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iPad: equipment for the school?

Already in March 2010 before the appearance of real devices, Christian Neff his students asked if they exchange their iPhone for a iPad would.
Now the devices are available and I test for slightly more than two months a copy. A first interim conclusion of this trial can be read on my personal weblog. Here are the [...]

The project school in the clouds

On the way to the PLE - Conference in Barcelona, I have charcoal in the plane of the Swiss Computer Magazine hand made, which rested in the Zurich airport. Some on the lake when I went Article Internet and E-Learning arrived at the school:

An interview with Corinne Schmidt and Nadja Dober from the project school in Goldau [...]

The PLE Conference 2010

English: At the moment I'm attending The PLE Conference 2010 in Barcelona.This morning I presented the iPhone project at the conference in the session about mobile personal learning environments:

For those interested, you can download the paper or have a look at the slides.
German: I am currently in the conference called The PLE Conference 2010 [...]

What amazed visitors from abroad

The iPhone Project pushes abroad with keen interest. Several occasions, the project was visited by foreign guests, such as in April 2010 by a delegation of the College of Education Styria (Austria):

The visitors from abroad are usually very excited to see, as is for now teaches with iPhones. Mostly, however, remains their [...]

Visit the Physicians for the Environment

The issue of a possible health risk to the children of the iPhone class-tracking the project since the beginning. This is particularly the issue of radiation exposure in the foreground, other issues such as addiction or lack of exercise but are also discussed. Regarding radiation exposure, we have both taken in the planning and in the transposition and implementation phase a number of technical, organizational and educational measures [...]

Personal iPod touch for eight year

Today I was made aware at two European school projects, which come from personal handheld iPod Touch type used:

Peter Sykora in Vienna (newspaper article)
Peter Barrett in England (blog posting with video:)

These projects show that we are not even in Europe are completely alone with our ideas and personal handheld devices that make sense even at eight year old [...]

IPhone Central Regionaljournal attended class

The Central Regionaljournal of Swiss Radio DRS was interested in the experiences of the project school Goldau after 9 months of personal iPhones. Michael Zezzi has visited about on Monday morning after spring break, the class 5c and turned it into a ten-minute radio report. This coming school students, the classroom teacher and the project leader to speak.
PS: The post will [...]

Is the closed, proprietary system iDevice useful for schools?

Since the start of the iPhone project, the choice of the iPhone has been criticized as a platform for personal smart phones in school. In addition to those already discussed, more on the specific technical issues underlying product level

Netbooks would be no better than iPhones?
IPhones are the right product?

there are critical issues on a more abstract, more long-term level, which the current policy of [...]

Interview on the iPhone project

On the margins of Web 2.0 in the political education I was interviewed by Melanie Unknown to the iPhone project. Anyone who reads this blog finds, probably nothing new, for others it is a 12-minute portrait of the project and the underlying considerations.

Beat Honegger Döbeli reported on the iPhone project in Goldau from Melanie Unknown on Vimeo.

iPhone training for employees PH

Also at the Pedagogical University in Goldau always have more employees an iPhone. Since the idea was not far away to offer an appropriate training and with the greatest experts on the topic in the area: the students of the iPhone class. The (mentioned by Christian Neff in the last posting) German-made short presentations about the [...]