Just when you thought you could escape any mention of iPads, we bring you one more newsletter before the holiday! Thanks to everyone who has contributed. We look forward to hearing from more experts and enthusiasts after the break.
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Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Cloud storage by Noel Umapas
You might have heard a lot about ‘Cloud Computing’ already but in this article I’ll try to cover Cloud Storage from an iPad perspective. Cloud Storage is simply a place where you can save your data.
32GB of disk space from your iPad is probably not enough. This is where Cloud Storage comes in. There are many Cloud Storage services available but let me just cover four of them, which I believe are useful in our environment.
WebDAV is an open-standard...
Gail Smith's holiday tips & tricks
Safety first!!!
Before you fly, set your iPad to ‘airplane mode’ to turn off all wireless functions. Go to settings, top left corner, and slide Airplane Mode’ to ‘On’.
Apostrophes
No need to switch keyboards to insert an apostrophe. Simply hold the comma key and slide up slightly. The same motion on the period [full stop] key inserts quotation marks.
Save battery power
Your iPad multi-tasks automatically and apps do not close when they ‘disappear’....
A Brush with Art - Andrew Damerham
Several months ago, the students at Madinat Zayed Women’s College studying Art Appreciation were given iPads to use. Learning outcomes in the course require a hands-on approach and the group had already experimented with pencil, charcoal and acrylic paint.
The iPad art sessions followed study of slides of the artist David Hockney’s contemporary landscapes, which he ‘painted’ with an iPad, using the Brushes
app. The new technology was embraced...
Views and Reviews by Swapneela Koul - Paper by 53
For someone like me who’s typically a paper and pencil person, I was naturally thrilled to be able to use my iPad just like a notebook using Paper by 53. It allows me the satisfaction and ease of writing on a paper albeit digitally just like writing in my notebook or diary.
You can use your finger or the stylus to jot down quick notes and thoughts, draw sketches and diagrams or create lists on the go and wherever you are, whether in a meeting...
Caesar’s PD for Pages
Over the past few weeks, Caesar has been taking the time to offer one-to-one PD for iPads. He is happy to continue, so just get in touch if you need his help. Meanwhile, here is his list of the must-knows for Pages, the word processing app.
The Pages interface
Copying and pasting
The virtual keyboard
Tabs and paragraphs
Document set up
Shapes and images
Headers and footers
Tables, charts
Selecting and styling text
Saving and sharing
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iNews from the HCT and the College
The iCelebrate Conference held at ADKC yesterday was a great success and gave us the chance to share teaching and learning ideas with colleagues from the HCT, ZU and UAE. More PD opportunities are planned for next semester.
We have continued our own PD, moving towards apps and pedagogy and software for device projection and management including reflections, Apple TV, nearpod and Blackboard. In August we will have hands-on workshops on using iBooks...
Something for the holiday!
Take your iPad on holiday, make a movie with the iMovie app and enter our Madinat Zayed and Ruwais iMovie competition. Use slides or video or a combination. Maximum length is one minute. Submissions by August 30...
Friday, 31 August 2012
iNews 1 - Sheila Andon
Welcome to the first issue of iNews, the newsletter dedicated to sharing all the latest iPad information in Madinat Zayed and Ruwais Colleges.
The iPad Committee aims to bring to you as much as possible of all the news and developments as we receive them from the various teams and task forces we each serve on.
We’ll keep you updated on the progress of the HCT iPad implementation project and the exciting collaboration between the HCT, ZU...
Thursday, 30 August 2012
Just got your iPad?
SCOtutor for iPad is an excellent and easy to follow video tutorial, available to download free from the App Store. It will take you through the basics of tapping, swiping, and pinching, onto configuring and personalizing your iPad, and also explains the more advanced features.
The whole tutorial lasts two hours but you can pause it and resume whenever you want to continue...
