The Education Apple - episode 5

“The show that discusses Apple technology in the Classroom as well as how technology impacts our daily lives”

1. The Cast

• Barrett Mosbacker, Superintendent of Briarwood Christian School
• Bill Brazeal, Technical Architect, Technology Specialist and Principle - ezNet Solutions

2. Week in Review

• Apple Event (introduction of mini iPad, iBooks updates, …)
• Apple Event can be watched on Apple TV (and it was on live)
• Stats from Apple
  • 200 Million devices updated to iOS6
  • 300 Billion iMessages sent in the last year ( 28,000 per second)
  • 1.5 Million iBooks available (400 million downloads to date)
  • 100 Million iPads sold
  • iPads account for 90% if web traffic among tablet computers
  • iBook Textbooks are now available for 80% of high school core cirriculum
  • 125 million documents in the Cloud already
  • 94% of Fortune 500 companies deploying iPad programs
• iBooks and iBooks Author updated (available now)
  • Continuous Reading
  • iCloud integration
  • Sharing on Facebook and Twitter
  • New templates
  • Math expressions directly rendered
  • Multi-touch widgets
• Hardware updates (Mac mini, iMacs, 13 inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display, iPad 4th generation, iPad Mini)  
• Other Events - Microsoft to release Windows 8 and the Surface on Friday 10/26
  • Steven Sinofsky - engineering whiz in charge of Windows software (some feel he borrows from Steve Jobs style and approach)
    • Strong push for Apple-like control over how the new software and hardware work together - dictating many details like screen resolutions and start-up time of OS

3. Main segments

• Barrett - Technology Integration into Education. What steps are Briarwood taking to enhance benefits and mitigate dangers
  • Small pilot
  • Whitelisting on security software
  • Edmodo as “walled” social network

• Bill - Tips and iOS6 config settings
  • How to set up mail VIP custom audio notifications
  • Siri setting to engage upon Raising to Ear

 

4. Apps and Followings

• Barrett - App pick (Google Drive On Mac & iPad)
• Twitter pick (techmeme)  120,300 followers, “The web's technology news site of record, Techmeme spotlights the hottest tech stories from all around the web on a single page.

• Bill - App pick (e-wallet or 1Password)  everyone needs a secure password manager
• twitter pick (@DanaPerino and @GregGutfeld)