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- Mobile Learning Digital Media Curriculum Project
Opportunity to receive an iPad2, camera, or audio recorder for participating! Thinking about integrating mobile technology into your curriculum but not sure where to start? The EdTech Center can... - Mobile Learning
The flexibility and portability of most mobile technology, including smart-phones, netbooks, iPads, and other tablet-type devices have quickly made them indispensable to people in their daily lives....
Events
- Conversations on Teaching and Learning: Stop Lecturing and Start Teaching - The iPad
Mon, February 6, 2:00 - 3:00
Learning should not be a spectator sport. Learning is optimized when students are actively engaged: Talking, writing, and relating what they are learning to past experiences, and applying that... - Hands On! Did you get a new iPad or Mobile Device over the Holidays?
Thu, February 16, 2:00 - 3:30
Are you thinking about integrating your new mobile device into your classroom or research process? Then you’re doubly in luck because the EdTech Center would like to invite you to become part... - AcademiX Conference
Fri, April 29, 11:00 - 4:00
Register » Please join the EdTech Center, CIETL and Information Services for this year's free AcademiX conference on Mobile Learning Redefining the university experience: Discover how mobile... - Second Monday Conversations on Teaching, Learning and Technology: iPad applications for teaching and learning
Mon, December 13, 12:00 - 1:00
At Teaching 2.0, we announced the launch of Second Monday Conversations on Teaching, Learning and Technology, a series of brown bag lunch "conversations" that will offer a forum for sharing...
Links
- Northeastern faculty iPad projects: Creative Industries Program (Gaming)
Mark Sivak is using an iPad to assist in curriculum design and creation of apps and workshops in games. His goal: to allow groups of students to explore course topic pairs in context. Students are... - Northeastern faculty iPad projects: Pharmacy Practice
Dr. Margarita Divall from Pharmacy Practice is using an iPad as a repository to illustrate calculations, diagrams, and solutions during lectures. She is also using specific mobile apps to make... - Northeastern faculty iPad projects: Physical Therapy
Alycia Markowski, Associate Clinical Professor in the Physical Therapy Department, is integrating an iPad2 into a capstone course for Senior Doctor of Physical Therapy students participating in the... - Northeastern faculty iPad projects: Writing Center
Neal Lerner, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Writing Center, is incorporating the iPad2 into the writing tutoring services offered at Northeastern University's... - EdTech Center’s Mobile Learning Website
A locus for mobile learning activities at Northeastern, the site highlights faculty iPad projects, including links to their project blogs, offers reviews of iPad apps for specific disciplines and... - Northeastern faculty iPad projects: First year college writing
First year writing instructor Genie Giaimo is using an iPad to create digital scrapbooks (including sketching, recording, photography), capture and encourage critical thinking, expression and... - Professor’s Classroom iPad App Debuts at Consumer Electronics Show
A professor from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor is trying to turn the iPad into a new kind of classroom tool that lets students draw on a shared canvas. The new iPad app is being shown off... - Turn the NOOK Color Into a $270 iPad Alternative
The guest author Eric Bubar shows how to turn a NOOK Color into a low-cast iPad replacement. "For around half the price of an iPad, I can do everything I want. Dropbox app? Check.... - Lessons Learned from Piloting the iPad
A growing number of colleges and universities have launched pilot projects to test how the iPad might be used to produce a positive impact on student learning and engagement. Pepperdine University... - Inkling signs with major publishers to bring 100 text books to iPad by 2012
Up to 100 books are expected to be there by the end of the year and, while that's nothing compared to the massive variety of volumes that swell students' backpacks and diminish their drinking funds... - iPad One Year Later
A group-authored post in which each author shares their thoughts about the first-generation version of the device, roughly one year after it went on sale. - Microsoft OneNote Goes Mobile
Microsoft recently announced that they have made an iPhone app for their note taking software, Onenote, and at the moment (2/2/2011) they are offering it for free. - Notes Plus
Between NoteTaker HD and this app, I like the interface of NoteTaker better, but this app has one thing I think all digital notebooks should have... the ability to select and move items around... - How to set up Find My iPad, for FREE
Did you know Apple has a way for you to find your iPad or iPhone from a web browser if it’s lost or stolen? They do, and it’s great, but it does have to be enabled BEFORE you loose your... - iTunes U now offering Free E-Books
You can now get free e-books on iTunes U. Apple announced today that Oxford, Rice, and the Open University have all added digital books to the lectures and other materials traditionally available... - iTunes U now offering Free E-Books
You can now get free e-books on iTunes U. Apple announced today that Oxford, Rice, and the Open University have all added digital books to the lectures and other materials traditionally available... - Mobile Learning
As soon as the Illinois Institute of Technology announced last May that it would be giving all 400 incoming freshmen Apple iPads, a lively debate broke out online at TUAW.com (The Unofficial Apple... - Apple announces ePub and iBooks support in iTunes U
News
- NEW 'Mobile Apps for Learning' website launched!
June 2011
The EdTech Center recently launched a new site called "Mobile Apps for Learning". This site is a central repository for Northeastern University's mobile app community. The site provides a...
Software and Applications
- NoteTaker HD
This is a great app for taking handwritten notes on an iPad. It allows you to draw and right notes on either lined, graphed, or blank pages. It's my app of choice for creating handwritten notes.
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Behavioral Neuroscience
Neuroscience, the scientific study of the nervous system, is an inherently interdisciplinary pursuit. At Northeastern, we draw upon such academic fields as psychology; chemistry and chemical biology; physics; biology and marine science;... Read more...
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