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A friend wrote recently - "Treated myself to an iPad, so much fun.
Have the day off to play in my studio. Have to lock my iPad away or I will while the day away with it."
When I asked why it was so much fun, she replied, "Well how can I describe my iPad? I can't. You just have to have one to understand how amazing it is. I stalled on it, kept thinking what could be so great till one night I said what the hell and ordered one on line. The next day I had buyer's remorse but it was too late. Good thing I love it so much."
And then another friend, a reluctant computer friend who didn't even answer her emails in the past, sends me an email from ............ you guessed it - Her I Pad! What is happening? Why am I missing out on all this fun?
Of course, I feel that now I need one too so the journey begins - I-Pad or Android? Where is the key board? What is essential and non-essential? All this from someone who started out teaching not with an I Pad but with a Jelly pad. What is a jelly pad you ask - not quite as ancient as the stone tablet, it was a simple method of transferring pictures to a child's book as an alternative to the existing printing technology of the guistetner which was super messy. The jelly pad was simply a gelatine mixture in a cake tin; you traced over the image with carbon paper, placed it onto the jelly into which it sank. You then pressed each book onto the pad to make a print. (A search on Google says it was called a
'hectograph or gelatin duplicator and was used in the 20th century' - remember the 1900's.)
Ok - so we are moving forward - the question is do I really really need an I pad or an Android?
Clara :)
ps - do you know these symbols yet? A friend passed this on to me - he picked it up from his kids and general chat on FB (Facebook) and Twitter. It's like street slang that has just evolved as people want to type less online and sms.
:) means smile -look at it sideways (tilt head left)Have the day off to play in my studio. Have to lock my iPad away or I will while the day away with it."
When I asked why it was so much fun, she replied, "Well how can I describe my iPad? I can't. You just have to have one to understand how amazing it is. I stalled on it, kept thinking what could be so great till one night I said what the hell and ordered one on line. The next day I had buyer's remorse but it was too late. Good thing I love it so much."
And then another friend, a reluctant computer friend who didn't even answer her emails in the past, sends me an email from ............ you guessed it - Her I Pad! What is happening? Why am I missing out on all this fun?
Of course, I feel that now I need one too so the journey begins - I-Pad or Android? Where is the key board? What is essential and non-essential? All this from someone who started out teaching not with an I Pad but with a Jelly pad. What is a jelly pad you ask - not quite as ancient as the stone tablet, it was a simple method of transferring pictures to a child's book as an alternative to the existing printing technology of the guistetner which was super messy. The jelly pad was simply a gelatine mixture in a cake tin; you traced over the image with carbon paper, placed it onto the jelly into which it sank. You then pressed each book onto the pad to make a print. (A search on Google says it was called a
'hectograph or gelatin duplicator and was used in the 20th century' - remember the 1900's.)
Ok - so we are moving forward - the question is do I really really need an I pad or an Android?
Clara :)
ps - do you know these symbols yet? A friend passed this on to me - he picked it up from his kids and general chat on FB (Facebook) and Twitter. It's like street slang that has just evolved as people want to type less online and sms.
;) means wink smile
:( means sad
:D means big smile
