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This is a test blog using my iPod touch. This is using the iMT plugin. What does take time are my big fingers being accurate enough to type quickly with one finger two doesn't work for me. Typing is faster than me trying to use my mobile Pebl. The keyboard reacts well especially the change to caps after a fullstop. The trick of checking spelling is to tap at the right place in a word but it prefers the end of a word for corrections. If you use a hypenated word like multi-professional, it still makes you go to the end of the word. 

A nice thing I just noticed is the magnification circle visible by touching and holding with your finger. This also allows you to locate the middle of a word to change or correct spelling. Only thing is no link to an image unless you know a location and can type in a URL. Scrolling requires touch and hold to bring up the magnifier then move towards top or bottom line of a section. Two returns are needed to separate text into paragraphs that are visible but they do not show when the blog entry is published. All told is quite easy to blog with the iPod touch on the move or in a coffee shop.
ipdodtouch.jpgLooking at today's e-mail although the ALT-C 2007 conference is finished, well I am home as only a short hop to Derby, I thought this product release could not go unmentioned. The new range of iPods includes the iPod touch which is WiFi enabled and in view of the interesting points that Dylan Wiliam made during his keynote address (Link to page for link to talk not the 75Mb download!) the feasibility of multiple question answers onto web pages then aggregated during a class session become an immediate possibility.
Like the iPhone it looks to be based on the use of the Mac OSX operating system which will enable developers to create small apps for in class question feedback at the touch of an iPod. Is this the tool that will take the iPod a stage further?
As the owner of an iPod Photo I couldn't see a reason to upgrade to the iPod video the iPod touch is a different animal and if I can surf the web why not web based telephony and no need for the iPhone which would solve the European mess of which mobile phone company to collaborate with? I am sure there are even more possibilities. PS Thanks for a great conference it was my first but definitely won't be my last with best wishes to all especially other bloggers.

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