iPad Pilot Program at Oberlin College

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

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 [...]

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/dance-notation-for-the-ipad-theres-an-app-for-that/32706

There’s a great article in The Chronicle of Higher Education today reviewing a couple apps (Air Display and DisplayPad).  I have not had an opportunity to test these but plan to do so.  Read the article for yourself at: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/how-to-turn-your-ipad-into-a-touchable-second-monitor/34299?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

I’ve had a request from a PHYS instructor for an iPad 2 for testing purposes.  Unfortunately we only have the iPad 1 in our office and the instructor would like to test an app that Vernier has released for a real-time physics app that takes advantage of the camera. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vernier-video-physics/id389784247?mt=8# Fortunately we were able to [...]

Vic Vaughan was in the iPad pilot program, and I did a library session with the class using iPads as their research tool. Their assigned task from me was to find four relevant articles and two bibliographic records from OBIS, and place all six citations in a RefWorks account to be shared with me.  They [...]