Openly Educating and Learning with iTunesU

Last week, we discussed a new iBooks Author app which Apple unveiled at its huge education event. By giving free authoring tools to educators, Apple aims to revolutionize the textbook industry by providing homegrown competition to traditional publishing companies. With educators creating their own multimedia e-textbooks for their students, Apple hopes to drive the price [...]

Publish your own eTextbook with iBooks Author

Apple dropped an educational bombshell last week by announcing a new venture into the textbook market.  Besides providing separate iTunesU access for course materials (more on this next week), the announcement included the release of iBooks Author, a free app for creating eTextbooks right on your Mac laptop or desktop computer.   With the iBooks [...]

Give presentations using your iPad with SlideShark

As iPads become more prevalent, I’m starting to see more and more apps that allow people to use their iPad in new ways.  Take SlideShark for example.  SlideShark is a free app that allows people to use their iPads to show presentations they’ve created with Powerpoint.  The process couldn’t be easier.  After creating an account [...]

Share anything with Minigroup

In the Web 2.0 world, collaboration is key!   Our creative works are being shared with friends and colleague from around the world, whether through email, through social networking sites or through blogs.  But sometimes, sharing can be difficult.  Maybe I want to share a video or a large PDF with a few colleagues.  Or [...]

Online tutorials with Tildee

A few weeks ago I was trying to fold a sun shade that I had purchased to take to the beach.  It’s one of those new foldable shades where you perform a few “simple” moves and it folds into a small circle.  No matter how I tried, however, the shade would not fold correctly. For [...]