Some Year Twelve students borrowed an iPad each to take notes. They were warned that this would not really be possible (taking notes is easy, getting them off the machine not so possible). They insisted they knew what to do.
I went to visit them in their seminar room and checked how they were going. They really had not thought it through. As the iPad is designed as a personal device, it assumes you will set up your own email in the mail app. Documents stored as part of a particular app (such as Evernote) can be synced off the ipad... but that won't work in the school context.
One student just shrugged and gave up... another very creative young lady got out her iPhone and literally took a photo of the screen!
I pointed out they could do a screen cap (hold down the home button, click the power button) then connect to a computer with the standard cable. The iPad will open as a USB device and give you access to the photo folder. You can copy off the screen cap.
Still, this is very klunky. Any other thoughts out there? Remember even though you can run Hotmail and gmail in the browser, you cannot attach a file that you cannot browse to... and you can't browse to files on the iPad. The in-app buttons that allow you to "send by email" all assume your personal email is set up in the built in email app.
I didn't buy the iPads for school thinking this would work...but now they are here I'm being asked to make it work anyway.
Andrew Lack
I went to visit them in their seminar room and checked how they were going. They really had not thought it through. As the iPad is designed as a personal device, it assumes you will set up your own email in the mail app. Documents stored as part of a particular app (such as Evernote) can be synced off the ipad... but that won't work in the school context.
One student just shrugged and gave up... another very creative young lady got out her iPhone and literally took a photo of the screen!
I pointed out they could do a screen cap (hold down the home button, click the power button) then connect to a computer with the standard cable. The iPad will open as a USB device and give you access to the photo folder. You can copy off the screen cap.
Still, this is very klunky. Any other thoughts out there? Remember even though you can run Hotmail and gmail in the browser, you cannot attach a file that you cannot browse to... and you can't browse to files on the iPad. The in-app buttons that allow you to "send by email" all assume your personal email is set up in the built in email app.
I didn't buy the iPads for school thinking this would work...but now they are here I'm being asked to make it work anyway.
Andrew Lack
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