We're not yet connecting

So several of us have iPods in class. Sure we can each connect to online content, but how can we share content with each other directly?

I think that is a key step to making iPods an excellent part of daily use.

Thoughts?


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

How I'm using my iPod

Well, I've had the device for a few weeks now and I still can't get enough. How am I using it? Here is an email I sent a collegue earlier on that very topic!


"PIM apps

* Right now, just the built in ones, but they all sync to google. So multiple calendars and all my contacts go back and forth between google and the ipod
* I'm considering this since it also works with google and toodle, which i've just started using

o http://www.pocketinformant.com/products_info.php?p_id=pocketinformant_iphone

Blogging

* BlogPressLite
* iTalk

o This one is knock out of the park cool if used with a postersous blog. Actually this is just a sound recording app. But it will email straight to a blog, like posterous and post the audio file. Too cool.
o Sample - my sciencevc course blog

+ http://science20vc.posterous.com/

Social Networking

* Not sure how much you do SN. But the facebook app is well done. Easy to check on friends..
* TweetDeck. Awesome if you use twitter. Do you?

Notetaking

* Awesome Note - cool
* Evernote - great because it syncs to online notes I can edit on the computer too.

News

* All the usual. But I really like BBCReader since it does a great job caching for when I'm not online.
* MobileRSS - to catch all those sites I already subscribe too using GoogleReader, but never read.
* Mashable to see what's trending

Media

* iTV - I admit, I watch too much TV. I watch it from the table while I work and mark.Anyway I like this guide better than the Satellite guide.
* iTunes remote. We only use our computer for a stereo system so this is amazing.
* For video I like TED and NFB for fun/interest
* OrbLive - streams my video collection right too me. Live TV and any film. Needs a computer set up in the background though.

Resource

* Dictionary.com
* Wikipedia

Utilities - Too many to list all of them. Just the highlights from the last week.

* Units
* Alarm Clock
* Air Mouse - I run my PPTs and such in class with this.
* RDP mocha - remote into my computer to make changes and such

Games - Too many to list all of them. These stand out right now

* Catan
* Sneezies
* Civ Revolutions
* Mr. Aah
* Pre School

o but I'm looking for a school app for kindergarten. Ideas?

Lots of stuff I'm sure you would not use. But it's fun to find new things. Almost my favourite thing to do; surf the app store!"

iPods in Classrooms. I'm in!

This young lad makes a great case for iPods in classroom. I know I'm all for it. I wish our kids bought these instead of the TI83s we force them to in Math.

Moodle needs an iPhone app

I love Moodle. Use it daily. Now I have an iPod, and love it too. It's time to get this great piece of hardware together with this awesome software. I've posted as much to moodle.org, but I'm not getting any traction. So if you have an ipod/iphone please let your voice be heard, run over to moodle.org and post your opintion. Here is the thread where I've been posting these thoughts;

moodle thread on mobile moodle an the iphone.

Thanks.

Picasa 3.5 Rewards Procrastinators

I've used a lot of picture apps over the years. Most do the job. They organize, create folders, do small touch ups, and add tags. Picasa has always been amoung the best. Add free and an easy way to upload and share over the web, and I've been using using it as my main stay for years.

One thing I've been meaning to do though is to tag my pictures with the names of who is in them. Now I have no excuse. The new picasa 3.5 adds face recognition. The cool thing is it works. Start by naming a few sample pictures, then let Picasa run through your whole collection. If you are like me, it may take a while to eat through the 10s of thousands of pictures. But it will. I suggest checking in on it every hour or so. Remove the few miss-identified pictures and then confirm all. After a few hundred examples for a face it gets very, very good. It even recognizes a wide age range amoung kids.

Aside from simply being amazing, I was surprised at how much fun it was. It was a real blast to scroll through the dozens than 100s of pictures it found of my son or daughter. Seriously, this technology should not be missed. Get and use it. Amazing.

http://picasa.google.ca/