Teaching With Ipad How-to - Brossura

Harsha, Shubhangi; Kataria, Sumit

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1849694427 ISBN 13: 9781849694421

Casa editrice: Packt Pub Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

Use your iPad creatively for everyday teaching tasks in schools and universities

Overview

• Plan your lessons on iPad and share notes quickly
• Use exclusive iPad 3D resources for more engaging learning.
• Use your iPad for creating and giving presentations.

In Detail

The iPad is a great teaching tool. It is an amazing eReader for accessing textbooks and journals. It is also great for multimedia content like videos, audio, presentations, and 3D animations. Most importantly Apple's app ecosystem makes it very powerful. You can find apps for almost any teaching task in app store and use them instantly.

You will start with simple tasks like creating presentations and visualizations. Soon you will be making interactive books and resources as well as teaching practical lessons such as music and art!.

"Teaching with iPad How-to" starts with the most basic task of planning your lessons. As you go through the book you will learn how to 'carry' your textbooks on Little Books, create your own resources and finally publish your courseware.

Be it organizing your notes, creating charts and presentations, or just recording attendance, this book will help you do all these tasks very efficiently on your iPad. In this book, you will also learn to create and distribute timetables, create your own textbooks and make your classes interesting and full of information by using the iPad’s 3D and subject-specific resources.

You will learn to make your teaching job interesting and engaging for your students by using iPad as your teaching and organizing tool.

What you will learn from this book

• Planning your everyday lessons on the iPad and creating presentations and charts
• Managing attendance records and student profiles on the iPad
• Organizing your notes and sharing them through your iPad as well as carrying your textbooks on your device
• Creating and managing your timetable on the iPad
• Projecting the content of your iPad on a large screen and interacting with your class alongside
• Creating and publishing your own interactive books and teaching resources
• Teaching students with special needs in a very effective manner

Approach

Teaching with iPad How-To is a crisp and systematic guide organized into various step-by-step recipes that will enable you to utilize the power of your iPad to make your daily teaching tasks easy and interesting.

Who this book is written for

This book is ideal for school and university teachers who have access to an iPad and are willing to make their profession all the more fun and easy for themselves. It is assumed that the reader has basic knowledge of how to use the iPad, access the Appstore and download apps.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Shubhangi Harsha

Shubhangi Harsha professionally develops iPad, iPhone, and Android applications. She understands the heart and soul of the mobile application development and likes to create challenging apps that are data-heavy and dynamic in nature.

Shubhangi studied Computer Science and Engineering in her bachelors studies at PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India and graduated from there in 2010 as the topper of all branches in the University. She is a student of M.Sc. in Computing at Imperial College London, for which she has been awarded the prestigious Jubilee Scholarship of the British Council and the Government of the United Kingdom.

Shubhangi likes to take up mind games in her free time. She likes to anchor cultural events and is passionate about dancing. A non-trained dancer, she has given numerous solo stage performances in dance and mimicry too. She is very close to her parents and loves to spend time with them. Awarded the title of "All-Rounder Girl" during her studies, Shubhangi likes to explore her capabilities in diverse areas, and authoring this book is another such exploration. This is her first book, written with the motive of helping school teachers who choose to use the iPad.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Packt Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1849694427
• ISBN 13: 9781849694421
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 72
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile