Sorry it’s been a few weeks since I posted – what with IATEFL then a holiday (see photos here - all done using an ipad, photos taken in ipad, imovie used to collate them and edit them into video and then uploaded directly to vimeo) and a growing addiction to dragonvale on the ipad then there simply hasn’t been time .
IATEFL was as ever fun, the Learning technologies SIG was on mobile learning and included an interesting discussion on whether we should talk about mobile learning or mediating mobile use in education. I saved the tweets of the day, which you can find here.
In between everything else, I’ve read a few posts that are definitely worth mentioning. For starters there is the excellent prezi by Clint Stephens which shows off 60 apps for educators. While it is aimed at main stream education, there are definitely a few that ELT professionals can use.
In a similar vein, the edtechteacher blog lists apps in a handy reference guide according to what you want to do and as such provides another good reference source when looking for suitable apps.
With so many apps to choose from then knowing how to make the right choice is important and this is what this post from the learninginhand blog tries to address with an excellent post on how to evaluate apps. You can try that out by the evaluating all the story telling apps that are listed in this blog post.
So there you go a few things to keep you going, now I wonder if my sun dragon has hatched yet…..