Well I think now is a great time to talk about the iPad for a second or two again. I think I'm going to go into some drawbacks, as my inspiration for this post is that I can't submit a file to this class's blackboard site from the creature. Not only can I not attach a file but I also could not type it in separately. I think the main problem for me is that it was easy to become reliant of this product, but it still cannot do all the things that a laptop computer can do, (obviously and understandably). Here is a fun, short list of some drawbacks I can think of right now:
Upload files onto blackboard
Save files in .docx, or .doc.
Stream music on www.stereomood.com (it keeps repeating the same songggggg!!)
Work on a prezi
Play anything that uses Flash.
I guess it's just what naturally happens in all relationships. You fall in love with the ideal form. The winsome smile and the curled eyelashes. Little do you realize she has nine cats and they're all named... "Cat".
But I digress, I feel like I have been cheating on my laptop, quite frankly, for a light and cheaper lady-friend in the iPad.
That said, I have to start appreciating the iPad for the incredible piece of technology that it is and not expect it to be a computer, because it isn't. Heck, I can't even spell-check on blogger with it...*
*it should be noted, for irony's sake, that when I first typed that last sentence, I mistyped spell-check as "spellcheak" which, coincidentally, would have been easier to catch if I had spell check.
Okay, cowboys. Have a Marvelous Monday, or at the very least, a manic one. For the Bangles' sake.
Signed,
Cassandra Rose Blaise DeMarco
Cassie, were you doing this through the Safari app or the BlackBoard app?
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