iPad Program
Want to borrow an iPad?
Are you a UW Oshkosh faculty or staff member and want to borrow and iPad?
In early summer our Learning Technologies Department proposed a pilot project that includes the purchase of five iPads that are available for check-out by faculty or staff. We chose the iPad based on flexibility and price. The idea is to offer training for D2L, Podcasting or as requested (you get the idea!) with the opportunity for faculty to learn and practice at a time and place that works with their schedules. Additional applications have been assessed and offered on the iPads that are intended to encourage experimentation, fun, creativity and curiosity.
The second purpose for the pilot is to give faculty an opportunity to discover teaching and learning uses simply by having access to the device and the applications. We purposely did not set rules for iPad check-out other than common courtesy of no longer than one month (due to limited supply) and encourage the use for at least one to two weeks. We felt based on our own experimenting that this time is needed to adapt to the device and then hopefully to realize new uses.
Our hope is that through personal, self-directed use, faculty will “wow” us in the creative adventures they discover that enhance teaching and learning, and surprise their students with unexpected options in classes.
Feedback is requested from any faculty participating in the project so that we can modify applications and track whether the future purchase of additional iPads would be beneficial.
We do not have any anticipated outcomes, as we do not want to limit the scope of the project. Simply by going through the process and engaging in open conversation, the potential becomes more exciting as we look forward to the educational applications that have not yet been discovered.
- Cost: Free
- Length of Time: no less than a week no more than a month.
- Some current Installed Applications:
- Pages
- Numbers
- Keynote
- iBooks
- Dragon Dictation
Want to block out a time?
We are currently performing maintenance on the iPads and reviewing the data we received from our first offering. Will be opening up new reservations soon.
iPad & Teaching Reading
