My first impressions include:
- Nice size and weight
- Like that they had a case with a keyboard
- Don't come out of the box ready to go
- Not much to go on except prior knowledge of how to use a tablet
- Didn't have any preloaded apps
- Lots of attachments to use with the tablet
- Had 0 charge
- Must be plugged in just to open tablet
- Don't have a way to get apps
Here is a YouTube video about Rapid Tab 7. Just a side note, when I "googled" Rapid Tab - it is a site for buying Viagra and Cialis. Funny!
I am going to get them charged and have some students and another teacher try them out for a week or so. I will have my testers write their comments on this blog.
One additional observation: I plugged the out of box tablets in to charge around 8:00 AM. Around 11:00 I noticed the green light was showing. I guess it takes 3 hours to charge a completely dead tablet.
More later...
While trying out the google tablet I found that the charge doesn't hold well, at all. The first day I didn't use the tablet until I got home later that night and it was almost dead. I tried to connect to the wifi at Starbucks and at first I was having trouble with the connection going in and out. I assume it was the device considering people around me were using the wifi with out a problem. The camera only has a front view which could be inconvenient but in my experience using a tablet in the classroom i've noticed that my first grade students don't have much use for it.
ReplyDeleteI have an andriod phone so I may have an easier time using this tablet since it is andriod based. I do think this tablet could work well in the classroom; It's very easy to function through the APPS, as well as the internet. One thing I did find myself having trouble with is YouTube. I tried to do my homework on Sophia Learning and we are required to watch a video; the video wouldn't load, it was a black rectangle with the YouTube icon in the corner but that is all. I tried to put the URL in the search bar to see if it would work directly from the website but I had the same problem.
Depending on what you are using the tablet for could change how useful you find it. There may be some kinks to work out but over all I think it could be a good tool in the classroom.