Brian GarnerCalling it "the very first interactive and self-guided university campus tour app," the College of Charleston has released an app intended for potential students looking for more information on the campus and its history.
The app features over twenty locations in and around the Charleston campus with accompanying text, pictures, and video for each. The "College of Charleston Tour" app also uses GPS assistance to show the distance to and location of each of the places of interest around the university.
The videos are narrated by College of Charleston students and provide a brief tour of each location along with facts and information about each.
"We are excited to be the first university to offer a campus tour through an iPhone application," says College of Charleston President George Benson. "This innovative application will allow us to connect with prospective students around the globe and to showcase our historic campus using the latest in digital media and mobile technology."
Florida college pledges Macs for every student-athlete
The University of South Florida has announced that it will provide Apple laptops to each of its NCAA athletes in a first-of-its-kind program. According to Tampa Bay Online, the goal is to create an environment where learning can be anywhere, anytime; allowing students to complete assignments and view lectures from wherever they happen to be.
Michael Hageloh, spokesman for Apple's Higher Education group reportedly called the deal "a national game-changing moment led by USF." Every athlete will receive a laptop and the computers are expected to be distributed soon. It is unclear what type of Macs will be available to the students as of this time.
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With the number of campuses giving out Macs and iPods, requiring Macs or requesting them, as well the overwhelming success of the iPhone for that age group this all make sense. Frankly I?m surprised this sort of thing wasn?t more common.
PS: The iPhone OS SDK has an education option for something like 100 students at a time using a teacher?s app. Has this seen any success? Has anyone here created distributed or used one?
Interesting...
I pitched this idea to my boss when I worked in admissions, but they didn't see the point. Now that the iPhone apps market has taken off I think you will see a lot more of these coming through the pipeline.
If anyone is looking for work this might be a good thing to do. Make an app and podcast for a college tour. This will allow you to have a template that you just fit a new client into whenever you get one. Would be pretty easy to do and you could be constantly updating your interface for all of your clients (for a price of course).
Museums are also beginning to use this tour app process. I look forward to the day when the museums in New York and Washington have apps to accompany one's visit.
The iPhone is not a phone. It is a SUPER computer in your pocket. No wonder Apple is building a server-farm. One day in a not-too-distance future, iPhone will be the THING to have to get things done.
The only Apps Apple counts are the ones in the Apps Store. However, there are already thousands of Apps developed and being used by companies in-house. In the next 2-3 years, it will be a necessity to own an iPhone.
Apple has not even scratched the surface yet. Better days are yet to come!
Museums are also beginning to use this tour app process. I look forward to the day when the museums in New York and Washington have apps to accompany one's visit.
Nothing new.
Museums have been using iPods for years for tours.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/tours/
And what about the Art students who go to that school... do they receive a Mac laptop too? Or the Bio-Chem majors, or the Law majors, or the MIS majors? Business? Anyone that is not an athlete? (Having been a starving artist student in college, I never liked the perks the athletes get when the art students barely even had classrooms to meet in let alone equipment when the sports team got a whole new stadium!)