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A Tool of Many Possibilities

iPads are useful for a number of different reasons: productivity, portability, and projection. Productivity Although I have yet to use the iPad in a classroom setting, I have been modeling a variety of applications and processes that have combined to illustrate that...

Reading Documents with GoodReader

Initially, I expected to use the iPad primarily for classroom presentations and student paper grading, but much to my surprise, I rely on it mostly for reading documents and articles. In fact, I now prefer e-reading to hard copy review. There are now a few dozen...

Seamless Grading and Documentation Using iAnnotate

The iPad application that has been of the most use to me to date has been using it to grade papers.  I have my students upload their papers to the class Moodle site, download them to Dropbox using DownloadThemAll! (for the Firefox Browser), move them into the...

Annotation Frustration

I had anticipated that the iPad would have been most useful for reading and annotating, eliminating the need for carrying around stacks of papers and several different pens/hi-liters. Apps explored: iAnnotate, DropBox, DocsToGo However this specific application has...