Category Archives: Professional Development

These are two great apps that take a different approach to working with video on the iPad. Coach’s Eye Coach’s Eye is an instant reply and video analysis app that lets you manipulate video at different speeds and record annotations and … Continue reading →

During the technology training sessions this week we took a look at three different creative apps on the iPad. Paper by 53 Paper by 53 is a sketching, note-taking and art app that takes a slightly different approach to creating digital drawings and artwork. … Continue reading →

Timeline 3D is a great app for creating and presenting timelines on the iPad. From a list of events organized by date the app creates a 3D presentation which can then be navigated through. To start a new timeline click on … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Google has a range of different apps available for the iPad. During this week’s tech training session we took a look at the following apps (all are available in the Self Service on your iPad and it is recommended that you … Continue reading →