Web research on the iPad using Evernote and Skitch (how-to) My work involves frequent research on the web, and I am doing more of that on the iPad than ever before. This is mainly due to two apps that make capturing information as easy as tapping on the screen. The two apps, Evernote and Skitch, work well together since both of them are now produced by the Evernote Corp. I have previously detailed how I use Evernote to write long articles on the iPad, a method that still serves me well. Since Evernote is the home for my notebooks in the cloud, it is fitting to also use Evernote in the research phase of my writing projects. It is worth mentioning that both Skitch and Evernote work as well on the Android platform. Related: Evernote makes it easy for me to capture information on the fly as each account holder is assigned a unique email address linked to the Evernote account. This works as follows: I read an article on the web in Safari, Reeder, Zite, or Flipboard, and decide I want to save the reference in Evernote.
Preparation for Implementation When making the move towards using mobile devices in the classroom, there are a number of practical considerations to bear in mind. This article will draw on the experience we have had this year, in implementing an iPad 1 to 1 scheme with our 6th form. We’ve made many mistakes, and I hope have learnt from them. 1. This is a no brainer, but I have heard of many schools who didn’t really take this into consideration when they brought in mobile devices like the iPad. So, your biggest investment in the year before you go mobile has to be wireless. 2. You need to know one thing: your VLE won’t work very well with your iPads. 3. This entails trying to get your network manager’s head around the idea that not having everything on the school network is not going to end his or her job/world. 4. When we first bought our iPads for our 6th form staff and students, we asked them to buy certain apps. 5. Did you know you can embed YouTube into iBooks Author epubs? 6. 7. 8. 9. Make contact. 10.
Cathedral High plans iPads for all SAN DIEGO — Cathedral Catholic High School plans to put iPads in the hands of every student and teacher next fall, becoming the first school in the region to do so. Cathedral’s decision to embrace digital learning began five years ago when officials initially looked into acquiring notebook computers for students. The school shifted its focus to Apple iPad tablets about a year ago and purchased 200 of the tablets to test out this year in classrooms to make teachers more familiar with the technology and figure out teaching methods they’ll employ. Parents at the private parochial school will be paying a $350 technology fee that will cover the cost of renting an iPad as well as service and support for their student, said Principal Mike Deely. The iPads will be used by the school’s 1,700 students as well as 110 teachers and support staff. On average, Cathedral parents typically spend between $800 to $1,000 buying textbooks every year. “We’ve had only one iPad broken out of 200.
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 …
East Haven schools invest in reading technology- The New Haven Register - Serving New Haven, Connecticut EAST HAVEN -- Reading specialist Gina Tomassi sits with second-grader Isaac Florentino for a quick reading evaluation, listening to him read a short story about a riverside village. She's conducted these informal, frequent assessments countless times with other students in her career, having nailed down a stop-watch monitoring, hand-tapping, note-taking routine that certainly seems a challenge for the uncoordinated or inexperienced multi-taskers. But on this recent morning at D.C. Moore Elementary School, it's all done with the touch of an iPad. School officials see the gadgets as a possible answer to the district's achievement gap, deciding at the end of last year to spend more than $120,000 on 220 iPads and software and equip every school with a set. Now halfway through the first school year of the district's wide-spread iPad use, educators say the tablets are already having an impact. "They're really serving many purposes while transforming the environment of teaching and learning.
First iPad Encounters The iPads are finally set up and ready to go into the classrooms! It happened to be our first graders who were the first ones to get their hands on them! A few days ago, I tested and reviewed a great new app: Book Creator. I felt it was a great opportunity for our first graders, who had just finished a unit on butterflies, to create a book about the different stages of a butterfly and their learning reflection as a culminating activity. Students wrote a story, as a class, about the different stages of the butterfly. We shared their words with our Art teacher who would be working with the students to create the illustrations for the book. The first time, I brought the iPads into the class, we spent time talking about the care and handle of the devices. When picking the iPad up from the teacher we reminding them to It was important to also introduce “iPad” vocabulary to our first graders, so we would all be able to use a common language when instructing or asking questions. Like this:
At Las Vegas charter school, iPads pave students' path to learning - Tuesday, Feb. 21 By Paul Takahashi (contact) Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 | 2 a.m. Explore Knowledge Academy Map Data Map data ©2014 Google A dozen Las Vegas second-graders were given a common English assignment one recent morning: Write a story using new vocabulary words. But instead of picking up a pencil and paper, these students launched the Pages word processing application on their iPads and started tapping. One precocious youngster in the back of the room raised his hand. “Mrs. Katie Gilbert smiled and said, “Sure.” For all the talk about ways to bring technology into education, consider a public charter school in Clark County that provides an iPad for each of its 720 students and 54 staff members. Inside three nondescript former office buildings in the eastern Las Vegas Valley lies Explore Knowledge Academy, Nevada’s first “iSchool,” where students as young as kindergartners use novel technology to learn traditional subjects. “It almost seems too good to be true,” Mattson said, surveying the campus.
5 Awesome Things You Can Do With an IPad and an LCD Projector