[LINK] iPads rule at Moodle Symposium

[Tom Worthington]

Greetings from the wrap-up session of the MoodlePosium  at Australian 
National University in Canberra <http://moodleposium.netspot.com.au/>.

Of the twelve people I can see around me in the audience, six have 
devices in front of them. Three have iPads, one an iPhone, one laptop 
and I have a netbook. Looking at how these devices fit on the small 
flip-up desk provided in the lecture theatre, the iPads are the least 
conspicuous. It would be difficult for the presenter to tell if the 
audience was using an iPad or a paper notebook, when the iPad is flat on 
the desk.

However, I found using the the iPad virtual keyboard clumsy and the 
screen reflections from overhead lights painful. One delegate had a very 
elegant bluetooth keyboard and their iPad propped up as a portrait 
format screen. This was very elegant but very conspicuous.

The iPhone user is hand holding the device. The laptop user has the unit 
covering the full surface of the small desk with the screen hanging out 
into space.

A 10 inch netbook seems to fit very well in this environment, not 
covering the whole desk.

My blog postings from the ACT MoodlePosium 2010: 
<http://blog.tomw.net.au/search/label/%23mpos10>.


-- 
Tom Worthington FACS CP HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia  http://www.tomw.net.au
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, The
Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/