Bring+Your+Own+iPad+-+iPad+for+Educators

We need educators in our schools who understand and model technology literacy and fluency. This workshop will provide participants with the ability to integrate iPad technology into their practice in order to become a more efficient educator. Participants will discover what educational apps are available and how they can be used in classroom instruction as well as apps that can be used for increased productivity.
 * Session Overview: **

**Facilitators**: OETSBSI

**Date & Times**: September 1, 2011 - Bay Ridge ISC 9:00 - 3:00

**Objective**: To provide School Educators with the skills to integrate iPad technology into their everyday practice.

**Class Description**: This follow up workshop is being offered to educators who are familiar with using the iPad & iPad2 so that they can explore and learn how to use key apps on their iPad.

**Practical Application**: iPad for Educators- Learn how to use key apps on your iPad. Participants will be exposed to the following apps.
 * **Keynote, Pages and Numbers** -- Participants will learn how to use Keynote, Pages and Numbers on their iPad.
 * **Show Me** -- Participants will explore new ways of creating white board activities without an interactive whiteboard.
 * **Flipboard** -- Bringing information to you from all your news feeds.
 * **iTunesU ** --Participants will learn how to find multiple resources and courses for use in their classroom.
 * **iBooks** -- Finding free textbooks and resources for your classroom.
 * **Sketchpad Explorer** -- Participants will explore this dynamic geometry app for learning mathematics.


 * Agenda: **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Introductions **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iWork Suite **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Show me **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flipboard **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iTunesU **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iBooks **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sketchpad Explorer **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Evaluation **

=**Workshop:**= =**iWork for the iPad**= Tutorial video from Metacafe: @http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4392168/ipad_apps_keynote/
 * **Introduction**
 * =**A Motiving Video from Applemedia type="youtube" key="24R1QJAXL4s?version=3" height="345" width="560"**=
 * [[image:keynote_icon_20110302.jpg caption="keynote_icon_20110302.jpg" link="@http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/keynote.html"]] || [[image:keynote_title_20110302.png width="208" height="70" caption="keynote_title_20110302.png"]] || It’s the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. And it’s the same innovative app from iWork, completely reworked for iPad and Multi-Touch. So you can do everything on iPad with a tap or drag of your finger — from creating your first slide to presenting your work. ||

Tutorial video of Pages: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLLuJz7F7Hw Tutorial Video from MacMost.com:@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy0Aq7ENbcE
 * [[image:pages_icon_20110302.jpg caption="pages_icon_20110302.jpg" link="@http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/pages.html"]] || [[image:pages_title_20110302.png width="192" height="72" caption="pages_title_20110302.png"]] || It’s the most beautiful word processor ever designed for a mobile device. Using just your fingers, you’re a writer one minute and a designer the next. And the documents you create — newsletters, reports, brochures, and flyers — are way beyond words. ||
 * [[image:numbers_icon_20110302.jpg caption="numbers_icon_20110302.jpg" link="@http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/numbers.html"]] || [[image:numbers_title_20110302.png width="164" height="61" caption="numbers_title_20110302.png"]] || It’s the most powerful spreadsheet app ever designed for a mobile device. You can create tables and charts, add photos and graphics, and enter and edit data — all with your fingers. And it feels so natural, you might just forget you’re making spreadsheets ||

iWork help from Apple

=ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard= Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard!

ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s a radically intuitive app that anyone will find extremely easy to use, regardless of age or background.

To see examples of smart, entertaining, fun, and inspirational ShowMe’s that other people have made, check out ShowMe.com.

INTUITIVE AND POWERFUL

- Begin recording your ShowMe as soon as you open the app—no need to navigate complicated menus - Drop images from your photo library to write over or around - Easily switch between drawing and erasing (as well as pausing and playing) to make your ShowMe flow from concept to concept - You can make your ShowMe as long or as short as it needs to be, and record as many ShowMe’s as you want. Go nuts! - Once you’re finished recording, upload your ShowMe to share with the community (or keep it private if you prefer) - Discover awesome tutorials created by the community at ShowMe.com

A VARIETY OF USES

- Easily explain a range of topics from math to chemistry to music theory to basket weaving. - Add ShowMe’s to your Do-It-Yourself blog - Attach a personal message to any travel photos you want to share - Diagram offensive and defensive strategies for sports - Grade student work with commentary explaining the reasoning behind their performance - Use ShowMe as an interactive whiteboard substitute Implement a “flipped classroom” - Showcase your ShowMe’s online at ShowMe.com and share your knowledge with your students, friends, family, or the world!

FEATURES

- Voice-record - Multiple brush colors - Pause and erase - Import images - Unlimited lesson length - Free to upload to ShowMe.com to share your recordings with friends - Easy embedding for sharing anywhere

Resources:
Great Tutorial ShowMe App from iTunes.

Flipboard
Named Apple's iPad App of the Year and one of TIME's top 50 innovations of 2010, Flipboard is a fast, beautiful way to flip through the news, photos, videos, and updates your friends are sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr, and Instagram. See your social media in a magazine layout that is easy to scan and fun to read. Catch up on the latest stories, videos and posts from popular publications and people such as National Geographic, The New Yorker, Wired, Rolling Stone, Oprah, Forbes, Robert Scoble, and Brain Pickings' Maria Popova. Share articles and photos, comment on posts, and like or favorite anything. Customize your Flipboard with sections created from your favorite news, people, blogs, and topics.

Your Flipboard is everything you care about in one place. It's your magazine. It's your Flipboard. media type="youtube" key="v2vpvEDS00o?version=3" height="345" width="560"

=iTunes U=

**Quick Intro to iTunes U**
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Lectures are only the beginning.
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While iTunes U is ideal for accessing and replaying lectures, it’s also great for sharing other types of content — including slideshows, PDFs, books, films, exhibit tours, and audiobooks. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Media formats supported include AAC, MP3, MPEG-4, PDF, and ePub.) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Biologist David Robinson, for example, takes students on a virtual visit to the Galapagos Islands in his video for Open University. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the Beyond Campus section of iTunes U, students and faculty can access a wealth of content from distinguished entities such as MoMA, the New York Public Library, Public Radio International, and PBS stations.

=**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iBooks **= =media type="youtube" key="5xz2wzmWOpA?version=3" height="390" width="640"=


 * iBooks** is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest best-selling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.

Features:
• Download many of your favorite books from the included iBookstore. • Read a free sample of any book on the iBookstore before making it a part of your collection. • Reorder your books on your bookshelf or browse them in a list sorted by title, author, or category. • Organize your books and PDFs into personal Collections. Swipe left or right to jump between Collections. • Easily adjust your screen brightness to find the perfect lighting for any environment. • Change the font size and pick from six included type faces to make your books more comfortable to read. • Find a word, character, or phrase anywhere in your book with the built-in search feature. • Keep your bookmarks, notes, and your current page wirelessly in sync between iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with the new automatic bookmark syncing feature. • Quickly find a specific page using the page navigator at the bottom of every page. • Read your books on white or sepia colored pages. • Choose left or fully justified text layout from Settings. • Highlight your favorite passages and add notes with the built-in bookmarking features. • Add books in the industry-standard ePub electronic book format to iTunes and sync them to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. • Add PDF documents to iBooks from Mail, or add them to iTunes and sync them to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. • Print PDF documents and notes you've written in iBooks using AirPrint. • Use iBooks with the amazing accessibility features in iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch – such as speaking the words on a given page. = = =﻿Sketchpad Explorer= Drag, manipulate and animate visual mathematics to develop and generalize your understanding of fundamental concepts across elementary math, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and beyond. Based on the award-winning software The Geometer’s Sketchpad®, the Sketchpad Explorer app allows you to interact with, and investigate, any document created in Sketchpad. With a simple, powerful multitouch interface, Sketchpad Explorer puts mathematical comprehension at your fingertips.

Acclaimed as “the Best Educational Software” for mathematics, The Geometer’s Sketchpad is the most widely used school mathematics software in the world. Numerous Sketchpad documents offer mathematical activities, investigations, and interactive visualizations covering a comprehensive range of topics, for learners from kindergarten through university. Far from offering only repetitive and narrow drill, Sketchpad environments encourage deep conceptual understanding and broad mathematical meaning-making.

Sketchpad Explorer includes iPad®-specific activities and workbooks for: • elementary mathematics (Grades 1-6) • early algebra (Grades 7-9) • geometry (Grades 9-10) as well as full access to many mathematical documents hosted on the Sketch Exchange community site and across the web. Users of The Geometer’s Sketchpad can also create and share documents with and for their iPad using iTunes® File Sharing.

With Sketchpad Explorer, the full power of Dynamic Geometry® is available at last for the iPad! Sketchpad Explorer is developed by KCP Technologies and published by Key Curriculum Press. All registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

KCP Technologies, Inc. Web Site Sketchpad Explorer Support

iPad Screenshots


=**//﻿Evaluation//**=


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Resources **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Guided Tours from Apple – [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Download itunes - []

38 interesting ways to use an iPad in the classroom @https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AclS3lrlFkCIZGhuMnZjdjVfNzIxZ2RrNWp0ZDg&hl=en

__**e-Books:**__
 * [|ipad_ebook.pdf]**
 * [|Meet the iPad ebook.pdf]**
 * [|Create Google Docs Form eBook.pdf]**
 * [|Learning & Leading with Habits of Mind.pdf]**

Articles: @http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/education/05tablets.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 @http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/the-school-that-gives-every-student-an-ipad-915539 @http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-belinsky/horrified-by-schools-that_b_804750.html @http://www.macworld.com/article/157013/2011/01/ipadintheschool.html?lsrc=rss_main @http://www.edsocialmedia.com/2010/11/where-are-all-the-e-textbooks-free-e-book/ @http://www.williamstites.net/category/edtech/ @http://www.pbs.org/teacherline/blog/2010/01/how-will-the-ipad-change-education/


 * Other accessories**
 * Projecting - Accessory needed - Apple's iPad doc connector to VGA adaptor