Steve Dembo has a great post on his blog today, Teach 42. If Presenting with your iPad is important, you might want to read Steve’s article, he has some great resources and information. I would basically put this in my Thank you Steve for doing the research for me pile!!
One of the first things I thought to use my iPad for was presenting and live demos. After all, it’s such a sleek, elegant device, why on Earth would I want to lug my laptop around at all? So I started researching ways to present from it.
First choice seemed to be obvious: Use Keynote. There are a few problems though. I’m not going to get into it, as it has been well documented in other places, but suffice to say there were enough issues that I decided it wasn’t the right solution to me. Amongst other things, I didn’t want to have to convert 5 years worth of presentations over.
It’s been several months since I first geeked out and was the third person in line at the
Apple Store the day the iPad was released. Yes, I have embraced my inner (and outer) Nerd-dom. At first I wasn’t sure if I was going to keep it. It didn’t take me long to change my mind on that. Then I wasn’t sure if I could recommend it to others. Once again, it quickly became something I could endorse wholeheartedly. But the big question still remains, what is its place in education? Is it the next big killer device? Another in a long string of fads? The perfect 1:1 device or a waste of budget?
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- Webinar Opportunity for Educators about mobile devices-iPhone & iPad,
- iPad: Keep students connected to your curriculum from home and back.
- Polldaddy now has iPad App
- Steve Jobs: How to Live Before You Die, Stanford Commencement Address
- 40 Amazingly Educational iPad Apps for Kids
Time is cash because the old saying goes, and by reading this post, I noticed that I saved myself a variety of treasured time, which might have been in any other case spent on studying low consistency info throughout the almighty web. Thanks for the straight to the point, worthwhile enter!