2. AGENDA
Understanding your iPad
Tips, tricks and neat stuff
How to use effectively in the classroom
Sample Lessons
Discovery Education
APPS!!!
Questions????
3. Functional Advice for your iPad:
Tips, Tricks, and Hints You’ll Wonder How You Ever Lived Without
1. Organizing is Key: Dock your apps, create folders, rename folders,
delete apps
2. Discover the Super Secret Hidden Buttons: Quick access to screen
lock, the iPod, and recently used apps
3. Work Smarter, Not Harder: Multitasking made easy
4. Texting Tricks: Copy and paste, clairvoyant space bar, shift lock
5. Extreme Surfing (do try this at home): Homepage, bookmarks,
shortcuts, links, getting to the top
6. Imagine All the Pictures: Save, copy, screenshots, and wireless camera
magic
7. Where’s the Manual: The Official iPad Guided Tours and Handy
Dandy Manual
8. Apple Products Never have Glitches: Just in case. . . manual shut
down
4. SAMPLE LESSONS
Sample lesson on The Myrtles
www.ipadsinthemiddle.blogspot.com
Math Lesson:
Subtraction by Richie Myers
Counting Money by Akousa Allen
5. DISCOVERY
EDUCATION
View video segments on iPads through Safari
Planet lesson
22. THE MYRTLES LESSON
Myrtles Plantation
1. Virtual Tour of the Myrtles– Video
a. YouTube – Myrtles Plantation Haunted Hotel
2. Google Earth
a. Locate Myrtles Plantation
b. Click the Myrtles Plantation link
c. What city is it located in? How can you find the distance from Sherwood Middle to the Myrtles Plantation
3. Safari !
a. Search for Sherwood Middle
b. Search for Myrtles Plantation
i. Create a folder – Myrtles Plantation
1. Save the official Myrtles website
2. Save the Myrtles Google Images - Save 2 or 3 images of Myrtles to Photos
4. Doodle Buddy
a. Open one of the Myrtles images you saved
b. Enhance the image
c. Save the image to Photos
5. Story Buddy
a. Give your story a Title - Open the image
b. Create a 2-3 page story as if you were as if you had taken a trip to the Myrtles.
c. After you complete the story close Story Buddy
d. Open Story Buddy and you can Edit or Read the story
e. Export the story so you can open it in iBooks
f. Also email to Sherwoodmiddlemagnet@gmail.com