Morrie Reece–Apple Briefing on Digital Students

A Day in the Life….

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• Digital photos and video
• podcasts, Guttenberg, iTunes, and shuffles
• iChat AV; video collaborating
• band practice and “you Are  There” w/ GB
• making movies
• web site authoring
• Magic DVDs

Hands-on w/ the iPod Touch in the Classroom

• 188,00 apps / 13,412 for Education

Photos…

• Use PhotoBooth..
  • take photos
  • shoot videos
• set hotspots for Widgets!
• Magic Widget Site….www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard….What is our objection to adding Widgets????  Find the Math ones for math teachers, etc?????  Trig table widget…Translator…..FREE….where is??  World Cultures,etc.
• Calculators on our Mac’s…regular, scientific, programing, Graphing……
• Cmd/Shft/3 or Cmd/Shft/4
• Ability to read from TextEdit w/ Voice…..how did he activate voice?
  • Set/turn on in System Preferences….voice….
    • click “speak selected text when the key is pressed”….”set key”  YOU DECIDE
    • Alex voice is best!!!!
  • Text Edit…
    • select Add to iTunes as Spoken Test
    • Open in iTunes…find “spoken text” playlist
    • Must first enable through Services: Service Preferences: scroll down to text tab and check “add to iTunes as  Spoken text”
    • Guttenberg.org
• Get FLIP cameras…about $170 w/ rechargable batteries….LET’s get these!!!
• iPhoto….
  • in Preferences…allow students to download or upload or add photos via email.
  • MUST have a MOBILE ME account
  • create classes and set accessibility for various classes, etc.
  • Face Recognition
  • Places!!!!
    • camera records long/lat and adds it to the picture data and is recognized in iPhoto
    • or you can add location after the fact to drop the pin
    • books…..printed through Kodak….
      • COST???
      • instead “print” to PDF  for FREE!  (send via e-mail to Parents for binding if they choose!)
      • IIT Curriculum–meets NET-S standards
      • Consider printing/binding the BEST OF for collection/samples
  • helping Algebra students!
• iTunes Store
  • Podcasts on Algebra…load to an iPod and “loan” to students for remediation
  • Any subject area…
  • We can even CREATE remedial videos!  Jason Allen
  • Enrichment as well!!!
• iChat AV
  • screen sharing
  • meetings?  training?
• GarageBand
  • capture a file as from online and save as a MIDI file
  • drop into new GB music projects
  • handpick instruments
  • GB separates each instrument into it’s own file.
    • solo tracks to hear only one e.g. only hear trumpet
    • or mute so you do not a particular track–e.g. don’t hear trumpet
• iDVD
  • magic iDVD
• iPod Touch
  • app called Kazan talks to Guttenberg to download.
  • can set w/ password/code to protect.
  • $12 microphone (red thumbtack)
  • Turning Technologies, Response Ware
  • eCove for student observations
  • look up that technology program that has the iPod app….
• iPad
  • all iPod apps run on iPad
  • 9×7
  • cover is necessary
    • Show/print Score for a particular track

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