IPads for SSHS Math Dept. Creating your Personal Learning Environment…

iPads for SSHS Math Dept.

Creating your Personal Learning Environment….

Objectives

…Participants will model the effective use of an iPad in a HS Math Classroom.…Participants will use the iPad with the Smartboard…Participants will use the iPad and its resources to enhance their own productivity.

Overview

• What do You Already Know?

• Basic Review• Settings

• App Management

• Web browsing

• Personal Learning Networks

• Productivity

• Resources

What Do You Know?

–What do you already know about the iPad?–What do you want to be able to do with the iPad in your classes?– How can you use the iPad to increase

your productivity?– How can you use the iPad to create your

personal learning network?

iPad Controls

Home

Front Camera

Status Bar

Multi-touch Screen

Apps

Screen View Indicator

iPad Controls

Back Camera

Microphone Headphone Jack

Speaker

Dock Connector

Screens

• Swiping– Right, left, up, down– Where am I?

• Search– Swipe left to right

from home– Home button

• On-screen keyboard– Activate– Hide

Status Bar

• Wireless connection indicator

• Time

• Bluetooth

• Battery status– Charging– Not Charging

Back

Settings

• Personalize your iPad• Brightness & Wallpaper• Location Services• Notifications

• Navigation arrows• General Settings

– Date and Time– Auto-Lock– Restrictions– Mute/lock rotation– Etc.

Settings

•WiFi– Connect (check

status bar) •Change other iPad settings

– Safari– Location Services– Etc.

•Change features in apps

Back

App Management

• Appsbergers: an addiction to apps

• Moving

• Deleting

• Folders

• Closing open apps

Moving and Deleting Apps

• Touch and hold any icon until all “jiggle”

• Can slide any icon to rearrange or put on another screen

• Can delete installed apps by touching x

• Cannot delete “native” apps

Creating Folders

• Press and hold any icon until all “jiggle”

• Drag one icon on top of another

• Folder window will open with suggested name– Can rename

• To remove, press and hold, drag out of folder

View and Close Open Apps

• Double click Home button

• Open apps appear at bottom for quick access

• Press and hold any icon until all “jiggle”

• Press minus sign in corner to close

• Does not remove app from device

App Store

• Searching for apps• Selecting

compatible apps for your device– + next to price

indicates universal app

• Customer ratings and reviews

Downloading Apps• Download either on iPad or on

computer through iTunes to sync with iPad

• Click Free or Buy App

• Click Download

• Enter password

• Download starts automatically• Will sync with iTunes next time

you connect with computer

• Download Dropbox, Evernote, and Diigo, and Flipboard.

Back

Safari Web Browser

• Search and address bars

• Access the keyboard– .com key– Hide the keyboard

• Accessing bookmarks– User Guide

Safari Web Browser

• Tabs• Adding and

organizing bookmarks• Folders

• Zooming in and out• Viewing and

closing multiple pages

• 50 top tips and tricks

50 Tips and Tricks

Productivity in the Cloud• Dropbox

– www.dropbox.com – Share files among devices

• Evernote– www.evernote.com– Remember Everything!!

• Diigo– www.diigo.com – Bookmark, notes, pictures

• Flipboard– eReader app from Appstore– Professional Reading made easy!

• neuAnnotate– Annotator app from Appstore– Annotate Math Worksheets

• Skype– www.skype.com– Communicate via video

Connect to your Smartboard

• Splashtop Streamer/Whiteboard App• Learn to control your Smartboard• How can you use this in your

classroom

Personal Learning Networks

• Will Richardson Video

• Read Blogs• Tweet:

100 Ways to Teach with Twitter• Add your Professional Reading to

Flipad• Share your ideas with a colleague!

Resources• Top Four Passionate Math Teacher Blogs •  Things to do with an ipad  • eBook Apps and website

– Ibooks  – freebooks – Overdrive – Project Gutenberg

• 62 things to do with Dropbox.   • “Ted Talks” iPad App (Ideas worth Spreading – Technology, Entertainment, Design

• Appitic• Apps in Education Blog• Education Apps Review (A Community Effort to Grade Educational Apps)• Apple iPad Education Resources