iPods and educational applications have Minnesota students giddy about learning
January 11, 2010
For fourth-grader Gabe Rivera, running vocabulary drills and solving mathematical problems on his classroom iPod Touch is a fun way to learn, in part because it's "something that is more newer than paper".... Alex Silverman, a former high school teacher now working as an app developer, has pioneered an eClicker system. It allows teachers and their students to communicate via iPod Touch over a classroom's Wi-Fi network. Such electronic interaction spurs classroom participation, he said, but older technologies to enable this are too expensive. With eClicker, sold by Big Nerd Ranch Software, a classroom's only expense other than iPods is a $25 eClicker app for the teacher (the eClicker app on students' iPods is free).
Live Streaming Interactive Reality Show Centers on Development of New iPhone App
December 14, 2009
Italian software company,Command Guru, recently produced an interactive, live streaming, fly-on-the-wall reality TV show, centering on the efforts of an international team of 10 developers, led by Cocoa guru, Aaron Hillegass (author of "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X"), to develop a free, open source, social networking iPhone application in seven days ("from start-to-publish on the App Store").
Command Guru: Reality TV Meets iPhone Development
December 11, 2009
What happens if you put some of the top designers and developers in the same room, hooked up to multiple HD cameras, and the internet? The goal of Command Guru is to create an iPhone application together in one week, under the supervision of Aaron Hillegass.
Geek My Reality Show...Cool!
December 8, 2009
The iPhone Reality Show is the idea of the folks at Command Guru and is headed by Aaron Hillegass, CEO of the Big Nerd Ranch. The idea of the show is to take the reality/fly-on-the-wall format & Geek it up! allowing the viewers to follow in real-time the creation of an iPhone Application, from start to finish.
Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X with Aaron Hillegass
October 17, 2009
Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X author, Aaron Hillegass, discusses his experience as Keynoter at The Voices That Matter iPhone Developers Conference in Boston and provides an overview of Pearson Education’s partnership with Big Nerd Ranch.
