We'll talk about how to get content on to the device, including documents
We'll talk about how to get output out of the device to do presentations
We'll try to couch a little bit of this around teaching and learning, and talk about some apps that might be applicable
as you try to use this in the classroom or use this in your own performance to do some teaching
whether that's for reading or researching, or looking for materials, or preparing presentations to deliver in your own classroom.
One of the things that's a little different when we have conversations about iPads is
what really is an iPad. Is it a computer? Can you do the same things with it that you can do with your computer?
Can it replace your computer? Is it a cell phone? Does is do the things that your cell phone can do? Is it very portable? Can you stick it in your pocket?
It's much more portable. What we want to talk about today is that it's really neither one of those.
It's really somewhere in between. You can't make a telephone call on your iPad.
Although if you have the right equipment you can make a Skype phone call. So it's a little bit like a cell phone.
I'm going to try to show you today how you might be able to bring this into the classroom.
You can actually deliver a presentation entirely from your iPad. So in one way, it's kind of a computer. But those of you who have had it for a while would side with me and say that it's not really either one of those.
It's something different... it's in between the two of those. You're going to do things with your iPad that you don't do with your computer.
And you're going to do things with your iPad that you don't do with your cell phone.
It's sometimes difficult to tell which version you have because they look a lot alike.
A good way is based on the box. So if you're a shopper and you're going to go out and buy one of these
This is the iPad One box. It's the big iPad. The iPad Two box is the skinny one. For the most part the devices are the same.
And most of what I'm going to show you today you can do on an iPad 1, you can do on an iPad 2
The apps that you can install for the most part are the same.
There are a couple big exceptions to that, and unfortunately one of them that we want to talk about has to do with teaching.
There are a couple big exceptions to that, and unfortunately one of them that we want to talk about is teaching.
The thing that happens with these iPads, and this workshop is always terrible because I have to take three bags to get all my stuff here because it's not just the iPad, it's all the accessories
that come with the iPad. We're going to show you some of these today. When you get your box, you get very few of these with your iPad.
You get this lovely little cable. And if you've hand an iPod or iPhone, you know this is the little proprietary dongle that Apple makes and that it's a USB on the other end.
The one I don't have, it also comes with a plug to plug it into the wall.
And it's important to hang on to that. Your iPod is going to charge best if it's plugged into the wall.
Rather than trying to plug it into a computer, it's going to charge must faster. And if you try to plug it into your computer it won't charge while you're using the iPad.
So it will come on and it will work but it won't charge.
So if you're using an iPad and you want to charge it, plug it into the wall.
All of the other accessories I'm going to show you today, of course, are separate.
And like everything with Apple, they come with a price. And they're not $9.99.
They go in larger multitudes of that.
Some of the ones you might think about while we're going to talk about how to get stuff into your iPad. We're going to show you that Apples does come with a built-in keyboard to enter content in your iPad
But if you're doing any significant writing, you might want to invest in these. It's a USB keyboard.
This is the Apple version but there are a lot of other keyboards you can get.
It makes it a lot easier to enter content.
into your iPad. It's kind of a pain because you have another thing that you have to carry around
I don't have one of them... Does anyone have a case with a built-in keyboard?
More and more cases now are coming with built-in with USB keyboards, and so if you're a keyboard user you might want to look at that as you look at the case
Speaking of cases, of course Apple's going to charge you for a case to put this thing in.
The iPad Ones come with these lovely black cases from Apple that fold over and let you set them up like this
You can always tell an iPad 2 user because they usually have these bright colors
on top of their Ipad. So these iPad 2 covers fit on, they're magnetic and you can pull them off.
There are a thousand and one different covers out there for your iPad. But I would encourage you to get something to put your iPad in.
We've seen many catastrophes here on campus with iPads that we know of... climbing up the steps and hitting it as you're walking up or
having it fall out of your bag. And these screens, even though they're pretty tough they can crack pretty easily.
And getting the screen replaced is almost the same cost as getting a new iPad.
So you want to put it in something and protect it.
You can do output from the iPad. Since the iPad doesn't have that traditional USB out it has that proprietary iPad, iPod, Apple connector at the bottom
You have to buy the $30 cable form Apple to actually do output
There are two cables that allow you to do output. You want to be careful which one of these you buy now.
This is the one that allows you to to to VGA
VGA is what's in most of the classrooms across campus. It's the traditional cable that you plug into your computer.
In 99% of place across campus, this is the only cable that is going to work.
The other cable looks very different, and it's very exciting. This is an HDMI cable. It's going to let you do high-def output from your iPad
It also does sound and video from one cable without having to run a separate cable from the audio jack to your computer
The problem is that we have very few places on campus that have HDMI input.