15 Great ipad Tips for Teachers

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1 15 Great ipad Tips for Teachers

2 Housekeeping Etiquette Please make sure your mic is muted Please stay with us until the end to receive your credit And feel free to interrupt with any questions

3 Name your ipad Settings, General, About...Name it

4 Basic Buttons

5 Screen Shot

6 Multi-tasking status toolbar can see which apps are running (save battery by closing apps) to close, press an app until they wiggle, hit the minus sign doesn t delete just closes app

7 Re-arrange Apps / Make a Folder

8 Search spotlight Hit your home button or swipe all the way to the right

9 Camera App Camera focus and meter In the Camera app, tap on your subject to both focus on and meter the light properly. In this shot, notice how the chair is dark and the boy outside is properly metered. You can reverse that by simply tapping on the chair.

10 Photo Booth Photo Booth fun Sure, you're great, but Photo Booth is even more fun if you point it at friends or family. Simply tap the 'twirly camera' icon in the bottom right to use the camera on the back You can also snap stills by hitting the shutter button, but Photo Booth doesn't do video.

11 How to remove the Sent from my ipad signature How to remove the Sent from my ipad signature from outgoing on your ipad Does everyone need to know you just sent that from your ipad? Probably not. Select Settings, Mail, Contacts, Calendars from the list on the left side of the Settings window, and then tap the Signature (which by default will be Sent from my ipad ).

12 Website How do I create a shortcut to a website or webpage? Shortcut Next to the website address is an arrow, click on it select Add to home screen If you want an instant shortcut to a website, your Google Calendar, or any other webpage, press the Add to Home Screen. You'll get an icon on the page as a short cut to that site.

13 Split Keyboard Make sure your Split Keyboard is on * found under Settings, General, Keyboard split the board with two index fingers, swipe out, then press back together

14 Turn Caps Lock key on Double tap the arrow on keyboard to keep caps lock key on Arrow button will turn solid blue

15 Special Characters How do I type accents for Spanish text? When typing in a Spanish or another language, one can use special characters by pressing and holding the appropriate letter on the keyboard, then sliding to that letter to type. All the vowels press on a vowel to retrieve accents 2nd keyboard? - press and hold to get upside down? Exclamation- press and hold to get upside down exclamation

16 Emoji (e-mo-gee) Keyboard Settings, General, scroll up to find Keyboard, select Keyboards Add new keyboard Emoji (emoticons)

17 When you ve been ibossed Explain authentication Go to myspace.com Yellow triangle will pop up login as a different user leave open go to app and now you re in

18 Copy & Define Press the text until Copy / Define comes up, make selection

19 Copy & Paste You can quickly copy and paste text by tapping and holding down, and then choosing Select to select the exact portion of text you'd like the copy. Next tap Copy, then go to a different app, and tap and hold down again, then tap Paste from the menu that appears. photo on internet-press on it, select Save image Where does it go? Photos folder

20 Hidden Apostrophe Hidden apostrophe key on the keyboard This is a great tip for any app, such as Notes, Pages or Mail, that you type into using the ipad's virtual keyboard. Rather than having to go to the second screen of the keyboard every time you want to type an apostrophe just tap and hold on the! key and a hidden apostrophe option will appear - then just slide your finger up to access it.

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