Networking for Dummies

Now that we have the pads and we've started to cull through the app world for useful apps for our program we are now preparing to sync our pads to iTunes accounts. The question remains, how and how many. If this process proves cumbersome, or unwieldy, it could stall out the project and in truth if this process gets in the way it may prove too much.

That being said, it seems straightforward from this vantage point. Our setup is as follows: we have a few desktops in our classrooms on which we have loaded iTunes (we don't want to have iTunes on the pads because it may prove too tempting for the students (and staff) and we want to keep the pads uniform, fast and uncluttered) and will hopefully be able to load books/apps onto those accounts. Then, the process of moving the chosen and vetted content onto all of the pads begins.

It remains to be seen whether or not we'll be able to accomplish this easily. It also remains to be seen of we'll be able to share a few accounts for 20 iPads. We've been told by other colleagues already working with iPads that apple is pretty good; that 10 pads per account is generally permissible. That would be great, but of not, it would be expensive and tedious to manage 20 accounts. We'll keep you posted, and if anyone has any advice/experience to share please let us know.