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Teaching with iPad How-To

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Teaching with iPad How-To

Overview of this book

The iPad is a great teaching tool. It is an amazing eReader for accessing textbooks and journals. It is also great for multimedia content like videos, audio, presentations, and 3D animations. Most importantly Apple's app ecosystem makes it very powerful. You can find apps for almost any teaching task in app store and use them instantly. You will start with simple tasks like creating presentations and visualizations. Soon you will be making interactive books and resources as well as teaching practical lessons such as music and art! "Teaching with iPad How-to" starts with the most basic task of planning your lessons. As you go through the book you will learn how to 'carry' your textbooks on Little Books, create your own resources and finally publish your courseware. Be it organizing your notes, creating charts and presentations, or just recording attendance, this book will help you do all these tasks very efficiently on your iPad. In this book, you will also learn to create and distribute timetables, create your own textbooks and make your classes interesting and full of information by using the iPad's 3D and subject-specific resources. You will learn to make your teaching job interesting and engaging for your students by using iPad as your teaching and organizing tool.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Learning iPad tips and tricks (Advanced)


Through our journey of this book, we looked at various apps that will surely make your teaching easier, interesting, and very resourceful. In this recipe we will look at a special app which will give us a few basic tips and tricks for working on the iPad. These tricks are aimed at making your regular work on the iPad easier.

Getting ready

Download the Tips and Tricks - iPad Secrets app from the iPad App Store. This useful app costs just $0.99.

How to do it…

The app we are looking at here is a very simple app to use. In fact, making your iPad easier, smoother and more enjoyable is what this app aims to do.

  1. When you launch the app, you see a book of tips and tricks in front of you. Reading and scrolling through this book is simple. You can flip through its pages just as you would do in iBooks. Every page of this book has a nice unique trick explained for you.

  2. Every trick is very well illustrated with a high quality screenshot or picture and an easy to understand explanation. Wherever applicable, the top-right corner of the page will show the iOS version on which the tip will work. For example, the Print Center tip shown in the following image works only for iOS version 4.2 or above and the same is indicated in the top-right corner of the screen.

  3. Let us now quickly look at bottom controls of this app. You can see this button bar in the following screenshot. From left-hand side, the buttons are Chapters, Favorite, Settings, Gift App, Tweet this Tip and Email this Tip.

  4. The tips in this app are arranged in the form of chapters, pertaining to the function they perform. The Chapters button lets you pick up a chapter of your interest or as per your requirement. Look at the next screenshot:

  5. The Favorites button or the star button is to mark/unmark a tip to your favorites list. You can view this list as the first chapter in table of contents which opens from the Chapters button.

  6. The next button which is the Settings button lets you control the sound which plays on flipping the book pages. You can also contact the developer or rate the app through this button.

  7. Now as you go through this app, at many instances, you might recognize trick you were talking about the other day with your friend or colleague. You will want to quickly tell your friend that you have found a solution and explain it. You can do this easily by using the Email this Tip or Tweet this Tip buttons.

  8. If you like this app and are feeling generous, you might just want to gift this app to a friend of yours. Use the Gift App to satisfy this generosity of yours!

How it works...

The Tips and Tricks - iPad Secrets app will teach you many useful tricks for using your iPad. These will make your regular jobs on the iPad much more efficient and easy.