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Apple All-New iTunes U App for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch
Apple announced an all-new iTunes U app, giving educators and students everything they need on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch to teach and take entire courses. The all-new iTunes U app lets teachers create and manage courses including essential components such as lectures, assignments, books, quizzes and syllabuses and offer them to millions of iOS users around the world. The iTunes U app gives iOS users access to the world’s largest catalog of free educational content from top universities including Cambridge, Duke, Harvard, Oxford and Stanford, and starting today any K-12 school district can offer full courses through the iTunes U app. iTunes U has already become an incredibly popular learning tool for students with over 700 million downloads.
“The all-new iTunes U app enables students anywhere to tap into entire courses from the world’s most prestigious universities,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “Never before have educators been able to offer their full courses in such an innovative way, allowing anyone who’s interested in a particular topic to learn from anywhere in the world, not just the classroom.” Read more
Cartoon characters and video games provide new approach to learning math
Imagine this: You are a kid struggling to find meaning in the numbers presented on the paper in front of you.
Wouldn’t it be easier to learn math using real-world examples from animated characters that entertain you while engaging you?
Made available just a couple of weeks ago, Trickomatics (www. trickomatics.com) is a unique computer program that provides kids with an alternate way to learn math.
Kids learn to think in numbers using real world situations through an animated cartoon and computer game with their favorite characters.
The program comes in a variety of languages, including French, Korean, German, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Japanese, Spanish and Italian.
NASA’s iPad App Beams Science Straight to Users
NASA satellites beam data from space; now the Agency is beaming it straight to your iPad.
Software and media specialists at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., released a new iPad app — the NASA Visualization Explorer — that allows users to easily interact with extraordinary images, video, and information about NASA’s latest Earth science research.
Cutting-edge visualization has long been a staple of NASA Earth science and in particular the Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) at Goddard Space Flight Center. The iPad presented NASA a new and easily accessible way to put stunning and beautiful Earth science visualizations directly in people’s hands.
The app’s science features will include high-resolution movies and stills and short written stories to put all the pieces in context. Most of the movies are simply real satellite data, visualized. Other features will include interviews with scientists or imagery from supercomputer modeling efforts. The app includes social networking interfaces, including links to Facebook and Twitter, for easy sharing of stories. Read more
New version of Mathigo App for iPhone, iTouch and iPad
With the MathiGo app, math help becomes engaging and less like work – more like a challenging video game.
Like a video game, this math game becomes something you enjoy doing. “The concept behind MathiGo is simple: math doesn’t have to be boring and can actually be fun.” says Dr. Judith Bender. “With so much to do in school today, children don’t have enough time to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and they rarely enjoy it.”
For only $1.99, the app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, challenges players to test their skills at the basic math functions. Depending on the skill level chosen, the questions can be as easy as 2+2 or something that would make even a math teacher pause to think.
MathiGo is perfect for some quick, entertaining math help while in the car, while waiting in line at the grocery store, or any other situation where you have a minute or two and want to improve your skills.” says Phil Brous, one of the creators behind the fun app. “National reports show that our children’s math skills have declined. MathiGo aims to reverse that trend.” Read more
STT Trainer 6.0: A New Design for Higher eLearning Engagement and Retention
Authoring tool STT Trainer 6.0 from Kaplan Learning Technologies creates software simulations that feature a brand-new lesson player, facilitate easy multi-lingual eLearning, and can be developed for multiple browsers and platforms including the iPad and Android mobile handsets.
STT Trainer is an award-winning authoring tool for creating software simulations and documentation of business software applications to help companies achieve a rapid return on their enterprise application investments. No other eLearning tool can be used to capture as many different applications, or offer as much flexibility and efficiency during IT training and publication.
Kaplan Learning Technologies now offers the capability of playing STT Trainer lessons from a wide variety of browsers and devices, including software simulation lessons built for the iPad and Android mobile handsets. Chrome, Firefox and Safari are also now supported for eLearning playback on Mac, Windows and Linux computers.
New features for multi-lingual eLearning content mean that authoring software simulations now becomes a much quicker and easier process. For instance, authors can now export all custom text messages and voice recordings to have them translated externally in one go.
STT 6.0 also includes screen reader support for software simulations. For learners with special accessibility needs, on-screen eLearning objects can now be identified and narrated by standard accessibility programs such as the Windows Narrator, Jaws Reader and NVDA.
“STT Trainer 6.0 provides organizations with revolutionary authoring features that allow eLearning developers to quickly create and deliver IT training for their employees on many different platforms. STT Trainer 6.0 sports a fresh new look and remodeled navigation behavior giving learners a smart and intuitive learning experience for software simulation training,” said Mike Alcock, Product Manager for Kaplan Learning Technologies.