Lee+Hoffman

10/14/2010- We have our first incident of a student setting up a pass code lock. One industrious student decided to set up a passcode lock on one of the iPads. A quick restore and the iPad was placed back into service. None of the students would own up to setting the passcode. Since there is no way to restrict this from happening, I expect to see more of this in the future.

One side note: We have had two iPads that stopped waking up. A hard reset by holding down the home button and the sleep/wake button resolved the issue.

11/30/2010-OS 4.2 is out. I have applied the update to my personal iPad to test. Here are my first glance observations. Airprint is only supported on the 11 Airprint ready HP printers and we don’t have any of them, so printing at this time is a moot point. The wireless connection for the district is stable, this was a concern. I’m not sure how the multitasking abilities will impact use. For me, having music play while checking my mail is nice, but not needed in the classroom. A few of the apps will download data in the background, such as news readers, and this could be useful. There are some promising features for management but I’ve not found any software that uses these features for management yet.

12/13/2010 Found out about this from Rob Miller on twitter: Grade 7 Social Studies at Cuba Rushford is using the iPad to study the revolutionary war- http://revolution10.wikispaces.com/Class+1

12/15/2010 After attending Apple's mobile device management seminar yesterday I have a few good ideas about changes to the security settings I'll set up a new profile that will make it so the students can't remove apps and based on what Apple said I should be able to make it so the students can't add a pin code. One of the things I'd like to see from apple is a tabbed browser. I'd also like to see them develop a management solution for the iPads. They did address this and at this time they are letting the 3rd party vendors handle the management solutions.

12/15/2010 Today was another training session held at Depew. Topics covered: Review of grant Evaluator – needs of the grant Journaling How to post lesson/materials and video to the wiki and assessment Teacher Survey Set up site visits for February 9 Collaboration Student Survey Below are a few photos of the session.