Over 80% of this blog was developed on the iPhone. From captured photos, to voice conversions, to text messaging, to emailing, to editing...It is good for us all to understand the potential and direction of devices like the iPhone (Time Magazine Invention of the Year, 2007). So, why not explain it, by using it....;-)
What we can do.....with an iPod Touch...
Author: Jeff Billings
scribd is iPhone native
Author: Jeff Billings
A free, unlimited, online storage for pdf, doc, xls, ppt, jpg, etc., is available at;
http://www.scribd.com
and now, your posted documents are live on the iPhone....;-)
Try this link to see a KeyNote file converted to PDF and shown through scribd....
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3185490/Participatory-Learning
Google Reader for iPhone
Author: Jeff Billings
Brand new Google Reader for iPhone
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2008/05/brand-new-google-reader-for-iphone.html
The sender also included this note:
I love the functionality of Google Reader now made for my iPhone.....nice....Google Reader on the iPhone - seriously addictive....
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iPhones at PVUSD
Author: Jeff Billings
The content, text, audio and photos for this blog were created almost entirely on an iPhone.
Do you know me???
Author: Jeff Billings
Emailed to blog, straight from "Photos" on iPhone.
All of the content for th....
Author: Jeff Billings
All of the content for this Blog was developed or uploaded through an iPhone and my PV learners account. From voice phone calls converted to text and automatically uploaded to the blog using Jott, to camera photos using the iPhone and E-mail to the blog to instant text messages on the iPhone being posted to the blog. Convergence is upon us and the iPhone is a camera, an E-mail client, a browser, a video player, an organizer, a triangulator for GPS type use, an instant message client and more and more. Oh! yeah it is also a very good phone.
The confusion over...
Author: Jeff Billings
The confusion over use of the iPhone lies primarily in that I interpret the iPhone to be a computer while others may not agree with that interpretation. The definition of the computer is input, output, processing and storage while the iPhone is new to the world and it is transformational receiving the Time magazine invention of the year 2007. I still believe that fundamentally it is just a computer.
NCHS Music Lab
Author: Jeff Billings
quick message was also sent.
In the past, getting doc...
Author: Jeff Billings
In the past, getting documentation photos like those here had to be coordinated between the staff using a couple of shared digital cameras. Then the photos had to be uploaded to the computer. Send to others to be collated and finally produced. No longer with the iPhone, simply take the picture and automatically uploaded to the private or public web service like a blog. Add captions and notes and the project is completed with less effort, less money, and in real time.
STS Transition
Author: Jeff Billings
Cabinet approved "The STS Transition and Permanence Plan", which was developed in collaboration with and/or input from Principals, STRs, Cabinet, STSs, and IT. Said plan called for the deployment of mobile phones to STSs. The IT Department made the determination to deploy iPhones to the Technologists and Programmers and cascade our current Nextel phones to the STSs.
NCHS Plasma Display
Author: Jeff Billings
From iPhone to blog....;-)
Approximately six of the...
Author: Jeff Billings
Approximately six of the iPhones were placed in the hands of the programmers and database administrators of the department. The IT Department is pursuing the software development kit of the iPhone. Through that pursuit, mobile applications will appear from this workforce. The first is already appearing as dibbels early reading assessments and differentiated phonetic recordings have appeared. Through virtual private networks, it is anticipated that remote control of servers and network gear will also soon appear. Instructional applications will follow shortly thereafter.
One of the new devices we....
Author: Jeff Billings
Six of the new devices were put into the hands of the information technology leadership team, there focus is to beat up the device, break it, take it to the limit on applications, services, and the like. Because their new device will be in a state of operational flux they should also maintain their current mobile phone.
15 of the devices ar...
Author: Jeff Billings
Fifteen of the devices are placed with the mobile workers of the department. These people live and die by 3 functions: transportation, processing power and instant communication. I want them to start converging many of their operations: mobility, processing and communication.
Tower of All Towers
Author: Jeff Billings
Photo taken and immediately sent from iPhone.
2 of the new iPhones...
Author: Jeff Billings
2 of the new iphones were placed in the hands of the instructional support leaders. It is at best difficult for me to lead with instructional technology if my leaders do not have and cannot experience the technology themselves.
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M&O Money
Author: Jeff Billings
The IT Department is very sensitive to M&O funds and the coming dilema of Excess Utilities. We have championed the Wireless WAN, resulting in some $500-$750,000 savings per year, each and every year from now on. We are championing the convergence of voice, which will have another $300-$400,000 savings per year. We are deploying remote tools right now that will allow us the ability to power down thousands of computers across the district with a single mouse click. We are championing converged movies and television, allowing for the termination and power down of TVs, video head towers, and the gear required to run them. Last week in TAC, we began the discussion of going to Open Office (Windows version and new Mac OSX version is out and it's sweet), possibly removing the $220,000 per year Microsoft Office M&O cost. We are already beginning the early testing of software like Skype to put on the iPhone and bypass voice service. But, it is very difficult to develop these solutions, if they are possible, without initial investments of money, time, spirit and innovation.
