iPad Training Thursday Feb. 10

Even though Thursday was a snow day for us, we went ahead and had our iPad training for those who got iPads and/or iPods (class sets or individual use).

The training was definitely focusing on the basics of using the iPads, but I did learn a few cool and easy things that will help me out tremendously.


Email
You must have email set up on each iPad in order to send or recieve mail. Since we are using these for school, we don't really need to recieve mail, only send it. This will enable students to email their teacher what they were working on, on the iPads during class.
The Trick
Set up an email account for your school (I had my tech guys create one specifically for the iPads).
Go through the process of adding the account to your iPad. When you get to the incoming mail portion, take away the last letter of your password. This way you do not get incoming mail to the iPads (the password is wrong) it only allows you to send mail, which is what we need to turn in assignments.

Creating Links that look like apps
If there is a website that you know your students will need to use a lot, instead of having them type in the URL over and over again to get there, you can create a button/app that is a direct link to that page. For example, our English classes were using the No Fear Shakespeare website daily while reading Romeo and Juliet. Instead of Googling No Fear Shakespeare, clicking on the link, and then finding Romeo and Juliet, they can just click on the button/app to get there.

The Trick
Go to the website you are wanting to use to create your button/app. Click the arrow button to the left of the URL, go down to add to homepage.

A box will appear for you to name your button/app. (In our case we called it No Fear Shakespeare). Then click add.

You now have a button/app on your homescreen, you can add it to a folder, or leave it be!