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Educational AppsMake and Take

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Educational AppsMake and Take

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July 9th and 14th, 2012Presented by:

Sandy Chiampas Ellen Deutsch

February, 2012

July 9th and 14th, 2012Presented by:

Sandy Chiampas Ellen Deutsch

February, 2012

LaGrange Area Department of Special Education

Reset buttonHeadphone jack

Main Button

Volume

Mic

iPad

2

Camera

Basics• Searching for an App on your device

• Swipe left to right until keyboard appears

• Organizing Apps• Per page (hold down app until app icon begins to

shake and drag to location)

• In folders (hold down and drag an app on top of another app)

• Closing an App• Double click middle button

• Hold down the app and touch the red negative symbol to close the app

Basics

• Resetting Device• Hold down the reset and main button on the same time

• If the app doesn’t fill the screen• Touch to make app fill the screen

• To connect connect to wifi (not at school)• Touch SETTINGS

• Touch GENERAL

• Touch NETWORK

• Touch WIFI

• Touch your wifi

• Type your password

2x

Taking a picture

• Camera (only on iPad 2 or new iPad)

• Screen Shot

• Hold down the On/Off button and the

Main button at the same time

• Picture goes into your Photo Library

getting a google picture(must have wifi)

• Touch SAFARI

• In GOOGLE BOX type name of picture

• Touch SEARCH

• Touch IMAGES

• Touch and hold desired picture until SAVE IMAGE appears

• Touch SAVE IMAGE

• Picture is in your PHOTO LIBRARY

E-MAIL/SAVING A PICTURE

Touch to download attachment

Then touch SAVE IMAGE

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ORGANIZING PHOTOS• Open Photo Library

• Touch upper right square with arrow

• Select desired photos

• Touch ADD TO

• Touch ADD TO NEW ALBUM

• Type NAME of new album

• Type SAVE

Editing Photos• Touch Photo Library

• Touch Picture you want to Edit

• Touch EDIT

• Touch desired action on bottom of screen

• rotate

• enhance

• red eye

• crop

• Touch SAVE when done

SYNCHING PICTURES TO THE CLOUD

• Touch SETTINGS

• Touch iCloud

• Touch PHOTO STREAM then touch ON

• Then on your device under PHOTOS you will see PHOTO STREAM as an option for where your pictures are stored

Reminders• Touch EDIT

• Touch CREATE NEW LIST

• Type name of NEW LIST

• Touch DONE

• Touch NAME OF NEW LIST

• Touch + (upper right)

• Type NAME OF NEW TASK

• Touch RETURN to add more tasks or KEYBOARD BUTTON if done

• Touch a TASK

• Touch REMIND ME to add time

• Touch OFF next to ON A DAY

• Touch DATE to change time/date and DONE

Restrictions

• Touch SETTINGS

• Touch RESTRICTIONS

• Type a PASSCODE

• Touch OFF to turn OFF options

• Touch words under Allow Changes or Allowed Content to add restrictions

Accessibility• Touch SETTINGS then GENERAL• Touch ACCESSIBILITY• Touch to change the following:

• Voice over• Zoom• Large Text• White on Black• Speak Selection• Speak Auto-Text• Mono Audio• AssistiveTouch• Triple-click Home

Text to Speech• Built in Text to Speech ability in ios 5

• Turn on Speak Selection under General and Accessibility

• Hold down finger on text

• Drag blue dot to select text

• Touch Speak

My Pictures Talk $4.99• Organize pictures or videos by albums

• Add text and voice to pictures

• Must touch picture to hear it talk

• Could be used as augmentative communication

• Touch large arrow or swipe to advance pictures

• Small Back button

• Cannot lock out of edit mode

Book Creator $4.99

• Create books that open in iBooks

• Send books to friends

• Add pictures, voice, text

• Create invisible audio hotspots

• Need to touch megaphone button to hear audio

• Swipe to turn the page

Numbers $9.99• Create data and spread sheets

• Organize your data with charts and tables

• Import videos or pictures

• Can add rating scales or checkboxes

• Each student can have their own page

• Can add notes to a page

• Can be saved as Excel, PDF or Numbers file

Picture Scheduler $2.99

• Create visual tasks

• Add pictures, audio, text and videos

• Student can “hide” a task when completed

• Tasks saved into folders

Popplet $4.99 or lite

• Visual brainstorming or mind-mapping

• Can sort ideas visually

• Include text and pictures

• Export as image or PDF

Inspiration map $6.99 or lite

• Similar to Inspiration on the computer

• Create mind maps and outlines

• Incorporate photos

• Export to another app, print, or email your finished organizer

flashcards deluxe

• Create study tools, vocabulary cards, and visuals

• Include sound, text-to-speech, and photos

• Tracks data over time

• Increases study frequency for questions that are missed

Choiceworks $14.99

• Three boards: Schedule, Feelings, Wait

• Three companion books (not modifiable)

• Image library or add your own image and audio

• Speaks schedule out loud

• Built in timer for tasks

Story robe 99¢

• Create a digital story in three steps

• Add pictures, video, text and audio

• E-mail story or post to YouTube

Choice board Creator

• Create customized choice boards of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 choices

• Box sizes are adjustable

• Add images, text or audio to a choice box

Educreation

• Re-plays your drawing, text and audio

• E-mail final product to be viewed online

• Animate images

• Add your own photos

• Upload/download lessons from the web

Creative book builder $3.99

• Make an in-depth book

• Create chapters

• Add text, photo, music, video or web links

• Can add multiple choice questions or tables

• Open book in iBooks

Abilipad $19.99

• Similar to IntelliKeys with OverlayMaker

• Word prediction

• Make word/picture boards

• Color code buttons

• E-mail text written with boards

• Download boards from website

neu.Annotate +

• Read and annotate PDF documents

• Annotate with drawings, highlighting texts, take notes, photos, shapes and stamps

• Make PDFs from trash

• E-mail the PDF to print

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