I will be using my iPad at work syncing it with Microsoft Outlook, keeping track of six calendars, scheduling, 10 different contact folders, tracking tasks, dictating e-mails using Dragon (I'm using Dragon on my laptop to write this post), Googling, etc.
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I'm curious what will you guys actually use the iPad for?
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I'll bet you can use ipad to make skype calls just without video.
I used my touch for a long while as a phone.
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I use my iPhone 3GS, more and more, to watch news and surf, email, etc.
My desktop (original flat-panel iMac) and my 12" Al laptop are almost
never on.
The iPad promises to become a much handier thing to grab and surf with while I scoot around my tiny kitchen, on my Aeron chair, as I fix dinner, wash dishes, etc. and catch up on news, emails, parent contacts, talk shows, etc.
I won't buy this first model: no camera ( I will explain below).
When Apple puts an HD camera on the back side of the iPad, I will pounce on it immediately, in spite of the idiotic nazi-glossy-screen-mandated policy that has eaten Apple Inc. (This has kept my, now $8k, iMac-upgrade-piggy-bank safely tucked away in my home with no foreseeable chance of escaping into the arms of Ive et al.).
The utility of a mobile's camera, for recording documents for school and personal use, is almost totally ignored by Apple.
I would love to walk from desk to desk, in my classroom, with an iPad nested in my loving arms. I could then snap pics of student work and email them, with a brief note, to the parents of those kiddies who refuse to keep a proper notebook and will not take their work home for their parents to see. The lack of contact between teachers and parents is one of the more common sources of complaints by parents themselves. Even if it requires a crowbar to get an email address from these parents, I would like to try.
There are better and better teacher app's available now on the iTunes Ap Store, like iGrade for Teachers, GradePad, and even Pearson (whom I despise) has ten nice AlgebraPrep titles that I recently purchased eagerly.
Keeping a digital portfolio for each of my students, in a device that has a practical screen and is easy to walk around with --- that is what I call good use of technology in the classroom!
Not all of us Mac fanatics are soccer moms with gorgeous kids to take movies of.
Most of us have a much more frequent need to photograph documents (letters, bills, bank statements, receipts, grocery shelf items, insured belongings, etc .) and fax, OCR, and organize them in protected folders or Delicious Monster apps.
See what I mean ?
I use my iPhone 3GS, more and more, to watch news and surf, email, etc.
My desktop (original flat-panel iMac) and my 12" Al laptop are almost
never on.
The iPad promises to become a much handier thing to grab and surf with while I scoot around my tiny kitchen, on my Aeron chair, as I fix dinner, wash dishes, etc. and catch up on news, emails, parent contacts, talk shows, etc.
I won't buy this first model: no camera ( I will explain below).
When Apple puts an HD camera on the back side of the iPad, I will pounce on it immediately, in spite of the idiotic nazi-glossy-screen-mandated policy that has eaten Apple Inc. (This has kept my, now $8k, iMac-upgrade-piggy-bank safely tucked away in my home with no foreseeable chance of escaping into the arms of Ive et al.).
The utility of a mobile's camera, for recording documents for school and personal use, is almost totally ignored by Apple.
I would love to walk from desk to desk, in my classroom, with an iPad nested in my loving arms. I could then snap pics of student work and email them, with a brief note, to the parents of those kiddies who refuse to keep a proper notebook and will not take their work home for their parents to see. The lack of contact between teachers and parents is one of the more common sources of complaints by parents themselves. Even if it requires a crowbar to get an email address from these parents, I would like to try.
There are better and better teacher app's available now on the iTunes Ap Store, like iGrade for Teachers, GradePad, and even Pearson (whom I despise) has ten nice AlgebraPrep titles that I recently purchased eagerly.
Keeping a digital portfolio for each of my students, in a device that has a practical screen and is easy to walk around with --- that is what I call good use of technology in the classroom!
Not all of us Mac fanatics are soccer moms with gorgeous kids to take movies of.
Most of us have a much more frequent need to photograph documents (letters, bills, bank statements, receipts, grocery shelf items, insured belongings, etc .) and fax, OCR, and organize them in protected folders or Delicious Monster apps.
See what I mean ?