Annenberg graduate class brings iPad into classroom


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Put away those text books. No need to recycle any paper. The iPad is now being introduced into one USC classroom, serving as an example for future courses to forgo the traditional paper and pen.

Journalism 584, a graduate course called “Specialized Reporting: Education, Youth and Learning” is equipping its class with iPads to produce multimedia journalism, professor Bill Celis told USC News.

“We will be blogging and reporting straight from the field,” Celis said.

Other schools like the University of Alabama and Seton University also began using the iPad this week, but as an application, not a textbook.

A company called Inkling partnered with Apple to create an application that allows iPad users to share, draw and comment on iPad texts, according to Matt MacInnis, Inkling’s founder.

Celis said he believes his class will be pushing “multimedia’s boundaries.”