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Folder Sharing Via Google Drive
September 19, 2013 – 4:21 pm
If you are using iPads with students in the classroom, and students are submitting iPad created content for evaluation, then you should have a look at Anthony DiLaura’s Youtube video below. Anthony describes how he uses Google Drive with his students for managing portfolios. It seems like a nice solution. Just make sure your students don’t forget to put their names and/or student numbers in their file names.
What do you think? How would you improve upon Anthony’s system?
iCabMobile to the rescue
May 3, 2012 – 6:57 am
The problem: You need to share a file from a secure server with a colleague, but it is too large to attach to an email and you only have your iPad.
The solution: Download the file with iCabMobile, upload it to Dropbox, share a link via Mail.
The context: I am on the road with my family, with only my iPad, and a colleague needs a backup copy of my Moodle course right now. He does not have access to the server, so I need to download the file and send him a copy. Easy enough to accomplish in my office, or at home, but a bit more challenging when speeding down the Keiji Bypass in Kyoto.
I appreciate a good challenge, so I sent a mail to explain the situation and promise that I would work it out. After my experience using iCabMobile in the classroom the other day, I knew that it would play a central role in the solution.
The first step was to log in to my Moodle course using iCabMobile and create the backup. The backup process is all run server-side, so doing this from an iPad is no problem. Dealing with the file once created was the issue…
As you can see in the image above, the file size, while only 72 MB, is still a bit large for a quick download and email. Tapping and holding on the link to the file brings up some options.
A student-centered video process using iPads
April 21, 2012 – 9:38 am
The Problem: How to collect, process, and disseminate videos of student performances in a language learning class while protecting student privacy and reducing workload.
The Solution: Camera.app, iCabMobile, and Moodle
- Students capture the video themselves
- Students access our Moodle course using the iCabMobile browser
- Students upload their video to a forum with special permission settings
The Background: One of the things I find important in education is that the assessment should always match the goals of the course. This is one reason why I have always found it rather silly to give students a 90-minute written exam in a conversation class. As such, for nearly ten years now I have concluded each semester of my conversation courses with conversation exams. These conversations were recorded on video for later assessment, and proved to be a bit of a logistical nightmare to process. Long story short, the teacher-hours required to process, assess, and disseminate were slowly convincing me to start giving paper-based tests again. While my colleagues and I had put a lot of thought into it, we had just not come up with a good way to get around the video processing issue while also protecting student privacy.
The Plan: The plan to overcome the teacher-centered nightmare is centered around the new iPad Classroom at our university. We have 20 new iPads set-up in the Media Center, our campus library, where I have been working to help establish the new iPad Classroom. This video project seemed like a great opportunity to have the students create something with the iPads while testing out their usability. The concept is fairly simple: read more
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