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Flash! Bang, wow - it's on an iPhone no less!

I stumbled across a rather large claim in the app store this afternoon - it was an iPhone app claiming that it could display Flash. I mean, come on. Flash? On an iPhone? Are they having a laugh?

Frustration

I'm feeling frustrated with my blog hosts at the moment - the same company that host the school website  and all of the pupil blogs / learning spaces too. It's not that the blogs don't work, it's because I'm seeing innovation on other platforms that I'm missing out on.

To Flash or not to Flash

Many of you will be aware that I use an iPhone on a daily basis, and use a suite of iPads at the school with children. I like both devices - but there has been an issue with them; Flash. Or rather the lack of it.

App-tastic

Last January I was pleased to announce that the school website had managed to get its very own iPhone / iPodTouch app up and running for pupils / parents and friends of the school to use to keep up to date with events at school.

What does the Internet know about you?

Shortly after the New Zealand earthquake struck, my mum rang me with news of my Aunt and cousin who both live in New Zealand. The news from my Aunt was good; she lives in Invercargill and had escaped the worst effects. My cousin though lives in Christchurch (about 1 mile from the centre of the city) and experienced the full horror of the quake.

Storypatch for the iPad

I added a new app to the growing collection of school apps on our iPads recently. Storypatch, from Haywoodsoft, was available to download for free for a short time, so I couldn't miss out on an opportunity like that!

Revert Twitter for iPhone to previous release

If you, like me, were caught out recently with the Twitter for iPhone update, and were greeted with the annoying, unwanted, obstrusive and totally irrevevant 'Clickbar', or as many on Twitter have renamed it the 'dickbar', you might be looking for a way to get rid of it.

Can you send it? Yes, we can!

A while ago I posted that we were finding it difficult to export work from the iPads in school. It was a problem that occured whenever a pupil chose the 'export via email' option. Although we had set up each and every iPad with an email address, messages just would not send.

Introducing new skills, seeing new learning.

For the past few weeks on a Friday, my class have been creating work based around the 'Return to Mysterious Island' iPad app. We have worked our way through parts of the game - working out many of the puzzles that are faced along the way.