YOU MUST:
(1) Keep a check out list of each iPad and assign students to the same iPad each day. You should be able to easily find out which student did what on each iPad.
(2) Report any damaged or lost iPad immediately! Failure to do so may result in your loss of privileges to the cart.
(3) Each cart will have a HOME ROOM. The Home Room teacher will keep track of who the cart is checked out to and how often. Create a spread sheet to keep track of this information. Based on these spread sheets we will determine if more carts are needed for that particular hall of classrooms. The Home Room teacher should check each cart and iPad as they are returned to the Home Room.
(4) Learn how to CLOSE all Apps before putting away iPads. (Double click the Home Button and swipe up on each open App until only the Home Screen remains).
(5) Update the iPads and Apps as necessary. This may require you to actually "touch" each iPad in your cart to manage the updates.
There are a few Apps we will discuss that will help you manage your iPADs. But NOTHING replaces a teacher moving around the room and watching what students are doing.
Recently we had incidents in the K-1 Hall we found iPADs with attempted links to:
Sexy Naked Girls
Dick in the Mouth
Sex Adult Games
It must be immediately realized that these students have had experiences with these types of searches...perhaps elsewhere. But if they are not being engaged in real instructional practices, they will get off topic and into trouble. MONITOR your students!
Managing iBooks
Free iBooks from iBook Store, Open University, CK12, and ePub, Good Reader
iBooks allows you to highlight for review and for Speak capabilities, and copy and paste options
You can increase the font size
On a MAC you can download iBooks Author for free
Put in folders: media, text, galler, chapter images, other assets.
Steps:
--Template chooser--
--Book title with graphic..edit
Intro Media - drag video into window and will optimize movie and
compressor (final cut pro)
--Table of Contents - built automatically
--Glossary
--chapters --drag and drop in
--drag in text and graphics
Widget Choices: Add in as you need to
--Drag placeholder in and then drag content i.e.
Gallery - drag folder; highlight and change description
Quiz Widget drag in and then edit question and answers
2 Ways to Publish
1. --File, Publish to the store -- no book is higher than 14.99
...takes a couple of weeks to get it published.
2. Export the Book as an iBook, PDF, or Text to local location or
incorporate it into a course.