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Getting Started with Apple iOS Devices
3. To search for iTunes U content, enter text in the search eld. The iTunes Store divides
the results into categories. To see only iTunes U search results, click iTunes U under
Filter By Media Type on the left. Items from the search are divided into four categories:
Collections, Episodes, Courses, and Materials.
4. Click an item in the iTunes U Materials or iTunes U Episodes list to play it. Click the
title of a course or collection to view more information about it and to see a list of
available audio and video tracks. Double-click an item in the list to play it.
5. To download items you want, click Free or Subscribe Free. If the content is ongoing,
you can subscribe to automatically download future tracks. Often, transcripts of the
audio are also available.
Once downloaded, you can connect an iPad or iPod touch to your computer to sync
the new les to the device.
See “Resources” later in this guide for more information about iTunes U. To sign up to
be an iTunes U provider, go to eduapp.apple.com.
Reading Books on iPad and iPod touch
iPad and iPod touch provide an engaging way for students to read books, whether
they’re books from the iBookstore—such as textbooks for use on iPad—books created
on the Mac with iBooks Author, or interactive books from the App Store.
Use the iBooks app, a free download from the App Store, to read books on iPad or iPod
touch. After you’ve downloaded the app, tap the iBooks icon and a bookshelf appears.
Tap Store to download a book from the iBookstore.
A special section of the iBookstore includes compelling new Multi-Touch iBooks text-
books created by publishers for use specically on iPad, such as E.O. Wilson’s Life on
Earth and Algebra 1 from McGraw-Hill. These books include many features to provide
an in-depth learning experience. Photos can be organized in a photo gallery that stu-
dents swipe through to view. Individual photos can have callouts and tap-and-zoom
features that allow students to zoom in for more detail. These textbooks may also
include 3D images that readers can view from all angles, web-linked information that’s
always up to date, and animated presentations, videos, and audio materials. Chapter
reviews and study cards give students an opportunity to test their knowledge.
Students can also use the iBooks app to read books created on the Mac with iBooks
Author—books you’ve created for your class, books by others that have been pub-
lished on the iBookstore, or books that students create themselves. (See “Producing
Multi-Touch Books with iBooks Author” later in this guide.)
Students just tap to open a book on their iBooks bookshelf and swipe to turn the
pages. iBooks makes it easy for students to customize their reading experience. They
can access dictionary denitions, adjust the font size, zoom in on a page, search for
words, highlight text, and add notes. They can also use VoiceOver to hear the text read
back to them. (See “Accessibility and iOS Devices” later in this guide for information on
settings that allow VoiceOver to be turned on and o with a triple-click of the Home
button.)
In addition to textbooks, thousands of other books are available for download from
the iBookstore, many of which are free. The following are just a few of the free books
available: The Odyssey, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, Frankenstein, and The Federalist
Papers. Students can also read and explore books on iPad and iPod touch with
interactive book apps, such as Milly, Molly and the Bike Ride; Miss Spider’s Tea Party;
Shakespeare in Bits: Romeo and Juliet; Bobo Explores Light; and Green Eggs and Ham.
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