1. Of the roughly 20 iPads on campus – one student iPad’s home button stopped working – we had an extra iPad for her to use but it made us realize that we would need backup devices for next years roll out. We have not taken the iPad in yet so we will see about time and cost to repair.
2. The screen covers – these are rather difficult to apply but 2 of the iPads had visible scratches on the screen cover – the screen would have certainly been scratched
3. The double case idea works well – we have the iPad case by Apple (will need to re-think this for the iPad 2) and another case by Amazon that serves as a small briefcase (almost man-purse – Seinfeld). This case is neoprene, has one pocket for the iPad and another for accessories. The accessories thus far have simply been the charger and stylus
4. The students tested 2 different stylus and although the second style was more liked it broke more easily. This is going to be a big thing to define because they are not cheap. I will be looking at a few styles this summer. The styles we used are shown in the picture below (NOTE that they are both lost rather easily and out of 7 students, 3 lost them)
5. iPad chargers – no students lost them and 2 teachers lost them – the teachers checked out iPads for 2 months at a time in order to become familiar with them.
6. We might need to label the chargers in the even that someone looses his/hers
7. Charging iPads for class – the battery life of the IPads is so good that some could go for a full week without charging. This negative to this is that they forget to charge them – so yet another reminder/rule to discuss charging. Rules, while good, are less effective than teacher reminders.
8. AUP – In addition to the regular AUP items we will need to look at the items listed above and form rules/guidelines for them.
9. Once returned we needed to restore the iPads so that the teachers could check them out for the summer. More on that later.
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