Current Events #1 - New iPad Apps

I realized that I have ben forgetting to add current events onto my blog, so today I am adding five posts about different articles that relate to the Web 2.0 ways. The first, a colleague of mine suggested Gizmodo.com. He frequents it for the latest and greatest in Technology.

Gizmodo posted three articles regarding Apple's new Apps - iBooks2, iBooks Author and iTunes U. iBooks 2 is the new platform as a textbook reader. It has many features as you will see when you read the article, and some draw backs, such as a lack in Web 2.0 Social Networking capabilities. iBooks Author is a textbook creation app. Anyone can now create a Textbook. (Can we see the problems there?) iTunes U allows you to take online courses for free. I have downloaded the app to my iPod Touch, but have not played with it yet.

I think the implications of these apps is pretty straightforward. So we need an iPad to use the textbooks (but need enough space on the hard-drive to keep them all). We can all now create textbooks, because the regular Joe is an expert on all subjects (what about spelling, grammar, and oh COPYRIGHT!). iTunes U gives out free courses - I definitely plan to check out the App and get back to on it's worth.

References:

Apple's iPad Textbooks: Everything You Need to Know about iBooks 2. Retrieved
     from: http://gizmodo.com/5877500/apples-ipad-textbooks-everything-you-
     need-to-know-updating-live

Apple Releases iBooks 2, iTunes U and iBooks Author for Interactive 
     Textbooks.  Retrieved from http://gizmodo.com/5877513/apple-launches-
     ibooks-2-ibooks-author-for-textbooks?tag=apple

iTunes U Puts Entire College Courses on Your iPad. Retrieved
     from http://gizmodo.com/5877532/itunes-u-puts-entire-college-courses-on-
     your-ipad?tag=apple