Back at the OETC conference in February I was taking pictures of a presenter’s slides when I noticed this icon: Pressing it opened up a whole new way for me to take notes with my phone. Live Text I have been using the iOS Live Text feature for awhile. It allows you to copy text…
Watch and see how you can use your iPhone or iPad to scan in documents with the Notes.app and then share them to Google Drive.
We’re going to use http://obs.ninja to share our mobile device camera. The video will appear in a browser tab, making it easy to share with any video conferencing software. Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebooks, Android phones, iPhones, tablets… They all work! The advantages of using https://obs.ninja : * Works with any device * Wireless * You…
Our Internet-driven society has seen a decline in book reading, though not necessarily a decline in reading altogether. Despite book readers being less common than in past decades, we all do a fair amount of reading each day on our smartphones – reading messages from friends, or tweets, emails, Facebook posts, notifications, articles, and so…
Inko is a collaborative whiteboard for iPhone, iPad, and AppleTV. If all of your students have access to iOS devices, then Inko may be something to check out. Once installed, teachers and students can collaborate on the same whiteboard, while also displaying the whiteboard on a large screen through the use of an Apple TV…
This is part 13 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. Writing this turned out to be more difficult than I thought it would be. The problem is the iPhone, it’s pretty locked down when it comes to wanting to put icons on the home screen. iOS makes it easy enough to put website bookmarks on…
For those of you who have missed the iPad apps chart we published a few months ago, you may want to bookmark and keep it handy for rainy days. The chart includes some of the best educational iPad apps we have reviewed and recommended for teachers over the last couple of years. Source: 70+ Educational…
This past week I had a plumber come out to look at our water softener. He was pretty tech savvy, using his iPhone to document his process and to record parts that he needed. Unfortunately, he constantly force quit applications on his iPhone when he was finished. How do I tell him to stop doing…
Browsers for iOS devices seem to proliferate like so many tribbles, but since they are bound by Apple’s rules, their performance is basically the same. It’s the features that differentiate them. After reading A Few Nice iCab Tricks for 2016, I abruptly spent my $1.99 for iCab Mobile and have been a happy camper ever since….
There is apparently a bug on 64-bit iPhones (5s and newer) where setting the date to January 1, 1970 will put it into a boot loop where it won’t boot. In fact, iTunes will not be able to see it to do any type of restore, essentially bricking the device. (Bricking is a term used…