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Onsong & GuitarTapp: iPad Apps for Guitar Players

April 23, 2012 by jbb

I have a bookshelf full of music books and binders of music that I’ve been gathering for some time. When I first got my iPad I realized that it was well past time to retire the binders and books. At first I just took songs that I’d already had stored on my computer, converted them [...]

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Microsoft’s Courier Tablet – Raised From the Dead… Kind’a

April 3, 2012 by jbb

Somehow this seems fitting at this time of year that a darling visionary product from the pre-iPad era, called the Courier Tablet, that Microsoft then killed after the iPad announcement, is back. Well, not the actual device, but two apps that mimic some of the proposed Couriers’ functionality: Paper by 53 Studios and Tapose. For [...]

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No iPad? No problem. Make a multimedia etext with iAuthor and share it with your students for free on any computer

February 21, 2012 by jbb

by Robin Worley, Ed.D. Pepperdine co-conspirator and digital-equity advocate Robin Worley has found a way to take the easy-of-use and multimedia functions of iBooks Author and make to resulting e-Book accessible to any device that can use Adobe Acrobat ereader software. Enjoy. I wanted to make a multimedia etext for students, but ran into a [...]

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macworld2012: Day Three – Notes & Links

February 17, 2012 by jbb

TT9102: Visual Note-Taking with the iPad (10:00am) Speaker: Rachel Smith, Director, Digital Facilitation Services, The Grove Consultants The iPad is the perfect tool for digital visual note-taking. Rachel pioneered this practice at Northern Voice, a Canadian blogging conference, just after the first iPad was released, and her visual notes were an instant hit among conference attendees. [...]

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The Day After The Apple Education Event: How We Really Get Stuff Done on Our iPads

January 24, 2012 by jbb

PDF Documents in Circus Ponies' Notebook - image by Joe Bustillos

I need to read several journal articles today and begin writing my speakers’ notes for my macworld talk. Ack. So, I wanted to read my friend, Dr. Nancy Smith’s dissertation on the use of mobile devices in the university classroom on my iPad. There are so many ways to move documents that it took me [...]