For the most part, everything went smoothly. The 2screens app did what it was supposed to do but I'm having second thoughts about the "all in one" approach. The problems were minor but enough to make me re-think about a set of apps, at least for the first lecture. All of the problems stemmed from loading times and switching times between functions. My first lecture was typical:
- Load Moodle class website page and explain
- Open course outline pdf and move between it and the class website showing where to find everything
- Open ppt lecture notes and begin lectures
- Play a video profile (mp4) of a New Zealand company and discuss the export potential
- Back to ppt lecture slides for a while
- Open National Bank website to track NZ Dollar to other currencies
- Back to ppt lectures.
The main problems I had were:
- pdf slow to load. I should have had a local copy.
- Video doesn't start playing automatically. I waited thinking it was still loading
- Moving from video play back to ppt, the slides reset back to page 1
- Loading bank website took longer in 2screens than Safari, but iPad 1 doesn't output Safari to VGA
- Back to ppt meant back to page 1 again.
You can probably see that as technical niggles go, pretty minor but annoying.
I'm considering having more than one app going:
Web browser that outputs to vga
Something for ppt so it will stay on the right page
Video app that outputs to vga
Of course, if I had an iPad 2, I could just use Safari...
