Add to the list: * local git client On Sep 3, 2010 7:23 PM, "Kent Loobey" <[email protected]> wrote: > iPads are beginning to show up on campus. > > They have some features that make them pretty nice for college students, e.g., > long battery life, the UI, etc. > > But they have a number of drawbacks as well. Most of the drawbacks seem to be > an attempt by Apple to preserve MAC laptop sales. These however keep the iPad > from being a must-have device. > > I have noticed is that a number of students have bought thin blue-tooth MAC > keyboards. These are light and look to be handy for entering text for papers. > Most of the students I talked with about these keyboards say that they just > wouldn't enter much text from a soft keyboard. > > Some things that are necessary for a "must-have" student device are as > follows. > > * PDF readers for papers and articles. > * Power-Point ability - Almost every class has the lecture notes available to > students as power-point slides. > * WORD Doc file reading and writing ability - It might be acceptable to get > away with ODF writing ability instead but students still need to be able to > read WORD Doc files. Whatever the paper creating software is on the tablet it > should support templates, spell check, footnotes, etc. > > ANNOTATION ABILITY EVERYWHERE - This is a must have feature for students. > > Search ability within all documents. Think back to when you were a student, > you want to be able to circle items, add links to references, URLs and > dictionary entries, hi-lite text, etc. These are really necessary. > > I think it would also be really helpful for students to be able to create a > searchable index to specific points within articles. > > Be able to create papers, animations, and videos on the table. > > Be able to print anything from the tablet. > > I know that Google is into cloud computing but having 300 students in a > lecture all trying to run the same program at the same time off the net can be > problematic. > > It really is possible to create a tablet device that every student would just > have to have. I am not saying that they would want to have one, I am saying > that they just couldn't go to college without one. Right now this is true for > them for a laptop but really laptops are clunky, heavy, and crude in > comparison. > > If convenient Open Source PDF, Power-Point, and WORD alternatives were > available on the tablet then supporting these formats wouldn't be necessary. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]<android-discuss%[email protected]> . > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. >
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