As mentioned a few days ago, after planning to do it, this week I started teaching with the Ipad 2 in my classes at BIU. All told, the teaching worked out very well and I had very few problems with presenting things on the screen in the class from the Ipad.
There were a couple of things to note:
When putting up presentation slides with Hebrew in Keynote and texts with Hebrew in Docs-to-Go, the Hebrew was aligned to the left (instead of the right).
On the other hand, when I started using SlideShark, which is a great program (you upload your presentations to their website and they prepare the presentations for the Ipad, and then you download the presentation to your Ipad and use it), the Hebrew alignment issue was solved, but the down side is that in SlideShark – they don’t have the nifty feature which is offered in Keynote in which you press down on the Ipad screen and it shows up like a laser pointer dot. I have asked the SlideShark people to see if they can add this – let’s see if they do! (also the SlideShark limit on 100MB of files that you upload to their site is NOT enough).
Otherwise – it worked out well – and I highly recommend this method of teaching for all.
I have definitely “been bitten” – and the Ipad 2 is a very convenient (and cool!) teaching tool!
Aren
Hello Aren,
Thanks so much for spreading the word about us! We really appreciate your support and especially your feedback. We’re happy to report that we are, in fact, working on a laser pointer feature similar to Keynote’s and are also looking to implement methods for users to earn more storage very soon. Thanks again for your comments and good luck with your classes!
Best,
The SlideShark Team
Pleasure – keep up the good work – and the updates on the software!
:-)
Aren