Category Archives: Digital Immersion
Estimote iBeacons
My Estimate iBeacon developers kit arrived today as promise!
I first got a taste of the power of Apple iBeacon technology this summer in San Diego during an Apple Distinguished Educators summer institute. It uses bluetooth and proximity sensors to detect locations and proximity ideal for indoor locations and in absence of GPS. How this technology will apply to education is still an unknown but I am very interested to find out.
There will be some serious R&D to be had for sure as the true power requires some coding with some SDKs but I always have hungry students looking to explore the latest and greatest innovations. The best part is the technology is new to all of us and we can explore together.
Classroom by Google is here!
We are very excited about the introduction of Classroom by Google.
With classroom, we have a seamless solution to organizing announcements, discussions and assignments. In addition, Classroom seamlessly integrates with Google Drive allow us to work directly from classroom as well as share files, docs and more.
We hope you are enjoying your summer break and look forward to seeing you in September. As well, we are looking forward to meeting our new class of 2019.
IDS Passion Project
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This year promises to be the best ever for the year end digital immersion independent studies passion project. We have a large variety of projects and the passion is obvious.
This year we have decided to create iBooks to house our IDS projects. The iBooks are made in Apple’s iBooks Author and we are able to publish on the iTunes Store for sharing.
Here are a couple of great projects:
Generation Green Award
Destination Imagination
Alas, we must redo our DI registration and re-submit stat. See Mr. Leung or myself for help.
Viral Vid of the Week
Photoshop CS5 for Dummies
Free courtesy of Google Books