1. LaGrange Area Department of Special Education
Educational Apps
Make and Take
Strand
July 9th and 14th, 2012
Presented by:
Sandy Chiampas
Ellen Deutsch

2. Headphone jack
Mic Reset button
i Camera
P Volume
a
d
2
Main Button

3. Basics
• Searching for an App on your device
• Swipe left to right until keyboard appears
• Organizing Apps
• Per page (hold down app until app icon begins to shake and drag to
location)
• In folders (hold down and drag an app on top of another app)
• Closing an App
• Double click middle button
• Hold down the app and touch the red negative symbol to close the app

4. Basics
• Resetting Device
• Hold down the reset and main button on the same time
• If the app doesn’t fill the screen
• Touch 2x to make app fill the screen
• To connect connect to wifi (not at school)
• Touch SETTINGS
• Touch GENERAL
• Touch NETWORK
• Touch WIFI
• Touch your wifi
• Type your password

5. Taking a picture
• Camera (only on iPad 2 or new iPad)
• Screen Shot
• Hold down the On/Off button and the Main
button at the same time
• Picture goes into your Photo Library

6. getting a google picture
(must have wifi)
• Touch SAFARI
• In GOOGLE BOX type name of picture
• Touch SEARCH
• Touch IMAGES
• Touch and hold desired picture until SAVE
IMAGE appears
• Touch SAVE IMAGE
• Picture is in your PHOTO LIBRARY

7. E-MAIL/SAVING A PICTURE
delete reply new email
Touch to download
attachment
Then touch SAVE IMAGE

8. ORGANIZING PHOTOS
• Open Photo Library
• Touch upper right square with arrow
• Select desired photos
• Touch ADD TO
• Touch ADD TO NEW ALBUM
• Type NAME of new album
• Type SAVE

9. Editing Photos
• Touch Photo Library
• Touch Picture you want to Edit
• Touch EDIT
• Touch desired action on bottom of screen
• rotate
• enhance
• red eye
• crop
• Touch SAVE when done

10. SYNCHING PICTURES
TO THE CLOUD
• Touch SETTINGS
• Touch iCloud
• Touch PHOTO STREAM then touch ON
• Then on your device under PHOTOS you will see
PHOTO STREAM as an option for where your
pictures are stored

11. Reminders
• Touch EDIT • Touch RETURN to add
more tasks or
• Touch CREATE NEW KEYBOARD BUTTON if
LIST
done
• Type name of NEW LIST
• Touch a TASK
• Touch DONE
• Touch REMIND ME to
• Touch NAME OF NEW add time
LIST
• Touch OFF next to ON A
• Touch + (upper right) DAY
• Type NAME OF NEW • Touch DATE to change
TASK time/date and DONE

12. Restrictions
• Touch SETTINGS
• Touch RESTRICTIONS
• Type a PASSCODE
• Touch OFF to turn OFF options
• Touch words under Allow
Changes or Allowed Content
to add restrictions

13. Accessibility
• Touch SETTINGS then
GENERAL
• Touch ACCESSIBILITY
• Touch to change the
following:
• Voice over
• Zoom
• Large Text
• White on Black
• Speak Selection
• Speak Auto-Text
• Mono Audio
• AssistiveTouch
• Triple-click Home

14. Text to Speech
• Built in Text to Speech ability in ios 5
• Turn on Speak Selection under General and
Accessibility
• Hold down finger on text
• Drag blue dot to select text
• Touch Speak

15. My Pictures Talk $4.99
• Organize pictures or videos by albums
• Add text and voice to pictures
• Must touch picture to hear it talk
• Could be used as augmentative communication
• Touch large arrow or swipe to advance pictures
• Small Back button
• Cannot lock out of edit mode

16. Book Creator $4.99
• Create books that open in iBooks
• Send books to friends
• Add pictures, voice, text
• Create invisible audio hotspots
• Need to touch megaphone button to hear audio
• Swipe to turn the page

17. Numbers $9.99
• Create data and spread sheets
• Organize your data with charts and tables
• Import videos or pictures
• Can add rating scales or checkboxes
• Each student can have their own page
• Can add notes to a page
• Can be saved as Excel, PDF or Numbers file

18. Picture Scheduler
$2.99
• Create visual tasks
• Add pictures, audio, text and videos
• Student can “hide” a task when completed
• Tasks saved into folders

19. Popplet $4.99 or lite
• Visual brainstorming or mind-mapping
• Can sort ideas visually
• Include text and pictures
• Export as image or PDF

20. Inspiration map $6.99
or lite
• Similar to Inspiration on the computer
• Create mind maps and outlines
• Incorporate photos
• Export to another app, print, or email your finished
organizer

21. flashcards deluxe
• Create study tools, vocabulary cards, and visuals
• Include sound, text-to-speech, and photos
• Tracks data over time
• Increases study frequency for questions that are
missed

22. Choiceworks $14.99
• Three boards: Schedule, Feelings, Wait
• Three companion books (not modifiable)
• Image library or add your own image and audio
• Speaks schedule out loud
• Built in timer for tasks

23. Story robe 99¢
• Create a digital story in three steps
• Add pictures, video, text and audio
• E-mail story or post to YouTube

24. Choice board Creator
• Create customized choice boards of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6
choices
• Box sizes are adjustable
• Add images, text or audio to a choice box

25. Educreation
• Re-plays your drawing, text and audio
• E-mail final product to be viewed online
• Animate images
• Add your own photos
• Upload/download lessons from the web

26. Creative book builder
$3.99
• Make an in-depth book
• Create chapters
• Add text, photo, music, video or web links
• Can add multiple choice questions or tables
• Open book in iBooks

27. Abilipad $19.99
• Similar to IntelliKeys with OverlayMaker
• Word prediction
• Make word/picture boards
• Color code buttons
• E-mail text written with boards
• Download boards from website

28. neu.Annotate +
• Read and annotate PDF documents
• Annotate with drawings, highlighting texts, take
notes, photos, shapes and stamps
• Make PDFs from trash
• E-mail the PDF to print

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