What's "Like" the iPad? Give Me Your Ideas
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 4:13PM 
I need your input.
Friday, I am presenting a session at IWU's "No Educator Left Behind" Conference regarding classroom instructional use with the iPad. I'm going to start with a Keynote presentation on the iPad, but eventually move to simple demonstration using a document camera.
I wanted to insert a video clip early on in the Keynote presentation demonstrating the iPad's ability to show video as part of a presentation. My first idea was to include a clip from the movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy—the part where the Hitchhiker's Guide is actually introduced—because the iPad is kind of like the Hitchhiker's Guide in some ways.
But upon watching that clip again, I think it's a bit too sacrilegious in content for the context and might even take away from my presentation. Therefore, what would you think of as an appropriate, brief (1 to 2 min. max) clip related to the iPad?
And I don't mean simply an iPad commercial. Let's assume everyone's seen those. I'm looking for something parallel in concept to the iPad from a movie or television show. If you've got any good ideas, please leave them in the comments below.
iPad in Education, Technology
Reader Comments (8)
What about the hoverboard scene in Back to the Future II? :-)
I don't remember that scene. What happens in it?
The iPad seems to resemble the message pads used in Star Trek. A mashup of those pads in action might be appropriate, as my iPad definitely feels like 25th Century Technology at times.
Star Trek PADDs (Personal Access Display Device) took on many forms, but it's hard to think of the iPad without thinking of a PADD! http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070304233837/memoryalpha/en/images/c/c3/Sarah_Sisko_reconstruction.jpg (picture from "Image in the Sand" episode of DS9, which I happened to watch yesterday!)
I like the idea of the Star Trek PADD. The trick is to find a video of them that already edited. Or if anyone knows a scene where one plays a major part.
Definitely Star Trek: The Next Generation. I just saw a YouTube clip from Star Trek: Nemesis where Picard is sporting an iPad looking device and even using a stylus before Janeway calls him up. Do a YouTube search for Nemesis and it should pull up.
What first came to my mind was the message pads used in Star Trek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyEYufFVUuI is a clip from DS9's Little Green Men, but the quality isn't high. Really, any episode of DS9 would have its good PADD moments.