Wikis for Everyone - Wikispaces 10 best iPad and iPhone apps for mobile working Employers are finally seeing sense. With rising rents and longer commutes taking their toll, they're realising that, in many roles, we can be just as productive away from our desks. Indeed, for many people an open-plan workspace is the least productive environment of all. Why not leave it all behind and work on the move instead? Apple is one of a growing number of companies looking to take advantage of the great spread of wireless access. Forthcoming updates to Pages, Numbers and Keynote, its iOS and OS X office apps, will use Wi-Fi and 3G to synchronise the work you do on the move with that on our Macs back home or at the office. With this in mind, we set out to discover whether we really could leave our desk behind and work on the move. The results, as you'll see, prove that by investing just shy of £30 - less than the cost of a daily ride to work for many - we could kit ourselves out with a fully functioning mobile office. 01. Price: £13.99 Works with: iPad 02. 03. So far, so simple.
Tutorial: crea perfiles de sistema para el iPad, iPod touch e iPhone La “Utilidad Configuración iPhone“ a pesar de ser un nombre horrible para una aplicación, es un programa con el cual poder configurar de forma rápida todos los equipos que usen iOS de un entorno corporativo. Dicha aplicación está pensada para crear un archivo de configuración, compatible con cualquier equipo que haga uso de iOS, mediante el cual poder configurar de forma extremadamente rápida todos esos equipos. Una vez configurados los parámetros necesarios, una simple sincronización del equipo o un simple correo electrónico con el archivo generado por el programa es suficiente para configurar absolutamente todas las opciones disponibles en el equipo. Aunque no es una aplicación práctica para personas que cuentan con un único equipo, es una herramienta vital para entornos corporativos donde cuentan con varios terminales y además contienen información vital de la empresa. Desde este programa podemos configurarlos todos a la vez sin excesivo esfuerzo, repasemos todas sus opciones. General.
Education | PBworks Using PBworks in your academic environments. PBworks hosts over 300,000 educational workspaces, and has helped transform teaching and learning for millions of students, parents and teachers. Educators ranging from major universities like DePaul, school districts like Baltimore County Public Schools and individual teachers trust PBworks as their collaborative learning environment. In your Classroom, Library, District or University Encourage student-centered learning. Even young students can build web pages, embed images & video, and post documents. 30 Awesome Web Apps for Your iPad As incredible as it seems, it’s been over a year and a half since the original iPad was released, forever changing what the world thought of tablet computers. The old Tablet PCs were clunky, expensive machines that could run any Windows program, albeit slower and more awkwardly than a full computer. The iPad at first glance looks just like a scaled-up iPhone, but the wide range of apps and number of varied uses it’s found in homes, schools, and businesses has made tablets a permeant part of our computing ecosystem. One area where the iPad and other tablets have lagged behind is with web apps. Productivity The iPad was quickly labeled a consumption device for reading, watching video, and playing casual games. Google Google's new tablet optimized search If there’s one website you’d expect to work great on any browser, it’d be Google search. Gmail Gmail on iPad Gmail is easily one of the most impressive web apps on the iPad, and it’s been around as long as the iPad has been publicly released.
Oh My Tech: Setting up the iPad for classrooms Visitors to an Apple store look at new iPad tablet computers in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) I work at a school where the students’ mobile phones aren’t allowed into the classroom. We’d love to deploy iPads on a wider basis, but we don’t know how to restrict iMessage. Shane Colby With Apple trying to push the iPad as a great device for schools, you would think the company would do everything it could to make it "slacker-proof" for students. But alas, after asking a lot of Apple experts and school instructional technology administrators, I’ve concluded there is apparently no way to block iMessage from the iPad. First, a little background. "OMG! You can, however, restrict everything else on the iPad. With it, you can configure up to 30 iPads at a time from one computer and take off apps that you don’t want the students to use such as Facetime (Apple’s videoconferencing app), YouTube or the Safari web browser. story continues below
Creative APP-titude: iPad Multimedia Tools for Creativitity 2011 iPad Office apps showdown: Who says you can't work on the go? Last June I posted my iPad Office app showdown article looking at four available applications. This post has been extremely popular with readers and I have since received dozens of email inquiries for an updated article to see if my conclusions are the same or if there are more choices this year with the iPad and iPad 2 now available from Apple. As you will read in this article looking at six applications/suites there may not be just a single application that meets all of your needs, but there are a couple that clearly should be skipped and others that tend to stand out above the crowd. In addition to the following text, I posted an extensive image gallery containing over 100 screenshots from the six applications. In this article I present my experiences with the following (in alphabetical order): Documents 2 Documents To Go iWork apps (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) Office2 HD Quickoffice Pro HD Smart Office Documents 2 Documents To Go version 4.0 Let's check out the iWork suite »
Poster Production - Get Inspired with Automotivator Automotivator is an online poster generator that allows users to create motivational posters that can be shared with other 2.0 applications, such as wikis and blogs. Besides being free (although there is an option to professionally print your final product), the process of creating a poster is a fairly simple one. Users can upload an image from their computer or another web site, select the font style and color, and then type the motivational message. Once completed, posters can be saved, printed or uploaded to other Web 2.0 sites (i.e. Automotivator is a free service, and users do not need to register for an account to utilize this “cool tool”. Check out a the student example shown below: Classroom Connection: If you’re looking for an easy way to integrate technology into a lesson, then Automotivator is just the tool for you! Whatever the nature of the actual assignment, once students submit their individual projects, a visual dictionary for the class can be created and shared.
2011 Business Travel 50: Apps That Make Your iPad Work Like a Laptop You've taken the plunge and invested in an iPad. Like millions of others, you love it. It's light and keeps a remarkable 10-hour charge. Use it with a wireless Bluetooth keyboard and cover such as the popular ZAGG or Brookstone models, and you can type just as fast as ever. So, is it possible to ditch your laptop altogether for business trips or even work itself? An abundance of apps are tempting people to give it a try. Joe Keller, president and COO of Motivaction, a performance-improvement marketing company based in Minneapolis, says he relies on several apps that have allowed him to use his iPad almost exclusively. "Pages and Numbers are two of them," Keller says. Keller also uses GoodReader to view /PowerPoint presentations and iAnnotate to make comments on PDF files. Steven Holtzman, COO of West Coast Aerial Photography in Los Angeles, says he can sometimes be flying with no Internet connection for up to seven hours at a time. Genevieve Haines, president of Haines & Co.
Free Online Tools to Create Infographics Infographics and data visualizations have become incredibly popular ways to impart information while keeping your audience engaged. As a result, a slew of user-friendly, free online applications have been created which enable users to create their own information graphics. Here are five such tools that I think are particularly valuable: Wordle - Create beautiful and fully customizable word clouds with this free tool. Simply paste in your text and click “Go”, or specify your own color scheme, layout, and fonts. Instantly create a word cloud for your blog or website by entering the RSS feed! Visual.ly is a brand new online application which allows you to create detailed data visualizations and infographics such as the one below. Twitter Visualizer – This fun tool quickly creates a personalized infographic of your Twitter persona based on what you tweet. Creately let’s you build organized concept maps, flowcharts, and diagrams for free.
First Look: iWork for iPad, A Multitouch Office Suite If the iPad wants be taken seriously as a business tool, it's going to need an office suite. So far, the best examples of same are Apple's own iWork apps--Pages, Numbers, and Keynote ($9.99 each). How much work can they really do? Here's a first look. [More: iWork Pages for iPad: A Primer for Word Users] The Suite Look While the three apps are sold separately, they share a common look-and-feel. When you launch each app for the first time, you'll be welcomed by a "Get Started" guide in that app's native format (a document in Pages, a tabbed worksheet in Numbers, and a presentation in Keynote). That done, tap the button in the upper left corner. If you hit the New Document button in the upper left of that screen, you'll be offered a selection of templates (16 in Pages and Numbers, 12 in Keynote). After you choose a template, you'll finally get to the app's editing screen. In the upper left, there's that My Documents button again, which will take you back to the Document Manager. Pages Numbers
12 Puzzle and Quiz Creation Tools for Teachers There are many different sites on the internet that allow you to create your own puzzles and games to use either directly in class, or which can be linked to/embedded into your VLE. I’ve been doing some trawling ahead of a training session I am running soon, and here are a few of the best ones that I’ve found. There are others out there, but the focus specifically for my session was KS4 and 5, so these links are aimed at older students. If you have any other favourites, please add them to the comments! 1. Classtools is already one of my favourite websites, home of the Countdown Timer and Random Word Picker. 2. Content generator’s templates allow anyone to generate their own e-Learning quizzes, games and applications through our custom software – no coding required. 3. SuperTeacherTools.com is dedicated to providing technology tools for teaching that are quick and easy to download, learn, and start using in your classroom. 4. 5. 6. 7. Also worth a look: 8. 9. 10. 11. And finally….. 12.