Monthly Archives: February 2015

Book Creator

Book Creator is a great app for creating and sharing interactive (including video content) ebooks right on the iPad which can then be read as a proper ebook using the iBooks app or exported as a PDF. To get started … Continue reading

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Booking Buses, Rooms & Labs in Google Calendar

There are a number of rooms and labs around campus (as well as the different transit and toaster buses located outside Maintenance) that can be booked in advance for an event or for use during one of your classes. Viewing of prior … Continue reading

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Dictation & Speech Tools

iPad Dictation Any time the keyboard is open to input text there is a dictation icon next to the spacebar: Simply tap this to start dictation. iPad Text to Speech There are a couple of options you will need to … Continue reading

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Explain Everything

Explain Everything is a design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard app that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export all kinds of different files and media. There are many types of projects you can do with Explain Everything but we are going … Continue reading

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Live Streaming School Events

One project we have been working on in the Technology department this year is to start getting more of our events live streamed. This is so parents unable to make the journey to school can still watch live. For the past … Continue reading

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iMovie on the iPad

iMovie on the iPad lets you quickly combine clips and edit, produce and export movies directly on the iPad. Just like the full version of iMovie on your MacBook you can add titles, transitions, effects and voice over to create … Continue reading

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Using Gmail as the Default Mail App

To make it so that when you click on an email link a new compose message window opens up in Gmail, you need to complete a couple of steps, depending on the browser you are using. 1. Chrome If you use Chrome … Continue reading

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iWork (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) on the iPad

The iWork suite is Apple’s version of MS Office, allowing you to create documents with advanced layouts in Pages, professional presentations in Keynote and spreadsheets with calculations and charts in Numbers, right on the iPad. Here is the Pages interface … Continue reading

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