Saturday, April 3, 2010

iPADS -- First Looks

Early this morning, we started our experiments with the iPAD in Saratoga Springs, NY and Vienna, VA.  In addition, there are colleagues around the world that are testing and participating in these experiments.

A few reactions and observations in the first 2 hours of iPAD experience:
  • eReader is Interesting - Color and Flexible.  Looking for more "affordances" for interactive and contextual books.
  • Papers, a new App, has a very robust set of Academic Papers and Research for use.
  • Netflix can now stream movies to the iPAD, very interesting model for short videos for learning in the workplace.
  • Collaborative Games, allowing multi-players to compete and collaborate.  High potential for Alternate Reality Games for learning.
  • Blackboard Mobile is the first front end for an LMS - requires the college to have BB as their LMS.
  • Keynote - alternative Slide SHow is also interesting - might evolve to a new presentation platform in a classroom.
Stay tuned.  We will post video in a few minutes.  Please add your comments and thoughts.
Author Elliott Masie at

2 comments:

  1. We also have Blackboard Vista as our LMS system. Are you saying that we could access BB via the iPad?

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  2. I think I read on this blog that you need a cable to connect the iPad to video output devices (like projectors). Does anyone know where to get such a cable and has anyone tested it? I noted that Keynote is apparently now on the iPad which is great. It is much easier to take an iPad to a conference than a laptop......

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