Sunday, March 8, 2015

iPads for the Classroom

Today was spent at Castleton State College for a Tech course - iPads for the Classroom.
The class time was both enlightening and informative.  I walked away with a positive view of iPad's usefulness in education and in general.

I will start with what iPads offer free when you purchase an iPad.  The apps are:  Pages,
iMovie, GarageBand, Keynote, Beats Music, Numbers, Find iPhone, iTunes U.

Did you know Evernote, a free app, contains storage room for videos?  Have you seen  Poplet (a graphic organizer app)?  It costs $4.99 and is well worth it.  Gumdrop offers cases that protect your iPad from breakage due to drops.  Glass screen protectors are available for iPads at Amazon.

There are hand signals to use with your iPad.  A description of each one is located on the iPad itself in the Settings section.  Choose General in the left-hand column.  Then go to Multitasking Gestures.  There you will see three different gestures to use with four or five fingers.  They are:

  • Pinch to the Home Screen
  • Swipe up to multitasking
  • Swipe left or right between apps
One other tip from class - If you iPad freezes, hold down the button at top of iPad and the home button and then hold down the home button.  Each move takes a few seconds to take hold. 

These are just a few of the tips and bits of the information from today's class.

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