This Fall 2013, we added another cart to our iPad in the Classroom program: one cart is deployed from Wheatley, the other from McCormack Media Labs. Each week as many as 700 students from 20 courses use a variety of iPad apps to do classroom assignments. Professors Tara Ashok from Biology, Megan Klein Hattori from Sociology, Mary Lu Love from Education and Tracy Brown from ESL have joined our program, as have two additional reference Librarians: Janet DiPaolo and Danitta Wong. Some new apps which we have purchased this year include:
There have been many recent innovations in classroom use of the iPad. Elementary spanish 101 has adopted Pearson’s ebook for the Hoy Dia text. Professor Susan Mraz uses iPads in her Spa 101, section 5 course so her students can access all the audio and video materials from the e-book through the Pearson eText app. Head Reference Librarian Mary Moser along with other reference librarians Teresa Maceira, Danitta Wong, Tina Mullins and Janet DiPaolo have visited classrooms to demonstrate how students and faculty are able to access Library materials on their iPads and other mobile devices.
IT and the Healey Library are showcasing Professor Victoria Kingsley and the reference librarians who will demonstrate how to access Library e-materials for teaching and research with mobile devices. Their demonstration will take place in the ITC, located on the Lower Level of the Healey Library in Presentation Room 2 from 2:00pm to 3:30 on November 20.
Professor Rebecca Romanow’s students in Freshman Honor’s English have subscribed to The Week Magazine US in digital form in order to use the iPad app in class to read, analyze and critique current issues together as well as annotate articles for use in later writing assignments. During this fall, we hope to have blog contributions from the various professors in the iPad in the Classroom program to share with faculty how various apps have added value to teaching pedagogy and student learning.