An experiment: I’m actually writing this at school and in class, with my students in the room, on the mobile app. Ordinarily (and, I hope, obviously) this is something I wouldn’t be willing or able to do, but we’ve moved into the last three days of the school year and thus into my classic end-of-the-year assignment: Open your math workbook, and do something you haven’t done yet. The main goal: keep them quiet and more or less working without making me insane. However, since my grades are done and I have no real other work to be doing, I’m experimenting with mobile blogging.

Literal transcript of a conversation I just had with a student:

HIM: “Do we have to do all the pages?”
ME: “Yes. All pages. Every mathings. You have one hour. Go ‘way.”
HIM: “I don’t believe you.”
ME: “Would I lie to you?”
HIM: “Yes.”

They know me so well by now.

My iPad isn’t actually 3G-capable, and doesn’t have a wireless network accessible from here, so I’m doing this strictly offline– another point in favor of WordPress; I was afraid I’d have to log into the website to type anything, which would require online access. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when I hit Publish; it’ll refuse to post, obviously, but it’s an open question whether it’ll have a “now” timestamp when it does post later or if it’ll be timed to whenever “now” is when I get home from work (or whenever I actually remember to open the app). I’d prefer it be timed to when it’s written or, better yet, editable. We shall see.

(And we’ve seen: it’s just listed as “failed,” with no timestamp underneath. Moderately annoying but not a big deal. Next post needs to have content.)