fb2, html, lit, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, txt.
Output formats: epub, fb2, lit, lrf, mobi

Thursday 10 November 2011

Teacher training should take place before iPad Deployment

This is a very useful article confirming what we all know but very rarely put into practice. Providing iPad CPD is more essential as many staff wont have experience of this technology either personally or a classroom technology. Follow Link to read more Another issue is the use of email which is an area that can expand rapidly Follow link to see more A case study worth reading is that of Essa Academy Bolton Empowering students with iPod touch.

In addition to allowing staff acesss to iPad/iPod devices early its wise to provide guidance on apps to start with, there are currently over 13,000 so know where to start and what is the primary focus is vital to a successful implementation. Below is a guide to some apps that i would think are a good start, remember not too many to begin with and remember to group them or place specific subjects on seperate pages. A further matter is that of content ebooks, videos, documents, podcasts etc whcih can be managed easily from an iTunes Playlist this can be much easier to manage that Syncing.


My Must have Apps:

Free
Paid
iBooks
Pages
Evernote
Numbers
Dropbox
Evernote
Shareplus Lite (if you are using Sharepoint with your LP)
Book Creator
Idea Sketch
I am Learning
iMathematics
Sketch
Sketchpad Explorer
GarageBand
SketchBookX
iMovie
Wikipanion

MotionPics

Historypin

Twitter

PhotoGene



Tuesday 8 November 2011

Sketchpad Explorer for iPad (Free)

Great Maths App and its free, based on the award-winning software The Geometer’s Sketchpad®, the Sketchpad Explorer app allows you to interact with, and investigate, any document created in Sketchpad. With a simple, powerful multitouch interface, Sketchpad Explorer puts mathematical comprehension at your fingertips." Content can be downloaded from Sketchpad SketchExchange including teachers notes, Worksheets and Student Sketch activities. the activities can be saved in Evernot or Dropbox to use ofline.
 




Download it now its free!