Our college principal took his iPad overseas and is absolutely delighted with it. I bundled it with his new Macbook laptop although I suspect that the iPad will get the greater workout.<br><br>These units have a very real place in our schools.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 May 2010 20:46, Claire Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:claire.e.adams@gmail.com">claire.e.adams@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I just spent my first day at school with my iPad today (and am typing<br>
this on it!)<br>
it was a major success! I have entered my timeline into the calendar,<br>
can access the school's wifi - thus the Internet and all (ok most, not<br>
flash) the learning resources on it.<br>
I took the minutes for our ict committee meeting on it, very successfully.<br>
If I can do all that, my (our) students can too.<br>
You're right, it might not be too good for techie content creation,<br>
but as a word processor, spreadsheet, and Internet info access device<br>
it works really well, is relatively cheap, very portable, light, and<br>
intuitive to use.<br>
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I support a 'trial'. I'm sure there will be kinks to work through,<br>
that's why it's a trial.<br>
Plus, if we want our students to create content and apps for mobile<br>
devices they have to have access to them.<br>
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My two cents.<br>
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Claire Adams<br>
IT Teacher<br>
Cummins Area School<br>
South Australia<br>
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On Monday, May 31, 2010, Roland Gesthuizen <<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Too late :-P make sure you register the gPad and gthings ..<br>
> Seriously though, Tony Richards did a good review about them on his podcast and I have had a chance to play with one now. They have their place and I think that there is going to be a big future with these slim, tablet devices. Sure they are not a full blown desktop computer but if my son can get to school and back with a foot scooter, there is probably no need to insist that he can only use his racing bike.<br>
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> I wonder what will be the first publisher to hit the eBook market? There has been some good stuff shared on the national lists about the kindle and iPad.<br>
> Regards Roland<br>
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> On 31 May 2010 10:31, Mark KELLY <<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Excuse me a sec. I've just got to run out and register trademarks for "oPad", "aPad", and "uPad" before they're snapped up in the oncoming pad stampede...<br>
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> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Phil Brown <<a href="mailto:pdbrown@gmail.com">pdbrown@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> iPads are good as content receivers but schools need content creators plus many of our digital repositories contain Flash which iPads cannot handle.. One of these maybe a better solution.... and they're conceived in Australia.<br>
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> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Roland Gesthuizen <<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Victoria is going to undertake an extensive trial of iPads for schools<br>
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> <a href="http://delimiter.com.au/2010/05/28/victorian-premier-buys-500-ipads-for-schools/" target="_blank">http://delimiter.com.au/2010/05/28/victorian-premier-buys-500-ipads-for-schools/</a><br>
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