Friday, April 16, 2010

iPad, Week 2 on a College Campus

Over the past two weeks, I've been able to put the iPad in the hands of students, faculty, some of our IT staff, and even a visiting entertainment industry CEO. Here are a few of my observations of their interactions.
  • All agree, the iPad is a powerful content delivery device, particularly for images, but also for sound.
  • Students would like to see more of their classes delivered in ways that emphasized digital materials, including the books and readings they use.
  • Faculty (notably an art history professor) are interested in how the physical interface of the iPad might allow students to easily zoom in on image details.
  • The entertainment CEO (after watching his daughter take over the iPad) quickly recognized the power of the iPad to deliver films and other media.
I have also realized that I have suddenly become dependent upon the iPad for my lecture notes, replacing the binders I once used. I'm still thinking about how that's going to change my teaching.
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3 comments:

  1. What are you using for your lecture notes? Pages? Notes? Something else?

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  2. I'm using web pages I've created. While I'm showing one webpage to my students and talking about its contents, I'm using the iPad to scan the next page of notes. I'm going to be exploring how to place other kinds of notes--probably as pdf's--on the iPad.

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  3. GoodReader is an excellent iPad PDF app for 99 cents. It allows you to transfer files to your iPad from your computer over WiFi and also save PDFs and other files from the web (through the app). I've found it very useful.

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