Coaches Newsletter
April 2018
Scan QR Codes with the Camera App!
Of course, there are lots of free QR code scanner apps in the App Store but most (if not all of them) typically have advertisements. This also means one less app needs to be installed on student iPads.
Record Your iPad Screen!
This might now become one of the easiest ways to have students document their learning on the iPad. Students can use a variety of apps to describe, explain, question, analyze, annotate, and draw what they are learning or thinking and now they can screen and voice record as they do it! The video is automatically saved to the Photos app for easy sharing.
This is also a great option for teachers to record their class lessons. If you typically display and teach from your iPad, it's just one extra step to record your entire lesson along with audio. Then you can upload it to a video sharing service like YouTube or Google Drive and give absent students access to it (or your whole class!).
Split Screen & the New Slide Over!
New Floating iPad Dock
The new floating Dock allows you to store more apps. It's also now accessible from any screen on the iPad, even when you are inside another app. With just a quick swipe up from the bottom, you can access the new Dock. Along the right side, it gives you access to 2-3 of your most recently used apps. And it improves multitasking across your Apple devices by showing you what Apple apps you are using on your MacBook or iMac.
Apple Classroom
Apple Clips In The Classroom
Teachers and students can use Clips to create engaging, accessible video presentations that can include Live Titles (captions), music, and fun labels or animated posters. Teachers might create a short video to introduce a class project or even record video instructions in advance for a substitute teacher to play for the class. Students can use Clips as a creative way to demonstrate learning: to describe a concept, deliver a book report, or tell a story. Kids might interview several classmates on a subject and then learn how to edit the video using the simple Trim feature. Since the captions feature is available in so many languages, Clips is a great option for practicing and presenting in foreign language classes.
Apple 2018 iPad education event in 11 minutes
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