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iPad Tips: Getting Started with the iPad Have you just got a shiny new iPad as a holiday gift, or maybe just bought one for yourself? Here’s an easy Getting Started Guide that will help you get the most out of your new favorite tablet: The iPad has been a huge hit ever since it first hit the market back in 2010. This guide is divided up into short sections covering key topics, so you can dive in and out of them as needed for subjects you are interested in. iPad External Buttons – Turn It On and Off and Lots More You’ve probably noticed that the iPad has very few buttons. How to Power Off the iPad: To power off the iPad, hold down the Power button for a few seconds, until you see the ‘Slide to Power Off’ bar across the top of the screen. Uses for the Home Button: The home button is your key to navigating your way around the iPad. If you have multiple home screens (which you will if you start adding more apps to your iPad) pressing on the home screen will take you back to the screen that the last used app is located on. Or …
iPad deployment: First school iPad deployment with iOS 5 step by step ***Update: Please check out my most recent step by step iPad deployment strategy at Recently I have been doing a lot of research on what the workflow to deploy a number of iPads at a school would look like. I discovered there are lots of resources on the internet that focus on how they will be used in the classrooms, but there was not much that I was able to find on the best practices in the steps taken to prepare them for use. Based on some research, I put down on paper an order of steps that I thought made sense and worked on a small deployment of about 40 iPads. Step 1. Using these new accounts we created an iTunes account for the iPad admin using a school credit card for purchases, and 30 iTunes accounts using the 30 device based email addresses. Later on when unpacking and setting up the devices, they will be labeled with the email address associated to that device and named the same as well.
iPad Mini Education Sales Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Julie Garcia handed Apple Inc. iPads to students in her seventh-grade pre-algebra class on a recent morning before showing the pupils how to use the tablet to graph data, hunt for correlations and record how-to videos. A math instructor at Innovation Middle School, Garcia is one of the first to use some of the more than 25,000 iPads the San Diego Unified School District bought from Apple this year. “It’s the cool factor,” Garcia said as she looks over the room of students tapping energetically on tablets. For districts around the country, though, it’s the price as much as the cool quotient that could draw them to a new, smaller version of the iPad that Apple will unveil tomorrow at an event in San Jose, California. Now schools, as well as consumers, are about to get another big price break: The smaller iPad may cost as little as $249, according to Barclays Plc. iPad Shift School Sales “They were cost prohibitive,” Klein said. Courting Educators Training Teachers
With The iPad Mini On Its Way, It’s Time To Say Farewell To The iPad 2 [Report The iPad 2 was the first iPad to bring us front- and rear-facing cameras. When Apple unveiled the third-generation iPad earlier this year, it reduced the price of the iPad 2 to just $399 in an effort to provide fans with a more affordable option, and to stave off the competition from cheaper Android slates as much as it could. But with the iPad mini set to make its debut tomorrow, will there still be a need for the iPad 2? One analyst thinks not.Rob Cihra of Evercore Partners believes Apple will “phase out” the iPad 2 following the iPad mini’s debut, ensuring ”clearer product tiers.” The move makes a lot of sense. And its demise is hardly likely to impact Apple’s sales. Add 49 million iPhone sales to that, and Cihra expects Apple to announce $56.1 billion in revenue for the December quarter. Via MacworldRelated