App - The Heist

Trying out an App called The Heist. You have to do a variety of puzzles in order to open a safe. It's really good and quite difficult.



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Blipfoto

Going to try out Blipfoto - as usual can't resist a new photo sharing blog facility. The advantages are that you have to sign up to it so maybe not as easily accessible to all and sundry unless you share. I thought it might be useful for gardening photos and family photos - photos that I want to share but not as widely as twitter. Might use it as the electronic version of my photo a day. Luckily it is an iPhone app - anything that is not an app does not do it for me.


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QR codes

I really like QR codes and know they would be great in lots of ways in our LRC but just have not found time to try them out yet.

http://mashable.com/2009/01/07/qr-codes/

http://bit.ly/9iaz9i

http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/qrcode/qr-codes-in-education/

http://olliebray.typepad.com/olliebraycom/2008/11/iphone-in-education-using-qr-code-in-the-classroom.html

Prezi

Prezi is a great resource for making dynamic presentations

I found it quite difficult at first to create the presentations so you need to dedicate some time to practicing but they look good and have impact as it is something different.

We created one for our Curriculum Liaison presentations. 

www.prezi.com

Digital Nativity (Christmas 2.0)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZrf0PbAGSk

This YouTube clip of the digital nativity is one of the best resources I've seen. I've watched it quite a few times and it is just so clever. It's fascinating because it's taking a traditional story with so much meaning (whether you believe it or not) & looking at it from a modern perspective. It doesn't criticise it or belittle it but just makes you wonder what would have happened if it had been now.
The other brilliant thing about it is that it has given me some ideas for how a similar format could be used to either advertise events or tell a story or evaluate an activity. 

Writing iPad apps: what you need to know | Enterprise | Real World Computing | PC Pro

Writing iPad apps: what you need to know | Enterprise | Real World Computing | PC Pro

What mobile phone have you got? - survey of students

http://managingalearningresourcesdept.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-mobile-phone-have-you-got-survey.html