i agree completely. .. i remember what a pain it was to transcribe all
my course schedules into my old palm (yes, i was/am a nerd) ... if
that type of information was available in a consistent way it would be
amazing.



On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Jerome Ryckborst
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> I watched half of the iPhone University movie, Part 1. Random thoughts:
>
>   *   Shooter on campus. With everyone having an iPhone -- provided by the 
> university?! -- it no doubt gives the administration an instant channel to 
> all students when someone goes ballistic with a gun. [Sarcasm: Who needs gun 
> control when everyone on campus has iPhone?]
>   *   Think green. The key to broad adoption of these devices would lie in 
> the quality of the services that the university offers via iPhone -- changing 
> course sections, GPS-style wayfinding with a campus map, e-mailing your 
> professors, finding the syllabus for each course, and finding your book list. 
> it's all paper free.
>      If it weren't for the books themselves, the paper-free university would 
> have arrived last year. Is the iPhone itself green?
>   *   Hand me my cane. A device + service like that would have made my 
> student life So Much Easier, but I went to school last century.
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