iMuse partner, the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, has gone live today with its first AACT iPad installed for visitor use.
Chrissy Rosentahl, volunteer and project lead in the Gallery, ruminates on the practicalities of using a shared iPad in real life.
We launched today in the Gallery ….
Valentine’s Day! Much love…. I
have spent more hours cutting up tennis balls, sticking Velcro to the floor,
unsticking Velcro from the floor and scratching my head about security than I
have spent sorting out content – but I suppose that’s point of the exercise.
Working with iMuse has been great – because it has inpsired
us and motivated us to use the iPads in the Gallery to deliver extra
content. Now we have to see if we have
delivered something our visitors actually want.
I have just been training today’s Custodian to unplug and
wake up the iPad and to enable Guided Access.
That has not been without its problems.
For fingers unused to touch screen ‘click the Home Button three times’
is not as simple as it sounds…. Do you do it with a finger nail slowly, with
the pad of the finger quickly…?? It depends…..
I have written instructions – which are probably more
confusing then necessary as I have tried to cover all possible problems – so
it’s back to the drawing board on that – I have left the Custodian in the
Gallery with the feedback forms (simple) and their first visitor (a woman in
her 70’s) – who immediately showed interest and picked it up….
More later…
