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Apple Education Leadership Summit 2009

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

Apple Education hosted education executives in two leadership summits during April and May 2009 to engage leaders in a lively, forward-thinking discussion of the opportunities and challenges in the modern learning environment.

mLearning and the Three Ps: iPods, PDAs and (mobile) Phones

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

Learning with mobile devices (mLearning) is now recognized as a subset of eLearning and provides another flexible delivery option for our students. In an effort to take the first step in establishing an mLearning base, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) developed StudyTXT. It is an innovative use of an existing technology.

Lessons on the goPhone

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

Challenge students with an authentic lesson on place and community by giving them a 12 hour window to build a story...from their phones.

Photography on the iPhone

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

While photography today is a serious business with fancy software & expensive, sophisticated equipment for capturing images, there are many times the perfect shot presents itself and all one is equipped with is their trusty iPhone camera. Although it only has a 2 megapixel camera, the software available today on the iPhone makes it a viable, complete mobile photography studio from capturing to editing to sharing images on the fly. This exhibit is a showcase of some of the software, techniques, and add-on equipment that can help you make the most of photography using the iPhone.

005 - Why Podcast?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

The benefits of Podcasting are limitless! Learn how it can become an integral form of communication between all stakeholders in the education process, including students, administration, your professional development team, and parents! This podcast features educators at all levels showcasing how they are using podcasting in their educational niche.

Apple Distinguished Educators - 2009

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

Apple Education is pleased to announce plans for the selection of a new class of Australian Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) for 2008. Applications are currently being reviewed for 2008 and applications will close on by May 30, 2008.

Using Social Technologies to Redefine Schooling

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

Will Richardson and Rob Mancabelli present this talk on the use of social technologies in schools. Rob is Director of Information Systems at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Hunterdon, NJ. Will is the author of the popular blog Weblogg-ed and the author of "Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms."

Using the Proscope Digital Microscope

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

The first graders were helping a class of kindergarten children use the digital microscope. As they were discussing how to use the microscope it occurred to them that a podcast would be a good way to "show it and tell it." Three of the first graders decided they would like to demonstrate and tell how they use the Proscope digital microscope. They used an iBook and GarageBand to record their audio, captured images with digital camera from their classroom, downloaded those photos using iPhoto, determined the content for the introduction, found an adult to do the recording, created their introduction pages using Keynote and exported those pages to iPhoto, edited their recording, selected a jingle to begin and end their podcast, and finally, used GarageBand to create their podcast.

Free Learning Content from A-Z

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

Are you looking for exciting new content to engage students or learn a new skill? Learn about the wealth of free resources available in iTunes and the Apple Learning Interchange and begin using them in your classroom today.

Apple Digital Campus Leadership Institute at Missouri (2005)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

A two and a half-day forum sponsored by the University of Missouri and Apple, April 5 - 7, 2005. Participants saw and heard how the five Apple Digital Campus charter institutions theMissouri School of Journalism, Duke University, Ohio State, Penn State,and Stanford University are transforming teaching and learning by putting innovative pervasive technology into the hands of theirstudents.

Apple Education Leadership Summit 2008

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

Education executives and thought leaders convene in San Francisco to address challenges and explore a new course of action for creating learning environments where today's students will thrive.

Developing the Listening Mind

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

A pilot program was conducted at Radford University in 2005 that explored the iPod's educational potential for music students. Using an interactive self-quizzing game developed by the authors that capitalizes on the iPods innovative interface, it was found that the iPod can help students to make the critical connection between what they hear in an audio example and concepts that they have learned in class. Students performance on listening exams improved dramatically during the pilot, and in 2006 the Department of Music began requiring all music students to own iPods. The pilot also explored the viability of building a large-scale digital music library that could be accessed with iPods. The article describes this an other ongoing projects related to iPod use.

Preserving Memories: Creating iPhoto Books

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

Kindergarten children interview their grandparents or other older adults about their memories of Kindergarten or First Grade. The results were used in iMovies, iPhoto books and other technology related products.

iPod touch. Touching student lives in the classroom.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

The iPod touch has a huge amount of potential in the classroom to revolution the way students learn and teachers teach. This exhibit is a living document to share in this vision and offer ways that the classroom teacher can use the iPod touch creatively and easily with their students.

When Blogging Isn't Enough

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

UM.SiteMaker (also known as GVC.SiteMaker) is a WebObjects application that provides a highly flexible and locally autonomous web publishing environment to thousands of users at the University of Michigan (as well as the Ann Arbor Public Schools and Holland (Michigan) Christian Schools, with many features that are tailored to the academic setting. The Data Tables capability is a unique aspect of the system that permits non-technical users to create their own highly customized interactive websites.

Promoting 21st Century Skills

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

Ken Kay is president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, an organization dedicated to promoting a new vision of what students need to be successful in a globally competitive economy. After you listen to Ken's talk, please visit www.21stcenturyskills.org for more information.

Evidence Based Design: The Open Learning Initiative

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

In this article, we demonstrate how OLI uses the web to deliver online instruction that instantiates course designs based on research from the learning sciences. Using intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations, and frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback, we build courses that are intended to enact instruction - or, more precisely, to enact the kind of dynamic, flexible, and responsive instruction that fosters learning. As we deliver the instruction, we use technology to collect real-time interaction level data of all student use. We use this data to create four positive feedback loops: feedback to students, feedback to course designers, feedback to learning science researchers and feedback to instructors. The article includes interactive examples of tutors, simulations and virtual labs from three OLI course - engineering statics, chemistry and biology. The reader can try the tutors and simulations in the article and link directly into the courses for further exploration.

Google Earth: Small World, Your World, Our World

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

We want students to be able to create (demonstrate their creativity, innovation, and global awareness), in a variety of curricular areas, a larger project that is more meaningful using Google Earth. Show a teacher how to use this. S/he can show others how to use it. From there, larger projects can be created. Google Earth is not about only geography. Rather, it's about displaying data in a variety of ways. It's a way of communicating.

Media Rich Field Trips

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

Collecting, Communicating, and Reflecting using student created media during field trips. The project is intended to expose administrators and other non-classroom based educators to the possibilities that digital media can provide in support of collaboration, inquiry, and project-based learning. The purpose of this project is provide resources and model the creative development of rich media learning objects that reflect, simulate, and augment field trip experience. Members are encouraged to share their field trip experiences.

Teaching Game Theory Via Text Messaging

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

Develop simple extensible software for holding real-time in class tournaments demonstrating principles of game theory. Student participate in the tournaments by sending text messages using their own cell phones. The project demonstrates how the widely-available text messaging technology can be easily harnessed for classroom application.

Digital Tableau

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

Students are assigned or choose a critical scene in a work of literature or event in history and create a posed freeze-frame in which key characters/figures are represented. The scene is documented with a digital camera and then, using iPhoto to import the photographs and make adjustments, students use ComicLife to create thought bubbles of what the characters in the tableau are saying, or more importantly, thinking.

All About Me: High School Perspectives

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

This Digital Media project was designed for students in high school to create self portraits that show symbolism expressing how they see themselves, how others see them while including what they cannot live without. Each series of art work demonstrates a personal visual statement of truths, sometimes denial and self discovery.

Beloved Butterflies

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

Our Second Grade class were introduced to Life Cycles by raising Painted Lady butterflies. This project includes Digital pictures, Kid Pix drawings, fictional and nonfictional stories using facts from reading and raising butterflies, and two podcasts.

The Cigar Box Project

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

The Cigar Box Project at the Calgary Science School was a year-long, historical exploration embedded in inquiry-based 1:1 classroom. Students lived the disciplines of historical thinking and graphic design as they used 21st Century tools to reinterpret events from Canadian History. Through an iterative process powered by peer evaluation and feedback, students created five historical Cigar Box panels and three historical iMovies, each one supported by rigorous research and the help of a number of experts along the way.

2005 Exploring Space Lectures at the National Air and Space Museum

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:19 PST

The 2005 Exploring Space Lectures at the National Air and Space Museum: Rocks in Space: Comets, Asteroids and Moons, will feature four world-renowned scientists discussing the latest research and images of these ancient "worlds." Lectures will include current and future programs exploring the remnants of the Solar System's earliest days. This year's lecture series will explore key questions surrounding these ancient rocks in space. What are they made of? What is their history? How have they influenced Earth's past and how might they affect its future?