8/19/10
Here are some items discussed at the meeting on Thursday 8/19/10. Feel free to add or correct anything I've written.
1. 3G or no 3G. We talked about this, and the residents were quite excited when they didn't have any problems using the IPads at Shriners or Hines. It was great to be able to pull things and do research while there.
2. GroupWise. There are 2 ways you can get GroupWise on your Ipad, through Apps. This way will give you the option of adding calendar, etc. The other way would be to download the client and fill in the necessary server information. There is no difference between them. GroupWise is not a favorite.
3. Dropbox. It's being used and people are adding articles to it. Presentations for the N drive can be brought in and through the app Papers, editing can be done to the presentation. The residents will be researching if there are any other types of software that would do the same thing. Dropbox was used during the Hand Journal meeting and it was great. Able to take notes with no problem.
4. EPIC. Some of the residents have downloaded the Epic App. Not working very well. Very slow. The help desk was called to find out the reason why. They were told another server is needed. IT is looking into purchasing since IPads are becoming so popular.
5. Notetaker-HD Meredith has downloaded this, and with a Pogo Sketch (stylus) was able to take notes at conferences she has attended. The app had some good qualities.
Looking for some type of Microsoft office app that will work on the IPad. If anyone finds something, please let me know.
If I've missed anything, please add to this.
Thanks for coming and lets try and do this again next week. You have to let me know what's good for you.
Lynda
2 comments:
From Bart
I found the audionote application very useful. Not only can you take notes and draw, you can also record the lecture and tag each note to the time of the recording automatically. A good applicaiton for word processing would be Documents to Go.
Bart had sent me a question asking if documents to go works with office 2007 & 2010. I did some searching and there is an app Documents to go Premium that does support 2007 & 2010. However after reading the reviews, it averaged 3 stars. There were a total of 518 reviews and 167 were 1 star. Reasons for not liking were: didn't work well with PowerPoint, not a user friendly interface, does not retain word formatting, slow typing, can't send large attachments, program crashed with new version of OS, terrible customer support.
Lynda
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