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MacResearch Webcast on Developing Apps for iPad to Cover Papers and Mental Case
On Tuesday, 6th July, 2010 starting at 10 am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern, Apple will broadcast a free webcast on developing apps for the iPad.
MacResearch’s own Alexander Griekspoor and Drew McCormack will be the guests, and will discuss the process of porting Papers and Mental Case to the iPad.
The abstract of the talk:
Picturing the iPad as just a big iPod touch misses the point of the device entirely. iPad apps are not just scaled up iPhone apps. The extra screen real estate provided by the iPad challenges application developers to be more creative, and find efficient uses for the space.
We’ll discuss some of the dilemmas we faced in migrating two successful iPhone apps, Papers and Mental Case, to the iPad. We’ll look at how designing and developing for the iPad differs from designing and developing for the iPhone, and in what ways it is similar. Our experiences marketing the apps will also be covered.
Information for joining the webcast live is as follows:
URL: http://webcast.training.apple.com/
Webcast ID: MacResearch
Passcode: 368176
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Cheers,
Andrew McKinney
Co-Chair, MacLearning.org, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
by Vicki Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog
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Mike – “Do not do workshops around hardware and software training. The research is clear if you train teachers how to do spreadsheets — if you teach them how to analyze data – they go back and teach kids how to analyze data and do spreadsheets.”
Cyndi – “Get rid of the network nazi’s — people who are IT people with no background in curriculum or education have no business making curriculum decisions.” (Those who have heard me speak know I agree with this.)
Mike- Leadership is everything – 4 characteristics of places where successful things are happen
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