ACU, iPhones, and the soon-to-be-named pods
All freshman students and faculty members at Abilene Christian University get an iPhone or iPod touch, reports Al Sacco at cio.com. And because everyone has a device, the school has invested in innovative solutions to leverage those devices.
One example that caught my eye was this screen for one of the English classes. Each student in the class is shown by photo and name. The teacher can choose to randomly mix names and photos to help name recognition, and can take roll in the class by tapping those little color-coded squares next to each student’s name, “P” for present, “T” for tardy, “E” for excused and “A” for absent.
A small thing, but boy I’ll bet it’s incredibly handy for teachers and students alike.
These kinds of seemingly insignificant improvements in commonplace chores and communication scenarios are what will continue to boost the iPhone as the next computing platform.
Except we won’t call them computers, or phones. We’ll call them our pods or some similar name that may not have emerged yet, but will.