iPad Pilot Program at Oberlin College

interesting read in The Chronicle of Higher Ed: http://chronicle.com/article/My-iPad-Day/65839/

Check out this site for details, but it contains some nice suggestions for showing PPT presentations on the iPad.  The suggestion I like the best is to save the PPT as a PDF and then email it to yourself. http://www.acoolsoft.com/articles/view-powerpoint-on-ipad.html

FYI – looking at the course document (PDF) on the iPad through the Blackboard Mobile Learn app, I saw both months scroll through fully.  Looking at same document through Safari in Blackboard did not display the entire PDF.

Since the iPad cannot interface with external hardware such as CDs or flash drive, the only way students will be able to access presentations they prepared will be via WiFi to an external location on which they stored their presentations. I’ve downloaded a power point presentation into my drop box, but could not get it [...]

The iPad won’t play files stored on ERes; thus we can’t use those during class. (Actually, it’s a big problem that Apple won’t make iPads compatible with Adobe flash; this also excludes a lot of streaming video content from the internet! We should complain to Apple as a group.) It will play files from Bb—but [...]

All, Welcome to the first day of classes!!  ARGHHH!!!! I’ve revised the course list based on your responses.  Please take a look at this and let me know if there are any further additions or changes to the list.  Remember, this is just a list of courses that participating faculty are teaching (maybe planning to [...]

Hello All, Since I haven’t figured out yet how to create a blog entry, I’ll leave my first impressions as a response to Vicky. Spent hours last night going over apps in the app store and picked three I want to look into. Two of them were free, one I bought– though I want to [...]