Thursday, May 24, 2012

50 really useful iPad 2 tips and tricks

An absolute gem of an article by John Brandon and Graham Barlow from MacLife on 30th March over at TechRadar.

 

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

We are winding down the first year with the iPads here at Maryvale.  Most students seem to really enjoy having and using them for educational and personal reasons.  We still have the issues with breakage due to the cases being less protective than we had hoped.  The time that I spend packing up and shipping iPads to the repair company is more than expected and we are continuing to look at how to get a better handle on this.

The students have found interesting and creative ways to use them for their own learning experiences. They have founds apps for taking notes and recording video and audio. They really took to the iPad intuitively and they say that they don't know what they did before they got their iPads.

Some apps students have used successfully this year include Quizlet, Snapguide, Kinotopic, Toontastic, iMovie, Keynote, and pdf-notes.  We are looking forward to the ways the students will continue to use their iPads in the upcoming year.