iPod Touch Update

Well I have a few complaints about the app CellSpin - CellSpin is an app from iTunes designed for the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. It is designed to allow you to easily update blogs from your portable device, without having to go through all the trouble of opening up your blog and signing in etc..

It's good for uploading quick updates and pictures, however it's very annoying when you want to write a longer blog post. On most apps that involve typing you can turn the iPod on to its side so that it is in landscape, and the image will follow suit. This makes the keyboard much larger and a LOT easier to type with. However, CellSpin doesn't allow you to do this. So you're stuck trying to type with the small keyboard - so you end up hitting the wrong keys a lot. Or maybe that's just my stubby fingers...

Also multitasking is great on the new 4th Gen iPod touch, however if you're in the middle of typing something on CellSpin and want to quickly check the website you were looking at for a reference you will lose everything you were just typing. Hence why I'm not using my laptop - woops!

Any way - back to the point of this post. I have been testing out a few of the apps to see whether or not they would be of any benefit in the classroom.

The first app I used was I Can Animate - this allows you to make stop motion animations VERY easily. It was fun to use and the videos created can be uploaded to youtube directly from the iPod. This took about 5 minutes to make http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy55nQeKJ4o    You can't add sound or music, but maybe there's another app out there that would allow you to add music or you could do it later on a computer.

The second app I tried out was StoryKit - This allows you to create and then read your stories on your iPod. Again it's very easy to use. You can either try and draw the pictures yourself, although they look pretty dodgy, or you can take pictures for each page. You can then add text. Here's a quick short story I made http://iphone.childrenslibrary.org/cgi-bin/view.py?b=kef5o2usozijoxllzkn2

iPod Touches are pretty cool - but I can't help thinking an iPad would be even cooler!