"Hi Sanjay -
Thanks for the post -
I have purchased the Fire and a Droid Tablet (Pandigital) Recently to make similar comparisons.
More to follow."
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Sanjay Mehrotra commented on Marcus Twyford's blog post Making the device your own"Jeremy/ Marcus,
Good discussion.
Do you have any idea if the kindle fire android tablet would be open for modifications and OS control would be available to third parties, so we can adapt it for in classroom use? On a 1 on 1 mode.
Thanks
Sanjay"
Chris Russell commented on Marcus Twyford's blog post You can Never Really OWN Your iPAD (repost)"I can understand your frustration in not being able to use existing computer peripherals with the iPad. I'll take the SMART Board as an example. It's a device that can be Bluetooth enabled (ours are), yet the iPad doesn't…"
Marcus Twyford replied to Sam Gliksman's discussion How Does iOS 5 Impact You?"How do I love thee?
Syncing to the cloud -eliminates 1:1 concerns about syncing with laptops
Tabs on safari
International letters on the keyboard (tap and hold the a,e,n, I, etc.....)
Tabbed browsing on safari...did I say that already?
Swiping…"
Marcus Twyford commented on Marcus Twyford's blog post You can Never Really OWN Your iPAD (repost)"Chris, thanks for reading the post and adding some comments.
I want the iPad to do what other portable web-enabled devices do - provide storage - yes I know the cloud is there - but there are times when we cannot connect (imagine..ha ha). Why…"
Chris Russell commented on Marcus Twyford's blog post You can Never Really OWN Your iPAD (repost)"Forgive me if I'm missing it in your post, but what exactly are you trying to do with your iPad that you cannot accomplish because you can't "truly own and adapt the device?"
And can you please demonstrate how you…"
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Marcus Twyford posted a blog postYou can Never Really OWN Your iPAD (repost)
…at least not the way Apple wants you to. If I find a new way to use the device, sync it with a non apple item (I recently used the iPAD to upload ramblings from my dusty AlphaSmart – to see if it could be done, Apple genius’ at the local store simplye and rather insolent response was “Apple doesn’t support that.”What if I told a student who developed a wonderfully creative way to reach senior community members in a service project, through social Media that “We don’t support that.” Better…See More
Jeremy Dorn commented on Marcus Twyford's blog post Making the device your own"I agree with you. Ever since the first iPad was announced I was grumbling that it wouldn't truly work well in schools. You can likely go back and find my occasional posts out right demanding Apple start putting Admin control for iOS into their…"
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Our school has recently made the leap to provide not only iPads as an available technology to classes, like the laptop carts and desktops in labs, we have also committed to giving out iPads to students as they arrive in the 9th grade year.....As I am digging for content and apps that fully utilize the adoption of the new technology, I can't help but think of the 'geeks' that will blaze new trails in the use of the device. Why the geeks? Geeks are celebrated for not only learning about…See More
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You can Never Really OWN Your iPAD (repost)
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…at least not the way Apple wants you to. If I find a new way to use the device, sync it with a non apple item (I recently used the iPAD to upload ramblings from my dusty AlphaSmart – to see if it could be done, Apple genius’ at the local store simplye and rather insolent response was “Apple doesn’t support that.”
What if I told a student who developed a wonderfully creative way to reach senior community members in a service project, through social Media that “We don’t support that.”…
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Our school has recently made the leap to provide not only iPads as an available technology to classes, like the laptop carts and desktops in labs, we have also committed to giving out iPads to students as they arrive in the 9th grade year.....
As I am digging for content and apps that fully utilize the adoption of the new technology, I can't help but think of the 'geeks' that will blaze new trails in the use of the device. Why the geeks? Geeks are celebrated for not only learning…
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