Tweet During a previous Elevate Development Sprint we create a layer in the Augmented Reality “Layar” app. The sprint was designed to allow us to test the technology and to find possibly uses for this application. Since the sprint we have spoken with our Marketing & External Relations team to show them what we developed. [...]
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We are keen to gather emerging ideas from people about the educational use of certain apps (andriod, mac based etc.,). To start the conversation we are focusing on iPad apps. So if you have used an iPad app within a teaching and learning context, please complete the form below. We are going to use the app name as the title, but please include the learning and teaching theme within the context, for instance, “feedback” “presenting” “marking student work” etc.,
Release of #UCSConnect in the App Store #aurasma
AaronB 
March 2nd, 2012 Tweet UCS Connect, the visual browsing application reskinned from the Aurasma Lite app has now been approved and is a avilable for download from the app store. Shown below is the app in the app store via an iPhone, UCS Connect is also available via the Android Market Place for users with Android devices. The [...]
Posted in App Reviews, Mobile Learning, Projects & Pilots, Your Stories 
Tags: Augmented Reality, Aurasma, UCS Connect 
No Comments »sharing and displaying ideas using iBrainstorm on the iPad
AndyR December 1st, 2011 Tweet Aaron and David have been exploring the use of iBrainstorm to share a note from one iPad / iPhone / iPod to an iPad to be projected. The scenario would be around collecting ideas from students during a face to face teaching session (assuming they all had i-devices … which is unlikely). In fact, [...]
Review of using the iPad to annotate student work for feedback
AndyR November 24th, 2011 Tweet As discussed in earlier posts. I have been piloting the iAnnotate iPad app to enable me to provide annotated feedback to students who submitted via the VLE. The following discussed a piece of work students submitted to me after I gave a lecture on a Foundation Degree Course in the Division of Science and [...]
Mindmapping on the iPad
Andrew Revitt November 16th, 2011 Tweet In the past I have found mind mapping software an effective tool both personally and with students. For example, a couple of years ago I completed a sequence of lectures that would feed into an exam with a 30 minute exercise where I encouraged each student to form their own mind map of the [...]
Using iAnnontate on the iPad to provide individual formative feedback
AndyR October 27th, 2011 Tweet As part of a Foundation Degree Course in the School of Science I’ve presented a lecture on Technologies for Learning. This session included the option for students to submit a short reflective formative assignment around the effective use of a web 2.0 technology to enhance their learning. The work flow is the student work [...]
Showme Ipad App: can now download videos as mp4
AndyR October 4th, 2011 Tweet As we are rolling out a number of iPad projects around feedback, for which we are including the ShowMe App, I’m glad to say the ShowMe app (web interface) includes a download options. This downloads as an MP4 file. This file can then be uploaded to your YouTube channel. Why do you ask is [...]
iTune Vouchers for your own iPads
AndyR September 29th, 2011 Tweet Just following up on the previous post about using the Elevate Team’s iTune vouchers (£15.00) each enable you (UCS staff) to buy and reflect on iPad Applications to use in your teaching and learning. The pilot will work as follows; we’ll put out a call (this is the first), where we make upto 5 [...]
