Professional Blogger Review

Bloggers URL: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/author/phacker

Prof. Hacker is a well known blogger in the technology and education World. He is known helping others understand the connection between technology and education and how the two work great together. He addresses all the latest and greatest products and software that get released on to the market. But the reason I like his is for this understanding on technology as a student.

Prof. Hacker addresses a week’s blog post to annotation and note taking apps specifically for the iPad. The great part about his post is that he breaks each advantage down into its own section. For instance he talks specifically and in depth about PDFs, highlighter, zooming, dropbox, images, ease of use, etc. All the key features that one would need in a note taking app, he addresses in a simple to read grid with all the top note taking apps out there today.

But I could use a little more than a grid. I would have liked to see an individual, in depth review of each app. While this would take a very long time and would be one of the longer posts, it would be helpful to any reader. But for the most part a grid is a genius idea. It allows him to get the information across very quickly, while allowing him to cover a variety of products. Maybe instead of making a very long blog post, he dedicates a blog post for the following weeks to go in depth on two to three different apps each week.