Vendor presentation with Mike Miley from Apple.

Features:

• iPad 2 pushes all video out via adapter cable, but obviously doesn't show your finger to illustrate where you're pointing
• Keynote remote application
• Bluetooth keyboard
• GPS (built into 3G models)
• Cameras
• Apps
  • Wolfram Alpha
  • Elements
  • Modality
  • Sketchbook
  • Inkling
  • Google Earth

Presented by Jill Joline Myers, Western Illinois University and Leaunda S. Hemphill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Educational examples of metadata:

• ID3 tags in MP3s
• Word document authorship information
• Revision history in wikis, Word
• Page view/access date/time 

Patterns in metadata are highly indicitative of an individual--e.g. telephone calling patterns are largely identical for a person, even if the person changes phone numbers.

Presented by Angela Valez, with resources from the crowd, too.

Presented by Roger Runquist, Western Illinois University

Roger's website for this year's presentations.

Ways to go mobile:

• Adobe CS5.5 just came out and has many mobile-oriented tools
• iWebkit.net - free, requests you give attribution,
• iTouch is free Wordpress plug-in

Class focused on Adobe CS5.5 implementation via File > New > Page from Sample > Mobile Starters > jQuery Mobile (PhoneGap).

Presented by Eric Wingall, On Teaching Online

Educational trends and the future of education are one in the same, so he won't refer to them separate them anymore.

"Why Most Things Fail" by Paul Ormerod.

College tuition and fees have risen 440% since 1982-84, compared to medical care at 251%, consumer price index at 108%

ies: National Center for Educational Statistics/Projects of Educational Statistics to 2019.

Presented by Leslie A. Sassone, Northern Illinois University

Named project "Teacher-as-Researcher" to help students think philosophically, combatting the "you teach me what I need to know" approach.

Each student asked to pick a school and go research it (e.g. montessori, waldorf, vocational, magnet, etc.): roles of teacher, political implications, educational philosophy, etc.  Morphed assignment away from creating a physical report product to instead using Diigo to collect and share resources.