• The Day After The Apple Education Event: How We Really Get Stuff Done on Our iPads

    I need to read several journal articles today and begin writing my speakers’ notes for my macworld talk. Ack. So, I wanted to read my friend, Dr. Nancy Smith’s dissertation on the use of mobile devices in the university classroom on my iPad. There are so many ways to move documents that it took me …

  • Apple Announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author and iTunes U (app). QuarkXpress & Schoology Pee Their Pants

    I just watched the Apple Education event keynote and I’m very excited about what I saw. If you haven’t seen today’s keynote yet, run, do not walk to your local device (I got a better connection via my iPad projecting the keynote to my TV) and sit a spell. Nope, Schiller will never have Steve’s …

  • Video Fridays: Three Political Reminders: The Quality of Life versus Words

    It’s political season folks, so while we get a deluge of political ads with pretty pictures meant to feed on our fears and divide us over nostalgic values that never seems to reach the level of observable constructive behaviors, here are three political videos, one meant to make us remember that there’s something more important …

  • In the News: Newspapers/Magazines on the iPad, Part 2

    So when we last left our hero, I was looking for the best way to consume my daily news via my iPad… I had discovered that the Amazon kindle edition of the Los Angeles Times was much improved from earlier versions. My guess is that earlier versions, because of limitations of the kindle itself, were …