If you aren't maxing out your iPad 2's storage space yet...it sounds like you will be shortly as more and more apps continue to update in order to meet the new retinal display for the iPad 3.
After reading this article from MacWorld, I can see why I had to go in and delete a lot of apps, photos, and movies from my iPad. I wanted to sync my music library as well and realized that I didn't have any room.
Why, just with the last update to IOS5.1 the file size for Pages, iMovie and Keynote alone have sky rocketed. Keynote went from 115MB to 327MB; Numbers increased from 109MB to 283MB, and Pages went from 95MB to 269MB. With the exception of iMovie (which also added in new support for iMovie Trailers as it ballooned from 70MB to 404MB), these apps increased their file sizes by a factor between 2.5 and 3. (iMovie is nearly six times larger than before.)
So has anyone checked out their storage space lately? I probably should have done that this last week and maybe I will try to look at it this week when I am in Weston. It seems that many of these ideas for upgrades have been very well thought out--meaning Apple is forcing us to upgrade and spend more whether we want to or not. IF you want to use the new stuff you have to upgrade. The sad thing is that our poor little iPad 2's are storing lots of graphic files and such that they can't use--can we say wasted space?
Anyway, we may need to ask students to clean up their photos and movies as well as ask teachers to clear off apps they don't use. I don't know if these small fixes will solve the space issue but we definitely need to be thinking about how we will address this issue. In the big picture of things...I think it is good that we are going to just wipe the pad clean for next year! I don't think these devices have enough memory to follow a student all the way through from 5th grade to 8th grade! And I think considering an outside storage space for student work is something we need to be considering!
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