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 or a classroom without bothering to type and toggle between letters, numbers and symbols.

It’s very easy to learn as there are no complicated tools or fussy menu bars. It is not targeted at any particular audience or use, so it’s suitable for anyone and anywhere. The free plan comes with a pen, eraser and basic selection of colours. Additional tools will have to be purchased. You can share your notes, sketches or lists via email, Facebook or Twitter.

Read and watch:
http://www.148apps.com/reviews/paper-fiftythree-review/#ixzz1xNKYxGOQ
http://support.fiftythree.com/fiftythree/topics/paper_for_ipad_quick_how_to

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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

http://help.apple.com/pages/ipad/1.6/

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Views and Reviews by John Yule - Explain Everything

This is an amazing App that will enable you and your students to insert videos and images, then annotate or record voice-overs. Perfect for creative presentations, mini-lectures, how-to clips, video journals. Just the tool for flipping your classroom.

Click here for more information and the App

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Views and Reviews by John Yule - PDF Notes

I have looked at a number of apps that allow the user to read/annotate pdf files. The one that does what I want to do best is pdf-notes. This allows the user to view attachments from emails as well as from dropbox etc. It also allows one to send the annotated file back by email or to dropbox etc.

There is quite a range of options regarding annotation, so it seems to do a pretty good job (at least for what I want). Best of all, it is free.

BTW, I was looking for something that might do the same as the way I use MS OneNote (i.e. students send me their work, I mark it and send their scripts back with comments). I notice there is an app for OneNote called Outline. At the moment it is read only, so of little use to me, but there are plans to develop it so it can be used in the same way as OneNote. Unfortunately, it will not be free when this update takes place, but it might be a useful app nevertheless.

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Highly recommended and free!

Nearpod is an excellent app for the classroom that enables the teacher to share content, whether text or multi-media, with the students. The teacher can see who is ‘on the same page’ and who has turned back to Angry Birds! Students can take class tests in the form of multiple-choice or by submission on text-based answers. The results come to the teacher’s iPad and can be simultaneously projected to the smart board using Apple TV. Nearpod also has a library of free lessons.

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