Innovating Pedagogy Report from Open University

The Open University has published a report, Innovating Pedagogy,  that addresses ePublishing at link below.  The report reminds me of the Educause Horizon report. 

http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/mike.sharples/Reports/Innovating_Pedagogy_report_July_2012.pdf

 

New iPhone Rumored for September

I read at 9 to 5 Mac that the new iPhone is expected to be released the middle of September.  It cannot be soon enough for me!!  My 3rd generation iPhone is not well.  It shut down unexpectedly about 6 times when I was at the Sloan C/MERLOT conference in Las Vegas last week.  There is no pattern for the shutdowns.

Now that I am home, it less stressful because I am use Messages for communication.  What is amazing to me is that I have had the phone for such a long time.  The potential problem with the next phone is that I may have to pay full price for the phone in order to keep my data plan.  Will have to do the ROI on that first.

MERLOT Mobile Apps to Search for Online Learning Resources

MERLOT (multimedia educational resources for learning and teaching online) now has mobile apps for the iOS (iPad, iPod Touch, & iPhone) as well as Android devices!!  Download the app from the mobile app store so that you can search for online learning resources.  It is a fantastic app!!  If you want to search from a laptop or desktop computer, go to http://www.merlot.org.  MERLOT is includes a translator so that all of the learning resources are available to the international community.

I am the Health Sciences Editorial Board editor.  If you are interested in learning more about MERLOT or if you are interested in assisting with the peer review process, please contact me at jeanne.sewell@gmail.com.

Blog Info for Mountain Lion OS on the Mac

Mountain Lion operating system (OS) for the Mac was released on the 24th of July.  So far it is getting rave reviews.  A colleague compiled all of the blogs about the OS into an epub document which can be downloaded from http://podcasting.usg.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/GCSU/Episodes/882/95278436.epub

The table of contents is noted below.

Use Google Handwrite for Searches

Google recently added yet another way to search.  In addition to voice command and typing, users can also write on the tablet or smartphone.  The Google blog at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ has the details.  It took me several tries to get the feature to work.  The feature did not work with Safari, so I had to download Chrome for the iPad (should work on the iPhone and Android devices, too).

The video below shows how it works.

Dictation on the New iPad

I was reading about Mountain Lion operating system (OS) when I discovered another feature that I have overlooked. The New iPad allows for dictation (as well as the 4th generation iPhone)! Check Settings > Keyboards > Dication > On to verify that it is turned on. Afterwards open an app such as Notes or Pages. Click on the microphone key on the iPad keyboard and talk. Click the microphone key once again when you are finished. Afterwards, the New iPad Dictation app iterprets what was said and types it out. You may be surprised to note the great accuracy!! This feature is a great work around for quick data entry without typing. Remember that dictation is only available on the New iPad, not the 1st or 2nd generations. Enjoy!

A demo of the feature is shown in the CNET YouTube video below (yes, dictation is misspelled) .

Using Technology in Education now in iBookstore

The iBook that Chris Greer edited and his students wrote during Maymester is now available in the Apple iBookstore. It was approved on Monday so I was able to share it in this morning's session on using iBooks Author with Russ White as a co-presenter. Our sincere thanks to the many people in the audience and the web who joined us at 8:30 AM.