Digital Roadtrip: Archive

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Photoshop Touch for the iPad

When the iPad was born, I’m sure I wasn’t alone in thinking that Photoshop on an iPad might be interesting, but now I’m not so sure. I use a whole range of instant gratification apps almost like a tool kit to process an image. These apps include - Snapseed, Phoster, Type drawing, Background Eraser, Tiltshift, Percolater, Pixlromatic amongst others. Maybe I’m...

Feb 27th

iPad app tutorials using screen shots and the...

The content for these tutorials was created on the iPad and then tweaked slightly in iMovie on the Mac. It is possible to do the whole thing on the iPad. I just had some idents that needed to be tweaked, otherwise this would have been a 100% iPad process. Because these are screenshots/voice overs, there are some “movement moments” that don’t appear in the video - but...

Feb 19th

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Jan 22nd

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Text Books (as we knew them) RIP

http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/

Jan 19th

The best 1:1 iOS finds at BETT 2012 are free...

Being busy presenting, I didn’t get much of a chance to look around BETT 2012. For me, the two best things were not actually at BETT. The first thing was this…. This is about to be launched and I like it a lot! This page is a tease. It sign posts a new and FREE way to create interactive question sets with audio and video content. You create on the big screen with an easy to use...

Jan 15th

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Jan 14th

Christmas Collaboration apps (or just having some...

So a Footie and Music mix will do it every time for me….. Kicking off with FIFA 12…..Invite some mates round for a game (if you have mates). I used to have them. The optional use of 2 iPod touches/iPhones as controllers is a cool touch pun intended. At 69p only it beats Murdoch’s regime and hey you own the teams! …. But note that is 1GB of your iOS device ripped! ...

Dec 22nd

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iPad for Pops

Come on Pops you can do it! - Even if the girl can’t say ebooks properly - it’s a sure fun way to make stuff on a cold November afternoon. “Bring it on Apps store - it’s showtime”. Oh and here’s part 2 - Yes… the irony being it is a Flash/browser based tool. Edited in iMovie and Music in Garageband.

Nov 26th

App Fatigue...

Uploaded with Skitch! With over half a million apps - it is easy to feel overwhelmed even “app fatigued”. Often we go to the apps store and read reviews and they can be out of kilter with the way we might feel. Educators often see the use of apps laterally. A 2 Star review for an app by a consumer may well be a 5 Star app in a classroom and of course vice versa. Dave Barter...

Nov 25th

Tilt Shift revisited

Today is the final day that Crumplepop’s cool Shrinkray plug in is available for free. http://www.crumplepop.com/ Here’s Kate’s (my daughter) experimental clip from earlier in the summer using a Nikon 3100 and Final Cut. The right content, distance and angle are all critical to the success of this genre of work. It is everywhere now esp advertising. Untitled from kate...

Nov 22nd

Busy Busy Busy

Liverpool, London, Lithuania - I seem to be doing lot’s of places begining with L at the moment. I had a great couple of days in Vilnius Lithuania where the country was having it’s first education technology show. The president came to the iPad stand and explained that she had just bought an iPad! The Apple stand had Apple’s for the teacher complete with cute little stickers!...

Nov 14th

Digital Roadtrip in Holland

This week I am working in Holland advising some teachers on the use of iPads and iPod touches. One of the underlying challenges is where a 1:1 option isn’t possible, how best can you take a device designed for personal use and effectively share it? There are no simple answers and some pitfalls. But what is clear is that the benefits clearly out weigh the obstacles. Also after 3.5 years on...

Oct 18th

Essa iPad Day

I was lucky to be invited to run a series of workshops at ESSA Academy today alongside fellow ADE’s Joe Moretti and Oscar Stringer. Over 100 people crammed in to listen to The ESSA team and attend the workshops that explored the iPad as a content creation tool, as opposed to simply a consumption tool. Every attendee was given an iPad for the day and indeed many ended up buying them! ...

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Sep 1st

Don't Refresh - Redefine!

The school holidays are not far away. Many schools even on tight budgets will be refreshing kit, buying more of the old! Today really reinforced for me how close we to really being able to change the way learning can be supported by technology. Uploaded with Skitch! I had a great day today, (to end a great year) in Liverpool. I was lucky to be invited to West Derby School. The school is a new...

Jul 14th

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Jun 28th

Audio recording on the Touch

I’m not sure what happened to May. It’s just flown by! Like millions of Mac users, I love using GarageBand for making music and podcasting. The iPad now enjoys an amazing IOS version and whilst there is iMovie for the touch there is no Garageband. There are some amazing music making apps Xenon £2.99 (for both iPad and touch) and Nano studio at a whopping £8.99. I really like Nano...

May 31st

iOS Trip to the House of Parliament

This week I was very lucky to be invited with other practitioners and four schools to the Houses of Parliament to talk to MPs and guests about IOS stuff! The schools were… Essa Academy from Bolton Flitch Green School from Essex Bohunt School from Hampshire Normanby School from Middlesbrough Riverdale Primary School from Redcar and Cleveland The pupils were the stars of the show...

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Apr 15th

iPad Face Off - Chesterfield College

This has been a really interesting couple of days working with artist Mik Godley at Chesterfield College. The iPad Face off event was a exploration of real world mark making, drawing and painting and the iPad equivalent, using the Brushes app, Autodesk and Adobe ideas. There is no real replacement for the texture of real materials but the iPad provided a very tactile and fast means of creating....

Apr 15th

From the Mobile to the Mac (and back)

I was very fortunate to work with 45 Cornish teachers at their annual conference this week. I introduced them to iPod and iPads and we looked at ways that they are being used in the classroom. We finished day one by making film trailers set in the grounds of the Eden Project. The idea was simply to show how a film trailer could be used as a “container” to capture learning. The...

Apr 7th

Apr 2nd

iPad 2 in School

I’ve had the iPad2 in the hands of a few teachers this week. It really isn’t that much different. The increased processing power will no doubt begin to tell as new apps are developed. The subtle design differences are irrelevant in schools anyway, as iPads tend to be cased up. Across the few data projectors I’ve come in contact with, mirroring has been fine and demoing fun -...

Mar 18th

iOS Nirvana

It’s a been a busy few weeks and sometimes it’s a challenge keeping track of things. The arrival of Garageband on the iPad is extremely welcome and at £2.99 it raises the bar and pushes other developers. I’ve found the GarageBand app really fun but it is pushing the hardware to it’s limit. Garageband had always been a merging of instrument and production, and now on an iPad...

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The summer holidays are almost here, but the “Roadtrip” has been busy in London, Bradford and Walsall this week. The interest and sense of wonder at the possibilities of the iPod Touch and iPad in the classroom seem to be at an all time high. This next academic year is likely to see some truly groundbreaking new ways to support learning with these tools. Above we can see some of the...

Jul 10th

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Teachers in Sheffield and Birmingham Test Drive...

I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days in Sheffield and Birmingham this week introducing about 70 teachers to the iPad. Here are some of their comments typed via iPad onto a blog set up by KRCS the Apple Education supplier. iPadactivity View more presentations from juliancoultas. Here are their comments - teachers- Advisors- Network Managers -School Improvement Officers- CLC...

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