• macworld 2012, Visual Note-Taking with the iPad

    Yes, I just spent the past week at macworld|iworld 2012 and after a two-year break from my previous macworlds and my first participation as a presenter I can say that my mind is fully blown. I created a website for my presentation and play to post the full slide show REAL SOON NOW. You can …

  • 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 …

  • What Does a Tech-Savvy 21st-Century School Look Like?

    What does one expect when about to tour a public school described as innovative and tech-savvy? Classrooms filled with rows and rows of white gleaming tables populated by endless computer monitors under antiseptic white fluorescent lights? Giant wall monitors in the office and all common areas with the day’s activities scrolling below a looping-video of …