Arlene Courtney's List: educational technology

• The iPad is designed for consuming a variety of media including video, news,  books, and music.
• it is still a platform intended to support online content including books,  magazines, games, music, and video, plus Web access. This means that, because of  the bigger display, it is potentially a better platform for mobile learning than  the iPhone or the iPod Touch
• it has added a potential new platform for mobile learning, for social  networking, and for content creation in Weblogs and wikis. It also provides  content creators with another channel for interactive applications. It is not a  “Kindle killer,” but the open ePub format avoids being locked into a proprietary  box. ePub also means that those who develop documents for upload to the iPad  will not have to pay for conversion of those documents to a proprietary format  (as is the case if you want to send a document to your Kindle).

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