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iPad or iFad?

Learning with e's

The results were later published in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning , and the 1:1 ratio certainly made a difference to learning engagement, but not necessarily to learning gain. Our major findings were that the 1:1 ratio of laptop provision encouraged greater creativity from the children, and improved their engagement.

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Guide to the Fixed Layout eBook Conversion You Need

Hurix Digital

How to Decide on the Perfect Page Aspect Ratio? Unfortunately, there is no one answer as readers use multiple devices ranging from Kindle to iPads to laptops to read eBooks. The most important aspects you can consider to give your users the best experience while reading eBooks are the page aspect ratio and the page dimensions.

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Guide to the Fixed Layout eBook Conversion You Need

Hurix Digital

How to Decide on the Perfect Page Aspect Ratio? Unfortunately, there is no one answer as readers use multiple devices ranging from Kindle to iPads to laptops to read eBooks. The most important aspects you can consider to give your users the best experience while reading eBooks are the page aspect ratio and the page dimensions.

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Guide to the Fixed Layout eBook Conversion You Need

Hurix Digital

Unfortunately, there is no one answer as readers use multiple devices ranging from Kindle to iPads to laptops to read eBooks. The most important aspects you can consider to give your users the best experience while reading eBooks are the page aspect ratio and the page dimensions.

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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Textbooks, blackboards, and overhead projectors remain the tools of choice for many teachers, at a time when their students are geared to learn from iPads, PowerPoint, and instant messaging. The result is a lost message, and a lost opportunity.

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An Easy Way to Scale Embedded Video on Screencast.com

TechSmith Camtasia

If you had non-standard dimensions, you may have had to do a little cross multiplication to keep the aspect ratio the same. (If If you don’t keep the aspect ratio the same the video will be squashed or stretched.). Enter the height or width you want, and Screencast.com will update the other field to maintain the aspect ratio.

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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

For those of you that are unaware of TweetDeck, it is essentially a social media aggregator (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Buzz, Foursquare and MySpace) that can be used on almost any device (PC, iPhone, Android, iPad, Google Chrome, and more).