by Susan Gratch | Apr 16, 2012 | Archives, FLC
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...
by Clair Morrissey | Apr 16, 2012 | Archives, FLC
Working with the iPad has encouraged me to think more broadly and creatively about student reading assignments. As a philosophy professor, one of my primary teaching frustrations is that the students do not read critically – that is, they merely pass their eyes...
by Alexandra Puerto | Apr 16, 2012 | Archives, FLC
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...
by R. Pollock | Apr 13, 2012 | Archives, FLC
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...
by Andrew Udit | Apr 13, 2012 | Archives, FLC
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...