OK, moving to a new level today. I installed Splashtop Remote on my iPad and work machine. So for this post I’m working in the WordPress site on my desktop from the iPad. It’s nice to have so many controls that I am used to restored. It is also easier to navigate in this version of the program.
- Ahhh, nice to have bullet points returned. Also I have the advantage of having directional arrows, ctrl, shift, alt, and other keys.
- I’m noticing a slight bit of latency in the text appearing, but nothing serious. There are several other remote access programs, so I don’t know if this is the best; frankly, I chose it because it was cheapest! It seems somewhat full-featured, and if the latency doesn’t get any worse than this, I can get used to it.
- Of course, now that I’m back in my comfortable environment, I’m missing the iPad keyboard shortcuts. I’m having a hard time remembering to enter periods, capitalize first words of sentences, and add apostrophes for contractions
- Using this I am very conscious of the space taken up by the onboard keyboard. I’m finding that I often hide the keyboard to see the entire screen. I’ll have to monitor to see if this is a good thing.
- Now extrapolating to student use, this would be advantageous for students and teachers to have regular access to a full powered machine (assuming, of course, that they have a second computer with a broadband connection). However, access like this would cancel out any content filtering on the school side, so I doubt that it could be allowed for students. This would answer some of the questions for teachers, though. A teacher could have access to all capability, including older databases and Prezi editing. Now how you set up the school filter to allow this for teachers and not for students, that’s another question.
- I also just discovered something else that’s interesting. Although I can charge my iPhone from my office computer via USB cable, there is apparently insufficient power to charge the iPad. I don’t know how necessary this is since I have been able to get by on a day’s charge.
As always, I welcome your comment and discussion. I would also love for people to start talking the “what if’s,” suggesting challenges that I could try to solve.