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Teaching Film: Streaming Films and Taking “Visual Notes” on the iPad
Since the day my first iPad arrived nearly two years ago, I have enjoyed experimenting with it in my research and teaching. From the beginning I was impressed with the possibility that a single device...
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“Visual Notes” with iPhoto for the iPad
Just days after posting a long description of teaching film with the iPad that discussed streaming ethnographic film, taking visual “notes”, and presenting them during class discussions, Apple...
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Editing a Homework Film on iMovie for the iPad
This past week in the anthropology senior seminar we looked at narrative documentaries in anthropology and discussed issues of dramatization and aesthetics in John Marshall’s classic, The Hunters, and...
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iPad Apps For the Digital Professor
Since getting my first iPad on the day it was released two years ago, I have enjoyed the challenge of experimenting with it in new ways—seeing how I can use it effectively in my daily work and...
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An Apple is an Apple, Except When It’s a Sign of Satan
As an anthropology professor who regularly teaches classes dealing with material culture and issues of representation, every semester we discuss the ways that humans ascribe meanings to objects—reading...
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Apptivity™ Seat for iPad® for TouchToddlers™ and iChildren®
Remember the round fleshy people stuffed into chairs with sippy cups and video screens hovering just inches from their faces in Pixar’s 2008 film Wall-E? I had always assumed they were intended as...
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“Public Walking iPads” as Portable Distinction
The other day while in the check-in line at the Beijing airport a middle aged man in smart business casual dress, with a modest rollaboard suitcase just also happened to be plugged into his iPad...
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