Monday

Monday   ﻿Hey all! Welcome to my Wiki! This is designed to help you be part of my Apple Academy experience. The purpose of it is to teach us everything Apple for the iPad, iPod Touch, and the Mac. It's a very compacted curriculum, but I LOVE It! We have 15 participants in this session. Participants are in IT, teacher trainers, directors of technology, or integration specialists. They come from Southern Cal, Texas, Michigan, New York, Minnesota, Arkansas, Washington, Missouri, Massachusetts, Kansas, and Missouri. It's a great group and lots of potential for great resource sharing. **Today's agenda: **
 * iPad 2
 * OS X
 * Keynote

**iPad:**
 * Mail - Mulitasking with addresses listed in email linking right to iPad maps, filing emails into folders, general use. Go here to see a movie about Mail.
 * Safari (click on Safari movie) - Harvesting images, 37 signals chalk (only available on iPad), adding things to home screen, allows you to be offline and still work with the site - cool!
 * iBooks - Purchasing books through iTunes, PDFs and ePub. Very cool that it incorporates video into a book!
 * Videos - iTunesU, Apple TV using the Airplay button - the student can be viewing a video on their iPad, teacher presses Airplay and what student is seeing shows up on big screen.
 * Calendar App

**Apple Volume Purchasing** ** All participants of this academy spent a lot of time talking about Apple volume purchasing and shared different models out in the field. This is in preparation for an organized way of putting applications onto iPods and iPads that we may add to the district. It's been great to hear what other schools are doing (before we get ourselves to that point) ** **Garage Band for the iPad** Wow, this is the first time I have been able to take a look closely at the Garage Band iPad app. I had known it could act like a recording studio and I have helped students created podcasts on it, but, what I didn't know is that the iPad can now be used as an instrument. We started with the keyboards, we tried different buttons to add different effects to the sounds thern we added drum kits and guitars. I really like it as an additional resource for copyright free music. It is an original work that can act as background music to kids' podcasts, movies, and other things they may want to publish to YouTube. Collaboration tools
 * iOS (Apple's mobile operating system) devices were designed for individuals, therefore, the Apple Volume Purchasing Program (AVPP) will help schools purchase apps for iOS machines and manage them.
 * Not all apps are available through AVPP, but if they are, they can purchase apps at 50% off if we order more than 20 licenses of that app.
 * Want to know more about AVPP? Go to this link.
 * It is our plan to move toward AVPP as a district in preparation for more iOS devices in the future. BVD and I will set up our account this summer.
 * Currently we have 20 iPads in the district which are managed by the special education department.
 * iChat - We learned about the different ways we could chat (just voice, text, or video)
 * We experimented with screen takeover - I could see this really helpful for teachers to teach other teachers.
 * We learned how to distribute documents over iChat - really easy to do!
 * You can record video chats
 * You can show a keynote presentation to another member by putting your slides onto their screen AND by allowing them to see the slides and your narrative image.


 * Apple Wiki & Blog server: Very cool to see this in action. We may choose to utilize this more in our district. An example of a Wiki and podcast is our WNHS, our own student video magazine.
 * Keynote** - Goal is to use Keynote as a medium.
 * We learned how to use Keynote on the iPad
 * I liked how it was simplified. It provided less choices for tweaking the cosmetics. Because of that, we can have students concentrate on their content which is REAL and authentic.
 * Here are some details we learned:
 * Adding a table
 * Adding charts
 * Using Magic move
 * Creating presenter notes