This really does looklike an amazing piece of design and technology. Apple are so great at bring together great designers (ie Ross Lovegrove) and innovative thinking........ oh, and lots of smart marketing.
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Would you believe this was after my Stag night?
To record and get feedback from the world regarding Islay High Schools move down the ICT route
The Islay High School Project
As a School of Ambition and Excellence we are some way down the route of these 4 strands
1. Developing the leadership potential and capacity of the whole school, Staff and Pupils 2. Introducing Vocational Courses to the curriculum 3. Removing the age and stage restrictions from the certificated courses. 4. Developing the use of ICT to support the curriculum
I am heavily involved with the ICT strand so that is what I will be talking about mainly. Though, of course, the other strands will be brought in as well. So what are we planning in the ICT Strand?
Every Teacher has a Tablet PC A wireless network Wireless Projectors in every teaching area A presentation space in the Assembly Hall A Media Server A Class Server Existing courses digitised S1 'Benchmarked' for IC3 Giving them individual curriculum in S1/2 Once these are in place then give every pupil a UMPC computer
All of these are in Partnership with Microsoft, Dell, Diageo (Large local employer) and Prodigy (Certiport solution provider).
Maybe more partners in the future We have just started down this route. I am sure we will have lots of challenges ahead.
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The really interesting thing about the i-Phone (to me) is the use of multi-touch technology. This opens the way to a multitude of novel concepts in user interfacing. See http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ and look at the videos!
(More technically: single- and multi-touch technology provide a base level for what can be achieved. These can then be built on to provide gestures, like single-clicking, dragging, double-clicking, etc. In fact only very simple gestures have really caught on for simple screens - few applications utilise either the speed of the mouse movement, or the idea of going up then down quickly, tho one or two do use this idea to go forward or back a page. But with multitouch screens, the base level set of primitives is much richer, and this makes the range of possible gestures much richer as well: turn, grasp, etc, so that a much more sophisticated user interface can be built. I have't got one yet....)
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