Apple+Seminar+Notes

CAVEAT: For technical questions due to any errors herein write Matt Roe at roe@apple.com

=**Apple Seminar**= April 9, 2010

Apple Classrooms of Today ACOT2 [|http://ali.apple.com/acot2/]

Sam: Florida video blogs, Christine Dowd: schools are like planes; digital life ends once in the air. Kids leave school their digital life begins again.

Mobile access: iPods for learning, creating apps (DPS? Language to develop apps, kids make eight grand in a summer off an .99 app), “thirty million word gap” study good reason for iPod shuffles or pods.

iTunes is 250,000 apps and 4 billions downloads off iTunes. iTunes U: academic and professional education departments. Professional Content: teacher guides pdfs, QUEST. U of S. FL lit2go all the books in public domain [] audio and text as well on a iPod touch. Free too.

Apps store, Christine had site for free and low cost apps for ed, but se can’t keep up./ Look carefully, some are explicit. ESL app lessons hear, say, listen to it. Sweet. $4.99 put your iPods face down as classroom management.

Language acquisition: ELA, writing, fluency, need to make accelerated progress or they never catch up. 4-5 times the rate of normal fluency instruction. Hear speed, cadence, instant feedback, like a mirror in dace studio.

Using voice memo to record a reading sample. Copy recording to iTunes. Create a digital portfolio. As they come in, we’ll identify them individually put into a play list; digital portfolio to run from September to June. Can HEAR the shifts in fluency over time.

Pages is part of iWork sweet. Open Voice memos app on the iTouch and read the paragraph. On mac copy paragraph to be read. iTouch hit red record button on left. Done hit button on right side to stop. To hear tap right hand button to preview. To import into iTunes, open iTunes under Devices and hit Sync. (may have to unplug the iTouch and replug to resync) Voice Memos bottom left and click on it. Has date and time click once on file, File menu and Get Info, change name of file and under Lyrics tab and paste in copy from reading in Pages, Under Info tab, add name of reading and artist students name. Comments put in Date. Options memo, change from voice in Media Kind change from Voice Memo to Music. Click Okay.

For individual Portfolios, make a Playlist, rename playlist to individual’s name. Clck on Voice memos and drag the reading to the named playlist. Over the year, when new readings are added. Now need to sync with the iTouch so students can access. Click on iPod Touch under Devices to sync. Will then come up on iTouch under Music see playlists and play named file and it will play the reading with the lyrics. Can search for name under **artist**, it will NOT find the name used to name playlist.

Canandaigua 1st grade teacher trouble teaching reading. Project ICan read.com [] at webinar to be sent.

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Macbooks: Maine using them 8=12 all teachers and students. Shift command plus. Voice development and using reading voice to read text to students or teachers. Christine uses it to read emails.

Energy Story: left thumb on bottom keypad, finger on control key, menu opens for dictionary, thesaurus, etc. Highlight and then control and pad, hit speech and read now (?) Highlight text and control and pad, “Add to iTunes to Spoken Text” it automatically loads it into iTunes. Rename, add to playlist and it will read it. If you can highlght the text, you can load it into the reader. NIMAS [] will add books into a eBook. Cambria (?) will transform any pdf into an eBook format.

Accessibility features on iPods for reading and visual changes. Sign 4 me [] type word in and it reproduces the sign language on screen.

Proloquo2Go autism app $190.00 but very effective.

Voice over can read everything on the screen. Universal Access in System Preferences.

Control and two fingers on touch pad will zoom the screen larger and smaller. To get out Control and zoom all the way out by a couple of full down strokes on the pad.

Wiki lesson: Notes minimal. See http://tdhahwiki.wikispaces.com/Wiki for nonapple wiki instruction.

iLife and iWork Suites: send email through iTouch assignment, preclass.

Create Keynote presentation, record presentation and then save to iTunes.

iTouch, press in body of text, select all, copy, **ProPrompter**, tap to continue, scripts at bottom left, edit, plus sign, name, save, tap screen, hit paste, save, scripts, done. Turn horizontal, touch named script, and it will read like a teleprompter.

Keynote demo: under play menu can record slideshow. Record Slideshow and the audio bar appears with red dot, at end of slides, read ProPrompter and read and go forward though slides then hit right arrow to end recording. To share to iTunes, go to share menu, send to iTunes, name it, it’s going to be a movie, export, it will export to QuickTime, when finished it will open in iTunes in list, single click and highlight, can play or better to sync to iPod and it will load to the iTouch as a video.

LUNCH

Homework assignment sent to Calendar on iTouch. From Safari, calendar at internal site, and sent from internal server to work. Got away from me.

iTunes U materials can be downloaded to the iTouch.

Notepad on iTouch. Type note, then email from the Notepad.

Free app called Watts Plus.

Lesson on Safari web pages constructed by Apple Team with blogs, wiki and calendar. These need to be set up by instructor. The blog comments can be viewed by instructor and comments can be viewed.

Podcasts created in Garageband. Consider audience, time and interest. Have any pictures are appropriate and in an album in iPhoto before hand to save time.

Paper Podcast: Open Garageband see splash page. Left: Learn to Play and Lesson Store. IAP for Special Ed to repeat a music lesson.

Open Podcast: Name the Podcast.


 * 1) Record narration.
 * 2) Add Pictures to Podcast track.
 * 3) Give it some episode artwork for branding.
 * 4) Add a jingle from the 200 ready to go. Copyright free.
 * 5) Share it to iTunes.

Tracks are male voice, female voice and jingles. Can add URLs to the Podcast; can stop Podcast, view URL, then return to Podcast. Below that is episode artwork drag and drop.

Media browser on right: audio, photos, movies: all on the laptop.

Test for sound, click on gender, red record button at the bottom, start by hitting red button and stop by gently hitting the space bar. To play, hit rewind and move playhead to beginning of track and stop with spacebar.

Podcasting tutorial: [] [] [] []

Share menu: send Podcast to iTunes. Name it to find it. Pixels 300x300 will play on any iPod. Share and will move to iTunes and start automatically.

Sync iTouch and can play from there.

Photo Booth Fandango.