Top 10 best tips and tricks for new iPhone and iPad users | TiPb New to iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and wondering what tips and tricks you really need to know to get started? Have friends and family that are new to iPhone and would love to have a handy link to send them? Look no further. Carefully curated below are TiPb's top 10 tips and tricks for new users -- everything you need to know to get going now. Note: If you're really brand new, check out our New User Guide first, the fastest way to get up and running and enjoying your new device. How the Home button works: Navigation, Multitasking, Accessibility, Restart, Reboot, Recovery, and DFU Because the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad have only a few buttons, the Home button does a ton of different things. Typing tips and keyboard shortcuts for iPhone and iPad Wish you had a faster way to insert punctuation or get to caps or numbers on the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad virtual keyboard? How to protect your iPhone or iPad with a Passcode Lock How to set up a Passcode Lock How to take a screenshot Your top tip?
QR Coded Student Videos: Classifying Activity This is part of my continuing series of blogs about how I am integrating mobile learning into my undergraduate course on interpersonal relations. There are a dozen students in the class. Ten of them are in the 17 to 21 year old age range. The other two are over 35 years old. All of them own mobile devices – four of them being Smart Devices (iPhone, Android). The following activity was part of a three-hour class on nonverbal behaviors. Goals of the Activity: To use videos and QR codes to explore and learn about a class topic.To build community by working on a common project. Needed Materials/Functions: One mobile device per group to create videos that can be uploaded directly to YouTubeOne mobile device per group with a QR reader. Procedures: Form students/members into smaller groups – 3 to 5 members per group.Ask students to create short videos using their mobile devices that demonstrate smaller concepts within a larger topic. Ask students to upload each of their videos to YouTube.
PBL Learning | Project Based Learning Resources, Examples About ETR Community EdTechReview (ETR) is a community of and for everyone involved in education technology to connect and collaborate both online and offline to discover, learn, utilize and share about the best ways technology can improve learning, teaching, and leading in the 21st century. EdTechReview spreads awareness on education technology and its role in 21st century education through best research and practices of using technology in education, and by facilitating events, training, professional development, and consultation in its adoption and implementation.
Students Tackle Physics With iPads | uknow.uky.edu LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 29, 2011) — It's 11:30 a.m. on a Thursday, and we're about to have a scientific throwdown. University of Kentucky freshmen pull out their iPads, gather in small groups around 21st century tables and begin to discuss physics problems in a way that's as far from conventional as the touch screens they are intently gazing upon. This is just a typical afternoon for physics and astronomy Professor and Chair Mike Cavagnero's experimental A&S Wired research course: the Science of Measurement. "Measurement and observation are the foundations of science," Cavagnero said. The 26 A&S Wired students who registered for the eight-week class have carried out customary physics coursework, but have also been asked to come up with their own projects. The ultimate goal is for students to take on one of four measurement projects from around campus and complete the endeavor using iPad measuring tools. With a built-in camera, the iPad can serve as a compass to measure magnetic fields.
Book Creator, nouvelle version améliorée « aeemtech Bonjour, Book Creator – une application qui a elle seule est une bonne raison d’avoir un iPad – a été améliorée. Je vous traduis ça à la volée … Il est maintenant possible de : - Ajouter des hyperliens aux images et aux textes. Ces liens peuvent mener à des pages du livre, à des sites web, peuvent créer un courrier électronique, passer des appels téléphoniques et ouvrir d’autres application. - Ajouter un soulignement, le style italique ou gras à un mot. - Importer des livres dans Book Creator pour continuer leur édition. - Combiner des livres ce qui permet à plusieurs personnes de travailler sur une partie d’un livre commun puis à une personne d’assembler les parties pour n’avoir plus qu’un livre. - Les documents pdf sont maintenant exportés avec des images haute résolution et du texte vectorisé de manière à être aussi précis que vos iBooks. Si vous voulez en savoir plus : Bien à vous ! Like this: J'aime chargement…
Why Your Project Needs a Verb Designing project-based learning (PBL) assignments opens up several decisions. The challenge that students will face, the assessments that measure their learning, the amount of voice and choice to offer, the calendar and length of the challenge—these are just some of the many facets of an effective PBL project. As we design a project, we may have trouble really focusing it. Why Focus on Verbs? Verbs are powerful. Projects are supposed to focus on authentic problems and challenges, whether real or scenario-based. Verbs can help us hone our purpose for the project. Weak Verbs, Powerful Verbs A weak verb can make or break a project, or cause you to run into pitfalls. Here is an example of how finding the right verb can transform a project. Through reflection and by picking the right verb, she came to the overall purpose of the project. Teachers should pick verbs that are appropriate to their students and contexts. Can Students Choose the Verbs?
How to Set Up Gmail for School iPads and iPods One challenge for teachers with students using devices like iPad and iPod touch is collecting student work. Unfortunately, there is not one consistent way for apps to export what a user creates. Some apps connect to Dropbox, some share through iTunes, some export to a website, some share through an IP address, but most apps email content as an attachment. In order to send images, movies, and documents as an attachment, email must be set up on the device. I think the best solution is to give each student an email account and teach them to use it responsibly. The answer I've seen many schools use is Gmail. It's time consuming to create email accounts for each and every device. After creating the Gmail account at mail.google.com/mail/signup, you'll have to do this on each device that will use that account: Launch the Mail app or go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars in the Settings app on iPad or iPod touch to add the account.Choose Gmail. Email is ready to use!
Creating Books on the iPad Book Creator for iPad: $7.49The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore. Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on. eBook Creator: $4.49 ‘eBook Creator’ is a simple and easy ebook creation application. Ebook Magic: $4.49 An easy way to make custom epub books. Demibooks: FREEDemibooks Composer is the first iPad-based authoring software for creating interactive books. StoryPatch: $2.99 Now you can help your child's creativity grow with Story Patch, a beautiful new application for the iPad that children can use to create their own picture books. And thanks to Scott Meech for letting me know of another great App to include - Creative Book Builder.
Talking About Text Structure in the PBL Classroom Project-based learning is often associated with STEM learning, but PBL is a powerful context for literacy learning as well. Many research-supported practices for developing literacy can be seamlessly embedded into projects. A meaningful and engaging context, as in PBL, can make instruction in research-supported practices even more effective (Guthrie et al., 2004; Guthrie et al., 2008). Strong readers pay more attention than weaker readers to how texts are structured or organized. Fortunately, paying more attention to text structure is something that we can teach to all readers. Research shows that this practice helps many readers, even young children and those with learning difficulties (Gersten, Fuchs, Williams, & Baker, 2001; Shanahan et al., 2010). Start of newsletter promotion. Get our new newsletter, The Research Is In—a monthly roundup of the most impactful education research, translated into actionable classroom strategies. Subscribe now End of newsletter promotion. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
iPad Insight | iPad blog for app reviews, news, tips,how-tos iPaddiction Scaffolding the PBL Shift | Blog I remember my first year teaching freshmen Global Studies at a brand new Project Based Learning school. I was so excited to allow students to pursue their own paths in student centered learning. I gave them open-ended topics like imperialism to pursue with little guidelines and no rubrics. I thought the students could research and figure out what interested them and what was important all on their own. Fairly soon the students started coming to me and begging for guidance, and it wasn’t limited to struggling students. The most vocal students were the ones who had gotten all A’s in traditional classes. But some of their complaints were legitimate. Gradual Release is Vital This is why the Gold Standard teaching practice of Scaffolding Student Learning is so important for teachers and students who are new to PBL. Fast forward to this year. A week into the school year, before I even started the project, I realized that my expectations were very unrealistic.
Games, Pop-Ups, 3D, and More – The iPad is Changing Books Forever Hogworld lets you guide Gnart through a story that is a hybrid of book and video game. I grew up on a healthy regimen of Choose-Your-Own Adventure books, Nintendo, and role playing games, but even I am intimidated by the new brand of interactive storytelling that is flooding the iPad. More designers are exploring how the frenzy around Apple’s tablet computer is evolving e-books into something new. First on our list of the kind of interactive stories is Hogworld by Snowcastle Studios in Norway. What if you’re not a child? Also from Tool of North America is something that I can’t really call a story, but is still close enough to the genre that I find it interesting. Okay, okay. A little tamer of a book is Alice by Atomic Antelope. In a similar vein to Alice is The Little Mermaid and Other Stories by H.C. If you’re looking for a similar story that’s easier on the budget, GameCollage also has Three Little Pigs, a pop-up style e-book for $4. [image credits: Snowcastle Studios]