USING IPADS IN THE WORLD LANGUAGES

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February 13, 2012Clear Spring High School

Agenda

Connecting your iPad Setting up your iPad Internet filter & YouTube Useful apps/Classroom activities

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Connecting your iPad

What you need: LCD projector Computer speakers Apple VGA Adapter

$29.00 from Apple

Unfortunately, there is no cheap way to use it without wires.

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Setting up your iPad:International Keyboards

By using International Keyboard, your iPad can recognize that you’re no longer typing in English. Spell check will work in another language

Launch Settings Find the General tab Tap

Keyboard International Keyboards Add New Keyboard…

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Setting up your iPad:iCloud

iCloud allows you to sync your documents and settings to Apple’s cloud servers.

You can load documents and presentations onto your iPad by visiting www.icloud.com if you have installed Keynote and Pages.

Launch Settings Find iCloud tab

Log in to iCloud using your Apple ID. You can create one if you don’t already have one

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Setting up your iPad:WCPS Outlook E-mail

You can have all of your WCPS e-mails automatically pushed to your iPad.

Launch Settings Find the Mail, Contacts, Calendars tab Tap:

Add Account… Microsoft Exchange Enter your full e-mail address and e-mail password Domain – Blank Server: activesync.wcps.k12.md.us Use SSL – ON

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Internet Filter

When you connect your iPad to your school’s network, it automatically thinks that you are a student.

If a website is blocked, you cannot override it (at least right now).

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Internet Filter & YouTube

The web filter keeps changing. On Friday, you were only able to access EDU – YouTube. www.youtube.com/education Not all YouTube videos are on here, but there are tons of

educational and cultural videos here. If you find a YouTube video that you like, try to view it on

your iPad beforehand. This morning: The YouTube iPad app worked just

fine and it seemed as if I could view any video

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Useful Apps

WCPS has set up an entire website with app recommendations wcpsapps.wcps.wikispaces.net

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Useful Apps:Find iPhone

Free Use

iPad/iPhone/iPod touch go mysteriously missing? Go to www.icloud.com and you can send a signal to your

iPad. It will beep loudly for 2 minutes. You can also remotely lock and wipe your iPad from the

site.

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Useful Apps:TeacherPal

Free Description

It enables the teacher to organize classes and students. Uses

Set up classes Keep attendance Enter grades Take behavioral notes on students

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Useful Apps:Keynote

$9.99 Description

Apple’s version of PowerPoint Create and view presentations

Uses View PowerPoints Photo slideshows Present cultural information Flyswatter game Verb conjugation practice Etc.

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Useful Apps:Pages

$9.99 Description

Apple’s version of Word Uses

Keep electronic lesson plans Whatever you would use Word for

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Useful Apps:Pick-Me

$0.99 Uses

Choose groups of students (groups of 2-10) Pick students randomly

New Features This latest version also gives users the option to purchase a

group package which includes numbers 1-10, alphabet upper, alphabet lower, rock-paper-scissors, dice, colors, and heads or tails. The uses of these groups can be both fun and educational! Cost: Additional $0.99

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Useful Apps:Google Earth

Free Uses

View satellite images of the world Activity

When talking about a city/site in class, why not take a “trip” there?

View beautiful photos of nearly anywhere in the world!

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Useful Apps:Timer+

Free Use

Set a timer to keep students on track

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Useful Apps:SpanishDict

Free Use

App version of www.spanishdict.com

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Useful Apps:ConjuVerb

Free Use

Conjugate Spanish verbs in any form

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Useful Apps:Pearson eText

Free Use

View digital version of Realidades textbooks Most of the book audio activities are built in There are some glitches with the audio, but Pearson keeps

updating the app All of the videos are also in the app (GramActiva,

VideoHistorias, etc.) I use it all the time in class

I project the current activity that we are working on If a student doesn’t have his or her book, they can see it on

the screen I can also focus in on a certain part of a page to highlight it Tap any word in purple to listen to it!

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Useful Apps:ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard

Free Uses

Use as a digital whiteboard Have students use the iPad to write their answers and then

project on the LCD screen Tip for Jenny Comer

You can record audio while writing on the digital whiteboard (i.e. a lesson on conjugating verbs)

If you create a ShowMe account, you can upload these to the Internet and post on Edline or a class website for students who are absent

It does take a long time to upload (nearly 2 hours) – this is normal You can purchase a stylus (like a pen) at 5 Below to improve your

handwriting

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Useful Apps:VoiceThread

Free (Requires classroom subscription) Use

Create and share dynamic conversations around documents, snapshots, diagrams and videos -- basically anything there is to talk about. You can talk, type, and draw right on the screen. VoiceThread takes your conversations to the next level, capturing your presence, not just your comments. Anyone can join the discussion from their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC -- anytime, anywhere.

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Classroom Activities:Music

Included app with iPad I’ve loaded all of my CDs onto the iPad and put each

one into a separate playlist Instead of fumbling through 30 CDs, I just launch the

app, choose the chapter, and play the audio file

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Classroom Activities:Camera

With the camera, you can take photos or video tape classroom performances

The performances can then be saved and posted to a site like TeacherTube Just be sure your students have given permission

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