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Filming Tip: Film in Landscape, Not Portrait!

Here is a tip that I have wanted to share for a while now. Hopefully this will help when you have your students filming with their iPads or other devices. With the rise of smartphones nowadays, everyone is their own videographer. Almost everyone will take short videos when something exciting happens, be it a recital,…

15 Unique and Creative Ways to Use iPads in the Classroom

Here are some great new ideas to use your iPad in your classroom, K-12 and beyond! The iPad, as we all know, is a great tool for education. We are hoping that you can use at least a few of these new and creative ideas.

App #41: Sock Puppets [Promo Codes Available!]

As a primary school teacher, I am always looking for ways to enhance the learning experiences for my students. As we have recently set up a partial class set of iPad minis, we are encouraging all of our teachers to use content-creation apps as opposed to content-specific consumption apps to share our knowledge. Sock Puppets…

My Response to “Our School Would Be Better Off Without iPads”

Here is a quote from the article entitled “Our School Would Be Better Off Without iPads”. It is taken directly from the comments on a previous article on Edudemic from a student of a teacher who misuses his iPad: “I get that iPads can help students learn and it can open up new opportunities to…

App #32: Penultimate for iPad (now FREE!)

Great news! Penultimate for iPad is now available free of charge (formerly $0.99). This is the ultimate handwriting and sketching app for iPad. Like Skitch, Penultimate was purchased by Evernote in 2012, and has since included full Evernote integration through all devices. Not an Evernote fan or user? You have the option to not sync…

Which iPad should I get for teaching? Second impressions of the iPad mini.

or I have been asked quite a few times: “Which iPad should I get for teaching?” Since the iPad mini has been out a couple months now, here are my second impressions on it, and whether you should get it for your teaching (I will admit that these impressions do echo my first ones, shared…

How to easily add or change an email address to iMessage and FaceTime on your second iPad or iPod touch

If you have more than one iOS device (I’m guessing a lot of you do), and you have more than yourself in your household using it, this post will show how to create a second email address to accept both iMessages and FaceTime calls. I just recently purchased an iPad mini for my wife, and…

How to use Instagram’s great features without its social sharing issues

Instagram is a free photo app that makes your iPhone and iPad photos look great without too much work. It literally only takes me just a few seconds to snap a photo, crop, then add a filter and share with my followers. However, you may have heard about the recent privacy concerns regarding your Instagram…

Just get an iPad for Christmas? Here are some tips for setting it up!

Here is another post under the “Basics” category: Setting up an iPad for the first time. If you have just received (or purchased) your first iPad this Christmas, hopefully this post can help you get started. Congratulations on your new iPad. iPads are an excellent device to use in teaching. There are endless ways that…

App #30: Grade It! [REVIEW]

All teachers who do any sort of numerical grading will appreciate the app Grade It! (free, with a $.99 upgrade). This app is simple to use and will save educators lots of time in giving grades instantly to our students. While I'm sure all teachers use a variety of good grading programs to calculate their…

App #29: Screenshot – Frame Maker [REVIEW]

As you may have noticed in my past few posts, I have made my iPhone and iPad screenshots with the added frame of the devices themselves. This is thanks to the universal app, appropriately titled Screenshot – Frame Maker. It is a free app, allowing you free screenshots of your first five images. Afterwards, you…