Welcome to CESA 7 Educational Technology Services' iThings User Group!
About this wiki:
"No one has “forgotten” or “left out” anything. You just haven’t added it yet."
--from Alan Levine’s April 6th, 08 “CogDogBlog” post (Alan’s “place to bark about instructional technology”) “The Wiki Way”
The three main goals of this wiki and the related user group are:
1. To serve as a resource for area districts that are implementing or considering implementing devices with the iOS (iPods, iPads, iPhones)
(our discussions may lead us to discover/talk about other devices with similar capabilities
2. To share our expertise--what's working, what's not
3. To provide a forum for questions
We are now on Facebook!
Big News for Education from Apple! Jan. 19th 2012
The Apple education event just concluded with three major announcements: iBooks 2 which will include textbooks (update your iBooks app today) iBook Author app (a free app for self-publishing e-books) and improvements to the iTunes U app that puts entire courses online and allows instructors to post syllabi and messages for students. Exciting news --no more bulging backpacks in your students' future??
To clarify, the iBook Author app is a Mac App Store app, (not an iPad/iPod app) compatible only with 10.7 (Lion)
The new iTunes U app is available today (for iPad/iPod) and already includes a good variety of free, full courses offered by a number of different universities.
For the CNET news story and transcript of a live blog from them that took place during the event, check out:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57360688-37/apple-unveils-ibooks-2-for-digital-textbooks-self-pub-app-live-blog/
PC Magazine also published this story:
Apple Targets Educators Via iBooks 2, iBooks Author, iTunes U App
Will you be ready for this child?
Links to pages on this wiki:
iOS 5 info
includes survey form for submitting your recommendations
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