Apple in the Classroom
Here you will find resources that you, as a teacher, can use in the classroom.
If you find yourself in a Mac 1:1 teaching environment you’ll quickly realise that your students have many different programs at their disposal. Used effectively podcasting, movie making, photo creation and website design can vastly improve the way in which your students can learn. Download and share the pdf documents with your students to get them up to speed with iWork and iLife. Also check out the articles below these shared documents which focus on up skilling you as a teacher so that you are confident in using the Mac platform in class.
iPads for Teachers
Teachers...Lets cover some basics
English & Digital Literacy - Pages Essentials
OS X in the classroom
Podcasting with Garageband
Introduction to Keynote
OS X Keyboard Shortcuts
Please also see these useful articles below:
English and Digital Literacy
Free Teaching Resources. Throughout the digital revolution there has always been one consistent feature of every desktop and laptop ever made… The keyboard. And I don’t think our qwerty layout is going anywhere. English Literacy is obviously a teaching priority. Learning correct spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting are schooling “101’s”. But there has never before been such focus on digital literacy. Learning how to hand address a letter with attention to your word spacing (Tracking) and word height (Leading) was...
read moreRemove backgrounds easily with a hidden gem inside Keynote
Often I will be sent a photograph or graphic and I need a quick solution for removing the background. My first choice would be to import the image into Photoshop. As ever with Photoshop there are a few different methods you can use to cut out the focus of the picture, but sometimes the task can be tedious and if you are not familiar with Photoshop the task can be very time consuming. Using the Alpha Tool in Keynote, removing backgrounds can take seconds. Keynotes Alpha tool. Launch Keynote and select the black – blank...
read moreWord Processing basics
These notes are for young students are those who are new to word processing. Please feel free to copy these notes but please include a credit. The basics Most students will have to teach themselves the basics of word processing, most develop some very bad habits which will permanently hinder them throughout their careers. I would like to see more students adopting some very basic terminology and practices from an early age. This short tutorial will look at page formatting, layout and design as well as printing and file handling. Steps to...
read moreOS X instant dictionary/thesaurus
In this video I use Pages to demonstrate how you can view a dictionary definition or any word on the fly.
read moreKeynote inspiration! Animated lines
In this Keynote tutorial learn a nice tip to animate your lines as if they were drawing themselves !!! We always try to encourage our students to think ‘outside the box’ and this video shows how layering objects can create a very cool effect. And remember this effect is not standard in Keynote
read moreNumbers – Resize for print
Printing all of your tables on just 1 or 2 pages is easy in Numbers. Now this is a simple trick, but none the less very valid and extremely useful. The video is only 1 min long, so check it out!
read moreKeynote – Getting started
Keynote is a very powerful application from Apple’s iWork suite. In this getting started video I’ve provided a link so that you can download the actual keynote file that I use in this tutorial. So grab a coffee and work along with me. Click here to get that Keynote file. Watch the video below!
read moreiPhoto – the basics
This video really does cover the absolute basics of importing and handling pictures inside iPhoto. A tutorial aimed at absolute beginners. One thing I would say is forget those habits from using Windows! Don’t go rooting around in your pictures folder if you are looking for a photo. Use iPhoto for emailing, exporting pictures to disk everything If you really want to get your hands on the actual file itself. Highlight the picture that you want and then choose...
read moreiWeb-Create your own navigation menu
Learn how to make your own navigation bar, and link your pages together. In this tutorial I use studenthouse.co.uk as an example.
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