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This fall, the Duke University Global Health Institute in Durham, NC will embark on a pilot project using the iPad as a field research tool. Masters students enrolled in the Research Methods in Global Health Sciences II class will be broken up into groups of three, with each group being given a 3G-enabled iPad.

The course introduces students to a wide range of methodological techniques, including quantitative surveys research, interventions and evaluations along with qualitative techniques of ethnography, survey design and semi-structured interviews. Funding and assistance with the course will come from the Duke Center for Instructional Technology (CIT).

Educational tech consultant Mark Sperber, who will train students on the iPad and decide upon the selection of software, notes that the iPad will allow students to collect and analyze data while in the field, where it’s most meaningful. The do-it-nowability of the iPad was written about by mobile research blogger Tim Macer.

Traditionally, field-collected research could not be analyzed until the researcher got to a computer off-site, but the use of iPads will allow data to be examined immediately. Having done my share of quantitative field research I feel that bringing immediacy to the field opens up possibilities that were never before imaginable. The primary goal, according to sociologist Jen’nan Ghazal Read who will be teaching the course, is to equip students with tools allowing them to make the most of their time in the field and master the complex methods on which they will base their research.

Students will be given a local field work assignment to get used to using the 8 iPads used for the class, with the goal of preparing them for the limited resource settings of their global research projects in 2011. Currently Duke University research spans 37 low-resource countries from Bangladesh to Vietnam. The 10+ hour battery life of iPads is expected to hold up well in remote locations where other methods of data collection are in short supply, affording the student a full day’s worth of interviewing without recharging.

This is part of a larger initiative to integrate technology into the curriculum at Duke. Amy Campbell, the Assistant Director of CIT, said that there is a large interest in these projects based on the the high volume of requests to join the CIT iPad loaner program.

iPad News Source: tuaw.com

There’s a good selection of news apps for the iPad, but the recently released ABC News for iPad has got to be one of the more innovative ones. Eschewing a typical menu of headlines for a giant, interactive globe, ABC has gone to great lengths to give iPad users an engaging news-reading experience.

The app’s interface revolves around a large, 3D globe that fills your iPad’s screen when you launch it. The globe is covered with images from various news headlines, and you manipulate the globe with the iPad’s touch screen to get to the story you want; spin the globe with a swipe of your finger, or shake your iPad to shuffle the articles and videos. When you touch any image on the globe, it takes you to the related story—there you can read the piece or watch a video of the broadcast.

You can filter the globe by selecting your favorite topic or show, save stories to a “My Favorites” folder for offline viewing, and share stories through Facebook, Twitter, or e-mail. If the globe interface doesn’t tickle your fancy, you can revert to the standard ABC Web interface. Head over to ABC News to see a video of the app in action.

ABC News for iPad is free and runs on iOS 3.2 or later.

iPad News Source: macworld.com

This is an app made by my friend Rob Fielding and it is called Mugician.

It’s awesome. It uses a similar kind of pitch handling that we use in MorphWiz.

Here I am with a little jam that I did in my hotel room in Virginia today. I recorded this with my Zoom Q3 video camera.

iPad News Source: youtube.com

With its transcoding technology, Glide lets iPad users view Flash and Windows video.

TransMedia’s Glide media sharing and storage service on Thursday began serving iPad users a redesigned interface crafted using HTML5.

HTML5 is the emerging next-generation protocol for writing Web pages and Web applications. Promoted with a vengeance by Apple as a non-proprietary alternative to Adobe’s Flash platform, HTML5 promises to bring many of the capabilities of desktop software, such as persistent storage, and mobile devices, such as orientation awareness, to Web applications.

Glide, which offers its own suite of online productivity applications in addition to cloud file management, used to be heavily reliant on Flash but has been moving away from it.

“When we started Glide, it made sense,” said TransMedia CEO Donald Leka.

But since Apple CEO Steve Jobs began warning developers to avoid Flash, Leka says it has made less and less sense. “Flash has become just another development platform, and one with considerable flaws and not enough support form Adobe,” he said.

Still, Glide isn’t ready to ditch Flash entirely. “We’ve bumped into a couple of situations with potential white-label partners who have to support Internet Explorer,” said Leka. “There are reasons why we can’t turn Flash off completely.”

Glide’s iPad Web app complements some of the iPad’s deficiencies, such as the limited options for file management on the device. Glide allows iPad users to watch Flash video or Windows video, which it transcodes into QuickTime video on the fly.

It also allows users to create content or capture it online and share it in the format of Microsoft Word, PDF, RTF or Glide Write HTML documents, or using and Glide’s rights-managed discussion groups and e-mail.

Backed by Glide’s cloud storage, the iPad becomes an even more useful device.

With Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, and Google going head-to head in a battle to dominate mobile computing, Leka believes Glide is well-positioned to provide much needed cross-platform compatibility.

Leka’s concern is that the iPad is too useful. “My biggest fear about the iPad is I carry it with me everywhere and it’s so light I leave it places,” he said.

iPad News Source: informationweek.com

LG Display’s CEO said Thursday that the company had been unable to fulfill orders for displays used in Apple’s iPad, but promised “without fail” to catch up with demand by Q2 2011.

Chief executive Kwon Young-soo explained that LG was currently running “at full capacity,” but still experiencing production shortages of the iPad display. “Demand (from Apple) keeps growing and we can’t meet it all.”

LG is considering increased production for iPad products, but “overall supply is likely to remain tight until early next year,” Kwon said. He then set a target of second quarter 2011 for LG to meet orders for the displays.

iPad demand has surpassed even Apple’s own expectations. Tim Cook, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, admitted Tuesday that the company had been caught off guard by the high demand for the iPad. 3.27 million iPads were sold through the end of Apple’s most recent financial quarter.

In spite of a backlog of iPad orders, Apple announced Monday that it would release the iPad in 9 more countries this Friday, fulfilling its goal to launch in these countries by the end of July.

In April, Apple announced that the international launch of the iPad would be delayed by one month. The Cupertino, Calif., company cited surprisingly strong demand as the cause of the delay. However, some analysts have pointed to LG’s display shortages as a limiting factor in the production of the device.

According to Reuters’ coverage of the LG executives’ comments, “Apple may have to delay launches of the iPad for some countries due to tight component supplies and strong demand.”

LG also announced Thursday that it was investing over $500 million in production of mobile phone and tablet sized displays. Last year, Apple prepaid $500 million to LG for a guaranteed 5-year supply of LCD screens for Macs and handheld products.

iPad News Source: appleinsider.com