Randall Dixon and family make the ACU Optimist Newspaper

Randall and family were up in Abilene Texas this weekend where they were captured by the Optimist Newspaper while looking at the new Apple iPad. This is also on the bulletin board.

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Crowd flocks to Campus Store for iPad release
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By Colter Hettich
Posted on April 3, 2010 News, Showcase No comment
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Although the Campus Store sold only a few devices by 12:30 p.m., dozens of faculty, students and their families showed up to get their hands on Apple’s latest product: the iPad. The store had 22 Wi-Fi devices on hand for Saturday’s crowd and will receive 22 3G devices when they are released in “late April,” according to Apple.

Randall Dixon teaches his son, Luke, 13, how to use Apple's latest product, the iPad, in the ACU Campus Store on Saturday. Luke's grandfather, Al, 80, watches them explore the device.
Several ACU students attended the release event Saturday, including Drew Dixon, sophomore Biblical studies major from Sugar Land. Dixon was with several family members who traveled to Abilene for the holiday weekend. Randall Dixon, Drew’s father, and Al Dixon, his grandfather, huddled together around one of several display devices and took turns exploring.
“To an 80-year-old, it’s amazing,” Al said. “I very well might get one to have communications and information like that in any place you can think of. It’s wonderful.”
Kenny Jones, associate professor of art, picked up his iPad at the event; he’s one of 20 faculty members in the iPad Exploration Pilot Program. Jones uses his iPhone in class to show demonstration videos but said its screen size allows him to show only one student at a time. The iPad’s size and gestural interface would allow him to do things in class that even his laptop would not. He also sees the device’s potential to transform textbooks into “cloud e-texts” that present customized content based on the individual student’s interests and hobbies.
“What good is content if it’s inaccessible?” Jones said. “It’s accessible when it’s beautiful. Without that aesthetic component, there’s a sense of detachment at best.”
Jones already has students working on an electronic brochure for “Jacob’s Dream.” The project utilizes animation and interactive illustrations to highlight design elements and describe the design process.
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