Author Archives: Tom Sheahan

After experiencing inadequate performance from iAnnotate for what I need to do in class, I am currently trying Note Take HD. It seems to be able to handle my notation needs with the stylus much better. I’m using the BoxWave – so maybe it wasn’t the stylus that was causing my previous issues, but iAnnotate that didn’t process mark-ups well.

Need to get this up and ...
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Tried more with the iAnnotate app http://www.ajidev.com/iannotate/ and it looks like it’s got a lot of nice pdf mark-up features. Sadly, I think I need to read the user’s manual, which I don’t have the patience for, but will probably be ve...
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My project involves going into class, plugging my iPad2 into the projector cable, and projecting and marking up a pdf file (student notes that they have in book form).

The file I’ll use will be downloaded from DropBox – this is the “cloud” they talk about, where I can go pick up stored files from any computer or iPhone/iPad. It’s awesome.

An app calle...
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The goal of this project is to streamline and enhance an existing course delivery system that I’ve used since about 2003, but has become increasingly cumbersome and inefficient from both hardware and software points of view, and does not sufficiently support new media opportunities for classroom instruction.

The old system consists of projecting in class Adobe Acrobat pdf-format sk...
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