This is the basic outline of the introduction training of iPads.
- The basics of the pad - screen, buttons, cameras, microphone, speaker
- Create Shortcuts via Safari, Creating Bookmarks, Syncing bookmarks with laptop
- Reading List, Mail Link, Tweet, Print
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Settings
- Battery Life (brightness, wireless searching)
- Space
- Passcodes
- Rotation Lock
- Mail Accounts
- Purchasing Options
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Accessories and their reviews
- stylus
- keyboard
- covers in general, ballz covers designed for the classroom
- screen protectors
- general accessory
- Folders, deleting/moving apps, home row set-up
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Installing apps - the best ones I recommend to begin exploring!
- Install iBooks and add iPad2 Free Guides -- read books and .pdfs via iBooks. Organize your own personal "Collections".
- Evernote -- note taking and sync among devices
- Wolfram Alpha -- a computational search engine - $ but worth every penny
- Google for general searches -- speak the text to be searched
- Google Translate -- translate phrases, words
- neu.Annotate -- annotate on a pdf, highlighting, circling, notes, etc.
- Khan Academy: A Classroom in your Pocket -- The best in free academic videos
- Great news resources: GET YOUR Local Newspaper, CNN, USA Today
- Google Currents - free magazines via Google
- Copy, Paste, highlight text in between apps, i.e. from iBooks to Google Translator
- Keyboard secrets, CAPS LOCK, flicking, space/space, hold/slide
- Updating your iPad
- Trouble Shooting - rebooting - hold down the power and home button until you see the apple logo!
- Find your lost iPad
- Share the possibilities, ahas, and strategies to keep the conversation going!
- What questions do you have?
- What are your next steps?
- The following is a Google Picasa slideshow - not sure why it's not appearing on the iPad right now, but shows on your computer.