Author Archives: Hebron Tech

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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Google Apps on the iPad

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

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Grade 6 & 7 Science – 3D Biomes in Sketchup

In grade 6 & 7 Science a recent project was to create biomes in 3D using SketchUp. The class was split into groups of two and three and each randomly allocated a different biome, from desert to tundra. After several … Continue reading

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iPad Photo, Video & Audio Basics

Another great use of the iPad is as a camera, whether it’s as a mobile document camera (just open the Camera app when the iPad is connected to your MacBook via AirSever), or to take, export, store and share photographs and videos of … Continue reading

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Jot! & Notability iPad Apps

Jot! and Notability are two great apps available to all faculty that can turn your iPad, when used with Air Server, into a mobile interactive white board for your classroom. Hand draw sketches, words, diagrams and graphs, import pictures or … Continue reading

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Grade 6 & 7 History – Epic Poem Google Sites

Grade 6 & 7 students wanted a different way to publish the epic poems and associated artwork they had created last semester in History. We decided on Google Sites with each student’s site having the following layout: Page 1 – … Continue reading

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