Apple at school
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Stopping kids cheating with iPads — Cedars School of Excellence in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland was the first school in the world to deploy an iPad to every one of its pupils. Now it may become the first school to try to stop its pupils from iCheating in exams.
The brains behind Cedars’ iPad program is Fraser Speirs, who you may know from his iOS and OS X apps. Now he’s faced with trying to stop a school full of 15-18 year-olds from hacking their way to exam success. [Pic Photo Brad Flickinger/Flickr CC By 2.0, via Cult of Mac.]
Apple going well with digital textbooks — The sizzling rate at which e-books are growing suggests that digital textbooks almost certainly will be the norm when your kids' kids are in school. What we don't know is how quickly a transition to a mostly all-digital textbook education system might happen, how it could affect the way students learn, and which companies will be leading the charge. Edward Balg discusses this on USA Today.
iPad book publisher Inkling creates its own free e-book platform — Almost a month after Apple introduced its own interactive e-book publishing platform, iBooks Author, iPad publishing startup Inkling is introducing its own version: Inkling Habitat.
Habitat is free and cloud-based and is aimed at professional publishing houses – not just anyone who wants to try their hand at e-book creation. It allows publishers to create interactive books themselves, something Inkling has been doing as its core business for the last two years. Read more about the project from Laura Hazard Owen at paidContent.
Instagram pack for the fashionista — The newest Hipstamatic Pak, 'Made in America', is influenced by famed fashion photographer Chiun-Kai Shih, and has been released just ahead of New York Fashion Week. And it’s free throughout the 16th Feb (tomorrow for us).
The FreePak (it's in-app, I think) contains the Old Glory case and Americana lens; the latter adds soft lighting and a little blur around the edges, while the former is purely cosmetic. If you wait till the 17th, two new films (one colour, one B&W) will be added to the Pak and the whole thing will cost $1.49.
The FreePak (it's in-app, I think) contains the Old Glory case and Americana lens; the latter adds soft lighting and a little blur around the edges, while the former is purely cosmetic. If you wait till the 17th, two new films (one colour, one B&W) will be added to the Pak and the whole thing will cost $1.49.
MacAP adds football book — A book on the history of football (ie, soccer) called Kick Off has been added to the MacAp catalogue. MagAp is free, and you buy issues of different magazines within in.
