July 6th, 2009 by admin

In a recent post we showed you how to get a free iPhone. And here is another! Because ACU is giving them away for free:

During the university’s June orientation session, Abilene [Texas] Christian University administrators handed out the next-generation Apple iPhone 3GS for students to begin using over the summer.

Niow, whilst enrolling in a university might not be the way you want to go about getting a free iPhone, its worth taking a look at why they are doing this!

Because its easy to carry, connected to a vast data base of information, and equiped with a vast array of apps, the iPhone is an appealing device for use in education. Here is what ACU has to say about it:

And they are not just using rhetoric here. The iPhone has been embedded into the university priocesses as well as haveing a solid iTunes presence.

It is a great model for how to introduce this technology into the educationsector and well worth while looking at for anyone who has kids in school, runs training programs, does in-house seminars, or is involved in any other education/training setup - particularly if it involves media (drama schools, art schools etc).

Some of the usefuland free downloads for education  (or apps) referred to in the video are listed below:

The first app above (the Tubey), is useful to download  because with it we can create videos on our iPhone which will then be automatically uploaded to YouTube. The second app (wikipanion), allows us to easily access Wikipedia. The last app (FlipBook Lite), the free version referred to in the video, can be used to make animations on the iPhone.

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