Category Archives: iPad/Mobile Learning

A round-up of favorite new apps, trends, and oldies but goodies in the world of technology for instruction and scholarship. PDF Annotation Preview – if you’ve only used it to read PDFs, check again. Look under the Tools menu for … Continue reading →

  Books upstairs, books downstairs, books in the office, books from the library, books I read long ago, books I’ve winnowed out to donate to the local book sales…I’ve always wanted to catalog them. When Goodreads came along a few … Continue reading →

Given a series of online articles, which presentation format will make them easier to read: providing a list of links through which the reader must click or gathering them together as an ebook? ReadLists is an online site that helps … Continue reading →

I think about apps as belonging to one of two categories: 1) apps that have pre-packaged content that you can read or play with, and 2) apps that are designed to let you create, manipulate, capture or collect your own … Continue reading →

  WordPress Blogs What? You’re looking at it now! If you have a UVM account you can have a blog. In fact, you can have multiple blogs. Why? You might want to use blogs for your courses, for posting resources, … Continue reading →

Take an old-fashioned slate tablet (yes, I do mean old-fashioned–a slab of rock glued to a board–you know, ‘Little House on the Prairie’ style), do a little arithmetic problem on it, then cross it with an iPad and what happens? … Continue reading →

You may take a perfect picture every time. I sure don’t. I’m happy to have found SnapSeed, a dead simple photo editor. You can do all the things you expect: crop, adjust colors and brightness, sharpen, straighten–and do that all … Continue reading →

  Writing in the margins of books, though it may be a bibliophiles nightmare, is a time-honored way to to keep notes on your reading. But they are not easily searchable. Adding notes and annotations to ebooks is easy and … Continue reading →