Will the iPad save or destroy education? Is it the device that will revolutionize scholarship or is it merely a gadget that differs from many others not by its potential but simply by its marketing? The cloud is already abuzz with posts on either side of these questions; some extravagent praises, others equally extravagent jeremiads.<\/p>\n
As a new user of the iPad, however, I want to explore what it can do before jumping into the race to articulate what it might make possible in future. So, the first question for me is: what are some apps useful for academic work?<\/p>\n
Current articles on the theme “iPad and academics,” particularly those academics in the humanities, describe several key tasks:<\/p>\n
– storing and reading ebooks (including experiences from the first crop of universities who will be giving iPads and ebooks to students for this purpose)
\n– storing, reading, and annotating PDF files
\n– creating documents or notes, either through hand writing, typing, or dictating
\n– editing documents that exist in other places (ex: Google Docs, docs on other local devices)
\n– creating, or syncing with, reference management databases
\n– creating and displaying natively built slide or externally synced slide shows
\n– creating ebooks<\/p>\n
“It is always best to begin at the beginning”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n A quick dive into the web turned up a number of potentially useful recommendations (see below). I’ll begin by reviewing these in the days ahead:<\/p>\n Working with PDFs: iBooks, iAnnotate, Papers Additional resources: Will the iPad save or destroy education? Is it the device that will revolutionize scholarship or is it merely a gadget that differs from many others not by its potential but simply by its marketing? The cloud is already abuzz … Continue reading
\nReading: iBooks, Kindle, Stanza, Cloudreader
\nCreating words: DocsToGo, WritePad,Dragon Dictation, Evernote, WordPress
\nMisc. necessities: SharePlus, Bb Mobile Learn<\/p>\n
\n1) Brueck, Jeremy. \u201cApps I’m Traveling With: iPad for Content Creation<\/a>,\u201d I Education Apps Review.
\n2) Golub, Alex. “The iPad for Academics<\/a>.” Inside Higher Ed<\/em>, July 12 2010.
\n3) Mandik, Pete. \u201cReview of the iPad for academics: can you actually work on it?<\/a>.\u201d Brain Hammer<\/em>, April 9, 2010.
\n4) Truong, Kelly. \u201cMore Universities Announce iPad Experiments<\/a>.\u201d The Chronicle of Higher Education. Wired Campus, July 20, 2010. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"