

DVD Player – $150 – Toshiba – Yes there was a time when we bought DVD players and played DVD’s. Response clicker – Varies in price, but average is $35 per clicker – Between the eClicker app and the multitude of online polling websites, all you really need is a browser and a way to send out questions (FYI – eClicker Host is $9.99)Ħ.
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Video camera and editing software – $250 + $99 = $349 – for a Canon R200 and Adobe Premiere Elements – Again, the use of the built in video camera and the use of a $4.99 iMovie app make you a mobile Video production studio all in one.ĥ. Enter the $1.99 RemoteVU app and all the sudden the iPad has the same amount of control, only now you can see your screen in your hands rather than looking up at the projector.Ĥ. It was a bit unnerving in the fact you had to keep your neck crammed to see the projector screen, but the freedom to roam around the room was valuable. Smart Slate or Airliner – $299 – These handy devices we used to purchase let you walk around the room and control your computer. I can only imagine the camera quality improving on the next model iPad.ģ.

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Now while holding up the iPad to take photos is a bit unwieldy at times and can block the view of people behind you (don’t try and pull a Kramer with these and bootleg a movie in a theater), there is some value in not having to look for batteries, an SD card, a cord, etc. Digital Camera – $150 – Canon Powershot A3100 – As mentioned above, there is a camera app built into the iPad.

I quickly remembered that my iPad2 was tethered to the VGA and had a camera app on it. Well, with the video out issue on the iPad 1, he was forced to describe the app or hold it up. During a summer workshop I was presenting with Jon Samuelson and he was trying to show off some apps he had on his iPad 1. Document Camera – $600 – Samsung Digital Presenter – This is always the first one that pops into my head, and it happened quite innocently. What follows is a list and cost of items that we won’t buy anymore because of the iPad and possible others that we might not buy again:ġ. And I’m not talking just about paper, I’m talking about technology that we bought in the past, may have allocated for in the future, but will never spend again because the iPad has quickly rendered it obsolete. “Learning you will do, with iPad try you do not.”Rather than get side-tracked into how the iPad and the Force have a lot in common (too late), let’s look at some concrete and tangible examples of how the iPad is going to save our district money.
