There are a number of really useful and FREE Pre-school and early years Android Apps that really come to life on an ASUS Transformer for various reasons and most importantly because of its size! In fact, the very first advantage of an eee pad Transformer is to have dimensions that are similar to a book, [...]
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Pre-school and early years Android Apps for my eee pad Transformer!
Posted: June 21, 2011 in new technologies, Thoughts and ideasTags: Android, Apps, ASUS, ASUS transformer, children, Early years, Education, eee pad, engage, engaging, Foundation Phase, Google Sky Map, Intellijoy, Key Stage 1, kids, Learners, learning, Literacy, Market, Numeracy, skills, Tablet, Transformer, Young
ASUS Transformer: apps for the classroom
Posted: May 24, 2011 in Institute of Physics, Mind Mapping, new technologies, Thoughts and ideasTags: Android, Angular Velocity, Apps, ASUS, Atomic, Bomber, clever, Contraptions, Education, eee pad, Keyboard, Learners, Market, Mind Mapping, Physics, Pluto, screen, Solar System, Tablet, Thinking Space, touch, Transformer
This is my fourth post on the ASUS Transformer, but I will mainly focus on free Android Apps that can be used on any Android Tablet, or smartphone. The apps I will look at are all to do with Education (especially Physics), or at least ways to apply them to a classroom situation. The first [...]
Cool! A Transformer is coming to our house?
Posted: May 9, 2011 in new technologiesTags: Apps, ASUS, free, Games, learning, letters, numbers, Preschool, Tablet, Transformer
You can imagine the excitement when I said to my three boys that a Transformer would arrive to our house in a week! The ASUS Transformer, which such a cool name, became immediately the most awesome thing they could imagine (even before having seen it) I have to say that, as well as being a [...]
ASUS Transform-ing note taking!
Posted: May 4, 2011 in Institute of PhysicsTags: ASUS, Evernote, Physics, Polaris Office, Science, Science on Stage, Tablet, Transformer
This blog post has two aims. One is to continue the series of posts on my experience of the ASUS Transformer, which is becoming a really inseparable “friend” in my work, and the other aim is to give you an update of the Science on Stage Europe Conference held in Copenhagen last month. The reason [...]
ASUS Transformer – Tablet in disguise!
Posted: April 16, 2011 in new technologiesTags: ASUS, Blog, echalk, Flash, NGfL Cymru, Science, Science on Stage, Tablet, Transformer
With this Blog post I will start a series of posts on the ASUS Transformer Tablet and I am actually writing from one of these right now. This post is about First Impressions… in fact, my brand new Tablet arrived just yesterday and I already love it. I am in a hotel room in Copenhagen [...]
Tablets or Interactive Whiteboards?
Posted: October 26, 2010 in new technologiesTags: Education, Interactive Whiteboard, IWB, KindleLab, learning, M4, M400, Mind Maps, PC, Portege', Promethean, Pupils, Smart Board, Students, Tablet, Tablet PC, teaching, Tecra, TES, Toshiba
Reading this excellent blog post from @Chickensaltash and the more complete article from TES rekindled my passion for Tablet PCs in the classroom. Though I believe IWBs are a great tool to enhance Teaching and Learning and I agree with Dan Roberts when he tweets that we have to do with what we have got, [...]













