Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Re: Staff/Faculty Use of iPads...

Susan,

Thanks for response...

How are you planning to manage these units? The ability to centrally manage
the devices is one of the concerns I'm grappling with...

A.

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Susan Ferris <susanferris123@gmail.com>wrot=
e:

> Hi there.
> By next week, we will have 43 ipads in place with 32 being used by
> kindergarten and 2nd grade students.
> Right now faculty has their own iPads.
> Each iPad has over 50 apps which we have been experimenting with since
> July.
> We use the built in email and calendar.
> We use 3G and we are thrilled!
> Apps are purchased through iTunes and we issued the teachers iTunes GIFT
> CARDS to put into the iTunes account.
> We are awaiting charging carts from Datamation which should be here by
> Friday.
> Susan Ferris Rights
> The Pingry School
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Ademola Popoola <popoola@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>
> > Are there any schools out there that have introduced the use of ipads b=
y
> > the
> > staff at their schools? If so, I'd like to know how they're being used =
in
> > your environment...
> >
> > - How has it been integrated in your networked environment? Any
> technical
> > issues or limitations with this integration?
> > - Is it being used as an email client? If so, are you using the built
> in
> > email, calendar, and task apps?
> > - What other apps have you found useful as a productivity tool?
> > - Have you purchased a 3G unit? If so, how is the performance?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for all insight.
> >
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