Using the iPad and tablets for homeschooling.
With a price of $199 and Amazon behind it, the Kindle Fire Tablet seems like a good choice for homeschooling. Should you get a Kindle Fire for your homeschool? How does it stack up against the iPad? The Kindle Fire appears to be the first serious competition for the iPad. Here is how the Fire compares. Hardware: The Kindle Fire is built solid. There is a rubber coating on the back...
Another Android tablet aimed at education. Appears to be a 7 inch tablet running android. It claims to have a battery life of 10-12 hours. There is wifi, 800 x 480 screen resolution, and a 800MHz dual core CPU with 2GB of internal memory and Android 2.1. The internet is also limited to reduce distractions. The “administrator” chooses what web pages are alowed and what e-books can be installed. The...
Here is another new tablet coming out this year that has some potential for home education. The tablet website claims to have an “innovative platform”. Not sure what is innovative about this Android tablet when other tablets will soon be coming out this year. Maybe it will be priced for educators. “Connect mySpark’s tablet is Wi-Fi enabled and can integrate with partner school’s Learning Management Systems to allow seamless two-way communication between...
Official Google Research Blog: Letting everyone do great things with App Inventor. Now I will be waiting for a good tablet that can be used with the AppInventor.
If you want to get your hands on a Nook Color for yourself you can go into a Barnes&Noble store and try one out. I stoped by the other day to see for myself what one looks and feels like. I also wanted to check out how online ebooks looked like from www.childrenslibrary.org . The books looked pretty good however the 7 in. screen seems to be somewhat limiting. I don’t...
