Appy Hour Week 9 - Strip Design

For our last Appy Hour of Term, we looked at the App Strip Design

This App is similar to Comic Life, which you might have used on the Mac, however, is more flexible and easier to use for a range of purposes.

You will find a tutorial for Strip Design embedded below

Appy Hour Week 6 - Keynote

Hi All,

At this week's Appy Hour we looked at the App Keynote. 

Keynote is a great App for creating and delivering content to and with students.

We looked at how to create a presentation, change the theme, insert images and text, apply effects and transitions.

If you missed the session, please view the video below for a quick recap on how to use the App effectively.

Cheers,
Sam.

Last Week's Appy Hour - Book Creator!

At our last Appy Hour we looked at a wonderful App called Book Creator. 

We sourced images from our camera roll, the internet and even drew some ourselves. We also added some audio recordings/songs to our book!

Book Creator is a fantastic App with a lot of scope to publish any piece of children's work.

If you missed the session, here is a short video tutorial for Book Creator

Year 5 have been using Book Creator last week to create a collaborative book on the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Year 1 have been creating their own stories using the App!

Hope to see you at our next Appy Hour where we will be taking a look at Keynote! 

Appy Hour - Monday of Week 4

On Monday of Week 4 we held our second Appy Hour of the term!

We looked at the App Pages and some of the different ways we might be able to utilise this App in our classrooms. We created a poster from one of the templates already in Pages to advertise an upcoming school event.

A new area of learning for many staff members was the saving of copyright-free images from Google Images. The steps we took to search for these images were as follows:

1. Open Safari and tap in the address bar, clear whatever information is there at the moment
2. Use a keyword to search for an image you would like to use with your poster
3. Select 'Images' from the menu (it should be next to the word web)
4. Select Search Tools and then Usage Rights and then select Labeled for reuse
5.  Select the image and choose view image (this will enlarge the image so you can save the best quality image available)
6. Once the image has loaded on to a new page, press and hold your finger on the image for a few seconds, and a dialogue box will appear with the option to Save Image - select this and your image will be saved to your Camera Roll which can be found in either the Camera app or the Photos app

Our next Appy Hour!

Hi All,

Our next Appy Hour will be held on Monday of Week 4 and we will be focusing on the App, Pages!

Pages is a free App which you can download on to your iPad.

If you open up the App Store and select Apps Made by Apple towards the bottom of the screen it will show a screen similar to this one:

Please download the Apps on the first three rows as we will be looking at all of these throughout the course of year. 

Please let one of the ICLT Team know if you have any trouble!

Thanks,
Sam.

Our First Appy Hour!

Hi All, 

Thank you for your attendance at our First Appy Hour! 

In our first session we covered: 

• Q & A - Any questions on using the iPad were answered 

•  A review of the previous session with Kristy and some new shortcuts 

•  Bookmarking our Appy Hour Blog to our home screens 

•  A review of Realtime Roll and clarification on how to use it 

•  A review of Airserver and sharing of when it might be used in class 

•  An introduction to our iPad In-class visits for Term 2 and nomination of preferred time and App - there is one time-slot for each class this term where Sam will come to your class and teach a new App or process. Teachers are asked to nominate a time on the Google doc which has been shared with you. iPads will be used from Stage 2 and 3 for the middle session to allow 1:2 access for these sessions. 

•  A notification that all Stage 2 and 3 iPads will be re-imaged on Monday 28 July 

•  A preview of upcoming Appy Hours - see google doc shared with you for a timetable of upcoming Appy Hours. Typically to be held on Thursday afternoons on odd weeks from 3:15-4pm 

•  Sharing of Apps, Sites or Tips

 Margaret shared a site she discovered at the Slide2Learn Conference ICT With Miss C http://ictwithmissc.weebly.com  - this site contains a wealth of useful information related to ICLT and iPad Use. 

Veronica shared an App she has been using recently - Pinterest is a wonderful tool for collecting or finding a collection of resources (images, links etc) https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pinterest/id429047995?mt=8

Thanks again, and keep an eye on this blog for more information, ideas and recaps of our Appy Hours!

Thanks,
Sam.

Some free Apps to get you started!

Hi All,

When you set up your iPad for the first time, you will be asked if you would like to download a set of Apps Developed by Apple, these Apps are Free with a New iPad - please ensure you download these Apps...they will include: 

• Pages
• Numbers
• Keynote
• Garageband
• iMovie
• Podcasts
• iTunes U
• iBooks

Here are some free Apps you might like to get you started on your iPad!

• Overdrive
• Google Drive
• Google Docs
• Google Sheets
• Apps Gone Free
• ABC iView
• Class Dojo
• YouTube
• TED Talks
• MyScript Calculator

iPad Launch!

Hi All, On Wednesday the 25th of June we will be rolling out the iPads to you all! On the day you will receive your iPad, and your case. Also on the day, we will sign in with our Apple ID, have a brief introduction to some of the features of the iPad, set up our email accounts and start downloading some Apps which the school has purchased for you. Before next Wednesday, you need to create an Apple ID if you do not already have one. To do this, see one of the members of the ICLT team. We will also be looking at the iPad Teacher Agreement which has been created. Look forward to seeing you on the day!

Welcome to our blog!

Hello and welcome to our blog! Throughout the year, we will be using this Blog to house information relevant to the introduction of iPads at Holy Family. Keep an eye on this blog for App recommendations, tutorials and relevant articles and links! Enjoy!