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Emerging Technologies iPads & Apps for the Classroom Windows Live @ Edufor Grades 6-12

Learning with iPad • An incredibly responsive Multi-Touch screen. • A large, high-resolution LED-backlit IPS display. • A design that’s thin and light enough to take anywhere. • iPad isn’t just the best device of its kind — it’s a whole new kind of device. And it’s poised to change the learning landscape.

Apps for Education With iPad, the classroom is always at your fingertips. Right now at the App Store, there are thousands of apps available to download. Students can track their assignments, take notes, and study for finals. Teachers can give lessons, monitor progress, and stay organized. And that’s just the beginning.

One iPad goes a long way when students are working in a group. It gives them instant access to the information they need to succeed - either through apps, stored data, or the internet. It's far more dynamic than a laptop - it can be shared, passed around, propped up, gathered around - it quickly becomes a key tool for enabling group work. Instant Access to Information

iTunes U on iPad • Apple’s iTunes U is home to more than 350,000 free lectures, videos, books, and podcasts from learning institutions all over the world. • Universities such as Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Beijing Open University, and the University of Tokyo, as well as broadcasters such as PBS, offer free content on iTunes U. • Content ranges from lectures and presentations to syllabi and campus maps. • Accessing iTunes U is simple. Just tap More in the iTunes app and you’ll see iTunes U. From there, browse and download content directly to your iPad.

Let’s go over some of the features and apps included on the iPad…

iBooks on iPad • iBooks on iPad features a vibrant color screen, crisp text, and a Multi-Touch interface that lets you turn pages with the flick of a finger. • It’s also a convenient way to browse, sample, and buy books. Simply download the free iBooks app from the App Store and buy everything from classics to best sellers from the built-in iBookstore. • Once you’ve downloaded a book, it appears on your bookshelf. Just tap it to start reading. • Easy-to-use tools let you keep your place with bookmarks, highlight text and dates, and make notes. • You can also save, read, and print PDFs — great for class handouts, research papers, and more.

Safari • Doing research on the web has never been easier or more intuitive. • That’s because the Multi-Touch screen lets you use the most natural pointing device there is: your finger! • Scroll through a page just by flicking up or down. Or pinch to zoom in or out on a photo. And the large screen makes sharing information with your students — or among themselves — a no-brainer.

Mail • See and touch your email in ways you never could before. In landscape, you get a split-screen view showing both an opened email and the messages in your inbox. • To see the opened email by itself, turn iPad to portrait, and the email automatically rotates and fills the screen. • No matter which way you hold iPad, you can scroll through your email, compose a new message using the large onscreen keyboard, or delete messages with nothing more than a tap and a flick.

Calendar • iPad makes it easy to stay on schedule by displaying day, week, month, or list views of your calendar. You can sync it with your Torrington email/calendar. • You can see an overview of a whole month or the details of a single day. • iPad even shows multiple calendars at once, so you can manage work, personal, and student schedules at the same time.

Notes • With its expansive display and large, onscreen keyboard, iPad is perfect for taking notes in class. • In landscape view, you see not only a note-taking page but a list of all your notes. • iPad even circles the current note in red, so you can see where you are at a glance.

Maps • Experiencing the world, both near and far, is a completely new experience on iPad. • Tap to view maps from above with high-resolution satellite imagery, up close with street view, or with topography in terrain view — all using Google Services. • You can even search for nearby locations and landmarks, then get directions from your current location.

iPad for all • iPad comes with a screen reader, support for playback of closed-captioned content, and other innovative universal access features — right out of the box. • There’s no additional software to buy or install. These features make iPad easier to use for students who have a vision impairment, are deaf or hard of hearing, or have a physical or learning disability.

Let’s go over the kinds of apps that are available in the App Store for the iPad…

Learn about shapes Mia's playground is a great app for younger children to learn about shape and color. Children are shown an image (e.g. blue car) and have to find another one in amongst others. The other game shows the user an outline of a shape and children have to select pieces to make the shape whole.

Read out loud and share Toy Story Read-along is a free interactive eBook from Disney The application can either read the story to you whilst highlighting the words or you can record your own voice reading the story. Children can record their own voice reading, and either listen back or give it to another pupil who provides peer feedback on it.

Practice letter formations iFontMaker allows you to create your own font using your finger. It puts a guideline for the shape on-screen and you 'draw' your letter over the top. Once you have completed all upper case and lower case it will build it into a font that can be used on the computer in the child's work as an alternative to Comic Sans!

Art, Music & Creativity Experience the world of digital art with apps that can help you teach or learn how to draw, paint, and even play a musical instrument. You can also create your own artistic masterpiece.

Project almost anything for a large group GoodReader is an app for the iPad that allows the viewing of many different file formats on the iPad itself. It will also allow them to be projected over the VGA-out connector.

Speech to Text Dragon Dictation allows iPad users to quickly and easily convert speech into editable text that can be copied or sent via e-mail. Great for learners who prefer talking over writing. Improves spelling too.

MathBoard is appropriate for all ages from kindergarten (with simple addition and subtraction problems) to elementary school where learning multiplication and division can be a challenge. You can control the range of numbers you want to work with, the amount of questions you want to answer and even assign a time limit per quiz. MathBoard will make learning math fun. Practice math skills

Now it’s your turn…let’s divide up into groups and each group take a subject…Math, Reading, Science, etc. and spend some time working together and investigating apps.

Links With so many educational apps on the App Store, there’s no limit to the learning possibilities at your fingertips. Take a look at some of our favorite apps for learning. • http://www.apple.com/education/apps/#

Windows Live @ Edu • Information about email accounts available to student in Grades 6 – 12 • Teachers will be able to access these accounts as well to share information and collaborate with students

“I want an easy way to communicate with my teachers” “I started my homework at home and want to finish it at school during a study hall.” “My printer is broken and I need to print my homework.” STUDENTS “There’s no one place to access my group project work” “I have to store schoolwork on a USB drive because there’s no where else to put it” “I don’t have the latest version of Office at home.”

How do students login? http://outlook.com username@student.torrington.orgpassword = torrington They will be prompted to change your password after first login

How do teachers login? http://www.skydrive.com username@teacher.torrington.orgpassword = torrington You will be prompted to change your password after first login

Microsoft Outlook Live 10 GB inbox, up to 20 MB attachments Works with Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer Address book, calendaring, tasks and more

Microsoft Office Live Workspace Save over 1,000 Microsoft Office documents in one online place Manage documents in one convenient place and view documents from almost any computer with a web browser Open and save files from familiar programs like Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Windows Live Sky Drive Store documents and photos online 25 GB password-protected online storage Create private, shared, and public folders Store documents and photos online so they can be accessed from any Internet-connected computer and be shared with others.

What if a student can’t login? If a student can’t login or it’s not working properly – make sure they’re using a supported browser (Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer) If a student needs a password reset, they can go the LMC for assistance. Technology Staff will be available to help students with logging in after school the first week in September.

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