What's "Like" the iPad? Give Me Your Ideas
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 4:13PM
R. Mansfield in Education, Technology, iPad

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.

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