How to get started with OneNote for iPad With OneNote for iPad, Microsoft brought its note-taking app to Apple, but seemingly against its will. The free app lets you create up to 500 notes. After you hit the 500 mark, you'll be required to make a $14.99 in-app purchase to continue taking notes. Launch the app, log in to your Windows Live account (or create a new one), and you'll see an attractive layout, complete with a spiral-notebook theme. In OneNote's scheme, a notebook is filled with sections, and sections are filled with notes. While organizing notes is limited because you can't move notes around or create new notebooks, the app makes it easy to delete a note. At the bottom of this column are four buttons: Notebooks, Unfiled, Recents, and Search. OneNote uses the standard iPad onscreen keyboard, with three additional buttons. That's it for additional controls. You can access settings by tapping on the gear-icon button, which is accessible from the home screen of the Notebooks view. Want more Microsoft on your iPad?
Useful iOS features for teachers (iPad specific) | Making things... Learning Things [Updated: March, 2013] With every new iOS release, Apple is building in more and more under the hood. You are probably aware of many of these features but, in any case, here is a brief roundup of some that teachers whom I work with have found very useful, especially in a one-iPad classroom. The features outlined below are all available in iOS6 on the iPad (and, yes, some features discussed below were available in iOS5 and/or iOS4). Finger gesturing You probably know these already. More on gestures here: Changing keyboards Adding keyboards in different languages is easy (Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard…) and there is also an emoticon keyboard included called “Emoji.” More iPad keyboard settings here: Text Selections – Speak & Define To select text, push and hold your finger on a word. “Reader” mode in Safari
22 Filmmaking Apps for the iPad & iPhone The iPad and iPhone have taken the world by storm. Only very recently have filmmakers started to see their potential in a production environment. The iPad has only been out a few months and we are already seeing it used in some very creative ways. For this feature we have rounded up some of the best and most useful Filmmaking Apps that our Deal Leader Steve Jobs has approved for the App Store. As more filmmakers explore the possibilities with these powerful mobile devices, we are sure this list will continue to grow. iMovie Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fun, feature-rich video editing app only for iPhone 4. Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 4. ReelDirector Full-blown video editing for iPhone and iPad. Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. DSLR Slate DSLR Slate is the perfect companion for the DSLR Filmmaker. Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Movie Slate Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. PocketLD
Seven simple tricks to impressively speed up slow iPads Remember the day when you took your iPad out of its box for the first time? How fast it ran? How snappy it was? Yeah, those were the days. I am not pretending that this will make your old iPad act like a new one. I know what you are thinking: You have seen posts like this before, so how is this one different? Is your iPad running slow? How to NOT speed up your iPad You have heart this before: close down apps in the multitasking bar and restart your iPad in order to speed it up. The idea that closing all apps in the multitasking bar would free up massive resources in working memory is just a myth. There are a few exceptions: Apps that perform background tasks (pretty much limited to email apps, GPS apps, active music apps, Skype and other VoIP apps) can be closed down via the multitasking bar in order to free up working memory. For all other apps: relax. Things to do on a regular basis Following the seven tips described below are much more important to keep your iPad speedy. Conclusion
Paper by FiftyThree is a Simple, Elegant, and Powerful Sketch App for the iPad I’m a sucker for great design, so when I got a chance to test out the Paper app for the iPad, I was immediately struck with how well-designed and beautiful it was. It’s not often that you can open up a piece of software, not read any of the directions, and immediately start creating lush sketches, drawings, and paintings. Not paintings in the normal sense of the word, but this app does watercolors in such a realistic and intuitive way that it almost fools me into thinking I’m a real painter. One of the creators, Andrew S Allen, has had his work featured here before. First, here’s the introduction video from FiftyThree (directed by Andrew S Allen): A description of the app in their own words: Mobile creation done right. I have to say, I am not an artist, but it’s amazingly easy and intuitive to use. The app is really as simple as it looks (and it looks great thanks to it’s Retina Display compatibility) – you’ve got notebooks, and within each notebook you have pages on which you can draw.
Meet your child’s new teacher: the iPad Not long ago, I was horrified to learn children were allowed to use mobile phones in the playground. Now they’re actually being encouraged to bring smartphones out in the classroom, not to mention Kindles, iPads, Wiis and hand-held games consoles such as Nintendo DSs. Even exams are changing out of all recognition. Children will take internet-connected devices into exam halls, meaning no more need for memorisation. Is this really a brave new world, or the gateway to indolence, addiction and diminishing social and cognitive skills? Moreover, while introducing technology into schools is expensive in the short term, in the long term educationalists warn it may be used as a cost-cutting device. In Thailand, every schoolchild is given a tablet device; worldwide, Apple has sold eight million iPads for educational purposes (AFP/GETTY /CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT) But my fears, it seems, are those of a Luddite minority. Other countries have taken this message to heart.
My Interests The Step-By-Step iPad Workflow For Teachers I recently stumbled across this handy infographic from Oakdome that shows a step by step guide to using your iPad for a paperless workflow/classroom. Since its no secret that paper is no longer the staple of the classroom, and since we’ve been looking recently at a few ways to make your classroom greener this year , we thought this step-by-step guide would be particularly useful! It tells you what you need and how to distribute, submit, grade, and return assignments using Google Drive . So whether you’re just starting on a paperless journey or have been doing things a different way, this should help you on your way! Set up student Gmail Students create and share a folder with the teacher in Google Drive Teacher creates a class folder with subfolders Teacher creates a shared folder to share documents with students Teachers distribute and collect assignments via the shared folders.
Physics Flash Animations We have been increasingly using Flash animations for illustrating Physics content. This page provides access to those animations which may be of general interest. The animations will appear in a separate window. The animations are sorted by category, and the file size of each animation is included in the listing. Also included is the minimum version of the Flash player that is required; the player is available free from The categories are: In addition, I have prepared a small tutorial in using Flash to do Physics animations. LInks to versions of these animations in other languages, other links, and license information appear towards the bottom of this page. The Animations There are 99 animations listed below. Other Languages and Links These animations have been translated into Catalan, Spanish and Basque: En aquest enllaç podeu trobar la versió al català de les animacions Flash de Física.