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Modeling collaborative learning: edCamp Seattle

By Jac de Haan On November 19, 2012 · Add Comment · In resources

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Apple Distinguished Educator 2013 application period opens

By Jac de Haan On November 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In resources

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Free Google Earth in Edu webinar

By Jac de Haan On October 23, 2012 · Add Comment · In educator profiles, resources

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Free iBook: Student Guide to iPads & iOS 6

By Jac de Haan On October 15, 2012 · Add Comment · In resources

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TED.org is flipping lectures

By Jac de Haan On October 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In featured, resources

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Learning is a social endeavor

By Jac de Haan On September 22, 2012 · Add Comment · In resources

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iOS 6 – MDM not yet ready for new restrictions

By Jac de Haan On September 19, 2012 · Add Comment · In resources

social network restrictions in iOS 6 for iPad

If you are planning on upgrading your school-based deployment of iPads & iPod Touches, check your Restriction Profiles to ensure the new feature settings are compliant with your school policy.

Today Apple released iOS 6 – the new operating system for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. iOS 6 contains tighter social network integration, with deep links to Twitter and Facebook.

For those of use deploying devices to students under 13, it is nice to be able to restrict this account integration as it isn’t technically legal for our students to have social network accounts.

Devices can be managed by touching every single one, navigating to the Settings>Restrictions screen, enabling Restrictions and then switching off Twitter & Facebook. But for those of us with hundreds or thousands of machines to manage, this isn’t easy to do.

Most iOS device managers use a combination of Apple Configurator for tethered updates and a mobile device management (MDM) tool for over-the-air (OTA) updates.

I’ve been testing this afternoon and it doesn’t seem like any of these management tools have updated their Restriction profiles to allow for the management of these new Restriction features.

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Create a classroom blog in under 2 minutes: updated

By Jac de Haan On September 17, 2012 · 1 Comment · In resources, tutorials

Back in April 2011 I wrote a quick post on how to get started with Blogger in your classroom. Google has since updated the user interface at Blogger, so this is an updated version of the instructions…and the process is even easier than before. Jump to the bottom of this post for a video walk-through, otherwise, here are the steps:

Start the clock, let’s build a blog:

0.00: Go to Blogger.com (Blogger.com is owned by Google. If you already have a Gmail account just login, otherwise you’ll need to add 45 seconds to create one).

0:12: In the webpage that opens, search for the “New blog” button and click it.

0:15: Add the title for your blog, create the URL (the address people will type to see your blog), and choose a template. Click “create blog!”

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0:40: Click the “view blog” button to admire your new homepage.

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Multi-step projects with a single-task device

By Jac de Haan On September 12, 2012 · Add Comment · In resources

A few weeks ago Ethan Delavan and I presented at the 2012 iPads in Education workshop, hosted by the Puget Sound Educational Services District. I hosted a session called Multi-Step Projects with a Single-Task Device that focused on providing choice within projects that use an iPad.

The heart of my session was the idea that, when assigning a project that requires multiple apps for completion, there is a big difference between dictating which app to use at which time (linear) and allowing students to design and follow their own path to success (branching).

The entire session was built around 2 quotes from fabulous educators:

Don’t worry, be vague.

- Physics teacher Ben Smith

If you assign a project & get back 30 of the same thing, you didn’t assign a project, you assigned a recipe.

- SLA principal Chris Lehmann

Consider the following assignment:

Design a poster that incorporates photography and expresses your perspective on how failure shapes learning.

A linear approach:

Each step of a linear version of this project would be provided along with the appropriate app to accomplish [...]

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Google Drive update: new mobile features

By Jac de Haan On September 10, 2012 · Add Comment · In resources

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