iPad, therefore I am

[Ben]

So, who wants an iPad (http://www.apple.com/ipad/) now the 'secret' is out in the open?

(I don't think I want or need one, phew) :)

[gtappend]

If Apple want to send me one, I'll gladly test it and blog about it ;)

[richardksa]

I watched Steve Jobs on CNET just now and was NOT that impressed. Maybe it was his presentation, but to me it seemed like they were introducing a Kindle with internet capabilities, nothing more. And the on screen keyboard. The amount of typing I do would render the screen opaque in a very short time.

[greytop]

Can you operate it with one hand outside the bedclothes on a cold night >:D
Similar devices will continue to appear though - I believe numbers of electronic books have surpassed the printed variety already. Maybe the price has helped here?
Just hope someone somes up with a standard format soon for the books (to include colour when the readers provide it) that gets accepted by all.

[ValenciaSon]

I love it (shock). It definitely looks cooler than the Kindle and the BN device. I can see it being purchased by individuals who don't need more computing capabilities than it and by organizations who need a capable device that is more portable than a netbook, and by those who are conditioned to drool at the products coming out of Cupertino (me). Now if I could only come up with some mission-critical rationale to purchase one.:rolleyes:

[Cide Hamete Benengeli VII]

I might buy one in a couple of years once it’s been improved and any bugs have been worked out.

I wouldn’t be buying it as an e-book reader though: first because I’m not into electronic books and second because it doesn’t stand up to the Kindle in terms of lessening eyestrain.

For it to be worthwhile for me, it would also have to have greater storage space: at the highest end it only has the same amount of storage as an iPod touch and only about half the disk capacity of Apple’s current iPod classic. It would also have to have more ports and be capable of being credibly used for touch typing.

[gary]

Can you operate it with one hand outside the bedclothes on a cold night >:D


1. Do you actually have cold nights in Pego
2. What are you dong with the hand that is not outside the bedclothes;D

[greytop]

1. Do you actually have cold nights in Pego
2. What are you dong with the hand that is not outside the bedclothes;D1. Record so far this year about -3C. 2. When I remember I'll let you know ;)

[gary]

I need to handle an iPad before i decide...
Its certainly preferable to all the netbooks ive seen
I can see every college kid in the developed world having one or something similar - it facilitates the colleges in licensing text books for students to use on their devices for a period of time, students get the texts they need and the publishers have a revenue stream,students pay less than the price of the book for limited use and dont have the annoyance of never being able to get the book from a physical library,
Textbooks can now have video... must be good. Imagine having a textbook wirth a search facility
At the moment I am experimenting at work blogging the content of each lesson as the day goes on as an exercise in communication with parents. I do the typing on my iPhone in landscape mode . The experience is way better than youd imagine. Blogs are submitted by email. I am finding posting easier to keep up with because I can blog from anywhere - staffroom, playground, dining room, garden. Having a slightly larger device would be better but I wouldve liked something that fits in a jacket pocket, about the same size as a paperback book.

The kids love it so far, I can take pictures and video too as well as send stuff straight from my classroom scanner....

Theres onely one day to view but I have links to all the other days and a tag cloud so you can look at each subject or category in its entirety

you can see it here (http://www.2gc2010.blogspot.com)

[gary]

1. Record so far this year about -3C.
Fair enough...

When I remember I'll let you know ;)
I wish you would - been trying to remember myself for some time now;);)

[gary]

I watched Steve Jobs on CNET just now and was NOT that impressed. Maybe it was his presentation, but to me it seemed like they were introducing a Kindle with internet capabilities, nothing more. And the on screen keyboard. The amount of typing I do would render the screen opaque in a very short time.

The problem was that there were only employees - whod seen it all before so ther was no wow factor, and press who were all busy typing. Apple used to reveal stuff at macworld expo so there would have been literally thousands of us mac fanboys there whooping and cheering, the presenters seemed to be waiting for this on occasions but it didnt come...

[Ben]

At the moment I am experimenting at work blogging the content of each lesson as the day goes on as an exercise in communication with parents. I do the typing on my iPhone in landscape mode . The experience is way better than youd imagine. Blogs are submitted by email. I am finding posting easier to keep up with because I can blog from anywhere - staffroom, playground, dining room, garden. Having a slightly larger device would be better but I wouldve liked something that fits in a jacket pocket, about the same size as a paperback book.

The kids love it so far, I can take pictures and video too as well as send stuff straight from my classroom scanner....

Theres onely one day to view but I have links to all the other days and a tag cloud so you can look at each subject or category in its entirety

you can see it here (http://www.2gc2010.blogspot.com)
Wow, Gary, that's great! I don't know how old year 6ers are, but their maths looks more advanced than mine! "Ordering mixed numbers with a mixture of denominators and numerators by first converting to improper fractions and then calculating common denominators Calculating median numbers between fractions with differing denominators" Wow... P.S. Can we send our son to your school please, looks great! How do we get into Mr. C's class?

[eldeano]

At the moment I am experimenting at work blogging the content of each lesson as the day goes on as an exercise in communication with parents. I do the typing on my iPhone in landscape mode . The experience is way better than youd imagine. Blogs are submitted by email. I am finding posting easier to keep up with because I can blog from anywhere - staffroom, playground, dining room, garden. Having a slightly larger device would be better but I wouldve liked something that fits in a jacket pocket, about the same size as a paperback book.

Have you seen the Blogpress app?

[gary]

Wow, Gary, that's great! I don't know how old year 6ers are, but their maths looks more advanced than mine!

Have to confess that most of the stuff we do now in Maths, apart from the four rules of number and times tables, I didnt do til I got to secondary school. Mean, mode, mediam, ratio, percentages - all that stuff. Mind you I can do long division of old money!!

Stuff is written in semi teacher speak too -

Ordering mixed numbers with a mixture of denominators and numerators by first converting to improper fractions and then calculating common denominators.... means making all the quarters halves and thirds into 12ths and putting them in order.

and

Calculating median numbers between fractions with differing denominators..translates as what fraction is half way between a quarter and a half?

Still - I'm amazed any of them get it - I grew up with fractions and never really bottomed it til I had to teach it. Even now I have to go through it every year before we do it just to remind myself:blush:

Wow... P.S. Can we send our son to your school please, looks great! How do we get into Mr. C's class?

Leo would certainly learn some stuff here :eek: - noteably how to use the familiar form in the second person - thee and tha' can still be heard in the wilds of sunny South Yorkshire...

However, would prefer you to pay through the nose for private tuition as a live in tutor in the annexe in Curtis Manor in Asturias ;D;D;D

[gary]

Have you seen the Blogpress app?

At the mo Im blogging direct to blogger via email - does text pics and video if needed - simple solution so dont really need an app... but thanks I'll check it out5

[kenpeace]

Theres onely one day to view but I have links to all the other days and a tag cloud so you can look at each subject or category in its entirety

you can see it here (http://www.2gc2010.blogspot.com)

I agree - that's excellent. I always found it hard to extract from my kids exactly they did in a day. Worse now that they are at the high end of the teens.

[kenpeace]

However, would prefer you to pay through the nose for private tuition as a live in tutor in the annexe in Curtis Manor in Asturias ;D;D;D


... and Ben, do you still need that live-in blues musician?

[greytop]

Head on over to Expatica (http://www.expatica.com/es/news/local_news/Critics-fans-weigh-in-on-Apple_s-iPad_59272.html)for comments on the iPad - and a hilarious video that has "gone viral" as they say.

[Ben]

... and Ben, do you still need that live-in blues musician?
:) Sorry, only room for one, and Gary got in there first!


..translates as what fraction is half way between a quarter and a half?
Ummmmm, bit stuck on that one. 3/8?!

[guapo]

that is pretty impressive Gary. Posterous (http://posterous.com/) is another good service for blogging via email but what you have already looks good enough. Do you allow the parents to comment? It would be interesting to see what their reaction is.

On the iPad I am still in the wait and see camp. Everybody who has used it claims it is amazing but they were still under the influence of Steve's reality distortion field.

[gary]

Ummmmm, bit stuck on that one. 3/8?!


Well done you get a sticker...


:) Sorry, only room for one, and Gary got in there first!


I'm a guitarist and you cant have a resident blues combo without a half decent harp player...

that is pretty impressive Gary. Posterous (http://posterous.com/) is another good service for blogging via email but what you have already looks good enough. Do you allow the parents to comment? It would be interesting to see what their reaction is.
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Are you insane? The best place for parents iin school s the end of the drive. Just cos they all went to school they're all experts...;);D;D

[guapo]

Are you insane? The best place for parents iin school s the end of the drive. Just cos they all went to school they're all experts...;);D;D

very true ;D;D;D