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Getting Started with Apple iOS Devices
Taking and Editing Photos
You and your students can use Camera on iPad or iPod touch to take photos and then
view, organize, edit, and share them using the iPhoto app, available for download from
the App Store. For example, students can take photos to illustrate vocabulary words
for a classroom book, document science experiments and add the pictures to their
lab reports, or edit photos they took from a eld trip to share in a slideshow or photo
journal.
The iPhoto app includes a scrollable thumbnail grid that makes it simple to quickly
locate photos, compare them side by side, and then select the ones you want to use.
You can then edit the pictures, such as by cropping or adjusting the contrast, or add
professional eects like Black & White or Vintage. Then you can make nishing touches
with brushes—for example, to lighten or darken part of a picture, sharpen an area, or
eliminate red-eye.
There are many ways to share photo collections. You can showcase your photos in a
photo journal complete with captions, maps, dates, and the weather—share the journals
on iPad or iPod touch, or use iCloud to share them with others. Photos can also be
viewed in class by using AirPlay and Apple TV or transferred to a computer to use in
projects produced on the Mac.
Using iPod touch and iPad for Voice Recording
Recording memos, lectures, interviews, small group discussions, and more is easy on
iPod touch (with the built-in Voice Memos app) and iPad (with the addition of a third-
party recording app). Capture reading samples for assessment purposes or for students
to use for self-reection. Students learning a foreign language can record themselves
to practice speaking and uency. Dictate instructions for science labs, lesson plans, and
research notes, or record to-do lists as you think of them. Record sta or parent meetings
instead of transcribing them. You can share the recording by posting the audio le on
a website.
With both iPod touch and iPad, you can record with the built-in microphone, attach an
external microphone, or use the microphone on Apple Earphones. Use the iPod touch
built-in speaker to review your recorded audio les later, or use headphones with either
iOS device. When you connect your iPod touch to your Mac, audio recordings made
with the Voice Memos app are copied to iTunes and stored in a Voice Memos playlist.
You can also share les by email from the device. Create iTunes playlists to store each
student’s recordings in a digital portfolio. Recorded audio les can be reviewed in
iTunes, edited in GarageBand on a Mac, and used in other projects, such as podcast
narration or courses produced with iTunes U Course Manager.
Creating and Sharing Presentations, Documents, and Spreadsheets
It’s easy to produce a wide array of presentations, spreadsheets, and documents using
the iWork apps Keynote, Numbers, and Pages on iPad and iPod touch. These have been
designed to take advantage of iOS Multi-Touch features and can be downloaded as
individual apps from the App Store.
You and your students can create stunning presentations with the Keynote app on
iPad or iPod touch. A great feature of iOS devices is the ease with which you can share
and view presentations that you and your students produce. Students could present
their ndings from a lab experiment, produce ash cards for review, or demonstrate
what they’ve learned about a period in history. You can use presentations to introduce
a unit of study, share classroom events with students’ families, or add to a Multi-Touch
book created with iBooks Author.
In Keynote, students can choose from a collection of Apple-designed themes and then
create slides with text, charts, tables, photos, their own artwork, and movies. They can
add animation eects and transitions to enhance their presentations.