I am going to start placing more iPAD notes on this blog. The more I read on iPADs and their integration into Education, the more I see incorrect assumptions on what they can do. First of all, in an educational environment the keyboard doc is a must. Taking notes on the virtual keyboard will cause trouble with student concentration. The keyboard doc creates more avenues of information entry for students and teachers. The biggest drawback as far as etext go is that the publishers are not redy to start producing textbooks that show well on the iPAD. If textbooks could take on the qualities of vooks with the combination of video and text, students would be more engaged to the text. Also, the book needs to have projection built into the teacher's edition. The reflectiveness from the screen makes using a doc cam with it impossible .
We are hoping to make our first volume purchase from the app store. I have not found that anyone else has used this method of installing apps. I will post more as we go through the the process.
That is enough for now.
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