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Gruber pointed to a take apart of a white paper Dell has published on the overall tablet market place and apparently the cost benefits in the enterprise. I have little to say about the whole thing, but the post should do just fine. Another critical view from Juliam Lepinski:

Dell commissioned Principled Technologies to put together a whitepaper on the cost of enterprise deployment for iPads vs. Dell’s Latitude 10 tablet running Windows 8. Spoiler: There is little that is Principled about Principled Technologies’ tablet whitepaper.

Here’s what I will say … I have seen and even tried to use the Dell Latitude 10. My personal experience was miserable, but since I am an Apple and iOS user no Windows device ever feels right to me. Two things that immediately hit me upon trying to use the thing … I’ll relay them in reverse order. There is a little switch on the back that feels like it should pop open a little stand like on the Microsoft tablet — yeah, it doesn’t. Sliding it causes the battery to fall onto the floor and turns the tablet off. The second is actually what I noticed first. The box these things come in is honestly as big as a box a PC would have shown up in 10 years ago. I am not kidding … and then you open this thing and inside is all this crap and an iPad sized tablet. It is comical. Below is an actual photo of said delivery box.

So, do you think the world is connected in ways like never before? I would think in this one photo it would become crystal clear that we are part of a new collective. Something that was once experienced by singular people is now amplified in ways that is beyond stunning to me. Imagine that each person is a hub into their own digital communities, instantly becoming a lens unto history. This is happening in every corner of the globe at every major (and minor) event. This is the new community concept to me — the speed with which conversations can be created, shared, and curated has forever been changed — and changed for the better.

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St. Peter’s Square in 2005 and 2013. What a difference 8 years makes.

I spy a RAZR. This is amazing.

Siri even got the answer right.

"It sure would be nice to also be able to upload other files types, like PDF, Pages, and Word documents. Apple doesn’t give us access to a device’s file system, so don’t expect this kind of functionally any time soon. We’re lucky they let us upload photo and video files…"

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Just this feature in iOS 6 is a huge move forward. I am confused as to why we can’t pick other file types — at least a PDF to push via the browser.

Tony Vincent’s Learning in Hand - Blog - Now You Can Upload Photos and Videos to Websites from Your iPad

Elks View

Apple needs to update its maps in iOS 6. There is no longer a statue next to Beaver Stadium.

Another panorama tumblr test.

Sunday notifications.

"Bridge Call Dialer is designed for the corporate employee, who needs to repeatedly join conferences call. The goal of this app is to handle the case where the user dials into many different calls, making saving and naming a specific sequence, not practical. It is not a phone book for conference codes (a reoccurring meeting can be easily handled by saving the number into the Contacts App), rather it simplify the construction of the required sequence for a specific conference call."

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I use my iPhone for nearly all my conference calls as well. The pain is calling in with it. This may be the solution.

Bridge Call Dialer

"This is definitely a simple, must-have app for anyone still living on campus or using a meal plan. It’s like the one valuable aspect of the now defunct OneSchool app, except it doesn’t suck."

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A review of the new Dining at Penn State iOS app from Onward State.

New iPhone App Makes On-Campus Eating Easy - Onward State

"The nature reserve is owned by the seven communities, and it is one of the last standing coastal forests in South Africa. The students get varying perspectives on all the environmental, social, and political issues by living on the reserve while they are there, and interacting with four South African universities. “The other universities’ students and faculty are actually in the field with us, learning and sharing ideas,” Brown said. “The program is built on the concept of multiple learning pathways. And so they’re learning through all these different interactions, by doing, reading, and by talking to people.” To record these experiences, students use iPod Touches, provided by the Media Commons, part of Teaching and Learning with Technology. Students use the iPods for anything from recording video and shooting photos including developing required photo and video journals to using them during downtime to read books they downloaded."

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This is truly an outstanding PSU initiative. I was lucky to sit in a presentation by TLT Fellow and PSU College of Education Faculty member, Carla Zembal-Saul at the TLT Symposium where she shared more about the program. Two of her colleagues made a satellite-based skype video call from the side of a mountain in South Africa to co-present with her. Amazing design, amazing technology, and amazing experiences for our students.

Technology enables students to share learning, perspectives during semester in Africa — Teaching and Learning with Technology

Notifications are very relaxing.

"Students will use the iPod touch to film or audio record the stories of various diverse members of the Harrisburg campus community. They will then collect these online after uploading directly from the devices to YouTube and present them across campus at a “Day of Listening” at the end of the Fall semester."

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It never ceases to amaze me what our faculty and students can do.

iOS Pilot - Shivaani Selvaraj | Media Commons at Penn State