Adding a Stylus Renews my iPad
Wacom Bamboo Stylus Over the weekend I picked up my first stylus for my iPad, the Wacom Bamboo. I went with this one because 1) Wacom has been making styluses for their own tablets for a long time, so...
View ArticleA Sea Change on Campus
If this survey is to be taken seriously, we are on the brink of a sea change in higher education. In that article, The Chronicle reports that the number of students with a tablet tripled in a year, and...
View ArticleStudents becoming less dependent on physical books?
Inside Higher Ed has an update on electronic textbook adoption which is mostly uninteresting to me except for this bit: Nevertheless, students’ allegiance to print appears to be eroding; among those...
View ArticleUsing the iPad in research
Macworld has a nice piece highlighting how the iPad is being used in research, mostly serving as a Swiss Army knife in the lab and field: Such hikes used to require a number of different tools: a...
View ArticleClicker questions from an iPad
I’m using my iPad to present the key points at the start of each class, and yesterday I wanted to ask some interactive clicker-type questions with Poll Everywhere, like I had done last fall. Students...
View ArticleUsing the iPad with a Projector | Academic Technology @ Palomar College
Using the iPad with a Projector | Academic Technology @ Palomar College. This has got to be the definitive link on the subject!
View ArticleCatering to all means tailored for none
A few weeks ago, when all the geeks were freaking out about Google Reader shutting down, I felt a smug sense of satisfaction, having abandoned reading the web via RSS feeds a couple months ago. I...
View ArticleiPad decision
When I briefly ran into Tim Cook after the event and brought up this issue, he laughed, noting that I had another option: I could buy both. MG Siegler, Two iPads to Tango
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