One of my summer projects is mentoring a pilot group of teachers exploring the potential of the iPad. It's fun to watch the excitement generated by using a mobile device but the bonus will be if they begin to see new ways of accessing information and modelling learning with their students.
In preparation I've been combing my PLN for mobile learning resources and ideas. Here are a few good ones:
Apptivities - learning activities using apps on mobile devices compiled by an ADE Summer Institute group.
Hottest Apps - another ADE Institute list
@bryanhughes has set up a great introductory page with basic information, links to tutorials and guides and a list of 'starter' apps. for the group to use.
A couple of my own favourite free apps are SoundHound (for identifying music) and Open Culture (mobile access to educational audio and video collections) and this list of free reference apps.
For Socials teachers:
Seadragon - high resolution imagery
Louvre - art works, museum tour
France 24 - International news
HistoryMaps - historical maps
And for the 'Wow' factor, these two videos that demonstrate master artists using the iPad:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain (For more quotations on risk-taking check out the Awesome Sardine)
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