I'm starting my DPT program this summer and I was wondering if any current students have ipads? Are any of you prospective students planning on using one? If so what apps are best? Or is it not even worth it?
I'm starting my DPT program this summer and I was wondering if any current students have ipads? Are any of you prospective students planning on using one? If so what apps are best? Or is it not even worth it?
have you watched any of the recorded lectures? Seems like alot of memory space taken up.
I used a pen and paper but then again I'm old.
Ha Ha!
Some of my classmates chose to record the lectures (on analog min-cassette tapes no less). This never made sense to me. Who the hell has time to re-listen to a two hour lecture?
I'm not in PT school yet...but I have been using my iPad to take written notes with a stylus for my pre-reqs. It works amazingly and I haven't used a pen and paper since I got it in December. I have an awesome app that lets me write over .pdf files and take notes just like I would on paper and it also records (but I never listen to the recordings).
lol, PTapp. I tried recording lectures then stopped after I noticed I never listened to them once. Good 'ole pen and paper or typing has served me well since high school.
Is it really necessary to bring a laptop/Ipad to class? I'm going to PT school this fall. I plan to take notes with pen and paper, and after class I plan to type the notes on the pdf or powerpoint lecture that the professor posts for the class.
Is it really necessary to bring a laptop/Ipad to class? I'm going to PT school this fall. I plan to take notes with pen and paper, and after class I plan to type the notes on the pdf or powerpoint lecture that the professor posts for the class.
What app(s) are you using for notes/pdfs? I haven't used my iPad for school mostly b/c of the ppt limitations (I use my laptop in class), but for those annoying guest lecturers that use PDFs your iPad apps sound great.
I plan on recording lectures so that I can listen to them on my 45 minute commute each way. I saw someone recommended the ipod touch... any other suggestions? I'd like one which allows me to record a lecture and play it back again on the same device.
I'm not in PT school yet...but I have been using my iPad to take written notes with a stylus for my pre-reqs. It works amazingly and I haven't used a pen and paper since I got it in December. I have an awesome app that lets me write over .pdf files and take notes just like I would on paper and it also records (but I never listen to the recordings). It has some great scheduling and anatomy apps on it as well, and I've been able to find some e-texts as well. It's a good tool, but I also have a laptop for writing papers and lab reports because word processing isn't the iPad's big draw.
Anyway, I use and I like it--if you do some research you'll be able to find some great apps to help with productivity!
Same here - they call it a "green campus" in that there are no paper materials distributed and there are no printing facilities on site. So, you're expected to have a laptop/netbook/whatever and connect to the school's network to receive and submit electronic documents.My school requires all students to have a laptop.....
I wasn't clear in my last post, so I'll add to it now
NO ONE in our class uses their laptop/netbooks/whatever to take notes...no one. And very few people use notebooks. I don't even have notebooks or notebook paper (if I really need a blank sheet I'll go steal one out of the copier in the lounge haha). All of our professors print out powerpoints and/or give us their notes in a packet, so we just write directly on there. I would find trying to take notes on a laptop or by hand cumbersome and unnecessary, since everything is already on the page (or maybe just a few details need to be filled in).
But this could very well be school-specific, so I don't know about other schools. My suggestion would be to wait at least a week or two after class starts before buying any new expensive products.
The only time anyone has their laptops out for "notetaking" is during really boring lectures when people decide to retype other notes. (Some people do retype everything off the powerpoints, but that's an after-class study tool, not something they do during the initial lecture).
The only reason we have for laptops in class are when we're presenting papers, talking about online/PDF readings, etc., and don't feel like printing out everything. (Each student in our program is given 150 pages of printer access per trimester, so we use them sparingly...especially because our printer is notorious for not always printing so then it wastes your paper lol. I only print when I have to actually hand in a paper/can't submit it online).
But yeah, long story short...wait a bit before buying anything with your student loan money.