The Complete List of iPad Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials The Apple iPad is an amazing tablet, and to help you get the most out of it, we’ve put together a comprehensive list of every tip, trick, and tutorial for you. Read on for more. Note: This article was originally published earlier this year, but we’ve updated it with a real lot more content since then, so we’re republishing it for you. We’ll be keeping this page updated as we find more great articles, so you should bookmark this page for future reference. How to Maximize Your iPad’s Battery Life So you got yourself a shiny new Apple device, but you’re so addicted that the battery is running out way too soon—what you need is a couple of tips to keep your battery running for as long as possible, and we’ve got them here. How to Maximize Battery Life on Your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch How to Lock the Screen on Your iPad with iOS 4.x How to Lock the Screen Orientation on Your iPad (with iOS 4.2) How to Pause an iPad App Install How to Force Reboot and Quit Apps Multitasking on the iPad iPadPeek
Tut: Pinterest Pin Using iPod/iPad/iPhone : Savitri Wilder, this is my life This is a tutorial on how to install the Pinterest “Pin It” bookmarklet on your iPad (iPhone/Pod) Safari web browser. What is Pinterest? It’s an organizational tool that lets you share all the pretty findings with all Pinterest members (who follows you). The last few months I haven’t been pinning much. So how do you do it? If you’re interested and have an iDevice whip it out and follow these steps. Oh, before we get started, make sure that you browse to my blog post first using your iDevice so that you can copy the below (we’ll paste in a little bit!) VERY important that you do! Open up Safari web browser and bookmark any page… pinterest.com if you have nothing in mind. Click the little bookmark icon (open book image) and you should see the below: When I took a screen capture of the above I have already changed the name of pinterest.com to “Pin It” so yours might be different than mine. The next step is to click the Edit button. See where I circled? Now, do you see where the URL is?
How to add YouTube video into PowerPoint In some cases where you need to embed video into PowerPoint so as to make your presentation more engaging and informative for audiences. YouTube, as a great sharing platform, offers a host of online free video resources. In this way, most users can easily find their video materials here and like to put YouTube video into PowerPoint for an entertaining effect. However, the issue is that how you can do this without any efforts. We will site an example for users of Microsoft powerpoint 2010, hit the menu option “Video”, two available ways get things done: insert “video from website” or insert “video from file”. A simple way: insert “video from website” Switch to PowerPoint and hit “video from website”, play YouTube video and paste the embed code of YouTube video into the dialog box, click “Ok” to verify the code. Add YouTube flash videos into PowerPoint to my experience Demerits: 1. (That’s to say, a slow network will adversely impact the video playback in PowerPoint.
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8 Free and simple tools to create video tutorials for Teachers One of the important digital skills that the 21st century teachers should have is the ability to create video tutorials to share with students.I know some of you might freak out when it comes to putting your digital skills to the test thinking that you could never make it. I understand it because I know that the first thing that comes into your mind on hearing video tutorials are those sophisticated and pompous tutorials you see on Youtube from imedia companies and advertising corporations. Well, the kind of software used to create such tutorials cost a lot of money and requires specialits to work on them. For use in education, a tutorial can be just a simple video explaining a difficult concept or a methodical process that walk students through different steps and stages. There are several free tools to help you do that and you do not need any advanced technology skills to use them; all you need is a solid will and a committment to what you want to do. 1- Jing 2- Camstudio 4- Webinaria
The Ultimate Guide to The Use of Blogs in Teaching Blogging is one of the eventual realization of web 2.0 technologies. It is the driving engine behind this online information revolution. Thousands of blogs are created everyday and for different purposes. The tremendous ease of use of a blog has made it a web tool of great potential in education. Let me provide you first with the outline of this paper : 1- What is Blogging ? 1- What is a blog ? " A blog is a personal website that contains content organized like a journal or a diary. 1- Difference between a blog and a website Many students and some teachers still can not draw a clear border between a blog and a website. It is a form of a websiteIt is updated so oftenIts articles appear in reverse-chronological orderIt is frequently crawled by search enginesIt covers a wide variety of articlesIt is easily set up 3- Free Blogging platforms for teachers and students : Now that you have an idea about what a blog is all about, here is a list of some of the best platforms to start with. B- Blogger
A Simple Guide for Teachers to Create eBooks on iPad using iBook Author With the start of this new year Apple launched two major products namely iBook app and iBooks Author. These two releases have caught the attention of media and Educational Technology and Mobile Learning was no exception. We posted two detailed articles about the potential of these new products in education. Below are some of the best tutorials to get teachers and educators acquainted with the iBook Author. 1- Selecting a template To start creating an eBook using iBook Author you need first to select a template . 2- Thmbnail and Panels The video below will walk you through the outline and thumbnail panels in iBooks Author. 3- Tool bar This video will show you how the tool bar works and inform you about the different functions of each icon. 4- Inspector Panel This video will make you familiar with using Inspector Panel on iBook Author 5- Pages and navigation This tutorial will show you how to insert pages and navigate the thumbnail and outline view.
The Ultimate Simplified Guide to The Use of Evernote in Education Evernote is a great web service and software application that we can use in education. A lot of ink has been shed on this topic and just one click in a search engine is enough to get hundreds of links to guides and tutorials about Evernote. I have been going through so many of these resources and have collected ideas, videos, notes and many more. If you are a loyal reader to my blog ( I am glad most of you are ) you would clearly notice that guides I write here are different in that they are simple. to the point, address teachers and students direct need, and most of all written in an easy and simple language. In this regard, I am working on an ebook that will contain all the guides I have posted here so far but will be available for free only to my subscribers. Outline of this artilce : What is Evernote ? Why Evernote in education ? Some Ways Teachers can Use Evernote Below are some of the ways Teachers can use Evernote in education : 1- Introducation to Evernote 2- Evernote for Windows
A Simple Guide for Teachers to Create eBooks on iPad using iBook Author With the start of this new year Apple launched two major products namely iBook app and iBooks Author. These two releases have caught the attention of media and Educational Technology and Mobile Learning was no exception. We posted two detailed articles about the potential of these new products in education. Today we are adding a follow up to those articles. Below are some of the best tutorials to get teachers and educators acquainted with the iBook Author. Just a reminder, iBook Author allows users to easily create ebooks. 1- Selecting a template To start creating an eBook using iBook Author you need first to select a template . 2- Thmbnail and Panels The video below will walk you through the outline and thumbnail panels in iBooks Author. 3- Tool bar This video will show you how the tool bar works and inform you about the different functions of each icon. 4- Inspector Panel This video will make you familiar with using Inspector Panel on iBook Author