Free ebook: Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, Preview Edition 2 – Microsoft Press #yam

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The second preview edition of Charles Petzold’s Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Cross-platform C# programming for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone is now available for download! Below you’ll find the download link and the ebook’s full Introduction. Enjoy!

via Free ebook: Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, Preview Edition 2 – Microsoft Press – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

Free Technology for Teachers: A Short Guide to Mobile Blogging Apps for Students and Teachers

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One of the blogging activities that I often suggest in my workshops is having students record and share on-the-spot observations during field trips. To do this your students should have a mobile blogging application on their iOS and Android devices. If your students dont have iOS or Android devices if they have a mobile device that has a web browser or email client they can post via email to Blogger. Heres a short run-down of mobile blogging options on the blog platforms that I usually recommend to teachers.

via Free Technology for Teachers: A Short Guide to Mobile Blogging Apps for Students and Teachers.

Shift Happens

Sometimes we forget things that are extremely powerful.The Shift Happens video has been around for a while – but it’s still relevant. This version has statistics appropriate for the United Kingdom.

Sometimes we forget things that are extremely powerful.

The Shift Happens video has been around for a while – but it’s still relevant. This version has statistics appropriate for the United Kingdom.

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