What Apps - Part One

I've now begun my third year using an iPad at work. I have over 100 apps in my iTunes account and most of them aren't even synched to my iPad. If I ignore apps that are for kids or purely for entertainment value I still have over 70 apps of which I regularly use very few.

So what are the apps that you would find on my ipad? A good place to start would be with the dock, as that is where I keep the apps I use the most. The apps there are Calendar [apple], Settings [apple] Chrome [google] Gmail [google] and Flipboard [flipboard].

OK, I'm going to try again. Hopefully I will keep the blog a bit more up to date this academic year!

During the summer I had several developments of significance. The first is that I have just completed the transition to all Apple computing products. As I write (on a new iMac) my windows PC is having the hard drive scrubbed and it will be recycled for a postgrad student. The second is that we are buying another 20 or so iPads to add to the ones I already have. This will primarily (but not exclusively) be used in the dissection room. I am presently finalizing the apps we will load on these and thinking through how best we might use them in a meaningful and engaging way.

I am dreading the management issues. Because Apple has chosen not to operate a volume licensing programme in Ireland, I can't use Apple Configurator so each iPad will have to be manually managed. If anyone out there knows of a better way than individual device management please let me know.