DigitalConnectionsBootCamp

I saw this on Twitter and thought that I might pass it along. Western Nebraska Community College is holding a two day boot camp for $70 in Scottsbluff. It looks like a good overview of Web 2.0 for teachers new to working with these technologies. More information on this here:

https://sites.google.com/site/edtechbootcamp/background

iPad2 screen mirroring.

The first iPad did not allow for the use of a cable to mirror what was on the iPad screen to a monitor, TV, or projector. The iPad2 does support this. That means that any content that you want to show in can be displayed directly from the iPad. All that you need is an iPad to VGA, or iPad to HDMI cable. Both can be had for little cost (30 something) from Apple. Here are links to the products:

Apple VGA Cable
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/B
Apple Digital AV Adapter
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC953ZM/A?fnode=MTc0MjU4NjE

Of note, these are only supported fully by the iPad2 and the iPhone 4s.

Some iPad apps for web curation.

In a course that I am taking right now, one of the videos talked about curating web content. The idea is that there is far more information coming in everyday from the web than we can possibly access and make sense of, let alone use. Given that as a baseline, there needs to be some means of controlling the quantity, type, and purpose of what we do have time to read and interact with.

I think we can all relate to this. We visit specific web sites and social networking sites for specific types of information.  Sometimes the sheer quantity of information presented makes it difficult to sort through in order to find what we want specifically. As they say "there's and app for that". Here are some links to applications that might help with this web induces information overload. 


Below are some links to several alternatives that I found this morning. I will be updating from this list and others in the coming days my experience with the best (at least for my purposes).

From the Apps in Education blog
http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/2012/01/10-ipad-apps-for-web-curation.html 

For a little more info on what specifically news aggregators are, have a look at the  Wikipedia definition.