Eclectic Technology

EdTechTeacher  taught 10 iPad workshops this summer/ This post includes a lit of '10 New Things We Learned About iPads' as well as listing weekly resources for the iPad. 
The '10 New Things We Learned About iPads' include: 

* Using our iPad as a mobiele document camera with Board Cam App and Reflection

* Using iMovie and GarageBand (they communicate with each other) to take an iPad interview and integrate it into a film

* Create an ePortfolio by using Evernote

Many more ideas are in this post.

I received a Kindle for my birthday, and enjoying "light reading," in addition to the dense science I read for work, I immediately loaded it with mysteries by my favorite authors. But I soon found that I had difficulty recalling the names of characters from chapter to chapter. At first, I attributed the lapses to a scary reality of getting older — but then I discovered that I didn’t have this problem when I read paperbacks.

"Print or digital? Adults grapple with which is the best way to read -- not only for themselves, but especially when it comes to their kids. Whether or not parents prefer print books over interactive e-books for their kids, the question is, what’s actually better for them?"
According to a recent study by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, "kids age 3 to 6 remembered more narrative details - "What happened in the story?" - from print books than from enhanced e-books with multimedia features."

However, this was not true when asking kids about the plot. Additional information is found in this post.