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iPad Tips & Tricks

iPad Tips and Tricks

Learn a variety of tips, tricks, and ideas to get more from your iPad so that you and your students can be more productive.

Introduction

Getting the right things done with minimum effort, maximum effect serves as my definition of productivity. Let’s explore some tips and tricks for deciding what is the right thing to do, as well as how to get instructional and organizational tasks accomplished.

Here are some tips on what you can do to maximize productivity!

A. Paperless Classroom Management!

Being able to work anywhere, anytime is one of the main benefits of going paperless. Another benefit is that when your work is “paperless,” you are able to easily share it with students. Take advantage of these tools to move towards a paperless teaching and learning environment.

Take advantage of a “light” learning management system (LMS) option to make it easy for you and your students to gather, share, and collect resources for students and colleagues. Schools are depending on one of the solutions below to create a digital presence for staff and/or student sharing.

MS Classroom plus OneNote Class Notebook make it easy to issue assignments, track those assignments in calendars, engage students in conversations, aligned to individual assignments or for group work. With OneNote Class Notebook, teachers can distribute handouts, resources, as well as grade student work using digital ink, and that syncs to MS Classroom gradebook!

And, staff/students have access to Word, Powerpoint, Excel Online, OneDrive cloud storage and Microsoft Forms with built-in quiz and QR code functionality. Find out more at http://ly.tcea.org/jointceamie

Google Classroom, boasting a rich feature set, works similarly to MS Classroom, but in the Google environment. What’s more, you can take advantage of the rich ecology of GoogleApps--Docs, Slides, Sheets, Drive--to create, collaborate and share content with others.

Note that you can also integrate OneNote Class Notebook with Google Classroom, allowing you to take advantage of document distribution and digital ink features!

Nearpod serves as an interactive presentation and assessment tool for your classroom. As teacher, you can create presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on. You can import presentations from various sources, including Google Slides.

And, you can share your presentations with other educators for free or not, and vice versa!

Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students to independently document what they are learning at school. Some of its features include being able to easily capture student learning in wide variety of forms, including photos, videos, drawings, text notes, links. The teacher can decide how to share these in a virtual classroom space, as well as via the Seesaw Class blog. Parents also enjoy access and work can be exported from the system.

B. Create shareable multimedia content

Once you move into a paperless environment, you will need to create lessons and activities for students. Take advantage of online creation and annotation tools:

But wait, there’s even more below!

C. Manage your time

Wondering how to better manage your time? Make sure you have the right apps on your mobile device, whether for to-do lists, email or calendars! Whether you want to measure your use of time as stored in Google Calendar with GTimeReports.com or make it easier for others to schedule your time with YouCanBook.me for parent-teacher conferences, or arrange a collaboration meeting with Doodle.com.