Creating Significant Learning Environments
iPad aftermath: Strong weekend sales; can the momentum continue? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com via kwout
Apple sold more than 300,000 iPads on the first day. Over 1 million apps were downloaded by iPad users and over 250,000 ebooks left the iBookstore.
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Apple sells more than 300,000 iPads on first day; is it enough?
iPad aftermath: Strong weekend sales; can the momentum continue?
Creating Significant Learning Environments – Core Summer Institute
ACU’s 21st Century Vision of educating Christ-centered, global leaders who think critically, globally and missionally requires us to create courses based on modern instructional design principles that incorporate significant, active and collaborative learning.
Learning Outcome – Upon completion of the CSLE – Core Summer Institute, faculty will have designed and built a student-centered university Core course that incorporates significant, active and collaborative learning.
May Session
Module 1
Tuesday May 11 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Wednesday May 12 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Module 2
Thursday May 27 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Friday May 28 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Module 3
Monday August 9 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Tuesday August 10 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Fall Session
Module 1
Thursday August 5 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Friday August 6- 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Module 2
Group to determine the day and time in the week of September 13-17
Group to determine the day and time in the week of October 18-22
(We are willing to run duplicate/multiple sessions to accommodate the faculty involved)
Module 3
Thursday December 16 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Friday December 17 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
The folks from Mashable have pulled together selection of video demo of apps that are being developed for the iPad. My favorite is the wireframe mockup tool called iMockups for iPad.
If we are looking at potential iPad apps then you can’t leave out Sports Illustrated’s tablet video:
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I have to thank Kenny Jones for bringing the following article to my attention. Marc Benioff chairman and CEO of salesforce.com message to 60 CIOs in various meetings throughout America’s heartland is:
We are moving from Cloud 1 to Cloud 2, and the iPad is the accelerator….What’s most exciting is that this fundamental transformation—cloud + social + iPad—will inspire a new generation of wildly innovative new apps that will change entire industries.
Moving from Cloud 1 to Cloud 2 doesn’t mean dropping all the functionality of cloud 1 rather it means we add the functionality of Cloud 2 to Cloud 1. It is a move from typing and clicking to touch and a move from chatting to video.
Is industry listening–time will tell and Benioff suggests that many CIOs may rather retire than change. What can the academy learn from this? We (the academy) are one of the largest industries in North America and we need to heed this message as well.
