{"id":461,"date":"2010-10-14T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T08:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/portal.ou.nl\/web\/topic-mobile-learning\/blog\/-\/blogs\/best-educational-iphone-app"},"modified":"2015-12-16T19:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T19:23:57","slug":"best-educational-iphone-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Best educational iPhone app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/145.20.173.188\/~wgr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/wikiserver_icon2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/145.20.173.188\/~wgr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/wikiserver_icon2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wikiserver_icon2\" width=\"127\" height=\"126\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8px\" class=\"size-full wp-image-657\" \/><\/a>This is the most promising app for education that I have seen so far in the app store: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilewikiserver.com\/Welcome.html\"><strong>WikiServer<\/strong><\/a>. The interface is crap and not well-suited for a tiny screen, but the idea is great.<\/p>\n<p>\nWikiServer does what it says on the tin, it installs a wiki server &#8211; on your iPhone. Other people on the same WiFi network can easily connect to the same wiki and co-edit pages. This is really cool, and I can imagine lots of different (campus-based) group work activities, that would instantly enhance teaching and learning. Imagine, for example, students in a lab working on some project (at different tables), sharing their findings via such a wiki. You can also connect from a normal PC browser, so it&#8217;s also platform independent. How wonderful is that!<\/p>\n<p>\nShame that the interface is not geared up for a small mobile screen and big fingers, so the in-line editor is really unusable, and when the keyboard is up, you can see even less of it. These are things that should be fixed, but I guess on an iPad it already works much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the most promising app for education that I have seen so far in the app store: WikiServer. The interface is crap and not well-suited for a tiny screen, but the idea is great.<\/p>\n<p>WikiServer does what it says on the tin, it installs a wiki server -&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/?p=461\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}