iPad Pilot Program at Oberlin College

article from Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/blog/ipad-teaching-learning-apps-ben-johnson

Here’s the link to the Educause slide deck for my presentation: http://www.educause.edu/sites/default/files/library/presentations/E11/SESS141/educause-slides.ppt

article by Alexandra Rice from the Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/colleges-take-varied-approaches-to-ipad-experiments-with-mixed-results/33749

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/30/griffins-multidock-system-charges-and-syncs-up-to-30-ipads-at-o/ (link provided by Nate Garver-Daniels –thanks NATE!)

The University of Miami Libraries’ Digital Scholarship and Programs Department is proud to announce Paperless University, a new blog about our experiences becoming a paper-free department at the Otto G. Richter Library.  Armed with iPads, we have spent the past two months learning what it takes to live without paper in the office environment, and [...]

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/09/19/university_study_finds_students_with_apples_ipad_perform_better.html

I was pretty surprised to begin this new year, not because I’m more comfortable with the iPads (although I am) but because the students are considerably more open to the idea of using mobile apps. I’m sure this is simply because they have been exposed to it over the past 18 months, seen an increase [...]

We have received multiple requests from faculty about the iPad.  Several faculty have even purchased their own after “test-driving” one of ours.  I think that as an intermediate device, the touch-screen tablet computer (in this case the iPad) is very attractive for faculty who do not want to lug their laptops to class, but who [...]

At the request of one of our faculty, we decided to purchase audio splitters for the cart.  Matt recommended: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=108&cp_id=10823&cs_id=1082703&p_id=7116&seq=1&format=2 and we purchased 20 of them.  When students are working in small groups, it would be nice to have them be able to hear the same thing without sharing a pair of headphones.  These splitters [...]

Thanks to all of the participants for a great discussion at the meeting this week.  Please take a look at the calendar to confirm that the proper cart requests have been made: https://sites.google.com/a/oberlin.edu/ipad-pilot-program/participant/calendar I think the only conflict we have is the weekend of 11/4-7 but I believe that we’ve already resolved this and I’ve [...]