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Ipad 2 Questions
February 23, 2012, 4:01 pm
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1.  What was your iPad 2 assignment?  Please describe how you went about completing the assignment.  Did you participate with your group or have any one on one time with the iPad 2 during the assignment?  Please rate your comfort level with the iPad 2?

My iPad 2 assignment was to go to the information desk in the Student Union and find out what services they provided to make a presentation to incoming freshman. In order to complete our assignment we went to the Information desk and asked the workers what services they provided and made a list of them on the iPad. I participated with my group by listening to the services they provided and helping write them down. We also took pictures for the presentation.  My comfort level is fairly high with the iPad 2. I own the newest iPod touch, so the iPad is easier, I think, because of the bigger screen and keys.

2.  What intalled applications did you use (if any) with the iPad 2 during the assignment?  Were they easy to use and were they helpful in gathering information needed for your assignment?

We did not have to install any additional applications.  The only apps we used were the camera and word document. They were both easy to use but  our assignment did not need addition help with gathering information.

3.  In detail, give me three positive bits of feedback about using the iPad 2 for this assignment and then three negative bits of feedback.  Were you able to overcome any of the negative things you experienced?

Three positives were that since we had a group member with her own iPad 2 sharing the information with each other was easy, I liked the convince of using the gmail account so we could all edit or notes together, and the iPad was much easier to walk to the Union with then a laptop and took pictures easily too.

Three negatives were a laptop computer is much easier to type on then the iPad, although pictures are nice, a digital camera would still be better quality, and if we did not have a personal iPad it would have been harder to get additional applications and share our document as easily as we were able to.

4.  What are your thoughts on iPad 2 use in the classroom?  How would you use the iPad 2 in your classroom if you had a set that allowed a one to one (one iPad 2 to each student) situation for a lesson.

I am actually in a classroom now that has a class set of iPad in it.  The students love getting on and doing math games on websites and being able to touch and move things around. If I had a classroom set of iPad 2 in the classroom I would love to be able to have websites that I can be interacting with on the smartboard while they can be doing a similar activity at their desk on an Ipad 2. This could be an online geometry game or even having an interactive powerpoint set up for them.



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