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Repurposing Education
with mobile devices

Saturday, 3 October 2009

Welcome

If you make a change and it feels
comfortable, you haven’t made a
change. Lee Trevino - Golfer

As teachers and educators, we see ﬁrst hand what our students are doing and how they are interacting with their peers, parents and the world around
them. Have we really changed our pedagogy, curriculum or structure?

By Year 6 ....

These students are also connected via chat, social networking sites and collaborative communities that often times are overlooked by education. When you really
analyze what kids get into trouble with technology at school, it is these these tools.

By Year 6 ....

Connected Virtual
Individuals Communities

These students are also connected via chat, social networking sites and collaborative communities that often times are overlooked by education. When you really
analyze what kids get into trouble with technology at school, it is these these tools.

TV and print media is
beginning to yield ground
to successor media in the
shape of online and mobile
services
Hartly 2009:1

What are we as educators doing in this
revolution?

Hulu - who?


Web 2.0 has opened up a whole new world of new things we can access with iPod Touch and iPhones. How many of these do we use? How many are blocked
at school? How many do our students use?

Education
In China

China has worked with Nokia in developing a number of English courses delivered via mobile
phone apps

Popular Educational iPhone Apps
Teachers and admin need to address the school vista to incorporate m-learning by addressing these 3 key areas.
Who works in a school that has banned
Mobile Phones in the classroom?
Ipods?
Playstation Portables
Nintendo DS

WHY? Why have they been banned?
Control of the curriculum and they don’t ﬁt in with our curriculum, our school pedagogy and the school structure.

We as educators are missing the boat with m learning. We have banned phones. It is like banning note books and biros so that the students will have to use
the slate and chalk at school

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iDisk
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TweetDeck 9
Evernote 8
Presenter 7
Documents
Sketch Pad
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WhiteBoard
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Comic Touch 5
Educate 5
QANTAS 5
SimpleMindX 4
Sudoku 4
Bento 3
Blanks 3
MaxKeys 3
Tycoon 2
VNC / RDP 2
Trafﬁc Jam 2
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iWoopie
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Conversions 1
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Popular Educational iPhone Apps
Teachers and admin need to address the school vista to incorporate m-learning by addressing these 3 key areas.
Who works in a school that has banned
Mobile Phones in the classroom?
Ipods?
Playstation Portables
Nintendo DS

WHY? Why have they been banned?
Control of the curriculum and they don’t ﬁt in with our curriculum, our school pedagogy and the school structure.

We as educators are missing the boat with m learning. We have banned phones. It is like banning note books and biros so that the students will have to use
the slate and chalk at school

In a year 11
class, 20%
had an
iphone or
ipod touch

100% of students had a mobile phone - close to 50% of this class had a phone with 3G capabilities. This is in a school with a traditionally low socio-
economic background.

What are some great free
apps?
Evernote - Remember everything
TweetDeck - A twitter app
Documents - sync and edit your Google docs and
spreadsheets
DropBox, iDisk
ABC
VNC lite


Today we will look at the ﬁrst 3 apps in depth and how they can be used in Education. In the
closing stages I will show you some other apps that are available to download. The key to
remember is that the app store is constantly changing.

Apps


So what is Evernote? How can we use Evernote in class?


Evernote is great. Any site you come across, you can tag it. It is the new bookmark. But wait
there is more. You can add voice memos (on ipod touch version 2 and iPhones) and photos
on the iPhone. You can even link your twitter account to Evernote and send tweets to
yourself so that don’t forget something.

Evernote


You need to register with Evernote before you can use it. Remember to get the most out of
this app, you should also have it installed on your computer as well. www.evernote.com


Who hasn’t heard of twitter? Who has a twitter account? What do you use it for? Can it be
used in schools?

Twitter Apps -
TweetDeck


Keeping up to date with current affairs has never been easier with Twitter. TweetDeck is a
twitter client that allows you to follow trending topics. Here are two screen shots 30 seconds
apart after the Tsunami warning went out as well as the earthquake in Sumatra.

So how can we use this in a school setting?

The thing to remember about twitter is that it is all about who you follow.


Can Twitter be used in schools? Yes it needs to be monitored - just like research. Is it a lot
of verbal diarrhea? Yes and No. Condensing your thoughts/questions to 140 characters (28
words approximately) requires some skill.

Teachers who use twitter
in schools

What is a PLN?
Why have a PLN?
Who is in your PLN?
Watch who follows you


Especially in schools you need to watch who follows you. I manage my account at least once
a week to block people unsuitable for my PLN.

how is twitter being used in
schools?
twitter in schools


Twitter is amazing. Like Shrek and his view on Ogres. Twitter is like an onion - They have
layers. Look at the layers of engagement Twitter can offer.

6 reasons why educators
should get involved with
Twitter?
1. Together we’re better

2. Global or local: you
choose


Twitter can be like a virtual staffroom where teachers can access in seconds a stream of
links, ideas, opinions, and resources from a hand-picked selection of global professionals.

2 With Twitter, educators can actively compare what’s happening in their with others on
different continents. GPS-enabled devices and advanced web search facility allow
searches that tell you what people are tweeting within a certain distance of a location, so if
the other side of the world isn’t your bag, you can stick with your own patch.

3. Ideas workshop and
sounding board

4. Newsroom and innovation
showcase


3 Twitter is a great medium for sharing ideas and getting instant feedback. You can gather a
range of opinions and constructive criticism within minutes, which can help enormously,
whether you are planning a learning experience, writing a policy, or putting a job application
together.
4 Twitter helps you stay up-to-date on news and current affairs, as well as on the latest
developments in areas of interest like school leadership and technology.

5. Quality Assured searching

6. Getting with the times has
never been so easy!

-- By Laura Walker. Follow Mrs.
Walker on Twitter

5 Trust the people you follow. Hone and develop the list of people whose insights you value.
Once your Twitter network grows past a critical mass, you can ask them detailed questions and
get higher-quality information back than a Google search would generally provide.
6 A little light searching using key words for your areas of interest will soon yield a list of
interesting people to follow. Your biggest challenge is likely to be getting the twitter unblocked
on your school network if your main usage will be at school.

Documents

INCLUDES
Latest iSpreadsheet (mobile spreadsheet app)
Text Editor (Easy to use text pad)
Google Sync (Upload & Download directly to Google)
Photo Album (Photo manager)
Direct Email (Email any documents to anyone)
Integrated Preview (Preview any known document)

This is great because you can share your google documents with your students and truly allow collaborative learning in and outside your class.

DropBox and iDisk


Both these apps are relatively new. Dropbox is for everybody. iDisk is really only for
MobileMe subscribers. The fantastic thing about them is that a student need not say he or
she has lost their USB thumb drive again.
File Sync
Dropbox allows you to sync your ﬁles online and across your computers automatically.

• 2GB of online storage for free, with up to 100GB available to paying customers.

• Sync ﬁles of any size or type.

• Sync Windows, Mac and Linux computers.

Other great apps


Now I want to look brieﬂy at some other apps that are being used by educators in their
classrooms.

ESL, English


Hook the iPod up to the speakers and get the audience to say hello.

Maths and Business


Hospitality, SOSE, Maths,
English


Essay writing


Essay Writing Wizard is a free app that gives students some help on writing an essay.

SimpleMind is a great app that allows you to prepare a mindmap. With the paid version you
can send these mindmaps to other people with the app and allow them to edit the mindmap.

HPE


Business


Geography, SOSE


Apps for Students More articles

Whether you want to define a word, learn the name of a bone, practice
your French, or prep for the SAT, iPhone has the smartest apps around.

Tools for school.
iPhone has apps to help with every subject.
If you’re headed to Chemistry, Periodic
gives you a complete, pocket-size
reference to the periodic table of elements
that you can organize by name, atomic
number, chemical series, symbol, or phase.
Bring the New Oxford American Dictionary
to English class, and you’ll never be at a
loss for words. Or download Grafly and
impress your math class with amazing 2D
and 3D interactive graphs of equations you
can view from any angle.
AVAILABLE ON THE APP STORE

Get an A in organization.
When homework starts piling up, download
apps to help you stay on track. View
assignments by day, week, or course with
iHomework. Check off assignments once
you’ve turned them in, and monitor your
progress by typing in your grade. If you
need to ask for extra time, you can find
your teacher’s contact information here, A body of knowledge.
too. For more detailed homework projects, The best-selling Netter’s
download Assignments and add a recording Anatomy textbook is now a lot
to any entry. easier to carry around. With
AVAILABLE ON THE APP STORE Netter’s Anatomy Flash Cards, you have
Did you know?
instant access to over 300 annotated
iTunes U is packed with course lectures
from professors at top universities. Whether
images of muscles, bones, vessels, viscera,
you’re studying art or engineering, there’s and joints. Tap to test your knowledge in
probably a podcast for it. Even better, you Punch in numbers. quiz mode, or pinch to get a closer look.
won’t have to pay tuition. The Calculator app on iPhone isn’t AVAILABLE ON THE APP STORE
just one calculator, it’s two. Rotate
iPhone and it switches to a scientific
calculator that’s easy as pi to use.
Learn in a flash.
Top 10 Paid
With Mental Case, you can Student Apps
create flash cards on your Mac
and sync them to your iPhone,
or choose from over 16 million flash cards
to download from FlashcardExchange.com. 1. Graphing Calculator
2. Mathemagics
Then study on the go with a full-
3. ABC Animals
screen slideshow. 4. iStudiez Pro
AVAILABLE ON THE APP STORE 5. Star Walk
6. Wheels on the Bus
7. FirstWords: Animals
8. abc PocketPhonics: letter sounds &
writing + first words
Be well-read.

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Features Why iPhone Apps for iPhone Gallery How To Tech Specs

Apps for Keeping Current More articles

News travels at the speed of iPhone. Stay in the know with lots of insider apps
from the worlds of business, sports, politics, music, fashion, and more.

Discover new ideas.
With TED (Technology, Entertainment and
Design), you can watch and listen to what
some of the world’s most fascinating
people have to say, all on your iPhone.
Bookmark your favorite talks from TED
conferences to inspire now or enjoy later.

Get in the game.
Stay on top of the teams and games you
care about with ESPN ScoreCenter. Review
scores and stats for over 500 sports
leagues worldwide or set up one-tap
access to your personalized scoreboards.
Follow play-by-play action with CBS Sports
Mobile, then log in to control your fantasy
football and baseball teams. For front-row
views, download MLB.com At Bat and watch
live streaming games. And if you don’t
have time to catch all nine innings, watch a
Market watch. 10 to 12 minute video recap featuring
every payoff pitch.
Breaking news about your
investments is always just a tap
away. Open the Stocks app, then
rotate to see what’s up and what’s down.
Be in the know.
Get the latest headlines, sports
scores, weather, photos, and Top 10 Paid
News Apps
more wherever you are with
USA TODAY, NYTimes, and MSNBC. ABC
News offers top-of-the-hour video news
briefs, while CBS EyeMobile features 1. News Feed (On Sale)
network video footage as well as citizen 2. iDrudge Drudge Reader 1.1
videos and reports. Download AP Mobile for 3. Onion Microfiche Headline Reader
4. iFoxNews
a comprehensive news network that lets
5. News Addict (On Sale)
you personalize news to fit your needs. Or
6. Newsstand
quickly scan Newsdesk for a compilation of 7. NetNewsWire Premium
the world’s biggest headlines. For the latest 8. Television
tech news and gadget reviews, check out 9. Gossip Junkie
All Things Digital and Wired Product 10. Nasa News

Reviews. Listen up.
AVAILABLE ON THE APP STORE Your iPhone doubles as a
radio when you download the
Public Radio Player. Tune in
Walk the red carpet.
Saturday, 3 October 2009 and enjoy hundreds of free public radio

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Apps for Work More articles

Whether you’re managing projects, clients, or your time, iPhone makes
the perfect business partner.

Get your money back.
Nexonia subscribers can keep receipts from
piling up with Nexonia Expenses. Track
expenses as you incur them. Then use your
iPhone camera to photograph receipts
before submitting expense reports.

Attend a meeting.
Just because you’re out of the office
doesn’t mean you have to be out of the
loop. Use Cisco WebEx Meeting Center to
participate in meetings and interact in real
time. If you’re presenting, control the show
from your iPhone with Keynote Remote.
Swipe the screen to advance, preview the
next slide, or view your notes as you use
Wi-Fi to roam the room.
Make some calls.
The next time business takes
you on the road, take
iDialUDrive along for the ride.
Create a list of all the people you want to Top 10 Paid
Sales at your fingertips. Business Apps
talk to that day and iPhone will make every
Be business savvy on the go.
call — one by one — for you.
With Salesforce Mobile,
Salesforce subscribers have
instant access to important business and 1. Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite
2. iSwipe Pro Credit Card Terminal
client data wherever they are. Log sales,
3. QuickVoice2Text Email (PRO Recorder)
access charts and graphs, check the latest 4. Documents To Go® with Exchange
activity, respond to new leads, and Attachments (Microsoft Word editing,
much more. Exchange attachments & Desktop s
AVAILABLE ON THE APP STORE 5. PDF Reader Pro
6. Say it & Mail it
7. Wyse PocketCloud
8. My Eyes Only™
9. To-Do List
10. Etiquette Avenue
Did you know?
iPhone has been adopted by businesses
both small and large. To find out about
other business apps, or to find out how
other companies use iPhone, visit
www.apple.com/iphone/business.
Receive a payment.
With Credit Card Terminal, you
can turn your iPhone into a
Get organized. mobile cash register. Accept
Don’t just make a list of all the important credit card payments, email receipts, and
Travel light. things you have to get done. Organize refund sales listed on your transaction log
them with OmniFocus. This Apple Design — all on the go.
Leave that stack of papers
behind. With Quickoffice® Award-winning app keeps track of tasks by
Mobile Office Suite, you can project, place, person, or date. You can
view, edit, and email your important also upload photos and use built-in GPS to
Microsoft Word and Excel files from your find nearby tasks to knock off your list. For
Saturday, 3 October 2009 iPhone. Tap to access local and remote intuitive business and personal Watch the time.

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Apps for Managing Money More articles

Your iPhone becomes even more valuable when you add some
money-conscious apps. Here are a few that’ll help you track and
save your money.

Show me the money.
Know where your money is
wherever you go. Open a Mint
account online and enter your
banking account, investment, and credit
card information. The Mint.com application
will show you the balance in each account
up to the minute and even break out your
expenditures by category.

Stock smarts. You can bank on it.
Put Bloomberg on your iPhone 3G and Instead of going to the bank, let the bank
you’ll always have this trusted source for come to you with applications from Bank of
financial information at your fingertips. Get America, Chase, and Citibank. If you’re
accurate and timely financial news, stock enrolled, just tap the app to locate the
quotes, price charts, market trends nearest ATM, check balances, and even pay
analysis, and more, all on the go. your bills. You can send money to
AVAILABLE ON THE APP STORE anywhere from anywhere with PayPal. Just
choose a recipient and an amount to be
transferred, and the PayPal app makes it
happen.

Top 10 Paid
Financial Apps

1. BillMinder with Push Notifications
2. iXpenseIt
3. Ace Budget
4. Checkbook
5. PortfolioLive
6. Mobile Receipt
Home sweet home. 7. PocketMoney
8. Budget
After you find the house of your dreams 9. Tip Calculator Top
using Home Finder Real Estate Tool, let it Money clip. 10. BA II Plus(tm) Financial Calculator
calculate your monthly payments based on
If you have a brokerage account
daily interest rates it downloads from
and get instant access to it from
Zillow.com. If you’re looking to invest in
your phone, create a web clip of
property, tap into Property Evaluator. This
the login page.
Saturday, 3 October 2009 app helps you make the best deal by
creating performance projections,
amortization tables, estimated expenses,
and more.

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