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> A tablet (iPad or otherwise) much less so; tablets are very much "consumption" devices, which can consume packaged educational content and videos, but don't h

by ashark 9y ago

> A tablet (iPad or otherwise) much less so; tablets are very much "consumption" devices, which can consume packaged educational content and videos, but don't help with collaboration. If you told me I had to make a video or a drawing, collaborative or otherwise, and I could only have an iPad or a laptop (and no special peripherals for either), and nothing else, I'd take the iPad without hesitation. I might take it if you told me I had to make a song, too, depending on the laptops on offer (the alternative in schools is usually Chromebooks) and what sorts of instruments (if any) I might be permitted to use.

JoshTriplett 9y ago
> If you told me I had to make a video or a drawing, collaborative or otherwise, and I could only have an iPad or a laptop (and no special peripherals for either), and nothing else, I'd take the iPad without hesitation. A drawing, perhaps, though only if the laptop can't be flipped around to put the touchscreen at a convenient angle. A convertible with a stylus seems ideal for that. But a video? I'd definitely prefer the laptop.
- ashark 9y ago
  My experience has been that even fairly high-end laptops have much worse cameras than i-devices, and usually only have a front-facing one, making for some really awkward, shaky, low-quality filming and a lot of difficulty framing shots, manipulating controls while filming, and so on. [EDIT] which reminds me: for any photography-related project, I'd take the iPad too, obviously. Really anything that's not mostly typing or very suited to the use of a mouse.
  - bluGill 9y ago
    When someone says make a video to me I think taking a bunch of clips with a camera and putting them together into a video. Since I have already assumed a camera all that is left is editing, and I'll take a computer over a tablet for that. I agree that taking the clips the tablet is better than with any computer.
    - JoshTriplett 9y ago
      This, yes; I was talking about video editing, not video recording.

by ashark 9y ago

JoshTriplett 9y ago

> If you told me I had to make a video or a drawing, collaborative or otherwise, and I could only have an iPad or a laptop (and no special peripherals for either), and nothing else, I'd take the iPad without hesitation. A drawing, perhaps, though only if the laptop can't be flipped around to put the touchscreen at a convenient angle. A convertible with a stylus seems ideal for that. But a video? I'd definitely prefer the laptop.

ashark 9y ago
My experience has been that even fairly high-end laptops have much worse cameras than i-devices, and usually only have a front-facing one, making for some really awkward, shaky, low-quality filming and a lot of difficulty framing shots, manipulating controls while filming, and so on. [EDIT] which reminds me: for any photography-related project, I'd take the iPad too, obviously. Really anything that's not mostly typing or very suited to the use of a mouse.
- bluGill 9y ago
  When someone says make a video to me I think taking a bunch of clips with a camera and putting them together into a video. Since I have already assumed a camera all that is left is editing, and I'll take a computer over a tablet for that. I agree that taking the clips the tablet is better than with any computer.
  - JoshTriplett 9y ago
    This, yes; I was talking about video editing, not video recording.