This document discusses tools for creating content for the iPad without using Flash, which is not supported on iPads. It outlines options for converting existing Flash content and other materials like PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, and videos into HTML5 formats using tools like Ispring Converter, Flipsnack, and Handbrake. The document also recommends apps for tasks like note taking, cloud storage, and media editing that can aid in content creation and sharing for the iPad.

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Adventures in the land of the iPad

2.  What is Flash?
o Produced by Adobe
o Creates interactive applications
 Why would we use Flash?
o Create small quizzes, slide shows, animations
o Random presentation of information
o Reasonably quick and easy to develop applications
 What is HTML5
o HTML is the “language” of the Internet
o HTML5 is very new, not supported on every browser
o Being heralded as the “way forward”

3.  Why?
o Anything developed using Flash needs the free Adobe Flash
Player
o Adobe Flash Player is not available for iPads – and never will be
o Other devices might follow suit
 How?
o Currently tricky – very few “tools” to develop applications in
HTML5
 Recycle?
o Take existing Flash application
o Change the code a little bit
o Keep file size down
o Convert into HTML5

4.  Ispring Converter
o Takes PowerPoint presentations, turns them into HTML5
code
o Code can then be hosted online – works almost like an
app
 iBuildApp
o Free to create apps based on templates
o Quick and easy
o Have to pay to publish app via Apple Developer Account
or via iBuildApp
 Deezine
o Create interactive magazines on the iPad
o Add a variety of content, including video
o Can only be read using their (free) reader

5. Some tools that produce iPad friendly products include:
 Flipsnack
o Takes PDFs and converts into online flip books
o Runs online – no install
o Free (small watermark, embed only)
o Ironically, doesn’t work on the iPad
o Other free tools from the same company, such as Photosnack
 Handbrake
o Free tool to convert video into iPad friendly versions
o Has to be installed locally

6.  Endless search for new apps
o Personal goal: find free versions that are really free
o Over 700,000 available apps of varying quality
 Pick a topic; search, search, search
 Read existing reviews
 Sharing results
o Via the E@T Blog
o Existing blog post:
• Screen casting apps (apps to record your screen)
o In-progress blog posts:
• Tools to help you concentrate in noisy environments
• Mind mapping tools
• Photo editing apps

7.  DropBox
o “Cloud” storage
o Integrates with lots of other tools such as…
 CloudOn
o Free, online version of Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
o Create documents from scratch or modify existing ones
 Evernote
o Quick and easy note taking, allows tagging – synchronised to
any device
o Attach emails to a “notebook” – group items together
 PageSend
o Produce guides, help sheets, feedback etc
o Share easily
 iMovie and Garage Band
o iMovie creates videos with captions, sound quickly and easily
o Garage Band creates music very quickly – which can then be
used in iMovie