One of the comments Steve Dembo made in his FETC iPad presentation was that one of great benefits of the iPad was the battery life. Easy to overlook something like this.
I started thinking about the benefits of a device that you can charge once and use throughout the school day or in my case a day at the conference. The conference was probably the first time I had used my iPad under what I would call “real world conditions”; 6 hours or so of continuous use much of it with Internet access. I was not even close to exhausting the battery.
Now, if you are used to taking your laptop to a conference, you soon find yourself looking for a place to plug in. Perhaps you station yourself at the back of the room during a presentation or sit on the floor in a hallway having located a plugin.
We need a phrase to describe these people now that I am no longer one of their number. Plugin challenged. Temporarily attached. Mobile to a point.