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Comment on Thoughts on the iPhone SDK by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:51:41 +0000

I guess this is all moot now that version 3.0 of the SDK is out and you can do all that, and more….

Comment on Thoughts on the iPhone SDK by Tony Hursh

Tony Hursh — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:42:30 +0000

The big problem (from Apple's viewpoint) is that allowing third-party interpreters to run could open up the platform for code that doesn't come through the App Store. Personally, I think the App Store is a pretty good deal. The price is reasonable enough. $99 gets you a code signing certificate and access to the store. By comparison, Verisign charges over $400/year for a Java or M$ Authenticode certificate, without throwing in a distribution deal. So I have no problem there. As written, though, the license means no Squeak (which means no Scratch or Croquet) and no Java (which means no Processing, Alice, JMonkeyEngine, JRuby or Clojure). Sun seems to think that they can get Java working on the Touch devices. Actually, the ARM processors in the Touch have a built-in JVM instruction set. It remains to be seen whether Apple allows it. As you say, it's early days. Apple may open up the platform a bit more in the near future. Let's hope so. :-) Sorry about holding your comment for moderation, by the way; I didn't mean to turn that feature on. It shouldn't happen again.

Comment on Thoughts on the iPhone SDK by Alexandre

Alexandre — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:24:47 +0000

Good parallel with MIDI. In fact, as IANACoder, it helped me grasp the domain-specificity concept. (I happen to be a musician and have used MIDI on occasion since the late 80′s.)
Went to BarCamp yesterday and there was a mini-DevCamp about the SDK. Spent a few minutes there. Seems like the general feeling was close to yours.
I guess my main point about Touch devices is that they’re good as inspiration. In fact, BarCampers were also talking about Android, which can certainly benefit from some of the thinking which goes into the Touch apps.
Also, it’s fun to dream about Apple coming up with a plan for educational developers (with some of these restrictions lifted or waived temporarily). Since they like to control things so much, it could be limited to just some developers and/or the apps could be distributed exclusively to targeted edu markets. But it’d somehow make sense to have an educational team at Apple collaborating on some projects. From what I know of Apple’s history, it doesn’t seem too far-fetched.
Also, it’s still possible that future versions of the SDK will have fewer restrictions. Apple isn’t the model of responsiveness but, if developers come up with convincing argument (especially with cool demos Apple can show off), they might reconsider the more lawyer-oriented restrictions.
One can dream, can’t one?

Comment on Chapter 1 draft is posted by Tony Hursh

Tony Hursh — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:10:22 +0000

Good point, Lesli. I’ll add some more material on trolls, flamers, spammers, and the other dark denizens of the innartubes.

Thanks for the kind words. I’ve been teaching this material to technologically-naive teachers for quite some time, with some degree of success. I’m glad my skills appear to be transferable to book form.

Comment on Chapter 1 draft is posted by Lesli Smith

Lesli Smith — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:55:53 +0000

I just finished reading the first draft of chapter one. It’s a pretty difficult task to speak to your target population of digital immigrants (that would be me) and be informative without being condescending, but you do a pretty good job.

My only comment so far is that you do seem to assume a little bit more knowledge of internet culture in your reference to trolls and flamers than the average teacher might now possess. In five years or so an explanation wouldn’t be necessary, but for those of us who are still on the cusp of the immigrant population, these aren’t well-known concepts, yet. I only learned of trolls myself after a prescient post by a fellow Moodler at Moodle.org a year or two ago.

Comment on Book in Progress by Tony Hursh

Tony Hursh — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:43:02 +0000

P.S. IMS LD would definitely be worth discussing in the section on SCORM, et al, though, in terms of its future potential. I already have the Reload editor in there, so it would be a natural fit at that spot.

Comment on Book in Progress by Tony Hursh

Tony Hursh — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:35:46 +0000

Good idea on getting “tools” into the title, and also on VoiceThreads. I’ve used that just a little bit (tinkering, really) and it’s pretty nice.

Yep, there’ll be scenarios and/or case studies throughout.

I’m not sure if IMS LD has advanced enough that it’d be worth giving its own section — the book is intended for a beginning ed tech class for working teachers, and I’m focusing it on stuff they can start using today. Our paper will definitely be cited in the CMS section, though.

Comment on Book in Progress by Don Hinkelman

Don Hinkelman — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:08:40 +0000

Hi Tony!

Thanks for sharing your book writing with us. I love the topics and your outline. With a tool focus, you might want to emphasize that word in the title. Chapter 7 puts it clearly in the “how to” mode, which fits with the earlier topics. Some things to ponder…
–add VoiceThreads along with Slideshare (very powerful)
–discuss how teachers can configure these technologies in new arrangements
–mini case studies throughout?
–international standards (why not? quote ourselves)

Cheers,
Don