It’s Saturday morning and my favourite movie “The Alamo” is on television. Every time I watch the movie, I think of San Antonio, my tours of the Alamo, the Riverwalk, and all things I know about Texas. Then, it hit me. I had another Texas connection in the hopper.
I had read Miguel Guhlin’s post “Collect Student Work Easily – Setup Your #iPad as a WebDav Server” on Zite but I hadn’t actually tried it myself. Whenever I read something inspirational like that, I do try it to see if it works as easily as the post says.
Up goes the laptop and I’m off to read his post. Essentially, it required a couple of downloads.
- Documents by Readdle as the host for the teacher iPad;
- WebDAV Navigator for the student’s iPads.
OK, first problem. That would require more than one iPad to experiment. That’s a luxury that I don’t have here at dougpete labs.
I know – I’ll use my old iPod instead.
Second problem. The operative word is “old”. So old, in fact, that it’s not capable of running a current version of iOS to run the Navigator client. Rats.
Well, maybe there’s another application in the App Store that will run on an older version. Nope. Nope. No go. Finally, I find DAV-E. It likes my old iPod!
A quick setup on the host iPad and I’m ready to test the connection. Voila! It’s very fast and I’m browsing the host iPad very nicely. I try to do a number of things and DAV-E wants me to make a purchase to a module to make it happen. I’m just doing a proof of concept and so resist the urge.
Now, I should be able to connect my computer to the iPad. “Go”, “Connect to Server”, enter the login credentials and I’m there browsing my iPad. Very nice!
I head over to the Google Play store to install a WebDAV browser there. WebDAV Nav Lite is a quick download and configuration away. Connect and go!
This is really slick. I would normally have used a third party for file transfer between devices – typically Dropbox but Miguel’s insights has streamlined that process.
In addition, Documents by Readdle is also a file browser and internet browser. I’m going to have a great deal of fun playing around with this and seeing just what I’m able to do with it.
The original post was a fabulous launchpad for me and my explorations! Thanks so much for the post, Miguel. If you haven’t read the post, scroll back to the top and read his post completely. Try it and you’ll agree – it’s a keeper.
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Very cool, Doug. I wish I had an iPad class so I could incorporate this!