Category: Tablets

Reading 370 and iPads

I am piloting reading 370 as a one to one iPad classroom.  Monday was our first day to try it and it was awesome.  When everyone first came in they weren’t so sure about how this would work.  Some were very nervous because they did not have much experience using the iPad but after a …

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Apple TV/iPad Tips

A few notes and tricks about our Air Play set up in Ed South 131: First you’ll need wireless access.  Note that you need to be on the same wireless network as the Apple TV device in order to use Air Play with it. Below are step-by-step instructions of how to Access the Apple TV network …

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Classroom Apple TV Pilot

This summer semester we ventured into the unknown with our first Apple TV pilot.  We’ve seen many other schools do it and we had a curious faculty member willing to be the test subject…er, innovator.  Ed South room 131 became our testing ground.  After installing a projector with HDMI input, and some additional network and …

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OS Wars

A recent article from Campus Technology reveals that Android OS is more prevalent than any other when considering any and all computing type devices.  Windows obviously still owns the lion’s share of OS in the PC market, but when taking mobile devices and tablets into account its Android by a long-shot. Meanwhile, Blackberry continues to …

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Android officially pulls Flash from Google Play Store in favor of HTML5

The bell tolled on August 15 for Android-based device owners using Adobe’s Flash Player multimedia plugin. As foretold in November 2011, Adobe will be offering no certified implementations of Adobe’s Flash Player beyond Android OS 4.1, and as of August 15, Flash has been removed from Google’s app store, Play, according to a PCWorld article, …

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